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El Tesoro de Moctezuma
The Treasure of Montezuma
Mexico 1967
produced by Juan Fernando Pérez Gavilán (executive), Mauricio Walerstein (executive) for Estudios América, Cima Films
directed by René Cardona, René Cardona jr
starring Santo, Jorge Rivero, Amadee Chabot, Maura Monti, Noé Murayama, José Luis Caro, Miguel Gómez Checa, Manuel Capetillo, Ray Mendoza, Henry Pilusso, Antonio Raxel, Alfonso Torres
written by Rafael García Travesi, Gregorio Walerstein, music by Enrico C.Cabiati
Agentes Secretos, El Santo, Jorge Rubio
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A direct sequel to Operación 67:
These days, secret superagents Santo and Jorge Rubio (Jorge Rivero) spend
their pastime fighting and winning championship wrestling matches, but the
evil syndicate from the earlier film has already hatched a new diabolical
plan: To find the treasure of Moctezuma and ... well, get filthy rich I
suppose. So they steal all the artefacts that might lead to the treasure
from various museums, but one is not so easy to obtain - a certain emerald
Jorge Rubio just happens to wear around his neck. Several attempts to get
it ranging from seduction to assault and battery fail, but then Jorge
hands the emerald over to a professor to investigate - and the baddies
kill the professor to get the stone ... but are nice enough to leave just
enough life in the man so he can record a message for Santo and Jorge as
to who has killed him. In trying to track down the syndicate or find out
what's actually going on, Santo and Jorge are pretty useless one can't
fail to notice, but the syndicate baddies seem to be really nice people,
because they make one poorly planned and totally botched up attempt on the
two secret agents' lives after the next to make sure they won't lose
track. Even though all through the film the syndicate people didn't seem
to be especially capable, they finally manage to find the treasure of
Moctezuma beneath some Aztec pyramid and load it onto a battleship bound
for San Francisco. They are attacked by Santo and Jorge in an airplane
though, but manage to shoot the airplane out of the skies. Santo and Jorge
manage to bail out and are rescued by Estela (Amadee Chabot), who so far
only served as a temporary love interest for womanizer Jorge but now turns
out to be a very capable Interpol agent. Though they have the power to
sink the battleship right then and there, they let the baddies escape to
San Francisco. In San Francisco, the syndicate draws attention to itself
in no time, and thus, in no time Santo, Jorge and Estela manage to track
them down and help good to triumph over evil ... Estela though has to die
a heroine's death. Second and last
of the Agentes Secretos films starring Santo and Jorge
Rivero as budget conscious James
Bond-substitutes, this one is unfortunately only half as much
fun as Operación 67,
basically because the (relative) novelty of the first film has worn off,
the story of this movie is a bit too flat (even compared to Operación
67), the finale is quite simply underwhelming, and the movie only scores half as high on the camp-scale
as the earlier one (without
having anything to offer to compensate). Well, I guess if you're into
Santo, it's not a complete waste of time (he has made much worse, believe
me), but it's not really worth your while either.
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