Queen Samara (Jany Clair) is the evil Queen from the 1964 Peplum film Hercules Against the Moon Men.
The tyrant Queen Samara has allied herself with the Moon Men, a race of evil aliens, who after crashing into Sumar, set up home in the Mountain of Death. They invade the local population for sacrificial offerings of the local children, of which Samara has condoned. They require these sacrifices every third moon. They accomplished this by offering Samara a position of the most powerful woman in the world once their inanimate queen returns to life causing an apocalypse destroying most life on the planet.
The Moon Queen Selene (Delia D'Alberti) is the spitting image of Princess Billis (also played by Delia D'Alberti), Samara's step sister. Billis is pure in heart and good to the core, so therefore, is a highly prized want of the Moon Men as her uncanny resemblance to the Moon Queen Selene. They need Billis in order for her to regenerate Selene. The plan is to drain Billis of her blood and distriubte all the nutrients needed to the cadaver from energy from Uranus.
Hercules (Alan Steel who was also known as Sergio Ciani) finds out about this and journeys to Queen Samara. He is soon a victim of several traps and a moth eaten ape creature. He takes on the rock creatures and the powers of the moon men. He appears to be victorious, until the scheming Queen laces his wine with a powerful aphrodisiac which will turn Hercules into her love slave. While Hercules falls under the Queen's seduction technique, Samar and it's innocent inhabitants brace themselves for the end of the world.
In the end, Hercules defeats the rock monsters, Billis is rescued, and the Moon Queen reverts back to a corpse with a chilling scream of anger. Selene crumbles to dust. Queen Samara gets her comeuppance as she whines and complains in a manner worthy of her character. She is killed by the Moon Men when she flees to them for comfort. She is encircled by several rock monsters and is fatally crushed between them.
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- Jany Clair appeared as a woman in prison who nearly strangled to death Zahira (Moira Orfei) in the 1962 Peplum film Kerim, Son of the Sheik.
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