Secret Agent "Martin Stevens" (Roger Browne) returns this time with an assignment to track down and eliminate three men who have knowledge of a special electronic device which has an enormous amount of power yet to be revealed. His first mission takes him to Paris where he is almost stymied in his efforts by a young blonde woman named "Genevieve Laffont" (Emma Danieli) who unknowingly warns his target of his attack. However, having completed his errand he then ventures to Geneva where, once again, he is almost prevented from carrying out his assignment by the same woman. Having now become extremely suspicious, he then forces Genevieve to accompany him to Athens in order to keep a close eye on her. What he doesn't know is that his movements have been closely monitored and she is now the least of his worries. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film was an okay sequel to "SuperSeven Calling Cairo" with a better plot but somewhat hampered by mediocre acting all around. Along with that, several of the action scenes seemed much too scripted cheapened the overall effect. In any case, while this was certainly not a great spy movie by any means, I thought it was adequate for the time spent and I have rated it accordingly. Average.
7 Reviews
Not as colorful as its title, but still pretty entertaining
gridoon20248 August 2010
Warning: Spoilers
After retrieving an electronic device that can shut off the power of entire cities, a secret agent is assigned to eliminate the only 3 remaining persons who have knowledge of the device. His first two missions (in Paris and Geneva) are accomplished easily enough, but the third (in Athens, where the rest of the film is set) turns out to be more complicated. His target seems to be aware of his every move, and it is likely that there is a traitor within the agency...."The Spy Who Loved Flowers" is a great title; the movie is not as colorful as all that, but it is enlivened by the attractive locations, some smart plot twists, and, above all, 2 great catfights between Emma Danieli (as a photographer who gets mixed up in all of this by accident) and Yoko Tani (as a baddie). These girls look like they love to throw down! **1/2 out of 4.
Disjointed and routine Sixties Euro-spy movie co-produced by Italy and Spain.
ma-cortes18 December 2023
Run-of-the-mill, full of action , tongue-in-cheek Euro-spy movie with usual components: pursuits, crossfire , struggles, international conspiracy , explosive women and other tippings that used to show up in the genre. Dealing with a two-fisted SuperSeven (Roger Browne) who's assigned by his chief Stan Harriman (Daniele Vargas) to a dangerous mission who he'll execute at whatever cost, even killing mercilessly his enemies. After retrieving an electronic device that can shut off the power of entire cities, secret agent SuperSeven is assigned to eliminate the only 3 remaining persons who have knowledge of the device. SuperSeven must allude the state authorities and the international underworld ring while attempting to locate the enemies.
Ordinary Euro-spy movie with usual ingredients: thrills , noisy action, plot twists, double-crosses, several villain roles, cat-fight, various international locations , shootouts with high body-count and being middlingly entertaining from start to finish. The story is a fun mess starting with some spectacular locations from Madrid, with its the always habitual bullfight, London, Genoa, Paris and specially Athens (including Acropolis) where the action is mostly set. Happening mutual spying and silly confrontations with a lot of georgeous women, violent fights, leaps and crossfire. Colorful and so-so rendition about European spy subgenre, a prolific genre during the sixties, not taking any situation seriously . A fashion , but pedestrian spy film at the time, meaning it stuck to a lot of what was currently popular, but here including some embarrassing and nonsense scenes. Inspired by the success of the James Bond films, as this spy sub-genre borrows heavily from the OO7 series that at the time starred Sean Connery, such as : Dr No, From Russia with love, Thunderball, and Goldfinger. The content remains the same as the title: a two-fisted secret agent, an unknown villain as mastermind, beautiful mini-skirt