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'''''The Three Stooges Meet Hercules''''' (1962) 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]]. 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.
'''''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]]. 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==
==Plot==
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==Cast==
==Cast==
*[[Moe Howard]] - Himself
*[[Moe Howard]] -
*[[Larry Fine]] - Himself
*[[Larry Fine]] -
*[[Joe DeRita]] - Himself
*[[Joe DeRita]] -
*[[Quinn Redeker]] - Schuyler Davis
*[[Quinn Redeker]] - Schuyler Davis
*[[Vicki Trickett]] - Diane Quigley
*[[Vicki Trickett]] - Diane Quigley
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*[[Marlin McKeever]] - Ajax (The Siamese Cyclops)
*[[Marlin McKeever]] - Ajax (The Siamese Cyclops)
*[[Mike McKeever]] - Argo (The Siamese Cyclops)
*[[Mike McKeever]] - Argo (The Siamese Cyclops)
*[[John Cliff]] - Ulysses
*[[Lewis Charles]] - Achilles the Heel
*[[Barbara Hines]] - Anita
*[[Terry Huntingdon]] - Hecuba
*[[Diana Piper]] - Helen
*[[Gregg Martell]] - Simon
*[[Gene Roth]] - harbor captain
*[[Edward Foster]] - Freddie the Fence
*[[Cecil Elliott]] - matron
*[[Rusty Wescoatt]] - Philo, the horator


== External links ==
== External links ==

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The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
Theatrical poster
Directed byEdward Bernds
Written byNorman Maurer
Elwood Ullman
Produced byNorman Maurer
StarringMoe Howard
Larry Fine
Joe DeRita
Vicki Trickett
Quinn Redeker
George N. Neise
Samson Burke
Emil Sitka
Hal Smith
Marlin McKeever
Mike McKeever
CinematographyScotty Welbourne
Edited byEdwin H. Bryant
Music byPaul Dunlap
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • January 26, 1962 (1962-01-26)
Running time
88' 43"
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish

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. 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 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 the king and, navigating by observing the progress of military technology, manage to set history straight by dumping him off during Indian dominated American Old West where a band of warriors chase him off into the distance.

File:Herculesstooge.jpg
Screen shot of The Stooges.

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