Pumping Iron depicts two major competitions: Mr. Universe, which is for amateur participants, and Mr. Olympia, which is for professionals. Bodybuilding and a celebrity-to-be go mainstream.
25 May 1925, New York City, New York, USA
27 November 1950, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
6 January 1942, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
26 June 1943, Swansea, Wales, UK
30 July 1947, Thal, Styria, Austria
23 December 1945, Manhattan, New York, USA
3 April 1951
29 March 1948, New Rochelle, New York, USA
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6 October 1938, Anse-Bertrand, Guadeloupe, France
28 June 1942, Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA
9 November 1951, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
February 16, 2016
This kind of sweetly numbskull arrogance is cleverly caught by Pumping Iron which depicts Mr Olympia as a beauty, not body, contest.
June 24, 2006
The movie is a very shrewd mixture of documentary and realistic fiction, put together with both eyes and ears on entertainment value.
May 09, 2005
An interesting, rather slick and excessively long documentary about the small but intensely competitive world of body-building.
August 03, 2008
A very good film, beautifully shot and edited, intelligently structured and -- to risk what will surely seem at first a highly inappropriate term -- charming.
January 06, 2004
Its in-your-face images of the bodybuilding subculture's well-oiled narcissism both startled and fascinated viewers, making for an unlikely boxoffice hit.
April 06, 2007
Arnold's "reality" debut
March 14, 2007
Fascinating stuff when viewed in the context of Arnie's now notorious political career.
March 14, 2009
Pumping iron is as satisfying as having sex with a woman and reaching orgasm, says Arnold Schwarzenegger in this fascinating1977 documentary
February 12, 2016
The stage show is all about oiled hardbodies and sculpted musculature, but the movie is a portrait of competition as war and Schwarzenegger as the warrior supreme...
March 14, 2007
Directors George Butler and Robert Fiore never allow their film to turn into a freak show, but neither do they illuminate the appeal of body building, either to those who participate or those who watch.
March 14, 2007
The most fascinating aspect of this film is the dedicated training that turns average-built young men (frequently they refer to themselves as weaklings in their early youth) into superbly-created physical edifices.
March 07, 2017
'70s docu featuring Schwarzenegger has some cursing.
