Sandro Continenza Duccio Tessari Pierre Benoit Nicolo Ferrari[1] Fay Spain Ettore Manni Luciano Marin Armando Trovajoli[1] Comptoir Francais du Film Production[1] Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (Italian: Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide, lit.

Androcles takes matters into his own hands by drugging and kidnapping Hercules and placing him aboard a ship manned by a disreputable collection of former slaves and criminals.

The only members of the expedition Androcles can trust are his sidekick, Timoteo the dwarf and Hylas who has to hide below deck from Hercules lest he face his wrath for leaving home.

Coming ashore on a mist-shrouded island he sees a woman held captive: not only chained to a cliff but gradually becoming a part of the rock formation.

Defeating Proteus, Hercules discovers the woman he rescued is Princess Ismene, daughter of Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, where he has landed.

The rescued prisoners explain that children are taken to a special stone that either transforms them either into blond supermen or disfigures the weak ones who are then placed in the pit.

Hercules swims out to the ship, as the sun's rays finally strike the stone, causing Atlantis to erupt in explosions and be destroyed.

[3] Christopher Frayling noted the film's slapstick violence at the beginning as a link to the Spaghetti Western;[4] Frank Burke in an essay in the book Popular Italian Cinema noted the film's depiction of Nazi Germany and the atomic age[5] and Park's depiction of the Italian quality of "sprezzatura" in his portrayal of Hercules.