Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun (1966) Poster

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5/10
Mediocre production about secret agents and an international conspiracy
ma-cortes14 November 2005
The film concerns an American agent (George Ardisson) assigned to rescue a scientific (Eduardo Fajardo) abducted in Saint Felipe Island (South America) by a tyrant named Siqueiros (Fernando Sancho) . A Russian agent (Frank Wolff) equally will go to the sunny island to free the scientist .

The movie is a Spanish-Italian co-production about secret agents , a sub-genre called ¨Euro-spy¨ , very usual at that time of the 60s . The origin of this sub-genre results to be the ¨James Bond¨ series , especially : ¨James versus Dr. No¨ and ¨From Russia with Love¨ that caused an authentic flood of copies, imitations and rip offs , each time more and more awful . The picture has action-packed , suspense , tension , thriller but with lackluster and little budget . The film is fast-movement ; besides , being developed in various scenarios , though specially on the hot island . However, the movie is a bit boring and there are situations and images that are ridiculous and embarrassing . In the picture appears habitual actors of co-productions : the great Fernando Sancho and Eduardo Fajardo , both of whom were players of numerous Spaghetti Western . In addition , appearing other prolific secondaries as Sal Borgese, Luis Undini, and Luz Marquez , all of them customary actors of this kinds of genres as Spaghetti Western , Peplum or Euro-spy . The motion picture was regularly directed by Sergio Sollima who made some classic Spaghetti Westerns as the ¨Cuchillo¨ trilogy starred by Tomas Milian . Rating: Average but entertaining .
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5/10
So-so
gridoon202419 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
An average entry in the Eurospy genre, no more, no less. American agent 3S3 is sent to a small Caribbean island to find out what happened to his colleague 3S4 and locate a mad scientist who is conducting lethal gas experiments. His most unexpected ally proves to be the newly self-appointed dictator of the island, who is having second thoughts about the people he is working with. This general is an amusing character because the voice actor who dubbed him into English did his job very enthusiastically (my favorite line of his: "Killing a man is nothing to them. I've killed some men in my time, but when I do it, it's not casual. I do it with passion!"). Another bright spot is a villainess who is trained in bojitsu (a form of stick fighting) and teaches a harsh lesson to a guy who is rude to her. Near the end of the movie she has what is probably one of the best female fights of the 1960s against good girl (and stunner) Evi Marandi, but unfortunately it is under one minute long. On the other hand, filming the large-scale shootout of the climax in near-complete darkness was a big mistake; sure, the gimmick of the infra-red goggles is pretty cool, but most of the time the viewer can barely make out what's happening - and the poor-quality print does not help matters. ** out of 4.
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Boring imitation of Bond!
RodrigAndrisan20 March 2021
Beautiful song sung by Orieta Berti. The film, in its entirety, is a kind of nonsense, George Ardisson does not impress with anything, Michel Lemoine, again in the role of villain is a little better, Frank Wolff is just a bit funny as a Russian spy, Evi Marandi is a Greek (in real life) beautiful, OK as a English spy. And Fernando Sancho is the same as in all the movies. To be seen only if you got nothing better to do.
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