The Three Stooges Meet Hercules

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules

Infobox Film
name = The Three Stooges Meet Hercules


caption =
director = Edward Bernds
producer = Norman Maurer
writer = Norman Maurer
Elwood Ullman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Joe DeRita
Vicki Trickett
Quinn K. Redeker
George N. Neise
Samson Burke
Emil Sitka
Hal Smith
Marlin McKeever
Mike McKeever
music = Paul Dunlap
cinematography = Scotty Welbourne
editing = Edwin H. Bryant
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US January 26, 1962
runtime = 88' 43"
country = USA
language = English
preceded_by = "Snow White and the Three Stooges"
followed_by = "The Three Stooges in Orbit"
amg_id = 1:49715
imdb_id = 0056579

"The Three Stooges Meet Hercules" was 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 Curly Joe DeRita. Released by Columbia Pictures, "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules" was directed by long-time Stooge director Edward Bernds. Over the years, Moe would cite Bernds as the team's finest director.

This was the most financially successful of the Stooges' feature films and is still highly regarded amongst fans.

Plot

The Stooges work at Dimsal's Drug Store where they befriend Schuyler, 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 wannabe girlfriend Diane back in time to ancient Greece during the reign of the lecherous King Odius. The King has a yearning for Diane and banishes Schuyler and the boys to the galleys, where Schuyler builds impressive muscles while constantly rowing. After escaping, they start billing Schuyler as Hercules at a local gladiatoral arena. The real Hercules gets wind of their game and confronts them, but the Stooges manage to convince Hercules to help them rescue Diane. The time travelers manage to set history straight by removing the King and dump him off during Indian dominated America where a band of warriors chase him off into the distance.

Primary Cast

*Moe Howard: Moe
*Larry Fine: Larry
*Joe DeRita: Curly-Joe
*Vicki Trickett: Diane Quigley
*Quinn K. Redeker: Schuyler Davis
*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)

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971186804] , (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806509465] (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767905563] (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581823630] , (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).


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