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title: 'Samson and His Mighty Challenge (1964)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Giorgio Capitani'
released: '1964-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 100
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
  - 'Spain'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/samson-and-his-mighty-challenge-1964'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059672/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Samson and His Mighty Challenge (1964)

1964 · 100 min · Fantasy · France, Italy, Spain

Original title: Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili

## Synopsis

Samson and His Mighty Challenge is a 1964 Italian sword-and-sandal film, released in 1965 at the very tail end of the peplum craze. Its original title was Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili. It is also known as Samson and the Mighty Challenge, Combate dei Gigantes, Triumph of the Giants or Le Grand Defi.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Giorgio Capitani](https://cinepixo.com/people/giorgio-capitani)
- **Screenplay:** [Giorgio Cristallini](https://cinepixo.com/people/giorgio-cristallini), [Sandro Continenza](https://cinepixo.com/people/sandro-continenza), [Roberto Gianviti](https://cinepixo.com/people/roberto-gianviti)
- **Producer:** [Giorgio Cristallini](https://cinepixo.com/people/giorgio-cristallini)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Piero Umiliani](https://cinepixo.com/people/piero-umiliani)
- **Director of Photography:** [Carlo Bellero](https://cinepixo.com/people/carlo-bellero)
- **Editor:** [Roberto Cinquini](https://cinepixo.com/people/roberto-cinquini)

## Cast

- [Moira Orfei](https://cinepixo.com/people/moira-orfei)
- [Lia Zoppelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/lia-zoppelli)
- [María Luisa Ponte](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-luisa-ponte)
- [Nino Dal Fabbro](https://cinepixo.com/people/nino-dal-fabbro)
- [Alan Steel](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-steel)
- [Luciano Marin](https://cinepixo.com/people/luciano-marin)
- [Conrado San Martín](https://cinepixo.com/people/conrado-san-martin)
- [Hélène Chanel](https://cinepixo.com/people/helene-chanel)
- [Howard Ross](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-ross)
- [Livio Lorenzon](https://cinepixo.com/people/livio-lorenzon)
- [Elisa Montés](https://cinepixo.com/people/elisa-montes)

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