girls , along with ridiculous , uptight and extremely silly action set pieces from today's point of view. A Sixties-style film usually has a short sell-by date, and this flick isn't exception. The leading role was ordinarily played by Sword and Sandals regular Roger Browne who was a popular as well as untalented player at the time, a mediocre actor who couldn't carry a rickety product like this. He starred some spy movies , such as: Rififi in Amsterdam, Operazione poker, Operation Mogador and 'Superseven chiama Cairo' that was the previous entry of Superseven also directed by Lenzi . The script doesn't help either, as it consists of the habitual intrigue to take on three thieves of an electric artifact and a powerful organitation, while our starring go around european countries and actually tells no more than different people spying on and beating up each other in the hope of getting their nasty purports. Of course , with such a film from nostalgic and botcher ways, one does not count on high art work . It is staged in a hopelessly amateurish way, it shows us rows of bare fights and several confrontations with a number of dead people in the worst choreography. As our starring behaving in such an tough activity and so stupid manners so that committing usual mistakes on their own way. The screenplay works with unnecessary contradictions and implausibility , including hilarious or absurd moments , and the story is thinner than it usually is in works of this kind , the Euro-spy sub-genre. There are colorful outdoors by cameraman Augusto Tiezzi showing sightseeing from the typical European cities with sights from sunny coasts and Mediterranean beaches . It has some flaws and gaps , as it does tend to get a bit old, including repetitive nature of some fight scenes , and excessive nonsense , but it has a bit of fun, at times, so it cares . The main and support cast -with everyone having amusement- are regular, slightly adequate to their functional characters . Appearing some familiar faces from the Sixties who worked in the habitual 60s , 70s sub-genres : Peplum, Spaghetti Western , Giallo, horror, Euro-thriller as Spanish actors, such as : Fernando Cebrián and Pilar Clemens and Italian ones : Daniele Vargas, Marino Masé, Sal Borgese, Tallio Altamura and the always essential Sal Borgese.
The picture was mediocrely directed by the prolific filmmaker Umbert Lenzi. Talented and versatile writer/director Umberto Lenzi has made a vast array of often solid and entertaining films in all kind of genres as horror, comedy, Western, and science fiction in a career that spans over 40 years .Umbert Lenzi used the pseudonym Hank Milestone and Humphrey Logan . Umberto made his directorial debut with ¨Queen of the Seas¨ (1961) . Other pirate/sword flicks followed, starting with ¨Pirates of Malaysia¨ (1964) starred by Steeve Reeves, which was part of the height of the career of fictitious tales of history or mythology, these legendary characters including Robin Hood , Catherine the Great, Zorro , Sandokan and Maciste . He subsequently directed a ¨Fumetti¨ titled ¨The mask of Kriminal¨ (1966) . After directing a war film and two "spaghetti westerns," Lenzi turned to the Giallo genre with ¨Orgasmo¨ (1969). During the 1970s, Lenz filmed a number of Giallo and thrillers , among them : ¨So Sweet, So Perverse¨, ¨Seven Blood-Stained Orchids¨ and ¨Eyeball¨ . Lenzi turned to the police thrillers called ¨Polizieschi¨, which rejuvenated his confidence and his popularity . Titles like ¨Almost Human¨ , ¨Free Hand For a Tough Cop¨ and ¨Brothers Till We Die¨ were the most popular and brutal of the thrillers. Lenzi was an expert on wartime genre such as he proved in ¨Desert commandos¨ , ¨Battle of commandos¨ , ¨From hell to victory¨ , ¨Young Lions¨ and ¨Bridge to hell¨. Prior to the Polizieschi, Lenzi directed ¨Man from Deep River¨ , which was the start of the Italian cannibal sub-genre. Later on , he directed two very gory jungle cannibal features , ¨Eaten Alive¨ and ¨Make Them Die Slowly ¨which was banned in 31 countries, it made Lenzi distance himself from the cannibal genre. Then Lenzi directed ¨Nightmare City¨ (1980) , a zombie flick , and ¨Iron Master¨(1983) . In the 90s his films were extremely low-budgeted and failed at box-office .
