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Three Mighty Men
Three Giant Men / Captain America and Santo vs Spider-Man
Turkey 1973
produced by
Ridvan Tual for Renkli
directed by T.Fikret Ucak
starring Deniz Erkanat, Yavuz Selekman, Ayetin Akkaya, Teyfik Sen, Dogan Tamer, Mine Sun, Altan Günbay, Ersun Kazancel, Hasan Ceylan, Osman Han, Aysen Taskin, Mahmut Gülay, Ali Ekdal, Niyazi Vanli, Alev Bora, Cengiz Karabulut, Sönmez Yikilmaz, Nilgün Ceylan, Ihsan Baysal, Meziyet Nakkas, Mehmet Yagmur, Mustafa Özkaya
written by Dogan Tamer
Captain America, El Santo, Spider-Man
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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The evil Spider-Man and his gang are stealing cultural artefacts all
over Turkey, then sells them for cheap overseas, then buys them back at
high prices - but with forged money. So the US- and the Mexigan
gouvernment have decided to send their top heroes to Istanbul, Captain
America (Deniz Erkanat) and Santo (Yavuz Selekman). The two heroes, along
with Captain America's girlfriend Julia and local cop Orhan, now try to
foil Spider-Man's plans at every step along the way, but it seems
Spider-Man himself always eludes them ... and eventually, when our heroes
have finally wrestled him down, he seems to have any number of
doppelgangers, and whomever they defeat or even kill, it's never the real
Spider-Man.
Eventually, Captain America, Santo and Julia all end up prisoners of
the Spider-Man, but of course our heroes manage to break out and now take
apart Spider-Man's headquarters from the inside, fighting off and/or
killing everyone who comes in their way, be it Spider-Man's henchmen or
even more of his doppelgangers. And in the end, they have the real
Spider-Man run over by a freight wagon, right in his own warehouse ... and
once more the world is saved.
Since in the 1970's, copyright laws in Turkey were notoriously lax, the
producers had no problems using established superhero-characters Captain
America, El Santo and Spider-Man for their film. The
outcome is a typical Turkish superhero-movie: reminiscent in style of
American serials of the 1930's and 40's (not at least because of the
film's episodic structure), but filled with violence (one woman has her
face destroyed by a ship's turbine, a man has a pipe attached to his head,
then rats are put inside the pipe ...) - if not too graphic - and sex (it
seems every time Spider-Man is breaking into a house, someone is having
sex inside) - if not too explicite -, and definitely made on the cheap (it
doesn't even seem that our heroes' costumes are fitting them too well).
The outcome is a welcome piece of good-natured but definitely mindless
piece of cinematic trash. If you try to take this film any serious, you
will hate it, but if you can accept and enjoy its sillyness and its
cheapishness, you just might as well love it.
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