The Villain aka Cactus Jack (1979)Īrriving a whole nine years after the Austrian Oak made his acting debut in Hercules in New York, and five before The Terminator shot him to stardom, this knockabout comedy-western from Smokey and the Bandit director Hal Needham is notable for being Arnie’s first and only foray into cowboy country. Placing this bottom of the pile may seem a tad mean-spirited, especially given that all profits from its release went to charity, but it really is a stinker. Tom Arnold wrote this well-meaning but abject family movie for his young neighbour Eric Gores, who was born with cerebral palsy. It sees the pair attempt to remake the teenager’s favourite film, True Lies, which Arnold starred in a decade earlier alongside Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, both of whom appear here in cameo as themselves. With the exception of a wordless walk-on part in Robert Altman’s 1973 masterpiece, The Long Goodbye, and a couple of TV appearances, we watched and ranked the actor’s CV in its entirety in a bid to sort the curd from the BodyPro MaxPlus whey. Agree with our top spot? Let us know 48. This is similar to the moment in 'American Psycho,' that brutal send-up of the American yuppie, in which Patrick Bateman attempts to book a table at the ultra-chic Dorsia, only to be met with jeering laughter.With Predator recently celebrating its 30th anniversary, now seems as good a time as any to take a look back through Arnold Schwarzenegger’s filmography. Take the moment in which Arnold asks a toy store clerk, 'Excuse me, I'm trying to find a Turbo Man dauhhl,' causing the clerk - and then the whole store -to laugh hysterically. The only problem is that it is Christmas Eve and stocks are critically low, so Langston must hit the road in the company of Myron (Sinbad), another desperate father who thwarts his attempts to secure the plaything at every turn.īBC film critic Mark Kermode called 'Jingle All the Way” a 'crassly commercial, exploitative film,' but we shouldn't neglect the fine satirical qualities on display here. In an attempt to make things right with his young son, Jamie, Langston ventures to the store to buy a Turbo-Man action figure, the latest hyped up Christmas toy.

Arnold plays Howard Langston, the proverbial workaholic family man.

Like most Schwarzenegger films, the plot is simple.

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