Director: Guido Malatesta
Year: 1966
Country: Italian
Rating: 5.5
Italian with subs
This
Euro-Spy film does quite well in the location and girl department. They hop
all over from Hawaii to New York to Europe to Casablanca. And everywhere
has stunning women to flaunt in front of the camera. The rest of the film
is fairly average - a weak script, poor continuity and a big basket of stupid.
It is the usual story. A very rich man wants more. He wants to own the world.
He tries to do it the old fashioned way by threatening to blow up New York
City. Get with it man. You can own the world by simply buying it up and leveraging
the assets to buy more. Then you buy Congressmen to cut your taxes to nothing
and buy more. And enough with NYC. My apartment is there and a nuke would
really lower the property values and I might have to wait for about 100 years
to sell it. Blow up some other place (old review - just sold my apartment
before the apocalypse)
Axel (Eduardo Fajardo) sends the United
Nations a warning - give me all the money you have or I blow up a city. They
immediately contact an ex-agent 087 (Arthur Hansel) to stop this madman.
Hansel was another American actor who went to Europe to act - square jawed
and good looking - but without the success of some of the others. He is of
course a babe magnet and his modus operandi is telling them that he will
be right back and then leaving for good. He tracks down Axel by stupidly
walking into every obvious trap and then punching his way out. They never
just kill him because the Boss wants to talk to him. I wonder whether the
Boss at the end as his plans fail thinks, I should have just shot him. Tying
him to the rocket was just foolishness. And we probably should have searched
him for the bomb in his cigarette package.
I don't know any of the actresses but they
were all lovely - Moa Tahi as Lulu Noir and Pamela Tudor as Dorine stood
out the most. Tudor is a knockout but has the acting range of A to A. She
never changes expression but with that face she really doesn't have to. It
is directed by Guido Malatesta under the name James Reed which he used a
few times. Not familiar with his films but a bunch of them look both bad
and good with titles like Tarzana the Wild Woman, Poppea's Hot Nights
and a whole bunch of Peplum films with Colossus, Maciste and Goliath.
