3 reviews
Bizarrely, there are two movies called RIFIFI IN AMSTERDAM and this one's a typical Eurospy adventure starring former peplum star Roger Browne. It starts off with a fun little heist and some nice location photography before the action later moves to Spain and becomes more pedestrian. There are many familiar faces including the glamorous Erika Blanc and Evelyn Stewart, but this is very much typical of its kind and unremarkable with it. The creepy bad guy who shows up in the form of Franco Russel at the climax is probably the best part.
- Leofwine_draca
- Mar 3, 2022
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Run-of-the-mill , full of action , tongue-in-cheek Euro-spy movie with usual components : pursuits , crossfire , struggles , strange artifacts , international conspiracy , explosive women and other tippings that used to show up in the genre . Dealing with a two-fisted ex-con and obstinate thief named Rex Monroe (Roger Browne) must allude the state authorities and the international underworld as he attempts to locate a stash of jewelry robbed by a mysterious organitation led by Ethel (Evelyn Stewart) and Vladek (Umberto Raho) who're attempting to create a lethal ray with aim to destroy world greatest cities .
Routine Euro-spy movie with ordinary ingredients : thrills , noisy action , plot twists , several villain roles , bare fist-fights , various international locations , shootouts with high body-count and being middlingly entertaining from start to finish . The story is a fun mess starting with a twisted little hold-up with pursuit along the Amsterdam canals and some spectacular locations from Noord-Holland , Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland , after that , the action moves to other countries as Paris, France, and especially Spain : Algeciras, Cádiz, Torremolinos, El Torcal, Antequera, Málaga, Granada, Andalucía, and Tenerife, Canary Islands . Happening mutual spying and silly confrontations with a lot of violent karate fights , leaps and crossfire . Colorful and so-so rendition about European spy subgenre , a prolific genre during the sixties , not taking any situation seriously . A fashion , but pedestrian run-of-the-mill spy film at the time, meaning it stuck to a lot of what was currently popular , but here including some embarrassing and nonsense scenes . Inspired by the success of the James Bond films, as this spy sub-genre borrows heavily from the OO7 series that at the time starred Sean Connery , such as : Dr No, From Russia with love , Thunderball, and Goldfinger , including frequent appearance of the simple helicopter pursuing the good guys , common in these early James Bond pictures , adding an annoying and repetitive musical score by Piero Umiliani. The content remains the same as the title : an unknown villain as mastermind , beautiful mini-skirt girls , along with ridiculous , uptight and extremely silly action set pieces from a today's point of view . A Sixties-style film usually has a short sell-by date , and this flick isn't exception . The leading role was ordinarily played by Sword and Sandals regular Roger Browne who was a popular as well as untalented player at the time , a mediocre actor who couldn't carry a rickety product like this . The script doesn't help him either , as it consists of the habitual intrigue to take on a powerful organitation , while our starring go around the world and actually tells no more than different people spying on and beating up each other in the hope of getting their nasty purports . Of course , with such a film from nostalgic and botcher ways , one does not count on high art work . It is staged in a hopelessly amateurish way , it shows us rows of bare fights and several confrontations with a number of dead people in the worst choreography . As our starring behaving in such an tough activity and so stupid manners so that committing usual mistakes on their own way . The screenplay works with unnecessary contradictions and implausibility , including hilarious or absurd moments , and the story is thinner than it usually is in works of this kind , the Euro-spy sub-genre . There are colorful outdoors by cameraman Eloy Mella showing sightseeing from Netherlands , France , Italy , and particularly Spain with sights from sunny coasts and Mediterranean beaches . However , the worn-out cinematography spoils the spectacle , being really necessary a perfect remastering beacuse the film copy is really wasted . It has some flaws and gaps , as it does tend to get a bit old , including repetitive nature of some fight scenes , and excessive nonsense , but it has a bit of fun , at times, so it cares . The main and support cast -with everyone having amusement- are regular , slightly adequate to their functional characters . Appearing some familiar faces from the Sixties who worked in the habitual 60s , 70s sub-genres : Peplum, Spaghetti Western , Giallo, horror, Euro-thriller , as Spanish actors, such as : Aida Power , Miguel de la Riva as Michael Rivers , Julio Pérez Tabernero , Tito García and Italian ones : Franco Ressell , Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia , Franco Lantieri and Umberto Raho. As well as some gorgeous girls in bikini or mini-skirt such as : Evelyn Stewart or Ida Galli, Aida Power and brief appearance of the always gorgeous Erika Blanc as Lady in Greenhouse .
The motion picture was middlingly written by Ramón Comas and regularly directed by Sergio Grieco . Ramón Comas was as a craftsman who worked as a writer , production manager , producer and finally filmmaker . As he wrote some international co-productions such as : "Rififi in Amsterdam" , "Operacion Mogador" , "La Ley Del Colt" and directed four films including an Euro.-spy flick : "Chinos y minifaldas" (1967) in similar style to ¨Rififí in Amsterdam¨(1966) . While Sergio Grieco was a good Italian artesan who made a lot of adventures, action and thrillers movies as ¨Sergeant Klems¨, ¨SOS agent 017¨, ¨The mysterious swordsman¨ , ¨Lucrezia Borgia¨, ¨La regina dei Tartaro¨, ¨Il Capitano di Ferro¨, ¨Pirates of the Black Hawk¨ and several others. Rating : 4/10 . Inferior Italian/Spanish Euro-thriller.
