Hercules in New York

Hercules in New York

25/2/1970 1h 32m 4.1/10

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.

Director

Arthur Allan Seidelman

Top Billed Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hercules

James Karen

James Karen

Professor Camden

Rudy Bond

Rudy Bond

Ship Captain

Arnold Stang

Arnold Stang

Pretzie

Taina Elg

Taina Elg

Nemesis

Merwin Goldsmith

Merwin Goldsmith

Maxie

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

5/30/2023

4/10

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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