User Reviews

Upperseven has some very good element which should have made it a great one. Unfortunately, there is a little too much chatter by our hero Paul Finney, the Upperseven, played well by Paul Hubschmid. It's not Paul's fault that the writers over scripted his part, and other than the Chatty Kathy stuff he does a fine job jumping around as the elite secret agent especially for a 49 year old man. The other stand out's are the three gorgeous lady's Karin Dor, Rosalba Neri, and a smocking hot Vivi Bach who are all great in there collective rolls. Other then a couple of long scenes including one where Neri sings an interminable and terrible song, which made me believe she deserved her fate, and watching Upperseven taking on and off his stupid masks, the movie is really quite good. The other blot is bad guy Kobras (Nando Gazzolo) who was not up to par as the evildoer as let's say Adolfo Celi would have surely been. All in all this one is a good EuroSpy that could have been a great one if a third of the dialog was cut resulting in a 1:20 film instead of a1:43 film. All in all I recommend Upperseven.

I am finding that for a number of the 1960's Euro-spy films, the quality rating given out by IMDB users is, in my humble opinion, much too low--way low! This is an excellent spy movie! Paul Hubschmid, the star, is tall, handsome and debonair. Karin Dor, who plays a CIA agent, is an actress I knew of by name, but this is the first time I have seen her in a film. She is beautiful and she has a very likeable, appealing quality: I would describe it as a warmth. You just like her. Now, what makes this movie stand out, among the dozens of its 1960's Euro-spy rivals?

First, it is loaded with action scenes. Big scenes with lots of bad guys, and mano-a-mano scenes between Upper Seven (Paul) and various villains. It is not slow and too talky, like some of these movies. Next, Paul has a ton of European charm, as does Karin. Vivi Bach and Rosalba Neri are also in the movie. The Euro-spy movies did have small budgets compared to the Bond films, that they are too often judged against; but all the Euro-spy movies that I have seen always had beautiful actresses, and this one does too. And speaking of budget, this film does not look cheap in any way! We get scenes in Rome, in London, in South Africa, and in what purports to be Copenhagen, and maybe it was, but I couldn't tell about that.

It is true, this movie does have one of the best-known "tells" of a Euro-spy picture, namely that the characters usually drive around in pretty humble automobiles! But on the plus side in that regard, the hero and heroine also drive around in a gorgeous dark blue Mercedes convertible with red leather interior. I wish I knew the year of that car, it was a total sweetheart.

Another positive feature of the movie, it has really good music. There is a fun, bouncy theme tune that we hear often, and I enjoyed hearing it. It suited the spirit of the movie. I had the feeling that Paul Hubschmid and Karin Dor enjoyed making this movie. I think you will enjoy watching it. Highly recommended.

This German/Italian spinoff of the 60ie's James Bond-wave shows another trial to find another smart agent as Connery performed it. Paul Hubschmid does his job as "Super Seven" quite smartly, a bit too smart sometimes, but as an secret agent man quite acceptable. In the movies from that time you'll never miss the masks made of some "special" or "secret" material, and you'll find them here as well - we encounter only 5 or 6 of them although the title promises a 1000 masks. The trick of changing someones identity is done ...hm... as usual (Mission Impossible-like). The problem was the quite typical face and profile of Hubschmid, which makes the identity changes a bit implausible (like Jean Marais as Fantomas, where all Marais-parts look quite the same).

Apart, there are some other things you never miss at that time: first, a song - here with some childish lyrics and catastrophal dubbing; second, a villain who works for an asiatic enimy; third, some explosions in the final showdown; fourth, some fist fighting; fifth, some well known or exotic cities; sixth: Karin Dor. This movie is quite consumable (apart of some "atomic center" scenes which indeed were shot in some engineering hall). The part I most enjoyed was the chase in the area of Rome, where Hubschmid's motorbike gets off the road; he comments that with a brief "Scheiss!" (which is in the German version). I never heard such a convinced "Scheiss!" again!