Showing posts with label Euro-Spy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euro-Spy. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Super Seven Calling Cairo (1965)

Roger Browne plays Martin Stevens, a James Bond-like agent. He is sent to Egypt to retrieve a movie camera that has accidentally been sold to a tourist. The lens of the movie camera is made of some new radioactive, but stable, super metal. Of course the baddies are also in hot pursuit. The only problem is that only one woman knows what the man who bought the camera looks like and she's under Stevens' protection. However it's really not too hard to get to the agent since he can't say no to a beautiful woman, and there are plenty of those in this film.

Alternate Titles:  Superseven Chiama Cairo, Höllenhunde Des Secret Service

Available: Atlas Visuals, Twisted Anger

Monday, September 19, 2011

The Second Best Secret Agent In The Whole Wide World (1965)

This James Bond rip-off starts with a promising pre-credit sequence of an assassination in an British park involving a woman and some twin babies in a pram. Sammy Davis Jr. then sings the theme song before the excitement quickly comes to a halt.

The secret agent in question is Charles Vine (Tom Adams). He is brought in to protect a foreign scientist who has invented Re-Grav, a process that reverses gravity. The Russians want to get their hands on it and would do anything to get it, or so it seems. There are many attempts on the life of the scientist which Vine successfully foils. But who exactly is behind the killings: the Russians, the British or someone else?

Alternate Titles: Licensed To Kill, Secret Service

Available: Amazon

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Espionage In Tangiers (1965)

James Bond-esque agent Mike Murphy (Luis Dávila) is put on the assignment of finding the missing plate of a disintegration ray-gun. Smiling through-out the film he travels the world following the trail (that apparently only he can see). Like the majority of Euro-spy movies he has lots of close calls and entertains lots of beautiful women: he gets shot is but saved by a book in his pocket, he is "fooled" into getting into a car at the airport that is loaded with a bomb, he gets trapped in a room that is filled with water and almost drowns, he beds a beautiful agent that he knows must be in alliance with the bad guy. And of course in the end he escapes harm and gets the women in a boat. 

Alternate TitlesMarc Mato, Agente S. 077

Available: Netflix, Amazon



Sunday, January 2, 2011

Ring Around The World (1966)

Richard Harrison stars as Fred Lester, an insurance company detective. He has been brought to London to investigate the deaths of clients whose policies have recently all been made out to banks. Although these deaths all seem to be from heart attacks, another investigator has suspicions that something is not right.

After running around the world trying to locate a man named McMurray, Lester returns to London having failed to find the man alive. He then make the acquaintance of Mary Brightford whose father has disappeared.  They travel to Hong Kong where all is revealed.

Alternate Titles:  Duello nel mondo

Available: Amazon, Netflix