The Three Stooges Meet Hercules | 
 enlarge | Director: Edward Bernds
Actors: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe Derita, Vicki Trickett, Quinn K. Redeker
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 16565
Format: Black & White, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD11445D
ISBN: 1404986626
UPC: 043396114456
EAN: 9781404986626
ASIN: B0009FU100
Theatrical Release Date: February 15, 1962
Release Date: June 28, 2005
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Product Description
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/25/2007 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Nr
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Very much in the tradition of such Columbia Three Stooges period shorts as "Back to the Woods," the 1962 costume epic The Three Stooges Meet Hercules is 100% pure Moe-Larry-Curly Joe comedy, with the barest of a ho- hum love interest to detract from the nonsense at hand. Working at the pharmacy of an ill-tempered boss (George N. Neise) and friends of a budding time-machine inventor named Schuyler (Quinn Redeker), the Stooges and Schuyler, along with the obligatory attractive female, Diana (Vicki Trickett), are transported back to the time of Hercules. Here the legendary hero (Samson Burke) is the enforcer for King Odius (Neise in a double role), and anachronisms are rampant in an English-speaking ancient Greece. Twice condemned as galley slaves, the Stooges see that Schuyler now has the muscles but not the self-confidence to rescue Diana and the rest of Greece from the odious Odius. Schuyler is tricked into thinking himself all-powerful and performs many Herculean labors (with many a stuffed animal and some decent backscreen projection). Although Curly Joe seems a few notches above his namesake in the brains department (which is not saying all that much), his reactions at times of real and supposed danger are quite ordinary compared with the old Curly. In fact, it is Moe who takes on the Curly bark at a recalcitrant prop. But the old sound effects are there to punctuate blows to belly and head, although eye pokes are out, due to parental objections to the influence of the trio, newly popular on television. --Frank Behrens
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 Nyuk nyuk nyuk.... May 31, 2008
Richard M. Biggs (Hamilton, Ontario)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is quite possibly the single greatest work of that great comedy troupe known as "The Three Stooges".
Laughs and more laughs from start to finish. If you are a fan this is the one title you cannot do without in your dvd collection. In fact, the price is so reasonable you should buy extra copies for your friends and family.
 Curly - joe era stooges May 3, 2008
DR. FOREMAN (BOSTON,MA)
I like this film but please these are not the spry young Stooges of the Curly era. And as such should not be compared as. So what do we have but a comedy,science fiction, and adventure film that was aimed at those Saturday morning audience. So enjoy it as it is, beside it is alot better for my 3 and 4 year old to watch at this stage and they enjoy it especially the 2 headed cyclops.
The knuckleheads meet the musclehead January 10, 2008
Randy E. Halford (Boise, ID)
This is arguably the best Three Stooges feature of the bunch. It was fun to watch, and kept me engaged all the way through it. Even Moe Howard himself said that in 1962, this was a box-office smash upon its release, with lines often stretching all the way around the theatre block!
The secret behind TSMH and the other Stooge films is clever scripting and direction. We're never painfully reminded we're watching comedians well into their sixties; Moe, Larry and Curly Joe (the final member to join the ranks)are able to function & clown superbly without performing major physical stunts. BTW, Curly Joe's character in these films seems to have a closer comic styling to Lou Costello than the original Curly. And he seems to be smarter (though not by much!).
Another factor is the satirical jokes & modern-day references that make TSMH seem fresh & funny. Mel Brooks must've mined the humor for his "History of the World" comedy, which coincidentally, includes a Roman sketch.
And there's even throwbacks to the early Stooge days: the familiar sound effects and pie-throwing (done during the chariot race climax).
If you've never seen the Stooges during their 60's career revival, this is a good film to start with!
The lost is found December 28, 2007
P. Henry (Chicago, IL)
My brother has always loved this film, and so I was delighted to find it on DVD to give him for Christmas.
 Not the same with out the orrigional Curlie April 5, 2007
K. Cheshire
I realize this is only my thoughts but I believe this picture comes in 2nd or 3rd for their work. Snow White Meets the 3 Stooges was the best of the ones I have seen. There wasn't so much of there tv days stupidity that some people may be crazy enough to call slapstick. However,The makers of the films I have seen, should have had the intelegence to make them while the orrigional Curlie was still with us.
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