The Cobra (1967)
Mario Sequi made The Tramplers, a spaghetti western with Charles Band’s father Albert before this Eurospy film, which is all about Captain Kelly (Dana Andrews, who shows up in plenty of other spy films like Bang You’re Dead, Spy In Your Eye, The Satan Bug and Innocent Bystanders). Peter Martell from Franco’s Killer Barbys vs. Dracula and Death Walks at […]
Kiss Me Monster (1969)
Regina (Rosanna Yanni, Count Dracula’s Great Love) and Diana (Janine Reynaud, The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail) are back again for the third Red Lips movie from Jess Franco. If the last film — Two Undercover Angels — made no sense, guess what? This one doubles down, almost a stream of conscious film made up of […]
Password: Kill Agent Gordon (1966)
What’s that you say? Another Sergio Grieco spy caper after his Agent 077 movies, The Tiffany Memorandum and Argoman the Fantastic Superman? This time, Roger Browne (Super seven from Super Seven Calling Cairo) plays Doug Gordon and, of course, Helga Line is in this as the “not Bond” girl. Helga has been in more movies I’ve watched […]
REPOST: The Girl From Rio (1969)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Oh, Jess Franco. I sometimes absolutely love everything you do and other times, you drive me crazy. This time, you are somewhere in between. And this is a perfect time to bring this movie back, as we explore an entire month of James Bond and Eurospy movies. This originally ran on December 5, […]
The Spy Who Fell to Earth (2019) and The Angel (2018)
If you were a spy aficionado in the early ‘70s that couldn’t get enough James Bond in your pulp-and-celluloid diet, and grew up reading Don Pendleton’s Mack Bolan: The Executioner, Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir’s Remo Williams: The Destroyer (adapted as Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins), and Jerry Ahern’s John Rourke: The Survivalist paperbacks (pseudo-adapted […]
The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967)
If there’s a Venn diagram of what I love in movies, this movie would be at the center of it. It’s directed by Lindsay Shonteff, who was behind so many spy films and other moments of outright cinema lunacy like Night After Night After Night. It was filmed at the Shaw Brothers studios in Hong Kong. […]
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