Hector the Mighty

Hector the Mighty

Directed by	Enzo G. Castellari
Produced by	Edmondo Amati Raoul Katz
Written by	Enzo G. Castellari Sandro Continenza Lucio Fulci Leonardo Martín
Music by	Francesco De Masi
Cinematography	Guglielmo Mancori
Release dates	1972 (1972)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Hector the Mighty (Italian: Ettore lo fusto) is a 1972 Italian comedy film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. A parody set in modern days of Homer's Iliad, it is loosely based on the 1966 novel Le roi des Mirmidous by Henri Viard and Bernard Zacharias.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Vittorio Caprioli as Menelaus
Michael Forest as Achilles
Giancarlo Giannini as Ulysses
Juan Luis Galiardo as Paris
Rosanna Schiaffino as Helen
Philippe Leroy as Hector
Aldo Giuffrè as Agamemnon
Luciano Salce as Count Mercury
Vittorio De Sica as Cardinal Jove
Haydée Politoff as Chryseis
Orchidea De Santis as Briseis
Giancarlo Prete as Patroclus, aka Clò-Clò
Franca Valeri as Cassandra
Gianrico Tedeschi as Priam
Caterina Boratto as Hecuba
Gigi Rizzi as Polites
José Calvo as The Lawyer

References

↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059350.
↑ Gianfranco Casadio. I mitici eroi: il cinema "peplum" nel cinema italiano dall'avvento del sonoro a oggi (1930-1993). Longo, 2007. ISBN 8880635298.

External links

Hector the Mighty at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Enzo G. Castellari

Few Dollars for Django (1966)
Renegade Riders (1967)
Any Gun Can Play (1967)
Johnny Hamlet (1968)
One Dollar Too Many (1968)
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968)
Eagles Over London (1969)
Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
Hector the Mighty (1972)
Sting of the West (1973)
High Crime (1973)
Street Law (1974)
Cry, Onion! (1975)
The Big Racket (1976)
The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976)
Keoma (1976)
The Heroin Busters (1977)
The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
The House by the Edge of the Lake (1979)
The Shark Hunter (1979)
Day of the Cobra (1980)
Great White (1980)
1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
The New Barbarians (1983)
Escape from the Bronx (1983)
Tuareg: The Desert Warrior (1984)
Light Blast (1985)
Striker (1987)
Hammerhead (1987)
Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)
Jonathan of the Bears (1993)
The Return of Sandokan (1996)
Desert of Fire (1997)
Gioco a incastro (2000)
Caribbean Basterds (2010)

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