Arguably one of the cheesiest political biopics ever made, is a little project titled See Arnold Run. It’s one of those it’s so bad, it’s actually pretty good, films. The movie, produced by Frank Zane, himself a championship bodybuilder, covers Arnold Schwarzenegger’s early years in bodybuilding to his run for governor of California.
Roland Kickinger from the Howard Stern Productions TV project, Son Of The Beach, is Arnold in all the flashback scenes to when he first arrives in California and becomes the ultimate gym rat with a noble vision. Had we stuck to that idea and remained entrenched in the late Sixties, early Seventies with the story, Kickinger is quite believable and has the Arnold Mr. Olympia physique and resembles him to a great degree.
Here’s where it gets marvelously insipid. Jurgen Prochnow is Arnold as the retired actor and aspiring politician. Along with the hairdo, weird carrot-color dye job and German accent, Prochnow, otherwise a decent character actor, is a bewildering choice. Even in his Governator days, Arnold looked pretty formidable in street clothes. Which is not the case with Prochnow who’d never be mistaken for an Arnold stunt double….
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