In this movie you see all the elements of Santo movies(fight scenes,sci fie,low budget sequence,wrestling arenas full of Santo fans)so,the big deal suppose to be the addition of a spies story and several cosmopolitan locations(Acapulco,Cuernavaca,RIo,Mexico city,Miami)and a Santo partners,a Mexican interpol agent(played by former Mr.Mexico the bodybuilder Jorge Rivero)and the beauty Elizabeth Campbell,but really this facts are the true new things in Santo movies,because this film is equal as boring like any Santo movie,so you only see this if you are a Santo fan or the principal reason,see Elizabeth Campbell in a tiny bikini.
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Operation 67
Oslo_Jargo9 February 2016
Warning: Spoilers
*Plot and ending analyzed*
Operation 67
Operacion 67 (1967)
First of all, the audio is horrible and very difficult to hear, add to that, a very blurry and faded print.
Operacion 67 was directed both by Rene Cardona and his son Rene Cardona Jr. Rene Cardona Sr. was a director in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Rene Cardona Sr, who was an in-house Mexican Director, along with his son, did some 1970's Exploitation films that played the world theater circuits. Together they produced, directed and distributed numerous low-budget Exploitation films that weren't very good, but are noted for having burnt out Hollywood actors and exotic themes (Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979), Carlos the Terrorist (1979), Cyclone (1978), The Bermuda Triangle (1978), ¡Tintorera! Tiger Shark (1977)).
Operacion 67 is choppy and lazily edited, and doesn't really follow through on any good dramatic storyline. The whole film is an attempt to kill Jorge Rubio (Jorge Rivero) and El Santo, who are special agents by day and luchadores (wrestlers) by night. The bad guys are so inept, but the fight scenes are idiotically fun. The bad guys try to kill them in rooms, the road, underwater, etc. They aren't able to do the job. It definitely has its silly charms.
It's filled with the staples of 1960's spy films, including 1960's bad men in 60's fedoras, 60's submachine gun, 60's helicopters, 60's babes, and 60's race cars. There's a criminal group, who want to flood the economy with counterfeit money.
A few scenes of wrestling are included, with a bad body double filling in for Jorge Rubio (Jorge Rivero). Jorge Rivero is muscular and his obvious body double is not as chiseled. Also, there's two scenes of dummies being thrown out of a window to stimulate the real ejection of bad guys. It's a low budget affair, nonetheless, it's not completely horrible.
Jorge Rivero was a Mexican actor who appeared in a few American movies (The Last Hard Men (1976), Rio Lobo (1970), Soldier Blue (1970)). He was a weightlifter and starred in a few "El Santo" movies and plenty of low budget films like Manaos (1979), Pistoleros de la frontera (1967), Manaos (1979) and Evil Eye (1975). El Santo was a masked Mexican wrestler.
The luchador films were popular during the 1960's to the 1970's, also look for Demonio Azul (Blue Demon), Mil Mascaras, Tinieblas, and Rayo de Jalisco Sr.
Films: Superzam el Invencible 1971, Las Vampiras 1968, Mil Máscaras 1966, Santo vs. the Vampire Women 1962, Blue Demon contra el poder satanico 1964.
In Spanish with no subtitles.
Operation 67
Operacion 67 (1967)
First of all, the audio is horrible and very difficult to hear, add to that, a very blurry and faded print.
Operacion 67 was directed both by Rene Cardona and his son Rene Cardona Jr. Rene Cardona Sr. was a director in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Rene Cardona Sr, who was an in-house Mexican Director, along with his son, did some 1970's Exploitation films that played the world theater circuits. Together they produced, directed and distributed numerous low-budget Exploitation films that weren't very good, but are noted for having burnt out Hollywood actors and exotic themes (Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979), Carlos the Terrorist (1979), Cyclone (1978), The Bermuda Triangle (1978), ¡Tintorera! Tiger Shark (1977)).
