Arnold Stang and Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Hercules, in HERCULES IN NEW YORK (1970)
A cute, amiable film with a fantasy story of Hercules, with a thick Austrian accent, ending up in modern day New York. The plot is not that important. It's mainly a showcase for Arnold. Decades later, his acting remained the same. Critics disapproved of Steve Reeves' acting when HERCULES (1958) was released but I thought he was pretty good, certainly when you factor in the language barrier. Young Arnold is physically impressive but dude can't act. At all. IMO, Arnold Stang saved the movie. Putting these two together was genius.
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A fun comedic film, I just saw it on youtube. I consider it to be aimed at the boy in me who enjoyed peplum films and never cared whether anyone could act or not. Arnie's natural voice suits this film much better than the dubbed version. I couldn't see any of the established peplum stars at the time in his role as they were all so serious.
There's a scene where Hercules is offended by a faux peplum film poster and I began searching to find more about that film, but I should have relied on peplumtv who had all that covered beforehand.
Check out:
https://www.peplumtv.com/2012/02/fake-pep-hercules-against-monster.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S95dBhv69s
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