FBI is chasing Phantom
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | FBI is chasing Phantom |
| Original title | The Human Duplicators |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hugo Grimaldi |
| script | Arthur C. Pierce |
| production | Hugo Grimaldi Arthur C. Pearce |
| camera | Monroe P. Askins |
| cut | Donald Wolfe |
| occupation | |
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FBI Chases Phantom is a 1965 American science fiction film directed by Hugo Grimaldi .
action
The gigantic Dr. Kolos is an alien in human form. He is supposed to create a colony of androids on earth to infiltrate the governments and prepare an invasion. Kolos takes over the property of the cybernetics expert Professor Dornheimer. He replaces the professor and his staff with androids. Only Dornheimer's blind niece Lisa is not replaced by an android.
The secret service hires Agent Martin to investigate thefts in laboratories and other scientific institutions perpetrated by their members. These people, all androids of course, disappear after their deeds. Martin's investigation also leads him to Dornheimer's property. There he is captured and duplicated with an android. Martin's doppelganger lays the wrong track, but agent Gale Wilson becomes suspicious. Wilson catches him stealing electronic parts, but escapes.
The Dornheimer Android starts to rebel against Kolos, who has fallen in love with the blind Lisa. Kolos can defeat his opponent, but at the same time Lisa helps the real agent Martin to escape. With the help of the real Dornheimer, he can destroy the androids with laser beams. Kolos prepares to return to his world, where he is to report on his failed mission. He restores Lisa's eyesight and reveals to her that according to his report, it will be destroyed. That doesn't bother him, however, because he has found out that he is also an Android.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films described the film as a “mediocre staged mixture of science fiction, horror and agent film.” The Protestant film observer similarly summed up : “A utopian agent film with little humor and logic that offers only moderately exciting entertainment. "
background
The world premiere took place on March 3, 1965. The film was first shown in Germany on December 15, 1967.
The independently staged film had to get by on a budget of around 140,000 US dollars.
The main actors Nader and Kiel later became known to the German audience in other roles. Nader played FBI agent Jerry Cotton eight times , and the 218 cm tall keel was known as the walker , a bad guy with steel teeth, in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker - Top Secret .
Web links
- FBI chasing phantom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ FBI is hunting Phantom. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 32/1968.
- ↑ Information from IMDb