Super Seven Calling Cairo (1965)
Based on a novel by Umberto Lenzi — and directed by him — this Bond clone starts Roger Browne (The Spy Who Loved Flowers, Emanuelle in America) as Agent Superseven Martin Stevens. He’s joined by Fabienne Dali (Kill, Baby, Kill), Massimo Serato (Autopsy, The Blood Stained Shadow), Rosalba Neri (The Arena) and Paolo Bonacelli, who has the disturbing […]
Espionage in Lisbon (1965)
Jess Franco wrote the script and music for this movie, so between that and me watching over a hundred Eurospy movies in a month, I just had to tackle this. Brett Halsey in the main role? Added bonus. An international gang pretends to have the means to destroy a small country in thirty seconds. A […]
Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary (1965)
This is the first of three Eurospy films that Ken Clark starred in as Dick Malloy, Agent 077. This time, he’s on a search and destroy mission to take back Bloody Mary, a portable nuclear weapon, from the Black Lily crime syndicate. Eurospy movies unite more countries than a world war, let me tell you. […]
REPOST: The 10th Victim (1965)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Seeing as how so much of Austin Powers was influenced by this film, it seemed natural to bring back this review, originally posted on September 1, 2018. This is one of my favorite of the Eurospy-influenced movies. Enjoy! How do you avoid warfare in the future? The Big Hunt is the answer. It’s […]
Two Mafiosi Against Goldginger (1965)
After James Bond gets killed, who can stop the evil Goldginger? If you said Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia — yes, the same duo from Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs — then you’d be right. How did you guess? Somehow, this movie was bought by American International Pictures, dubbed into English and sold as part […]
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
I don’t know if much media was considered meta in 1965, but this film definitely fits the bill. Somehow it combines everything American-International Pictures did best — Edgar Allan Poe movies, beach films and movies that appealed to the teenage zeitgeist — and mashes and mixes them up into one overall satisfying piece of ridiculousness. […]
Thunderball (1965)
Here’s where things get messy. Thunderball would have been the first Bond film, if not for all the lawsuits. Yes — back in 1958, Ian Fleming was already planning a James Bond movie. Fleming and a young writer and director named Kevin McClory wrote a script that had many working titles — SPECTRE, James Bond of […]
Espionage In Tangiers (1965)
Mike Murphy is Agent S 077, which has absolutely nothing to do with Bond. But you know what’s great about this movie? It’s directed by Greg Tallas, who would someday make The Nightmare Never Ends, which was then edited into Night Train to Terror. That fact is more interesting than this movie. Jose Greci, who was the […]
Gamera (1965)
I’ll come clean. As a kid, I liked Gamera more than Godzilla. Sure, Daiei Film Studios was just following the success of Toho’s kaiju superstar, but I always felt a kinship to a monster who could just withdraw into his shell. Gamera was, after all, a friend to all children. And man, I wanted to […]
Devils of Darkness (1965)
Director Lance Comfort lived on the fringes of British B-movies, with this effort being one of his last films. I found it on one of those old 20th Century Fox Midnite Movies double disks which are always so much fun. Hubert Noel, who somehow shows up in both The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane […]
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