Ordinary Euro-spy movie with usual ingredients: thrills , noisy action, plot twists, double-crosses, several villain roles, cat-fight, various international locations , shootouts with high body-count and being middlingly entertaining from start to finish. The story is a fun mess starting with some spectacular locations from Madrid, with its the always habitual bullfight, London, Genoa, Paris and specially Athens (including Acropolis) where the action is mostly set. Happening mutual spying and silly confrontations with a lot of georgeous women, violent fights, leaps and crossfire. Colorful and so-so rendition about European spy subgenre, a prolific genre during the sixties, not taking any situation seriously . A fashion , but pedestrian spy film at the time, meaning it stuck to a lot of what was currently popular, but here including some embarrassing and nonsense scenes. Inspired by the success of the James Bond films, as this spy sub-genre borrows heavily from the OO7 series that at the time starred Sean Connery, such as : Dr No, From Russia with love, Thunderball, and Goldfinger. The content remains the same as the title: a two-fisted secret agent, an unknown villain as mastermind, beautiful mini-skirt girls , along with ridiculous , uptight and extremely silly action set pieces from today's point of view. A Sixties-style film usually has a short sell-by date, and this flick isn't exception. The leading role was ordinarily played by Sword and Sandals regular Roger Browne who was a popular as well as untalented player at the time, a mediocre actor who couldn't carry a rickety product like this. He starred some spy movies , such as: Rififi in Amsterdam, Operazione poker, Operation Mogador and 'Superseven chiama Cairo' that was the previous entry of Superseven also directed by Lenzi . The script doesn't help either, as it consists of the habitual intrigue to take on three thieves of an electric artifact and a powerful organitation, while our starring go around european countries and actually tells no more than different people spying on and beating up each other in the hope of getting their nasty purports. Of course , with such a film from nostalgic and botcher ways, one does not count on high art work . It is staged in a hopelessly amateurish way, it shows us rows of bare fights and several confrontations with a number of dead people in the worst choreography. As our starring behaving in such an tough activity and so stupid manners so that committing usual mistakes on their own way. The screenplay works with unnecessary contradictions and implausibility , including hilarious or absurd moments , and the story is thinner than it usually is in works of this kind , the Euro-spy sub-genre. There are colorful outdoors by cameraman Augusto Tiezzi showing sightseeing from the typical European cities with sights from sunny coasts and Mediterranean beaches . It has some flaws and gaps , as it does tend to get a bit old, including repetitive nature of some fight scenes , and excessive nonsense , but it has a bit of fun, at times, so it cares . The main and support cast -with everyone having amusement- are regular, slightly adequate to their functional characters . Appearing some familiar faces from the Sixties who worked in the habitual 60s , 70s sub-genres : Peplum, Spaghetti Western , Giallo, horror, Euro-thriller as Spanish actors, such as : Fernando Cebrián and Pilar Clemens and Italian ones : Daniele Vargas, Marino Masé, Sal Borgese, Tallio Altamura and the always essential Sal Borgese.
