Le pillole di Ercole

Le pillole di Ercole is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano Salce. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The film revolves around "a sort of miraculous Viagra ante litteram turns a meek newly-wed into a sex maniac."

Cast

Nino Manfredi as Dottor Pasqui
Sylva Koscina as Silvia, Pasqui's wife
Jeanne Valérie as Odette
Vittorio De Sica as Piero Cuocolo
Francis Blanche
Piera Arico
Nedo Azzini
Gianni Bonagura
Franco Bruno
Maria Elisabetta Franco
Annie Gorassini
Mitchell Kowal
Ignazio Leone
Oreste Lionello as Gino
Lina Tartara Minora
Andreina Pagnani as Giovanna

Censorship

When Le pillole di Ercole was first released in Italy in 1960 the Committee for the Theatrical Review of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities rated it as VM16: not suitable for children under 16. In addition, the committee imposed the modification of the following scenes: 1) the scene in which Manfredi and Koscina hug each other on the bed will be shortened; 2) the scene in which Manfredi makes a house call to Valerie the lines in which De Sica says "...I know, when I am with a woman..." until "...a hay barn" must be deleted. Document N° 32710 signed on 3 September 1960 by Minister Renzo Helfer.