#had to use the above quote bc of the deliberate injoke (Warbeck famously spent the 70s on a retainer as a potential replacement for Moore
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I sopravvissuti della città morta (The Ark of the Sun God, 1984)
"How do you do, Rick?"
"Not bad, it's a miracle I'm still alive. You could have warned me it was so risky. Roger Moore would have been better suited for such a mission."
"Oh, you're not too bad - but definitely not as strapping."
#I sopravvissuti della città morta#the ark of the sun god#italian cinema#1984#antonio margheriti#giovanni paolucci#giovanni simonelli#david warbeck#john steiner#susie sudlow#luciano pigozzi#ricardo palacios#achille brugnini#aytekin akkaya#süleyman turan#aldo tamborelli#alberto moriani#adventure film#had to use the above quote bc of the deliberate injoke (Warbeck famously spent the 70s on a retainer as a potential replacement for Moore#in the Bond series‚ should he drop out of the role or become in some way incapacitated). this is less Bond and more (much more) Indiana#Jones: yes it's another classic Italian ripoff of a wildly successful US commodity. director Margheriti secured regular Brits abroad#Warbeck and Steiner‚ flew out to Turkey and shot one of the handsomest films of his long career; the locations are stunning‚ the temple#sets ingeniously impressive‚ there's car and helicopter chases galore. ok so some of the car chases are shot using miniatures.. but if#anything that just adds to the unlikely charm. visually this may be a winner but scripting and plotting aren't quite so tight. tbh even#at just a little over 90 minutes this still somehow feels a bit strung out‚ taking an age to get to the temple business and with far too#much toing and froing before it. still‚ the Brits are on good form‚ and even better are Pigozzi and Palacios as supporting treasure hunters#who routinely steal their every scene (and quickly become the characters you actually care about once the bullets start flying in the#violent finále). a fun dumb adventure time but hardly an essential entry in the Italian genre canon
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