791. The Three Fantastic Supermen begin!

This is such a fun romp, I wish I had seen it in the theaters in the 70s when it was released in the States!

SUPERARGO & THE FACELESS GIANTS (1968) Us trailer

                      The semi-sequel to Superargo vs. Diabolicus.  It adds a new character to make it more fun.

Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops

 

From Wiki- Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops (Italian: Maciste nella terra dei ciclopi) is a 1961 Italian epic adventure film^[2] starring Gordon Mitchell and Chelo Alonso. Queen Capys is doomed to a life of slavery by the Powers of Darkness until the last descendant of Ulysses is put to death to please the Cyclops. This is almost accomplished in a raid on a village by the Queen's soldiers where a descendant of Ulysses is killed and his wife enslaved; however, their infant son is taken away to be protected by Maciste.  Back to me:

612. The Fantastic Goldface takes on Cobra in 1967!

                    Huh, didn't know I had an "Italy" label, but since I do talk a lot about peplum movies here, it makes sense.

Goldface- the fantastic upgrade!

For years, the only version of this movie easily available was a multi-gen pan and scan fullscreen, as seen on YouTube.  The movie got a nice release in Italy, and some wonderful fan has dubbed it over with the English track.  Or maybe the disc had it anyway.  I've seen the movie twice, but the quality was awful.  

328. Argoman, A Fantastic Superman!

               

Flashman opening

here's the opening of a spy/hero spoof. I reviewed the movie here, a while back. it really is a fun movie, and Flashman himself is not one of the thieves who sort of become heroes by accident. the music to the opening is really great. I think there will be a lot of movies from Italy featured this month. but that's just a guess on my part...

Superargo vs Diabolicus trailer

this is the first in a series of two Superargo movies, both of which are very enjoyable Italian superher/spy/wrestling romps. full of action and hot babes! I never saw them in my area, but they hold up well to this day.

Flashman (1967)

thanks to the Batman tv series, masked heroes became the rage all over the world.  Italy seemed to be quite taken with them, as they turned out several movies- two Superargo features, Argoman, Goldface, a slew of "Three Fantastic Supermen" films and a hero I'd heard of but never thought I'd see at all, let alone dubbed in English and in a fine video presentation.  and yet, here is our hero "Flashman"!  not to be confused with the Japanese Super Sentai series (Flashman) of the same name, of course.

our hero is veddy veddy English, and of course has a butler (named Jarvis, on loan from Mr. Stark?) who helps him out.  a scientist has invented a serum that turns people invisible, and a villain has stolen it for nefarious doings.    our hero wants to stop him.  our hero has a bulletproof costume and can leap really well- 20 or 30 feet into the air.  his sister also knows his secret identity.  which is a neat twist.  usually family members are to be protected.

there is some clever wordplay with some invisible man being seen and all.  I wonder who dubbed this?  probably the same people that dubbed many of the Italian peplums and spaghetti westerns from the same time period.  like many Italian movies, it's got a rockin' theme song, and the entire soundtrack is pretty good.  one of the other characters is named "Smithers" and they keep saying it.  all I can think of is Waylon.  the movie runs a compact 90 minutes.