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4/10
Inferior Italian/Spanish co-production about secret agents with ordinary ingredients of the Euro-spy genre
ma-cortes28 April 2023
Below average Italian/Spanish co-production with regular ingredients of the Euro-spy genre. A man escapes from a Russian prison and then from a United States embassy, taking with him some very important top secret information from both sides. An ex-Nazi flying ace escapes a Russian prison camp and defects to the West. Doubts as to his real identity mean he is kept under observation, but he's allowed access to his family's estate. Once there, he retrieves some important documents and disappears. Secret agent John Sutton (Gordon Scott) is called in to retrieve them and , of course, bang a couple of European babes (Magda Konopka, Aurora del Alba) , while confronting hoodlums .

Run-of-the-mill setup shows us the adventures of the secret agent John Sutton going after the megalomaniac enemies. American agent John Sutton is tasked with a hard mission, but soon finds himself entangled in a complex conspiracy, involving more than one beautiful woman. Though Scott is suitably dashing, even he can't inject much interest into the ridiculous and rambling plot, which mostly consists of Gordon Scott walking into various settings and pissing off henchmen so that he can beat them up and get info from them. This incidents are broken up with a few liaisons with beautiful women, Magda Konopka , Aurora del Alba , no better or worse than others appearing in the Euro-spy genre. However , the film is marred by silly set pieces and an embarrassing plot . There's some diverting and hilarious scenes , here and there . The more obvious gags see Konopka stealing a truck from a service station with a tiger in the back and Scott interrupting a film crew shooting a movie called Agent Secret 0077 . Gordon Scott played the hunk spy John Sutton in his usual style . But he was a known Peplum actor , in fact in great number of movies was randomly assigned the identity of Hercules , Goliath ,Samson or here Aron for U. S. viewing . Gordon was an American bouncing who emigrated Europe where starred several Tarzan movies , subsequently was to Italy and created a true star-system based on pumped-up heroes. Gordon Scott and specially Steve Reeves paved the way for others actors to seek their fame and fortune in Italy playing stocky adventurers . Other stars by the time on this type of movies are Mark Forest, Gordon Mitchell, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Ken Wood ; furthermore 'Gordon Scott' who made more important competence to Steve Reeves . Nobody, nevertheless, topped Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott in popularity . Gordon Scott played other epic characters : ¨ , ¨Gladiator of Rome¨ , ¨Hero of Rome¨ , ¨Hercules and Princess of Troy¨ , ¨Conquest of Micene¨ , though also made some Spaghetti as ¨The tramplers¨ and ¨Buffalo Bill ¨, Spy-genre as ¨Secretissimo¨and ¨Death ray¨ and of course his famous Tarzan movies as ¨Tarzan's greatest adventure¨, ¨Tarzan's Fight for Life¨ , ¨Tarzan and the hunters¨ and ¨Tarzan and the trappers ¨ , among others . And Scott played another Euro-spy in similar style , titled : ¨Nido de espías (1967)" playing a secret agent to save the world from the barely described evil spy organization and chasing the kidnappers of the inventor of a death ray. Being well accompanied by gorgeous Magda Konopka who appeared as comic book villainess 'Satanik' (1968), had a supporting role in Hammer's 'When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth' (1970) and did some guest slots in UK TV in shows like 'Department S' and 'The Persuaders' .

It displays an atmospheric cinematography by cameraman Emilio Foriscot shot in various filming locations in Casablanca, Morocco , Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Naples , Rome , Italy . The motion picture was regularly directed by Fernando Cerchio who often used pseudonym Fred Ringold . He was a prolific craftsman who had a long career in cinema, working on comedies with veteran Italian star Toto, Westerns, Peplum and whose higlights include 'Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile' (1961) with Vincent Price and 'll Marchio Di Kriminal' (1968). He written/directed several action/adventure/ mini-epics movies , such as : 1968 Los Cuatro Budas De Kriminal , 1967 Secretísimo , 1964 Totó against the Black Pirate ,1963 Totò and Cleopatra , 1962 The red mask , 1962 Daggers of blood , 1962 Totó versus Maciste , 1961 Queen of Nile , 1960 Il Sepolcro Dei Re , 1959 Giuditta and Oloferne , 1957 La Venere Di Cheronea , 1957 Desert lovers , 1957 Mysteries in Paris , 1955 I Quattro Del Getto Tonante , 1954 El Vizconde De Bragelonne , 1952 Il Bandolero Stanco and Son of Lagardere .
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6/10
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Action is good and satisfying I would have to say. Careful of a topless scene at the very end when he meets her in bed. Rec. by Eurospy Guide by Matt Blake/David Deal.
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4/10
Poor way to end a career
Leofwine_draca16 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
And so Gordon Scott's career came to an end with TOP SECRET, a particularly weak and dull slice of Eurospy action. It starts off on a confounding note with a spy escaping from Russia, and then moves into interminable globe-trotting and flirting between Scott and a rival female agent. This material feels dragged out endlessly and only towards the end do the bad guys make a move, putting the screws on our hero and subjecting him to many near deaths courtesy of some fun, quirky, serial-style traps and situations (hanging in a cage from a helicopter, for example). Scott has very little to do here and barely fights and it's so tedious that they throw in a surprise nude scene at the end in a bid to wake up the viewers.
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3/10
Unless you have something better to do!
RodrigAndrisan4 April 2018
After Tarzan, Maciste, Goliath, Hercule, Zorro, nice likeble guy Gordon Scott tries the James Bond fashion. Polish sexy blonde Magda Konopka is a very contradictory partner, now she hits him, now she loves him, now runs away from him, now she falls into his arms. The story is super stupid but still has some a little bit of charm and one hour and 34 minutes pass quite quickly. Just for eurospy enthusiasts.
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