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Hercules in New York

"See Him Topple Two Ton Newspaper Rolls! See Him Toss Tough Men Like Toothpicks!"

Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.

Top Cast

  • Arnold Stang

    Arnold Stang

    Pretzie

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Hercules

  • Deborah Loomis

    Deborah Loomis

    Helen Camden

  • James Karen

    James Karen

    Professor Camden

  • Ernest Graves

    Ernest Graves

    Zeus

  • Tanny McDonald

    Tanny McDonald

    Juno

  • Harold Burstein

    Harold Burstein

    Rod Nelson

  • Merwin Goldsmith

    Merwin Goldsmith

    Maxie

  • George Bartenieff

    George Bartenieff

    Nitro

Overview

Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.

Rating

4.1 / 10
347 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    4 May 30, 2023

    Ha! This is hilarious. Arnold Schwarzenegger - going by the name of "Strong" on the titles, is the demigod son of Zeus (Ernest Graves) and he's bored hanging around Olympus keeping out of trouble. Finally his father loses his temper, hurls a thunder bolt at him and he ends up down on earth befriending the weedy "Pretzie" (Arnold Stang doing a vaguely Phil Silvers impersonation) and getting involved with some crooks who see his might as a meal ticket. What now ensues is just harmless, witless, fun with a confused mythology - Roman and Greek names for the gods are interchangeable; an Olympus that looks like the herb garden of an English stately home and luckily Arnie doesn't have to wrestle with ancient Greek, just with 1970s English. There can't have been much budget so don't be looking for visual effects or a tangy script - nope, none of that, just the future Governor of California looking almost cherubic in his spray-on shorts demonstrating the truthful nature of the American dream. Anyone can make it, however humble the beginnings.

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