El Robo de las Momias de Guanajuato
Robbery of the Mummies of Guanajuato
Mexico / Guatemala 1972
produced by Rogelio Agrasánchez for Producciones Fílmicas Agrasánchez, Tikal Internacional
directed by Tito Novaro
starring Mil Máscaras, Blue Angel, Julio César Agrasánchez, El Rayo de Jalisco, Mabel Luna, Tito Novaro, Carlos Figueroa, Anabela Portilla, Rene Garcia, Kyra Rosenhouse, Rafael Rosales Durán
story by Rogelio Agrasánchez, screenplay by Francisco Morayta, Miguel Morayta, music by Rafael Carrión
Mil Mascaras
review by Mike Haberfelner
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One night, little street urchin Efrain sees five mummies walking down
the street, accompanied by a bunch of dwarves. When he tells his friend,
hobo Thomas, Thomas of course refuses to believe, and it's only the next
day when news that five mummies have been stolen from the local museum hit
the TV that Thomas starts to think differently. And of course, what nobody
knows scientist professor Raymond and magician from an age long gone Conde
Cagliostro (Tito Novaro) have indeed revived the mummies which they hope
will lead them to a lost silver mine where there are also pockets of
Hernium, a material needed to build a bomb powerful enough to gain them
world domination. Thomas and Efrain decide to tell their friend,
wrestler Mil Máscaras, about what Efrain has seen, and soon Mil
Máscaras, fellow wrestlers Blue Angel and El Rayo de Jalisco and a bunch
of girls from the gym they're running pick up investigations, and find a
trail leading to the lost mine - so Raymond and Cagliostro send the
mummies to the gym to kidnap one of the girls, and when Blue Angel and El
Rayo de Jalisco go looking for them, the baddies' midgets overcome them.
But they can fee themselves while Mil Máscaras and the girls come to the
rescue. When the mummies attack, Mil Máscaras is quick to figure out they
all have electronic brains (professor Raymond's invention), and when
they're ripped out, the mummies fall like flies. Raymond and
Cagliostro's goons manage to capture Thomas and Efrain, put them under
hypnotic spell and have them deliver a letter to Mil Máscaras - that's
pretty much a letter to all world leaders to surrender power to Raymond
and Cagliostro, otherwise they will destroy the world with their Hernium
bomb. Mil Máscaras and company of course won't deliver the letter to the
UN as requested but instead go against the headquarters of the baddies to
teach them a lesson - and ultimately professor Raymond loses it and blows
up his lab, with himself and Cagliostro inside. Despite the
participation of Mil Máscaras and producer/storywriter Rogelio
Agrasánchez, and the title suggesting as much, this film is not a sequel
to 1970's Las Momias de
Guanajuato, in fact the films have pretty much nothing to do with
one another. Now taken by its own merits, El Robo de las Momias de
Guanajuato is just not a very good film, it's badly structured, with
the villains' objectives often becoming murky, it's lazily edited with
scenes just feel padded out to get it to feature length, and of course the
plot is purely ludicrous ... and it's fun of course, at least for bad
movie afficionados like myself. And some of the jazzier numbers in the
score actually sound pretty nice.
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