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Release year: 1977

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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno face off in a no-holds-barred competition for the title of Mr. Olympia in this critically-acclaimed film that made Schwarzenegger a household name.

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted that he had made up several stories in the movie for attention because the producers told him that without drama it would be boring. One of the stories made up was the fact that he did not attend his father's funeral because of a body building competition that was going to happen in a couple of months. Arnold did actually attend his father's funeral and spoke to him shortly before he passed.

• More than 100 hours of footage was filmed. It eventually had to be edited down to 85 minutes, however, on the 25th anniversary DVD more footage was shown.

• The 1975 IFBB Mr. Universe/Mr. Olympia competition took place in Pretoria South Africa during the height of apartheid. Before the event could even take place, an apartheid neutral venue and lodging accommodations had to be found as there were several black bodybuilders competing who wouldn't have been allowed to compete on the same stage with or even stay in the same hotel or even sit at the same table to dine with their white counterparts.