Sebastian (Dagoberto Rodríguez), once a loyal follower of Hitler but
now conspiring with the Russians because he considers the Americans to be
responsible for the Nazis' downfall, has Nazi scientist Dr Muller (Juan
Gallardo) kidnapped to develop a brainwashing drug. You know, Sebastian
has training camps set up in Santo Domingo, with the trainees all thinking
they're just there for Judo lessions, none of them knowing they're
actually supposed to be sent to the US for acts of terrorism - hence they
need to be brainwashed. Now there's one problem with Dr Muller, his face
is on a watchlist and is too prominent to be smuggled into the US - so
Sebastian has ace plastic surgeon Dr Thomas' (Carlos Hennings) daughter
(Elsa Cárdenas) kidnapped to force him to work on Muller. This hasn't
escaped the attention of Interpol chief Topacio (César del Campo), but
since he hasn't got any evidence to go on, he turns to his top agents, Ana
Silva (Lorena Velázquez) and masked wrestler Santo (Santo) to
investigate. Sebastian's men soon notice they are being followed, and by
whom, too, but since Ana is rather quick with the gun and Santo used to
wrestle people down, they fail time and again to kill their adversaries.
Eventually, Santo and Ana find a trail leading to one of Sebastian's
training camps, this one exclusively for girls, and Ana infiltrates the
camp, soon making friends with one of the girls there, Debbie (Patricia
Ferrer), who just happens to be the sister of camp owner Otto (Guillermo
Gálvez), who doesn't share his ideology though. However, Otto and his
partner Elke (Roxana Bellini) soon find out she's a spy and thus make her
their captive and bait for Santo. It almost succeeds, too, but nobody
anticipated that Debbie would take the side of her friend Ana in this, and
ultimately it's her who frees Ana and helps her and Santo overcoming the
baddies and let them help their just desserts. Mision
Suicida is certainly not as mad or as campy as Santo's wilder
horror-themed outings from the early 1970's, it's more a poor man's James
Bond, but at that at least it's some fun, combining some
rather sub-standard stunt scenes with gun-wielding babes, a stupid premise
with stupid plot twists and the like. Not a great movie, probably not even
a great Santo-movie ... but fun to watch nevertheless - at
least if you're a fan of films like this.
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