included · Mechanical

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules

Herb Wallerstein, Edward Bernds · 89 minutes

The Three Stooges manage to crash through the time barrier with their slap-happy antics in this classic feature-length comedy. Larry, Moe, and Curly-Joe are friends of a young scientist, Schuyler Davis, who has created a time machine. Together with Schuyler's girlfriend, Diane, they are all transported back to ancient Ithaca which is ruled by the tyrannical King Odius. The lecherous king promptly takes a liking to Diane and banishes Schuyler and The Stooges to the galleys. When they manage to escape, they begin promoting Schuyler as "Hercules" at local gladiatorial combats - until the real Hercules shows up. But, with their unique "charm," The Stooges convince Hercules to help them rescue Diane. Written by Robert Lynch

Comedy, Adventure

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What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

The machine sends the group to Ithaca and creates their need to escape the historical adventure.

A scientist's time machine takes the group to ancient Ithaca.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan27.3

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance6/10

high confidence

Quality consensus6.5/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 55.86 base × 48.8% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Vicki Trickett, Marlin McKeever

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Releases & formats

12 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

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