The picture was mediocrely directed by the prolific filmmaker Umbert Lenzi. Talented and versatile writer/director Umberto Lenzi has made a vast array of often solid and entertaining films in all kind of genres as horror, comedy, Western, and science fiction in a career that spans over 40 years .Umbert Lenzi used the pseudonym Hank Milestone and Humphrey Logan . Umberto made his directorial debut with ¨Queen of the Seas¨ (1961) . Other pirate/sword flicks followed, starting with ¨Pirates of Malaysia¨ (1964) starred by Steeve Reeves, which was part of the height of the career of fictitious tales of history or mythology, these legendary characters including Robin Hood , Catherine the Great, Zorro , Sandokan and Maciste . He subsequently directed a ¨Fumetti¨ titled ¨The mask of Kriminal¨ (1966) . After directing a war film and two "spaghetti westerns," Lenzi turned to the Giallo genre with ¨Orgasmo¨ (1969). During the 1970s, Lenz filmed a number of Giallo and thrillers , among them : ¨So Sweet, So Perverse¨, ¨Seven Blood-Stained Orchids¨ and ¨Eyeball¨ . Lenzi turned to the police thrillers called ¨Polizieschi¨, which rejuvenated his confidence and his popularity . Titles like ¨Almost Human¨ , ¨Free Hand For a Tough Cop¨ and ¨Brothers Till We Die¨ were the most popular and brutal of the thrillers. Lenzi was an expert on wartime genre such as he proved in ¨Desert commandos¨ , ¨Battle of commandos¨ , ¨From hell to victory¨ , ¨Young Lions¨ and ¨Bridge to hell¨. Prior to the Polizieschi, Lenzi directed ¨Man from Deep River¨ , which was the start of the Italian cannibal sub-genre. Later on , he directed two very gory jungle cannibal features , ¨Eaten Alive¨ and ¨Make Them Die Slowly ¨which was banned in 31 countries, it made Lenzi distance himself from the cannibal genre. Then Lenzi directed ¨Nightmare City¨ (1980) , a zombie flick , and ¨Iron Master¨(1983) . In the 90s his films were extremely low-budgeted and failed at box-office .
Why the lights went out in NYC.
dbdumonteil24 September 2014
Superseven's second movie-and substantially better than the first . The screenplay remains naive and of comic strip quality but it includes several interesting developments and even unexpected twists .
It must be Yoko Tani,French actor Roland Lesaffre's wife ,who is different from the bimbos who fall for Martin in both episodes .The character is a bit more complex than the others .Unlike Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger",her volt-face is not only explained by the hero's charm:"in my country,we are taught no to behave like you (westerners)"
In the first (and poorer) episode ,there was a good scene : to hide a dead body ,Superseven makes it out to be a waxwork;in this one,Lenzi does a good job,transforming a florist shop into an antique dealer place ;Egypt's landscapes were poorly used in the first effort;here the director takes advantage of Greek landscapes (particularly the Parthénon)even if he introduces the Sirtaki ,a dance which was very trendy in those days in the Wake of "Zorba The Greek"
And now we know why there was the Northeast blackout in 1965 . believe it or not.
The last scene is -relatively-smart.
It must be Yoko Tani,French actor Roland Lesaffre's wife ,who is different from the bimbos who fall for Martin in both episodes .The character is a bit more complex than the others .Unlike Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger",her volt-face is not only explained by the hero's charm:"in my country,we are taught no to behave like you (westerners)"
In the first (and poorer) episode ,there was a good scene : to hide a dead body ,Superseven makes it out to be a waxwork;in this one,Lenzi does a good job,transforming a florist shop into an antique dealer place ;Egypt's landscapes were poorly used in the first effort;here the director takes advantage of Greek landscapes (particularly the Parthénon)even if he introduces the Sirtaki ,a dance which was very trendy in those days in the Wake of "Zorba The Greek"
And now we know why there was the Northeast blackout in 1965 . believe it or not.
The last scene is -relatively-smart.
Superseven
BandSAboutMovies26 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Italy and Spain combine to create this sequel to Super Seven Calling Cairo, written and directed by Umberto Lenzi using the name Hubert Humphry.
It brings back Roger Browne as Martin Stevens, Agent Super Seven. Emma Danieli from Spies Strike Silently, Daniele Vargas (Electra One from, well, Electra One), Marino Mase (Tenebre), Yoko Tani (The Secret of Dr. Mabuse), Sal Borgese (Super Fuzz), Tullio Altamura (A Black Veil for Lisa) and Attilio Dottesio (Death Smiles at a Murderer) all show up too.
Yoko Tani is honestly the only reason to watch this. Her life sounds pretty interesting by comparison, so let's talk about that. Her Japanese parents worked at the Japanese embassy in Paris, with the actress conceived en route via ship and born in Paris, which is where she got her first name, which means "ocean child."
After two years of time in France, her family moved back to Japan. She'd return in 1950 to attend a Catholic girls school for two years before she began dancing in cabarets, becoming famous for her sexy geisha dance. This got her the attention of director Marcel Carne, which is how she met her first husband Roland Lesaffre.
