3 dev adam (1973)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

T. Fikret Uçak

Writer:

Dogan Tamer (writer)

Genre:

Action

Plot:

Istanbul is being terrorized by a crime wave, and the police call in American superhero Captain America and Mexican wrestler Santo to put a stop to it. |

Plot Keywords:

Mexican Wrestler | Wrestler | Captain America | Superhero | Digit In Title

Cast

Aytekin Akkaya	...	Capt. America
Deniz Erkanat
Yavuz Selekman	...	Santo
Teyfik Sen
Dogan Tamer
Mine Sun
Altan Günbay
Ersun Kazançel
Hasan Ceylan
Osman Han
Aysen Taskin
Mahmut Gülay
Ali Ekdal
Niyazi Vanli
Alev Bora

Also Known As:

3 Mighty Men (USA) (literal English title)
Captain America and Santo vs. Spider-Man (USA) (informal English title)
Three Giant Men (USA)
Uç dev adam (Turkey: Turkish title) (alternative spelling)

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

Turkey

Language:

Turkish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Istanbul, Turkey

Company:

Renkli

Movie Connections:

Featured in In Search of Steve Ditko (2007) (TV)

Weirder than you could ever imagine

It's your unfriendly neighbourhood Spiderman! But he's green! And he's in Turkey! And he's ripped a hole in his mask so you can see his bushy eyebrows! And he can't shoot webs anymore! Or climb up walls! Peter Parker must have been bitten by ANOTHER radioactive spider or something, presumably while on holiday in Turkey, because suddenly he's EVIL and likes nothing better than chopping people up with a knife, skewering them in the shower, and, especially, doing lame ass kung-fu on them.

You know this film is going to be amazing when - BEFORE THE OPENING CREDITS - Spidey buries a girl up to her neck on the beach, then gets two blokes in a boat to reverse the outboard motor blades into her face. Seems the cops were right all along to be suspicious of that ol' web-slinger. Then those opening credits -- photographs (like actual paper photographs) taken on the set have been stuck on a wall next to fridge-magnet letters spelling out the title, and the camera zooms away from them very quickly...this passes for special effects in 70s Turkish cinema. The theme tune has exactly the same melody as "Diamonds Are Forever". There is no Turkish word for "copyright violation" - as if the psycho slasher Spiderman wasn't proof of that already.

As if that wasn't enough, wait -- Evil Spidey is terrorizing Istanbul, so who's the best person to call to deal with the problem? Captain America of course! (well it makes more sense than trusting in the hapless raincoated detective who gets sliced up by Spiderman - who then looks into the camera and says "ho ho ho ho ho. Adios!") Oh, and also Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler. Santo is a trifle fatter than his Mexican version, but at least his blank face mask can be replicated easily - Captain America is a tougher task for the costume designer (who, looking at the costumes, is almost certainly the director's mum). He has the "A" on his head, but he has no shield -- then again, Spidey has no webs, so that evens things out.

You have to see this movie. If necessary, go to Turkey to see it. Even better than the notorious Turkish remake of "Star Wars", and a 500% improvement on the recent Hollywood Spiderman. Did Spidey gruesomely murder a lovemaking couple in that movie? Well exactly.