Hercules comes to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the wrestling and power lifting business.Hercules comes to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the wrestling and power lifting business.Hercules comes to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the wrestling and power lifting business.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Hercules
- (as Arnold Strong 'Mr. Universe')
Harold Burstein
- Rod Nelson
- (as Howard Burstein)
Tony Carroll
- Monstro
- (as Tony 'Mr. World' Carroll)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTo help Arnold Schwarzenegger get the role, his agent said he had years of "stage" experience, implying theater. But in fact, Schwarzenegger had only appeared on bodybuilding stages.
- GoofsA mix of the Greek and the Roman names for Gods are used in the film. In the film's finale, both the Greek god Atlas (the only person holding the sky up over the earth) and Samson, who is in fact a Biblical character, are called upon to help Hercules.
- Alternate versionsIn the original theatrical version, and older VHS versions, Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice is dubbed over by another actor. The DVD version released by Trimark Entertainment has both the original audio track, and a track with Schwarzenegger's real voice (the track also used for the newer VHS versions). In all versions, the voice of Hercules on the radio at the end is of the dub actor.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Unlikeliest Star (1990)
Featured review
Over a decade before his movie career exploded and eight years before even Pumping Iron, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in this cheapie B comedy playing the Greek demigod Hercules, who has been banned from Olympus by Zeus. Schwarzenegger can barely speak a line of coherent English at this point (the film is probably more commonly seen with his performance dubbed, but his original voice is available nowadays). Funny thing is, he's by far the best actor in the picture. Everyone else is just cringe-inducingly awful. The movie as a whole might have actually been watchable, if it weren't for the painfully stereotypical Jew performance by Arnold Stang, who dominates much of it. The film has Schwarzenegger (dubbed Arnold Strong) doing Schwarzenegger-ish activities like weightlifting, throwing cars around and getting into various fights. What would you do if you ran into a 22 year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger and he was annoying you? Start a fight? Well, if you're in this movie, that's what you do. It happens like ten times.
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- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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