Over the Top

Over the Top (1987)

Timing: 1:34 (94 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1987-02-13

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions

Genre

Action, Drama

Budget

$25 000 000

Revenue

$16 057 580

Website

https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/over-top

Director

Menahem Golan

Actors

Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, Rick Zumwalt, David Mendenhall, Chris McCarty, Terry Funk, Bob Beattie, Allan Graf, Magic Schwarz
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Scenario

Producer

Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus, James D. Brubaker

Operator

David Gurfinkel

Composer

Giorgio Moroder

Artist

David F. Klassen

Audition

Ron Surma

Editing

Don Zimmerman, James R. Symons
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• The prototype for Sylvester Stallone's character was arm wrestler John Brzenk.
• Rick Zumwalt (1951-2003) received $10,000 for shaving his head for the filming. He liked the new look so much that he never grew his hair back.
• Many years later, Sylvester Stallone explained why he agreed to star in this film. “Menachem Golan (1929-2014) kept increasing my fee until I finally thought, ‘Oh well, nobody will watch this anyway.’”
• Rick Zumwalt was the third person chosen to play the opponent for Sylvester Stallone's character. Initially, the choice fell on Cleve Dean (but he looked so massive compared to Stallone that their fight would have seemed implausible), then on Ox Baker (1934-2014), and only then on Zumwalt.
• As soon as the future film project was approved, a wrestling tournament 'Over The Top' was organized, as depicted in the film. Preparation (including qualifying competitions) began in Beverly Hills in August 1985, continued throughout North America, Europe, Israel and Japan. The final took place on July 26, 1986, at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas – it was an 18-hour wrestling marathon. The film features real wrestlers and footage shot during the final – with the exception of scenes with Sylvester Stallone, whose fights with opponents were filmed the day after the final. The film was shot in the same location as the final, and the extras in these scenes are wrestling fans who attended the final.