Hercules in New York (1970)

Hercules in New York was the feature film debut of Arnold Schwarzenegger, then only 22 years old, seemingly new to the English language, and credited as Arnold Strong. This is one of those 'so bad its kind of good'  movies, with Arnold playing a bored demigod who sneaks away from Mount Olympus to have fun in The Big Apple, become a professional wrestler and get mixed up with gangsters. It is a ridicules' movie, with silly dialogue and generally bad acting, though Michael Liptons smarmy Pluto kind of works and Arnold Strang's neurotic 'Pretzi' steels the movie (I saw part of this on TNT back in the 90's and he's what I remembered best). I would like to see The CW adapt this into a television series, it could be the best thing on the network. Filmed entirely in New York City. **1/2