Operacion 67 is choppy and lazily edited, and doesn't really follow through on any good dramatic storyline. The whole film is an attempt to kill Jorge Rubio (Jorge Rivero) and El Santo, who are special agents by day and luchadores (wrestlers) by night. The bad guys are so inept, but the fight scenes are idiotically fun. The bad guys try to kill them in rooms, the road, underwater, etc. They aren't able to do the job. It definitely has its silly charms.
It's filled with the staples of 1960's spy films, including 1960's bad men in 60's fedoras, 60's submachine gun, 60's helicopters, 60's babes, and 60's race cars. There's a criminal group, who want to flood the economy with counterfeit money.
A few scenes of wrestling are included, with a bad body double filling in for Jorge Rubio (Jorge Rivero). Jorge Rivero is muscular and his obvious body double is not as chiseled. Also, there's two scenes of dummies being thrown out of a window to stimulate the real ejection of bad guys. It's a low budget affair, nonetheless, it's not completely horrible.
Jorge Rivero was a Mexican actor who appeared in a few American movies (The Last Hard Men (1976), Rio Lobo (1970), Soldier Blue (1970)). He was a weightlifter and starred in a few "El Santo" movies and plenty of low budget films like Manaos (1979), Pistoleros de la frontera (1967), Manaos (1979) and Evil Eye (1975). El Santo was a masked Mexican wrestler.
The luchador films were popular during the 1960's to the 1970's, also look for Demonio Azul (Blue Demon), Mil Mascaras, Tinieblas, and Rayo de Jalisco Sr.
Films: Superzam el Invencible 1971, Las Vampiras 1968, Mil Máscaras 1966, Santo vs. the Vampire Women 1962, Blue Demon contra el poder satanico 1964.
In Spanish with no subtitles.
Santo, second string...
poe42617 October 2009
Warning: Spoilers
OPERACION 67 (or, as I've come to think of it, THE JORGE RIVERA SHOW) is a hit and a miss. It's a hit in the sense that, for once, a Santo movie appears to have had an actual Budget and some of the doodads that come with it: there are more vehicles on display here than in any other Santo movie I've ever seen. The direction and camera-work are likewise laudable, and the fx don't cause you to cringe or giggle. Rivera, as a James Bond wannabe, spends more time in front of the camera than Santo- a sad commentary, really, when one stops to think about it. Ironically, Rivera is doubled in the wrestling ring by a man whose physique is by no means as chiseled as Rivera's own; the distinction is acute. Overall, it's not a bad movie; but it's not a particularly interesting one, either- due in no small measure to Rivera.
Santo as a spy!
BandSAboutMovies1 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
If I had to pick two Mexican stars to be secret agents, it would be Santo and Jorge Rivera, who we all know as Mace from Fulci's insane ode to fog Conquest. Yes, the Eurospy craze stuck around a little but longer in Mexico and if Santo gets to be a spy, so be it.
The whole scheme in this movie is to counterfeit money and - I'm guessing - destroy the world's economy. Everyone evil has a watch welded to their wrist that allows the bosses to listen in and destroy them, if they must.
Somehow, even more than a Bond film, this become a proto-Andy Sidaris affair which I could not applaud for more fervently. Yes, Jorge ends up in bed with a Japanese exotic dancer and then gets attacked by a small plane that he blows up with a bazooka. As far as I'm concerned, that sounds like this movie could have been filmed on Savage Beach.
The main evil leader is really Ruth Taylor, but come on. She's Golden Rubi herself, Elizabeth Campbell, who played the wrestling heroine in Doctor of Doom, Las Mujeres Panteras, Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy and She-Wolves of the Ring. She also shows up in the Eurospy ala Mexico movies Las Sicodélicas and Peligro...! Mujeres en Acción, as well as the baffling yet awesome film The Chinese Room.
