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Saturday 25 February 2012
The confusing Turkish / Italian SUPERGUYS series
There's THE FLYING SUPERBOY film, and there's the SUPERGUYS series, and then there's the 3 FANTASTIC SUPERMEN films ... have you ever tossed and turned because you couldn't quite make the connection between the dots? No need to worry any longer! My friend Henrik Larsen, supreme editor of OBSKURIØST magazine, spent some time sorting out these films a while back and this is the info he came up with:
Henrik reckons THE FLYING SUPERBOY isn't a stand alone film but is related to the THREE SUPERGUYS series as Robert Widmark plays the same kind of character as in that series:
There are three official SUPERGUYS films + two unofficial entries. The first unofficial film precedes the series (and do notice that via the German title the film is actually related to the series on the German market! "Teufelskerle" = Superguys)
1. ZWEI TEUFELSKERLE AUF DEM WEG ZUR GRÜNEN HÖLLE (1974). Aka AMAZONS FOR TWO ADVENTURERS
-No Turkish involvement but Ernst Hofbauer who co-directed the film also co-directed the three official films. And "Robert Widmark" and Wolf Goldan play almost the same characters as they do in the first Superguys film. Widmark is in ALL the films so there's a connection.
2. ZWEI TEUFELSKERLE AUF DEM WEG INS KLOSTER (1975). Aka THE THREE SUPERGUYS
-German-Turkish production. Hofbauer is co-director and Widmark & Goldan play the main-characters.
3. THE FLYING SUPERBOY (1975) aka BAS BELASI
-Turkish production. Widmark plays the same kind of character again.
4. ZWEI TEUFELSKERLE AUF DEM WEG NACH ISTANBUL (1976). Aka THE THREE SUPERGUYS STRIKE AGAIN
-Cuneyt Arkin is in this one.
5. DREI TEUFELSKERLE MACHEN ALLES NIEDER (1977). Aka THREE SUPERGUYS IN THE SNOW
- Arkin was also in one of the THREE FANTASTIC SUPERMEN films (SUPERMENLER/3 SUPERMEN AGAINST GODFATHER) but other than that there's no connection between the two series.
aka Three Superguys in the Snow
German trailer for THE THREE SUPERGUYS STRIKE AGAIN:
Thanks to Henrik Larsen for the info and to the nice members of Cinehound forum whose cover scans I used.
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Nice one!
ReplyDeleteDunno what the fuck the movies are or what the confusion was, - well I did, but as I didn't know the movies, I didn't really get worked up - but I liked reading about them never the less.
Now I at least know what's what when I get round to wanting to watch them.
J.
These are pretty silly movies (nothing like Kern, lol) but the older I get the more tolerant I get. I even listen to jazz now. o_O
ReplyDeleteBtw, the info comes courtesy of Henrik Larsen who publishes OBSKURIØST zine. You can download the OOP issues for free here:
http://www.samlersind.dk/blog/?page_id=502
They're partly in English.