Aka - Danger Girls
In Spanish with subs.
In the 1960s every country had to have their version of James Bond. This
is one from Mexico. Dinamo, Alex Dinamo. Servicio Internationale. Like every
Bond type he eats danger for breakfast and a bevy of women at night. You
have to like an agent who when he sees in the mirror that he is about to
be shot in the back, quickly spins around the woman he was kissing as a shield.
A communicator watch, a lethal wrist dart gun, smoke bombs and a few other
gadgets always at hand, he is ready to take on the evil SOS organization,
That of course as we all know stands for Secret Organizational Service. They
should probably work on that name. Sounds like a data company that comes
to your aid. They are a global crime syndicate primarily made up of beautiful
women and a few men who take their orders. If you don't look good in a bikini,
don't bother to apply because at some point every woman in the film ends
up in a bikini (and this isn't even the other Dinamo film titled Operation
Bikini). That is only natural. There are so many women in fact in this film
- on both sides - that I totally lost track of who was on who's side. Not
a bad problem to have but they keep killing people and I was wondering if
that was one for the home team or not. The film jumps from Miami to Ecuador
to Puerto Rico and back.
Director Rene Cardona Jr. throws everything into this film stretching it
out to almost two hours. Gadgets galore, underwater sequences, helicopters,
car chases, nightclubs (a belly dancer), a lounge singer in the Hunca Munca
room, a live man in a coffin, viruses, frog teams sent in to blow up a refinery
and he out does Fleming with not a gold finger, but a Goldhand that can kill
with a karate chop. Cardona never lets up - something is always going
on - to a point where you wish he would stop. Enough already. By the time
you get to know a woman's name, she has been killed. Dinamo (Julio Alemán)
is assisted by a few women as well - one who the film follows for ten minutes
as she is chased by car, then by helicopter shooting at her, then she puts
on scuba gear and is chased by scuba men out of the helicopter and finally
by a mini-sub. The other one is Maura (Alma Delia Fuentes) who keeps a slim
gun in her hair which comes in handy.
On the other side there is Solva (Elizabeth Campbell) who runs the organization.
Cruel like a buzzing mosquito that won't go away. She is holding a meeting
of all her top people and announces that one of them is a traitor. She will
announce three names and they have to stand up and get a drink. Is this a
quiz game? Not to the person who dies from poisoning. She has two devious
plans under way - blow up the oil refineries in Ecuador and destroy their
economy - and produce a virus - the coffin with the live guy had a scientist
inside - and kill millions in Latin America and then sell the anti-dote.
Nice to see someone destroying Latin America for a change and a non-USA American
saving the day. Cardona made tons of pulp films - his resume is littered
with them - some of the Santo films, spy films, shark movies, disaster films,
gorilla films, adventures in the Amazon movies, Westerns and lots more. Whatever
would turn a buck. Would love to take a deep dive into his filmography but
no idea how many are available. Though there must have been a budget here
- hell they blow up a car, a boat and a truck and travel around even filming
at the Fontainbleau in Miami, but it still has that cheap itchy one take
feel about it that it can't escape.
