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Looking Back at the Life of Steve Reeves, Screen Hercules
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Unbeknownst to Reeves, Italian director Pietro Francisci was searching for a suitably stacked someone to portray Hercules in his Le Fatiche di Ercole (The Labors of Hercules), and, tipped by his 13-year-old daughter, who'd spied Reeves in Athena, the filmmaker wired Reeves $10,000 and a roundtrip ticket to Rome.
Reeves accepted, made the picture?a somewhat awkward massaging of the Jason and the Argonauts saga?and returned to his health-club job.
As Hercules, Reeves, his body glistening, waltzes-wrestles with a snarling lion, whangs the Cretan Bull on the noggin, uproots a tree, snaps enormous chains and pulls down a huge palace.
Italian audiences embraced both actor (the cast's sole non-European) and movie, making Le Fatiche di Ercole a box-office sensation; it went on to generate huge receipts throughout the Continent. Its financial success did not escape the notice of Hollywoo