My Son, the Hero (1963)
- Starring:
- Pedro Armendáriz, Jacqueline Sassard, (more)
- Director(s):
- Duccio Tessari
Synopsis of My Son, the Hero
My Son the Hero started out in 1961 as a straightforward Italian sword and sandal affair titled Arrivano i Titani, all about the quest for a magic helmet in ancient Thebes. Well cast (Pedro Armendariz is the star) and extremely well photographed, the original film was still not sufficient different from all the other Italian strongman films glutting the American market in 1963. Thus the American distributors hit upon the notion of transforming the film into a satire, by redubbing all the actors and hoking up the sound effects. What resulted was a heady mixture of Yiddish accents, Borscht-belt one-liners and rippling pecs. The single joke wears out pretty quickly in My Son, the Hero, but the concept is a workable one, as Woody Allen proved two years later with What's Up, Tiger Lily? ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of My Son, the Hero
- Pedro Armendáriz - Cadmus, King of Thebes
- Antonella Lualdi - Hermione
- Tanya Lopert - Licina
- Giuliano Gemma - Crios
- Gerard Sety - Hippolytos
- Jacqueline Sassard - Antiope, Cadmus' Daughter
- Serge Nubret - Rator
- Ingrid Schoeller - Emerate
- Isarco Ravaioli
- Franco Lantieri
- Director(s):
- Duccio Tessari
- Writer(s):
- Ennio de Concini, Duccio Tessari
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