GOLDFACE: THE FANTASTIC SUPERMAN (1969) Bitto Albertini
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Superhero
GOLDFACE goes after archfiend COBRA in odd Italian Actioner
Original
Italian Title: GOLDFACE IL FANTASTICO SUPERMAN [Goldface the
Fantasitic Superman]
director: Bitto Albertini (as Stanley Mitchell)
starring: Espartaco Santoni (as Robert Anthony) · Evi Marandi
· Attilio Severini (as Big Matthews)
editor: Bruno Mattei (as Jordan B Matthews)
While
Bitto Albertini's film does share similarities with the Mexican Luchador
movies, those guys [Santo, Blue Demon, et al] would take their
identities to the grave, while Goldface is like a typical comic book
superhero... by day he's Dr Villar, a respected scientist, but - when
he takes off the lab coat - he becomes Goldface, a masked wrestler and
crime fighter. Goldface has a sidekick, a black manservant named Kotar
who actually does call his boss B'Wana and sometimes slips into
(embarrassing) ooga booga speak. For this story, Dr Villars learns
that the world is being held hostage by a fiend named Cobra and his
masked commandos. Cobra threatens to destroy all plant life unless he's
paid 2 million dollars. Goldface accepts the mission of finding and
stopping Cobra.
Bitto
Albertini started in the Italian film industry as a cinematographer
in 1948. He directed his first film in 1967 and went on to make 40 more
between 1967-1985. His resume includes thrillers, SciFi, Spaghetti Westerns,
action flicks and superhero movies [like the Three Supermen series].
But he is best remembered for the film which introduced Laura Gemser
to stardom, BLACK
EMANUELLE. Over the years, Bitto used numerous pseudonyms including
Al Albert, Albert J Walker, Ben Norman and Stanley Mitchell. Mr Albertini
died from a heart attack in February of 1999. He was 74 years old..
An Italian film
in English language; fullscreen format (4:3), uncut (92 minutes), DVD
encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT.
