Hercules vs. Moloch

Hercules vs. Moloch (Italian: Ercole contro Moloch, French: Hercule contre Moloch, also released as Conquest of Mycenae) is a 1963 Italian/French international co-production peplum film written and directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Gordon Scott.

Led by a facially deformed King who believes himself Moloch incarnated, the madman demands slaves as tribute, where he tortures and kills a selected few.

Prince Glaucus from Tiryns has an idea to seize and destroy Mycenae from within.

He becomes a gladiator, but he secretly plots to lead a revolution and destroy the creature that has enslaved the people.

[1] The film stated that the plot was "completely routine" and its ending was "over-extravagant", the "Herculean hero is at least credited with a distinct measure of intelligence" noting that "the question of sheer physical strength is related ambigulously [...] There is no penny-pinching in the staging; hundreds of extras are used for the big battle scenes, which really do succeed in giving the effect of an army and not merely a platoon.