Remember Seven Golden Men? No? Well, this is obviously the sequel to that film, written and directed by the same man, Marco Vicario.

Philippe Leroy (Mother of Tears, Mannaja), Rossana Podesta (Hera from Cozzi’s Hercules), Maurice Poli (Rabid Dogs), Manuel Zarzo (Nightmare City), Gabriele Tinti (Lisa and the Devil) and Giampiero Albertini (The Case of the Bloody Iris) all show up.

This time, The Professor (Leroy) and his men are captured by U.S. agents as they try to rob a train. To keep out of prison, they must kidnap a Latin dictator, but there’s so much gold that gets in the way.

Fats-moving, lots of gadgets and wow, Podesta is the real selling point of the film, acting above it all and sexy even when menaced by poisonous spiders.

You can watch this on Amazon Prime.

Maniacs like me love Stewart Granger for his role in The Wild Geese, but he was also a leading man until the mid 60’s, when he started making movies in Italy. This spy film — an Austrian/German/Italian mash-up — was directed by Manfred R. Kohler, who wrote Daughters of Darkness and Franco’s The Blood of Fu Manchu.

Three years after making this, Karin Dor would play Bond girl Helga Brandt in You Only Live Twice. It’s also nice to see Klaus Kinski, Curd Jurgens (Karl Stromberg from The Spy Who Loved Me) and Molly Peters (the nurse who takes care of Bond in Thunderball) and Adolfo Celli, who between this, Danger: Diabolik, Thunderball and OK Connery is Eurospy royalty.

This movie has an exciting beginning, with an entire crew of a plane trying to murder Dor’s character, even parachuting out of the plane and leaving her without a flight crew. There’s brainwashing on a major scale, but the film doesn’t live up to that initial promise.

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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 this spy month than just about anybody, with appearances in Kriminal, Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary, Special Mission Lady Chaplin and Avenger X.

You know who has been in just as many and is in this as well? Rosalba Neri, who was in Super Seven Calling Cairo, Two Mafiosi Against Godginger, OSS 117-Double Agent and The Spy with Ten Faces.

Points to this film getting ahead of the curve and being about sending weapons to the View Cong about five years before anyone was thinking of that. Otherwise, it’s an average film — except for, of course, Helga and Rosalba being in it.

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Italy and Spain combine to create this sequel to Super Seven Calling Cairo, written and directed by Umberto Lenzi using the name Hubert Humphry.

It brings back Roger Browne as Martin Stevens, Agent Super Seven. Emma Danieli from Spies Strike Silently, Daniele Vargas (Electra One from, well, Electra One), Marino Mase (Tenebre), Yoko Tani (The Secret of Dr. Mabuse), Sal Borgese (Super Fuzz), Tullio Altamura (A Black Veil for Lisa) and Attilio Dottesio (Death Smiles at a Murderer) all show up too.

Yoko Tani is honestly the only reason to watch this. Her life sounds pretty interesting by comparison, so let’s talk about that. Her Japanese parents worked at the Japanese embassy in Paris, with the actress conceived en route via ship and born in Paris, which is where she got her first name, which means “ocean child.”

After two years of time in France, her family moved back to Japan. She’d return in 1950 to attend a Catholic girls school for two years before she began dancing in cabarets, becoming famous for her sexy geisha dance. This got her the attention of director Marcel Carne, which is how she met her first husband Roland Lesaffre.

Between spy and sword and sandal films, she was in two films for Toho and is also in the Dean Martin movie Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? She continued dancing until late into the 1970s before remarrying to a wealthy French industrialist. Their shared grave has the phrase “Always together” on it.

As for Lenzi, he’d follow this movie with Kriminal and his last spy film Last Man to Kill. Along with a few war films, he’d begin making the giallo that so many in the U.S. know him for, like So Sweet…So Perverse, Orgasmo, A Quiet Place to Kill, Seven Blood Stained Orchids, Eyeball and Spasmo, as well as incredibly out there — and much beloved to me — films like Nightmare City, Ironmaster, Ghosthouse and Nightmare Beach.

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Joseph Losey was blacklisted, which is no surprise, as he directed The Boy with the Green Hair. He took his career to Europe, where he made movies like Boom! and Don Giovanni.

This film is based on the popular comic strip Modesty Blaise by Peter O’Donnell, who co-wrote the original story. There was a major battle between Losey and O’Donnell on this film, with the director wanting to create a pop art Eurospy spoof while the comic is serious. The avant garde-inspired editing and production design, musical numbers and deliberate continuity errors drove O’Donnell insane. He hated that Willie and Modesty had any romance at all.

Losey also had problems with leading lady Monica Vitti, as she would be joined on the set by director Michelangelo Antonioni, who would whisper suggestions to her, and she would take direction from him rather than the actual director of the film.

