The assistant of Professor Forrestor(Ángel Menéndez)is murdered after retrieving a special mineral encased within the stone walling of a cave in Akasava. It is a jewel of a find because this radioactive mineral can turn metal into gold..a priceless item to have which obviously brings great wealth and power to the one who possesses it. Forrestor himself is infected by the radioactivity when he finds his assistant dead after someone entered his home where the man lay dying while he was out hunting a doctor nearby. In Akasava, Dr. Andrew Thorrsen(Horst Tappert)is quite a man of renown for his work with mysterious cases where men seem to have came down with some sort of disease that effects their sleep and skin. His wife, Ingrid(Ewa Strömberg)assists him. When Pro. Forrestor comes up missing, his nephew Rex(Fred Williams)comes to Akasava for answers towards his disappearance. This is where he meets secret agent Jane(the lovely Soledad Miranda who has a magnificent body)posing as an exotic dancer pretending to be the wife of Dr. Henry(Paul Muller)also an agent undercover. Sir Philip(Siegfried Schürenberg)is asked by a friend and colleague, Lord Kingsley(Walter Rilla), a man of great wealth and power, to find Professor Forrestor as a favor. Kingsley has kept the clinic in Akasava going while also keeping Professor Forrestor's research project funded. Perhaps, Kingsley has a greater interest in the grand scheme of things than realized. His wife, Lady Abigail(Blandine Ebinger)is only all too eager and willing to assist her husband in all manners of business when it comes to benefiting financially. He also has a "valet" who assists him, a very gruff, quietly menace named Humphrey(Howard Vernon). Meanwhile, Rex becomes acquainted with an undercover Secret service agent, Tino(director Jesus Franco himself)while slowly falling in lust with Jane. But, Rex is being shot at while those around him(..and Jane)are being killed off by someone hidden away behind cracked doors with only the tip of a pistol sticking it's nose out.
Not a bad little mystery thriller with spy elements that has the feel of a giallo. It's LOW, LOW budget does mar Franco's serious attempts at creating a good spy film. The film strip definitely shows wear and certain edits show unevenness as one scene follows another. The cast is decent enough, with Miranda's naked flesh the film's brightest asset. The dubbing is lacking in quality, but no more so that the quality of the presented product itself which time has not been kind to. Perhaps, it just shows that Franco was willing to make this film on whatever film strip he could get his hands on and with however much money was afforded to him.
Not a bad little mystery thriller with spy elements that has the feel of a giallo. It's LOW, LOW budget does mar Franco's serious attempts at creating a good spy film. The film strip definitely shows wear and certain edits show unevenness as one scene follows another. The cast is decent enough, with Miranda's naked flesh the film's brightest asset. The dubbing is lacking in quality, but no more so that the quality of the presented product itself which time has not been kind to. Perhaps, it just shows that Franco was willing to make this film on whatever film strip he could get his hands on and with however much money was afforded to him.