Between spy and sword and sandal films, she was in two films for Toho and is also in the Dean Martin movie Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? She continued dancing until late into the 1970s before remarrying to a wealthy French industrialist. Their shared grave has the phrase "Always together" on it.
As for Lenzi, he'd follow this movie with Kriminal and his last spy film Last Man to Kill. Along with a few war films, he'd begin making the giallo that so many in the U.S. know him for, like So Sweet...So Perverse, Orgasmo, A Quiet Place to Kill, Seven Blood Stained Orchids, Eyeball and Spasmo, as well as incredibly out there - and much beloved to me - films like Nightmare City, Ironmaster, Ghosthouse and Nightmare Beach.
It brings back Roger Browne as Martin Stevens, Agent Super Seven. Emma Danieli from Spies Strike Silently, Daniele Vargas (Electra One from, well, Electra One), Marino Mase (Tenebre), Yoko Tani (The Secret of Dr. Mabuse), Sal Borgese (Super Fuzz), Tullio Altamura (A Black Veil for Lisa) and Attilio Dottesio (Death Smiles at a Murderer) all show up too.
Yoko Tani is honestly the only reason to watch this. Her life sounds pretty interesting by comparison, so let's talk about that. Her Japanese parents worked at the Japanese embassy in Paris, with the actress conceived en route via ship and born in Paris, which is where she got her first name, which means "ocean child."
After two years of time in France, her family moved back to Japan. She'd return in 1950 to attend a Catholic girls school for two years before she began dancing in cabarets, becoming famous for her sexy geisha dance. This got her the attention of director Marcel Carne, which is how she met her first husband Roland Lesaffre.
Between spy and sword and sandal films, she was in two films for Toho and is also in the Dean Martin movie Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? She continued dancing until late into the 1970s before remarrying to a wealthy French industrialist. Their shared grave has the phrase "Always together" on it.
As for Lenzi, he'd follow this movie with Kriminal and his last spy film Last Man to Kill. Along with a few war films, he'd begin making the giallo that so many in the U.S. know him for, like So Sweet...So Perverse, Orgasmo, A Quiet Place to Kill, Seven Blood Stained Orchids, Eyeball and Spasmo, as well as incredibly out there - and much beloved to me - films like Nightmare City, Ironmaster, Ghosthouse and Nightmare Beach.
a wonderful red convertible
christopher-underwood1 April 2013
I don't know what the circumstances were under which Lenzi took the helm of this movie but the fact that he didn't use his own name says something. I'm guessing he did this at the last moment for cash and had no say in the script and even then I'm not sure why he bothered. Yoko Tani is the best thing in this and she has a couple of weak cat fights. That I give this boring so called spy tale anything is down to the way it looked and that we glimpsed several cities and there was the glimpse of a wonderful red convertible at one point. Uncharismatic lead, maybe he thought if he was to appear British, he should appear as bland as possible, who knows? Who even cares and why am I writing about this 90 minutes of wasted time? Just in the remote chance that someone can find and apply that poster!
Fairly good Euro-spy movie
shakspryn5 January 2022
The pacing is sometimes slow, though the movie is only 93 minutes; but there are some worthwhile points about the film. They include:
Roger Browne; suave, and very powerful physically. He's always watchable. Emma Danieli, his Italian co-star. She has a charming and very
Italian face! And a striking, 1960's hairstyle. Some of her outfits are also classic 1960's. An Asian actress, Yoko Tani, has a significant role and
does a good job.
Also, there is some very good location filming; and look for a most interesting floor show in a nightclub. Not as much action as in some Euro-spy movies, but still entertaining. Just don't expect a fast pace!
Also, there is some very good location filming; and look for a most interesting floor show in a nightclub. Not as much action as in some Euro-spy movies, but still entertaining. Just don't expect a fast pace!
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