1977 Directed by Michael D. Moore
Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
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South Africa
UK
If I'm being honest, I couldn't really say what this movie is about. There's a rogue scientist selling his expertise on "solar shuttles" to the highest bidder to start things out, but that quickly gives way to the larger, more opaque machinations of a villain called Mr. Czee.
I think there's some big reveal about Mr. Czee, like...something that should be pretty amazing for 1977, but it's just glossed right over and left very unclear. This whole movie is very unclear. It's like every other scene got lost, so we're just shoved from place to place without much rhyme or reason.
David Broadnax starred in only two films in his career, this and Zombie Island Massacre. He wrote the stories…
Fun, explosive 007 spy kicker with David Broadnax pulling hair and guns on a bunch of science stealing crooks. Stella Stevens too! Recommended.
It’s James Bond rip-off Blaxploitation film, and I was all here for it. Sadly, the story is a bit nonsensical, with plot holes and subplots that went absolutely nowhere. Basically a governmental agent named Geoffrey Graves is tasked with finding a kidnapped engineer, who is being held by a slew of villainy whose intent is to pry this engineer man of aerospace secrets and exploit them to the world. That’s putting the story lightly. Even if the story was a mess in the execution, the action sequences hold up, and are great fun to watch. It’s not essential to watch if you’re studying cinema as a whole, but as for Grindhouse & Blaxploitation, I say give it a go!
Incredibly boring South African blaxploitation wannabe. David Broadnax is black secret agent who comes out of retirement to save the Space Shuttle. It wasn't the cold medicine that made me fall asleep watching this. Stella Stevens plays a less interesting version of her CLEOPATRA JONES AND THE CASINO OF GOLD character. With Ken Gampu (BLACK TRASH). Broadnax only made one other film, the equally boring ZOMBIE ISLAND MASSACRE. The print on Amazon Prime looks like a very used VHS rental complete with bad tracking.
Entertaining dialog and a few interesting bits feels like a Holloway House novel by Joe Nazel doing the "retired spy" genre in the 70s. Mister Deathman, Geoffrey Graves, is played by David Broadnax who also wrote and produced--and he gets caught a LOT! But, intrepid as he is, he finds his way out of trouble to attempt to solve the overly complex plot!
Fun bottom of the bill Saturday night fun.
Turn from the way of death, man, please
Invest yourself into common pursuit
A bright future is your own choice to seize
Give all that deep thinking the good strong boot
A banana with brains wow man you're toast
Hey dude don't whack out the black man like that
I love a good slideshow better than most
From the lift out go all the bad white rats
Carter on the wall peanut smiling on all
Durban by train oh god are we there yet
Now to the beach that spy sure has some gall
The dame works for Z a meeting is set
It is true that you can't always fix mess
It is also true sometimes that Moore is less
