Hercules in New York (1970)

After many centuries, Hercules gets bored living in Olympus (the home of the great Greek gods) and decides to move to... New York. But obviously, it is not easy for a man who lived in ancient Greece to get used to modern life. So, things get a little tricky, especially when Zeus sends a few gods to bring his semi-god son back to mount Olympus. Not as dull as it sounds! This movie is HILARIOUS with it being the first attempt by Arnold Schwarzenegger to act in Hollywood as a young slip of a lad. this film is a turkey by any standards but you MUST SEE IT!














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Hercules in New York

Hercules (Arnold Schwarzenegger, billed here as Arnold Strong) wishes to leave Mt. Olympus and visit Earth. His father Zeus refuses, but Hercules runs off anyway. Ending up in New York -- in case the title failed to give it away - the demigod is quickly befriended by sad sack Arnold Stang. To make money, Hercules becomes a professional wrestler. In his spare time he engages in some extremely low-grade adventures as he makes new friends among the mortals. Meanwhile, Zeus vows to punish his errant son, while Zeus’ jealous wife conspires to bring about Hercules’ destruction.

This is a supposedly comedic feature, and hence much less funny than such supposedly straight Hercules pictures as the ones Lou Ferrigno made in Italy. The main delight here is to see an extremely early and cloddish performance by Schwarzenegger. Those who don’t believe he’s grown much as an actor would be well advised to check him out here. Moreover, his accent was so thick then that the producers employed another actor to dub over his lines. This, as you might imagine, adds an element of some humor for the modern viewer. Stang, meanwhile, plays the same smalltime loser he always plays. It’s indicative of the script’s ‘wit’ that his character is named Pretzi, because, you see, he sells pretzels.

Hercules is most often involved in some rudimentary fish-out-of-water situation, such as his misconstruing a demand for ‘bucks’ and ‘dough’ from an angry cab driver. In another long sequence he amazes some college athletes with his discus and javelin throwing, indicated by the actors moving their heads in an arc while pretending to follow the path of his mighty heaves. This is sorry stuff, and only partially redeemed by a hilarious battle with a man in a ten-dollar bear suit.

Also laughable is the appearance of a 35¢ paperback on mythology that keeps floating around in the film. Even so, it seems like the film’s scriptwriter might have profited from reading it. One of the movie’s odder traits is that aside from Zeus, Hercules and Eros, all the gods are referred to by their Roman counterparts’ names. Hence Hera becomes Juno, Hermes becomes Mercury, and so on. And if that’s not bad enough, Samson from the Bible later makes an appearance! (http://www.50footdvd.com/movies/h/hercules-in-new-york.html)

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Ah, but there’s always a skeleton in the closet. Here it’s his first film, an atrocious ‘comedy’ pairing Schwarzenegger with Arnold Stang (!), who I believe illegitimately sired Eddie Deezen. For *cough* humor purposes, the stars of the film were advertised as Arnold Stang and Arnold Strong, as the credits on the print here reflect. Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger’s voice was dubbed over, due to his then extremely poor English. The guy doing the voice pretty much sounds like somebody they’d get to play Hercules in a bad cartoon series, which is about right for this picture.

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