For some reason - feel free to make up the story in your head as you watch - Ruth is absolutely in love with her enemy Jorge, saying things like "Whatever happens, I really love you." and telling him that she never lied before expiring from the multitude of bullets that she's been perforated by.
I am all for more spy movies with Santo and luckily, René Cardona and son would immediately make El Tesoro de Moctezuma, which would bring our secret agent amigos together again.
The whole scheme in this movie is to counterfeit money and - I'm guessing - destroy the world's economy. Everyone evil has a watch welded to their wrist that allows the bosses to listen in and destroy them, if they must.
Somehow, even more than a Bond film, this become a proto-Andy Sidaris affair which I could not applaud for more fervently. Yes, Jorge ends up in bed with a Japanese exotic dancer and then gets attacked by a small plane that he blows up with a bazooka. As far as I'm concerned, that sounds like this movie could have been filmed on Savage Beach.
The main evil leader is really Ruth Taylor, but come on. She's Golden Rubi herself, Elizabeth Campbell, who played the wrestling heroine in Doctor of Doom, Las Mujeres Panteras, Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy and She-Wolves of the Ring. She also shows up in the Eurospy ala Mexico movies Las Sicodélicas and Peligro...! Mujeres en Acción, as well as the baffling yet awesome film The Chinese Room.
For some reason - feel free to make up the story in your head as you watch - Ruth is absolutely in love with her enemy Jorge, saying things like "Whatever happens, I really love you." and telling him that she never lied before expiring from the multitude of bullets that she's been perforated by.
I am all for more spy movies with Santo and luckily, René Cardona and son would immediately make El Tesoro de Moctezuma, which would bring our secret agent amigos together again.
Santo as international spy buster.
wallyfay30 November 2007
In a radical departure from fighting werewolves, vampires, mummies and re-animated Nazis from Atlantis, Santo teams up with studly Jorge Rivera and becomes a wrasslin' James Bond on a mission to bust up an international counterfeiting ring controlled by a female MR. BIG. For the rabid Santo fan, this film has all the expected elements: arena matches, the mandatory musical number (almost all his films have one), exotic cars, babes and plenty of wrasslin' around with bad guys. Worthy of a big time crime stopper, Santo tools around in a white Jaguar E-type equipped with a flame thrower, oil slick generator and missiles. Clearly inspired by 007's search-and-destroy Aston Martin, Santo's E-Type is just one of the many historically significant cars that have appeared in his films such as an original Myers Manx, a Pininfarina-bodied Cadillac and other assorted sweet rides like an MGA and first-year Mustang. His buddy Jorge drives a very nice Renault Alpine, a limited production car with a rally heritage. Somebody behind the scenes had a real appreciation for interesting cars because they make such a significant presence in all his movies. Borrowing heavily from the 007 films and from Warner Brothers cartoons, Operacion 67 has some over the top elements that will leave the uninitiated screaming. Santo and Jorge share a swingin' spy bachelor pad with a faux beach room complete with sand and a secret communications room the size of a plane hangar. Somehow, the bad guys can communicate with Dick Tracy style wrist radios. Santo and Jorge need something the size of a city bus to do the same. The film runs very much by the numbers. The overly fleshy MRS. BIG tries to seduce and kill Jorge, Santo intervenes, lots of gun play and wrasslin' ensues and we reach a predictable conclusion. Along the way, there are bizarre chases and an air to ground encounter between Jorge in his Alpine and a bad guy in a high-wing Cessna (watch for the slow bullets impacting the ground around Jorge's car). Jorge shoots the plane out of the sky with a Whamo Sonic Blaster, the kid's toy introduced in the US in 1967, a year before this film was released. Cheap way to get a prop gun. There's also the usual silliness like when the bad guy runs out of ammo and throws the gun at Jorge in frustration. The first thing they should teach at bad guy school is that when you run out of ammo, you should reload. Don't toss your empty gun at your opponent. The Santo body of work is an acquired taste. Once you've acquired it, you always walk away wanting more.
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