From Wiki: The Giant of Metropolis (Italian: Il gigante di Metropolis) is a 1961 color Italian fantasy adventure film that was produced by Decio Salvi and Emimmo Salvi, directed by Umberto Scarpelli, that stars Gordon Mitchell and Bella Cortez.
Muscleman Obro travels to the sinful capital of Atlantis to rebuke its
godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its
evil lord Yotar and his hideous super-science schemes, which involve transplanting an old and knowledgeable brain into his son's body. Back to me:Obro is a kind strongman, but eventually knows he has to bring down the rulers of Atlantis by being a terrorist (it is in the dub). Gordon Mitchell was in a lot of movies in his career, but he is a bit wooden here. He does his best, and it is such a unique movie that we can take him as a pretty two-dimensional hero. The set and direction are astounding, and seeing it in a beautiful print as well (thanks, Internet Archive!).
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