The Three Stooges Meet Hercules is a 1962 film written by Norman Maurer and Elwood Ullman. Maurer is the producer and Edward Bernds is the director. Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Joe DeRita are the Stooges and in this film they travel into the past to meet Hercules. That's Samson Burke hefting Larry, he's a Canadian body builder and wrestler. He competed in the 1948 Olympics and appeared in several movies and Magnum PI. The Wikipedia says it's the guys most successful film. It did $2,000,000 when it was released and it cost $420,000.
The guys are working at a drug store. One of their customers is a young man who's trying to invent a time machine. Quinn Redeker plays the scientist Schuyler Davis and Vicki Trickett plays his girlfriend Diane Quigley. The Stooges pitch in and somehow make the time machine work.
The 5 of them wind up in ancient Greece and accidentally help King Odius defeat Ulysses. The King has designs on Diane but she's not interested. The guys get the idea that they might be changing history and free Ulysses. The King has Schuyler and the Stooges chained in a ship as galley slaves. Schuyler gets really strong and eventually they get in contact with Hercules. He helps them rescue Diane and mete out some punishment.
It's a good sword and sandal movie parody and I got a fair bit of enjoyment out of it. There's the usual Stooge wackiness, some action, and a fair number of jokes. Some are funny. I'd watch it again. It's part of the 6 movie set I bought a bit ago. I'm working my way through it.
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