The Three Fantastic Supermen (Italian: I fantastici tre supermen) is a 1967 superhero film directed by Gianfranco Parolini. The film was the first in a series of Three Supermen films.
Evil Zizi SchwarzEvil Zizi Schwarz (Bettina Busch) is a doppelganger in the 1967 Italian action film "The Three Fantastic Supermen", which was originally termed "I fantastici 3 Supermen". It was the first of three Supermen films.
The original Zizi was the lover of Tony (Tony Kendall), who was one of the three Supermen. She was left locked in a freezer along with several of the children from Gottlieb's school. He was cloning the children to do his bidding.
A FBI agent (Brad Harris) partners with two master thieves (Tony Kendall and gymnast supreme Aldo Canti) who are prone to wear bulletproof "super-suits" during their escapades. Harris decides he'll don one of the super-suits as well, and our three masked heroes unite to face off against a mad scientist (Jochen Brockmann) who utilizes a cloning machine to create an army of exact copies.
Disguised as supermen, Tony and Nick cause various heists and end up high on the FBI's wanted list. Agent Brad McCallum is assigned to get the two supermen to steal counterfeit banknotes from the Simushir embassy. Brad unceremoniously joins the gang and together they manage to pull off the theft. When the supermen realize that they have been deceived, they steal the banknotes and try to put them into circulation. In the process, they learn from the scientist Professor Schwarz that the banknotes were created with the help of the duplicating machine he developed but never fully built. Only his former assistant Wilfred Gottlieb can be behind the crime. In fact, Gottlieb has big plans, because it is not banknotes and gold that he is copying, but also people who are completely obedient to him. Now Brad and the Supermen are called upon to put a stop to the super villain.
The Three Fantastic Supermen is the first part of a film series about the titular supermen, which should make it in the following parts around the world. In addition to stops in Tokyo (The Three Fantastic Supermen in Tokyo), the Wild West (The Three Fantastic Supermen of the West), Shanghai (The Three Fantastic Supermen in the Orient), they finally end up in Santo Domingo (The Three Fantastic Supermen in Santo Domingo). The first part is a clunky sci-fi spy flick. The mixture of great stunts, humor and wild action knows how to entertain. The supermen are played by Tony Kendall (Kiss Kiss... Kill Kill), Brad Harris (King of Kong Island) and stuntman Aldo Canti (The Psychopath). Directed by Gianfranco Parolini, best known for the Kiss Kiss... Kill Kill series and towards the end of his career for the infamous trash film Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century kommt.
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David: "Even with the great performances surround it" describes most of the problems with this movie, though. That's one area where neither Superman nor Superman II falters. But while Superman and Lois cuddle and make pillow talk, Zod, Ursa and Non decide to fly-by vandalize Mount Rushmore with their own faces and then smash up the White House to get to the President. And man, Terence Stamp is fantastic.
David: He somehow drives and walks there which must have taken days again (so the three Kryptonian criminals have been chilling in the Oval Office for quite a while now), and then finds the green crystal that fell out of Lois's bag earlier, the magic Plot Hole Crystal that somehow lets Superman become Superman again for absolutely no damn reason since Lara said the process was completely irreversible. Comic Movies, Everybody!
David: So back at the Daily Planet, the Phantom Zone Krew and Lex Luthor show up to smash up the place because Luthor told them Superman was here. Superman, of course, is not here, and Luthor points out that while he isn't Lois Lane *is*, and that putting Lois Lane in danger brings out Superman. Which is fairly true, but he didn't really tell Zod this beforehand, so Zod's still pretty pissed. This leads to a great moment as Superman actually shows up just as Zod's about to kill Luthor, leading to an absolutely fantastic Hackman Luthor moment: "thank God, Superman. I mean -- that's Superman! GET HIM!" Or when Lois drops a passed-out Perry White on his head so she can pick a fight with Ursa.
Chris: The weird physical comedy bits that they do as the Kryptonians stand their blowing hurricane winds at the crowd for like three solid minutes are a little out of place, though.
David: "I used to play this game in grade school. I never was very good at it." What, decoys of yourself? How?! So after a completely nonsensical fight, Clark gets Zod in a headlock, and then the three of them overpower Superman, at which point this switches from nonsensical to completely awesome.
David: This whole thing is like a sine wave, it just goes up and down and up and down... You get one totally fantastic scene followed up by an absolutely dreadful one. And most of the dreadful ones are Richard Donner. Well, some of them. At the end of the Donner cut, Superman took Zod, Ursa, Non and Luthor to jail.
I don't mean that we have them all. I don't mean that we are supermen, but that we do offer some of those qualifications, and it is my responsibility also, as it is my opponent's, to point out those areas where I think he may lack the qualifications that the world needs, particularly in this time.
There have been three great issues in which a grave doubt has been raised in the minds of the American people and in the minds of the people of the world as to whether my opponent in this campaign, the candidate of the other party, can keep the peace without surrender, can extend freedom throughout the world, and I give you those three examples in order of priority, but particularly; I would say not so much in order of priority as in order of historical sequence.
Now, here is the way we handle Castro: What we must do is quarantine him. This is what I recommended, as you may recall, in a speech I made in Miami a few days ago - quarantine him diplomatically; quarantine him economically. This means shutting him off from communication, in effect, diplomatically and economically from the United States. Now, this we have done. This we will continue to do, and I have been repeatedly urging it within the Government. It's been done, incidentally, over the objection of some well-intentioned, but hopelessly naive Castro apologists within the United States - and all that I can say with regard to Senator Kennedy's position is that he apparently is attempting to obscure his association with the views of this pro-Castro group as indicated in the book that I mentioned a moment ago or he must have thought now that there would be political advantage in taking a stronger position than I have taken, a radical position, instead of the strong and sound position that the administration has taken. And, so, what does he suggest? He comes up, as I pointed up, with the fantastic recommendation that the U.S. Government shall directly aid the anti-Castro forces both in and out of Cuba.
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