Routine Euro-spy movie with ordinary ingredients : thrills , noisy action , plot twists , several villain roles , bare fist-fights , various international locations , shootouts with high body-count and being middlingly entertaining from start to finish . The story is a fun mess starting with a twisted little hold-up with pursuit along the Amsterdam canals and some spectacular locations from Noord-Holland , Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland , after that , the action moves to other countries as Paris, France, and especially Spain : Algeciras, Cádiz, Torremolinos, El Torcal, Antequera, Málaga, Granada, Andalucía, and Tenerife, Canary Islands . Happening mutual spying and silly confrontations with a lot of violent karate fights , leaps and crossfire . Colorful and so-so rendition about European spy subgenre , a prolific genre during the sixties , not taking any situation seriously . A fashion , but pedestrian run-of-the-mill spy film at the time, meaning it stuck to a lot of what was currently popular , but here including some embarrassing and nonsense scenes . Inspired by the success of the James Bond films, as this spy sub-genre borrows heavily from the OO7 series that at the time starred Sean Connery , such as : Dr No, From Russia with love , Thunderball, and Goldfinger , including frequent appearance of the simple helicopter pursuing the good guys , common in these early James Bond pictures , adding an annoying and repetitive musical score by Piero Umiliani. The content remains the same as the title : an unknown villain as mastermind , beautiful mini-skirt girls , along with ridiculous , uptight and extremely silly action set pieces from a today's point of view . A Sixties-style film usually has a short sell-by date , and this flick isn't exception . The leading role was ordinarily played by Sword and Sandals regular Roger Browne who was a popular as well as untalented player at the time , a mediocre actor who couldn't carry a rickety product like this . The script doesn't help him either , as it consists of the habitual intrigue to take on a powerful organitation , while our starring go around the world and actually tells no more than different people spying on and beating up each other in the hope of getting their nasty purports . Of course , with such a film from nostalgic and botcher ways , one does not count on high art work . It is staged in a hopelessly amateurish way , it shows us rows of bare fights and several confrontations with a number of dead people in the worst choreography . As our starring behaving in such an tough activity and so stupid manners so that committing usual mistakes on their own way . The screenplay works with unnecessary contradictions and implausibility , including hilarious or absurd moments , and the story is thinner than it usually is in works of this kind , the Euro-spy sub-genre . There are colorful outdoors by cameraman Eloy Mella showing sightseeing from Netherlands , France , Italy , and particularly Spain with sights from sunny coasts and Mediterranean beaches . However , the worn-out cinematography spoils the spectacle , being really necessary a perfect remastering beacuse the film copy is really wasted . It has some flaws and gaps , as it does tend to get a bit old , including repetitive nature of some fight scenes , and excessive nonsense , but it has a bit of fun , at times, so it cares . The main and support cast -with everyone having amusement- are regular , slightly adequate to their functional characters . Appearing some familiar faces from the Sixties who worked in the habitual 60s , 70s sub-genres : Peplum, Spaghetti Western , Giallo, horror, Euro-thriller , as Spanish actors, such as : Aida Power , Miguel de la Riva as Michael Rivers , Julio Pérez Tabernero , Tito García and Italian ones : Franco Ressell , Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia , Franco Lantieri and Umberto Raho. As well as some gorgeous girls in bikini or mini-skirt such as : Evelyn Stewart or Ida Galli, Aida Power and brief appearance of the always gorgeous Erika Blanc as Lady in Greenhouse .
The motion picture was middlingly written by Ramón Comas and regularly directed by Sergio Grieco . Ramón Comas was as a craftsman who worked as a writer , production manager , producer and finally filmmaker . As he wrote some international co-productions such as : "Rififi in Amsterdam" , "Operacion Mogador" , "La Ley Del Colt" and directed four films including an Euro.-spy flick : "Chinos y minifaldas" (1967) in similar style to ¨Rififí in Amsterdam¨(1966) . While Sergio Grieco was a good Italian artesan who made a lot of adventures, action and thrillers movies as ¨Sergeant Klems¨, ¨SOS agent 017¨, ¨The mysterious swordsman¨ , ¨Lucrezia Borgia¨, ¨La regina dei Tartaro¨, ¨Il Capitano di Ferro¨, ¨Pirates of the Black Hawk¨ and several others. Rating : 4/10 . Inferior Italian/Spanish Euro-thriller.
Some movies just don't make a lot of sense no matter how times you watch them. This one doesn't quite achieve the `fever dream' status of say, The Devil's Man (67), but it is nonetheless a confusing mess that will amuse only the diehard fan.