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Supersonic Man
Spain 1979
produced by Faruk Alatan, Dick Randall, Juan Piquer Simón (executive) for Almena Films
directed by Juan Piquer Simón
starring Michael Coby (= Antonio Cantafora), Cameron Mitchell, Richard Yesteran, Diana Polakov, José María Caffarel, Frank Brana, Javier De Campos, Tito García, Quique Camoiras, Luis Barboo, Ángel Ter, Emilio Higuera, Luis Castilla, Frank A.Sánchez, Emilio Fornet, Marta Fernández Muro, José Antonio Rico, Jesús Millán, Óscar Simón
written by Juan Piquer Simón, music by Carlos Attias, Juan Luis Izaguirre, Gino Peguri
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The extraterrestrial superhero Supersonic Man (Richard Yesteran) is
sent down to earth because some evil villain called Doctor Gulik (Cameron
Mitchell) tries to create a weapon so powerful that it threatens universal
peace, and he has already abducted nuclear scientist Professor Morgan
(José María Caffarel) and stolen large quantities of Iridium to that
end. However, the professor is unwilling to cooperate with the baddie,
which is why Gulik is hell-bent on kidnapping Morgan's daughter Patricia
(Diana Polakov) - but he has not taken into account the presence of
Supersonic Man, who both as a superhero and as his human alter ego Paul
(Michael Coby) has his hands full both saving Patricia time and again from
Gulik and his henchmen and trying to prevent Gulik's organisation from
stealing more and more Iridium ... and while all that is happening,
Paul/Supersonic Man of course also falls in love with Patricia.
In the end, Gulik decides to lure Supersonic Man to his secret island
hideout and tries to dispose of him using every trick in the book, like
acidic gasses, hot molten lava and ice, but Supersonic Man wouldn#t be
quite so super if he couldn't withstand everything Gulik throws at
him ... and in the end, he lays Gulik's island to waste and therefore
destroys his organisation and a major threat to universal peace ...
As the title already suggests, this is a film to cash in on the success
of the then recent Superman: The Motion Picture, but made rather on
the cheap. So the audience is subjected to a superhero in a silly costume,
a silly looking robot that seems to have come right out of a 1950's boy's
magazine, special effects that range from atrocious to even quite ok (some
good miniature work here), dialogue that borders the ridiculous and a plot
that is as clichéd as it is silly ... so in case you are wondering, yes
this is a bad movie, but if you are into 1970's style juvenile trash, you
might just find it hilarious. And Cameron Mitchell makes a good camp
villain.
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