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6 May 1970 (USA) morePlot:
A rock band becomes embroiled in foreign affairs when they're sent to go on tour in Albania as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle held by communist enemies of the USA. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Legendary road accident of a film is interesting in the "I can't believe this was actually made" sort of way moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Michael A. Miller | ... | The Phynx | |
| Ray Chippeway | ... | The Phynx | |
| Dennis Larden | ... | The Phynx | |
| Lonny Stevens | ... | The Phynx (as Lonnie Stevens) | |
| Lou Antonio | ... | Corrigan | |
| Mike Kellin | ... | Bogey | |
| Michael Ansara | ... | Col. Rostinov | |
| George Tobias | ... | Markevitch | |
| Joan Blondell | ... | Ruby | |
| Martha Raye | ... | Foxy | |
| Larry Hankin | ... | Philbaby | |
| Ted Eccles | ... | Wee Johnny Wilson | |
| Ultra Violet | ... | Felice | |
| Pat McCormick | ... | Father O'Hoolihan | |
| Joseph Gazal | ... | Yakov |
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Odds are you have never seen The Phynx and for good reason. This is the deformed beast of a child that Hollywood wants to keep locked up in the attic. Its the hell-spawn of the youth movement and the old embalmed generation coming together to make ... something.
The basic plot concerns the SSA (Super Secret Agency) attempting to rescue the icons of American culture that have been kidnapped and brought to Albania. Who are the great icons? George Jessel, Rudy Vallee, Edgar Bergan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Joe Louis, Col. Sanders, Xavier Cugat and probably a dozen others (all I can say is I hope they were paid a lot). SSA decides that the best way to get them out is top form a rock band (think Monkees and Beatles singing songs by Lieber and Stoller) and have them invited into the country. They then kidnap Two white guys an Indian and a black guy and force them to be spies and a rock group thus allowing for some surreal bits as other stars show up to train the band (Richard Pryor, Dick Clark, James Brown among others).
My jaw dropped and stayed down for a good portion of the films running time.
I'm not sure how to rate this film. Its occasionally funny, has some good songs and proves that not everyone needs drugs to have their brain smashed like an egg.
This is a clear warning about who and who should not be mating. Clearly its a movie that wants to appeal to the youth market while at the same time doing everything it can to attack and make fun of the same market. Its as if your stuffed shirt of an uncle made your choices in current popular culture, clearly you wouldn't want to see his choices. At the same time the film is clearly about youth and what was then current culture so it wouldn't appeal to the old folks. Its a movie that will appeal to no one.
Actually not no one, bad movie lovers, fans of surrealism, those who must see every movie made by their favorite star, masochists, mental patients and those who want a unique (but not necessarily good) viewing experience will want to check the film out.
I've given it a 5 out of 10 because there is some good and some bad mixed in with the "I don't believe this" material so its the fairest rating I could come up with. Your reaction will be your own and with a movie like this I don't even want to guess what that is going to be. Take this review as either and invitation or a warning, its your choice.