Hercules in New York

Watch: Hercules in New York

2/25/19701h 32m

Theatrical Release (US)

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

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

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$300,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

new york city
greek mythology
zeus
hercules
pro wrestling
low budget

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

~ as ~

Hercules

Taina Elg

~ as ~

Nemesis

James Karen

~ as ~

Professor Camden

Arnold Stang

~ as ~

Pretzie

Rudy Bond

~ as ~

Ship Captain

Merwin Goldsmith

~ as ~

Maxie

Richard Herd

~ as ~

Television Presenter

Ernest Graves

~ as ~

Zeus

Deborah Loomis

~ as ~

Helen Camden

Tanny McDonald

~ as ~

Juno

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
4
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.