Ever notice how many spy movies start with another spy getting killed to set the events in motion? This is no different, with British Secret Service chief Sir Gerald Tarrant recruiting former criminal mastermind Modesty Blaise to protect a shipment of diamonds after their agent is offed.

Terence Stamp is in this as Willie Garvin, Modesty’s loyal sidekick and Dirk Bogarde is Gabriel, the criminal mastermind who is, for some reason, sensitive to violence.

Originally, Barbara Steele was going to play Modesty with Michael Caine as Willie. In a strange twist, Caine would ultimately star in Alfie, a role intended for his friend and former roommate Stamp.

I bought this for $3 at a Dollar General this year after wanting a copy for a long time. Inside it, there was a coupon for buying three Eurospy films — Fathom or the two Flint movies — and getting one free. I was really excited until I realized that the offer ended 17 years ago. That’s what you get for still buying DVDs.

Imagine: A Filipino James Bond and Batman hybrid starring their King of Comedy. It’s 100% true — starring Dolphy, who from 1965-1966 made several James Bond spoofs including Dolpinger, Genghis Bond: Agent 1-2-3, Dr. Yes, Operation Butterball, Dressed to Kill, Dolpinger Meets Pantarorong, Dolpinger: Agent sa lagim and even a Man from U.N.C.L.E. parody, Napoleon Doble and the Sexy Six. 

Boy Alano is his Ruben as they battle CLAW in the face of nuclear armageddon. Of course, Batman and James Bond don’t get along, despite being played by the same actor.

There’s also Alyas Batman at Robin, a ripoff of Batman made around the same time that was remade in 1989 but earned the ire of Warner Brothers, sitting for two years until lawsuits could be settled. Bob Soler, who played Batman in the 1965 version also played a fake version of Lee Falk’s The Phantom, Captain Philippines and the Shazam/Superman/Captain America hybrid Captain Barbell.

There’s also the 1965 film Batman Fights Dracula and the 70’s brought us Fight Batman FIght! where Batman literally goes to hell to kick Satan’s ass.

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After Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!, this was the second Hanna-Barbera motion picture. It’s also the last production of the original Flintstones series, ending it before it would be brought back in the 1970’s.

Special Agent Rock Slag looks exactly like Fred, which means that as soon as they meet in the hospital, Fred takes over the spy work while Rock recovers. This sends Fred and Barney — with family in tow — all around the world. This also raises the question as to why Paris exists in the past and has the exact same architecture as it does today. When it comes to the Flintstones, I try not to think too much.

The one thing that does baffle me is the number of musical numbers in this. I guess that the thought was if Disney did it in a full length, this film should too. The music is the reason why this movie was never released on video in the U.S. until 2008, as Columbia Pictures owned the rights to all of the many songs.

Obviously, this is as much Derek Flint as it is James Bond. It moves quickly and it plenty of fun, despite the strange song where Pebbles sings about going to sleep and the fact that Fred and Barney sing a ditty that pretty much affirms that they are the ones actually married.

Just when you thought we couldn’t all get along, the French, German and Italians all got together and made a James Bond ripoff. That should warm your heart.

Directed by Giorgio Ferroni (Mill of the Stone Women) — using the amazing fake name Calvin Jackson Padget — this Amsterdam-shot caper played double bills with another movie that brought together people of many countries — in this case Britain, Yugoslavia, Italy and the U.S. — The One Eyed Soldiers.

Secret Agent Super Dragon (Ray Danton, who played George Raft in The George Raft Story, was Sandokan in that series of movies, was married to Julie Adams and appeared in other spy movies like Code Name: Jaguar, the Jess Franco-directed Lucky, the Inscrutable and the Derek Flint TV pilot — whew!) is after the men who killed his partner and are now stuffing drugs into vases.

That’s pretty much it, but luckily, Marisa Mell shows up as Charity Farrel. Mell was typecast in her career as a femme fatale, but perhaps she earned that, what with her dating Pier Luigi Torri, a playboy who became one of the most wanted fugitives in the world and got her name all over the tabloids. She’s probably best known for being in Danger: Diabolik, which is a much better spy movie than this.

Speaking of spy girls, Margaret Lee is also in this. Beyond starring in twelve movies with Klaus Kinski and living to tell the story, Margaret was also in Our Agent Tiger, Agent 077: From the Orient with Fury, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die and Our Man in Marrakesh. The more depraved amongst my dear readers — like me — will recognize her from Slaughter Hotel and Venus In Furs. And yes, that’s Fräulein Greta from Deported Women of the SS Special Section (and Patrizia from Strip Nude for Your Killer), actress Solvi Stubing in this as well.

Originally called New York Chiama Superdrago (New York Calling Superdragon), you can watch this pretty ridiculous movie on Amazon Prime. You also have the option of watching the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version on Amazon Prime and Tubi.