The Three Stooges Meet Hercules

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
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Directed by	Edward Bernds
Produced by	Norman Maurer
Written by	Norman Maurer Elwood Ullman
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Joe DeRita Vicki Trickett Quinn Redeker George N. Neise Samson Burke Emil Sitka Hal Smith Marlin McKeever Mike McKeever
Music by	Paul Dunlap
Cinematography	Scotty Welbourne
Edited by	Edwin H. Bryant
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	January 26, 1962 (1962-01-26) (U.S.)
Running time	88:43
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$420,000
Box office	$2 million

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules is the third feature film to star the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity. By this time, the trio consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Joe DeRita (dubbed "Curly Joe"). Released by Columbia Pictures, The Three Stooges Meet Hercules was directed by long-time Stooge director Edward Bernds. This was the most financially successful of the Stooges' feature films.

Plot

The Stooges work at Dimsal's Drug Store in Ithaca, New York, where they befriend Schuyler Davis (Quinn Redeker), the owner of the shop next door, who is attempting to build a time machine. With the boys' "help", the machine transports the boys, Schuyler and disaffected girlfriend Diane Quigley (Vicki Trickett) back in time to Ithaca in ancient Greece during the reign of the lecherous King Odius (George N. Neise). The King, after defeating and imprisoning Ulysses because the Stooges are believed to be gods, has a yearning for Diane. Realizing they have disrupted the proper course of history, Schuyler and the boys free Ulysses, after which Odius banishes them to the galleys, where Schuyler builds impressive muscles while constantly rowing.

After an escape and shipwreck, they kill a monster with the help of Joe's sleeping pills and start billing Schuyler as Hercules at a local gladiatorial arena. The real Hercules (Samson Burke) gets wind of their game and confronts them, but after single combat the Stooges convince Hercules to help them rescue Diane in a chariot chase. The time travelers remove Odius and, navigating by observing the progress of military technology, manage to set history straight by dumping him off into the Wild West where a tribe of Native American warriors chase him off into the distance. After that, the travelers return to Dimsal's Drug Store. Dimsal touches the time machine and disappears, but eventually returns with a pillory. The Stooges manage to remove the pillory with an electric tool.

Cast

• Moe Howard - Moe
• Larry Fine - Larry
• Joe DeRita - Curly Joe
• Quinn Redeker - Schuyler Davis
• Vicki Trickett - Diane Quigley
• George N. Neise - Ralph Dimsal/King Odius
• Samson Burke - Hercules
• Emil Sitka - Shepherd/Refreshment Man
• Hal Smith - King Theseus Of Rhodes
• Marlin McKeever - Ajax (The Siamese Cyclops)
• Mike McKeever - Argo (The Siamese Cyclops)
• John Cliff - Ulysses
• Barbara Hines - Anita
• Terry Huntingdon - Hecuba
• Diana Piper - Helen
• Gregg Martell - Simon
• Gene Roth - harbor captain
• Lewis Charles - Achilles the Heel
• Edward Foster - Freddie the Fence
• Cecil Elliott - matron
• Rusty Wescoatt - Philo, the horator

See also

• List of American films of 1962

External links

• The Three Stooges Meet Hercules at IMDb
• The Three Stooges Meet Hercules at AllMovie
• The Three Stooges Meet Hercules at the TCM Movie Database
• The Three Stooges Meet Hercules at threestooges.net
• The Three Stooges Meet Hercules at Rotten Tomatoes