OVERALL: Draw

R0 French and R1 from "Retromedia" -releases include the OAR 2:35:1, and both are Anamorphic.
French-disc has also Italian audio, but French subtitles only + minor featurette. Subtitles are "forced".

Avoid all 4:3 "budget-releases" (unless you don´t want the alternate English dub). Among the releases in the database, at least these US-companies has released this film (this is public domain title):
-Diamond (double feature with "Hercules Unchained AKA Ercole e la regina di Lidia")
-GoodTimes
-Sterling/UAV
-Westlake Entertaiment Group

Spanish titles:
-Hércules
-Los Viajes de Heracles

See the DVDBeaver screen-comparison below:

CUTS:

• R0 America- Alpha Video - No cuts
• R0 America- Extreme Digital Media - No cuts
• R0 Australia- AV Channel - No cuts
• R0 France- Opening/GCTHV - No cuts - 97:51 min (PAL). Uses a different English dub than the budget US DVD-releases.
• R1 America- Retromedia Entertainment/Image - No cuts. Uses a different English dub than the budget US DVD-releases.
• R1 America- VCI Home Video - No cuts
• R2 Germany- Concorde Home Entertainment - 10 minutes shorter: 87:24 min (PAL - This is most likely due to the non-existence of a German dub for scenes which were cut in the past. Instead of providing these scenes on the DVD in English with German subtitles, they have left them out completely). Uses the same English dub as in the French-release.

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Comparison added by Jari_Kovalainen on 10/04/05
Comparison last updated by Jari_Kovalainen on 27/06/06

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