Las luchadoras contra el robot asesino (1969)

User Rating:

2.9/10   

Director:

René Cardona

Writer:

Alfredo Salazar (writer)

Release Date:

9 January 1969 (Mexico)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Horror | Thriller

Plot:

A lady wrestler and her boyfriend, a policeman, battle a mad scientist who has developed a murderous killer robot and uses it to kidnap wealthy people. |

Cast

Joaquín Cordero	...	Dr. Orlac
Regina Torné	...	Gaby
Héctor Lechuga
Malú Reyes	...	Gemma
Carlos Agostí
Genaro Moreno
José Elías Moreno
Isela Vega
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Andrés Soler
Agustín Martínez Solares
Pascual García Peña
Eduardo MacGregor
René Barrera
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gloria Chávez	...	Berthe (as Gloria Chaves)
Gerardo Zepeda	...	Carfax, the monster (as Gerardo Cepeda)

Also Known As:

Wrestling Women versus the Murderous Robot (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Mexico City, México D.F., Mexico

Company:

Cinematográfica Calderón S.A.

Movie Connections:

Follows Las lobas del ring (1965)

Wrestling Woman Vs. The Robot?

I saw an undubbed/non-subtitled version of this René Cardona wrestling flick, so naturally my judgment is kind of clouded. It's very similiar to the director's former Night Of The Bloody Apes, although there is very little gore and nudity. The sets, story, style have the same feel and the rapist man/monkey monster has a small part. A mad doctor is using a super-strong robot to kidnap various people (probably politcians or rich industrialists, as usual). Somehow a female wrestler and her cop boyfriend finds out about the doctors diabolic plans and runs to the rescue. The robot itself is just a big Mexican with silver color sprayed on his face. His whole act concists of walking through cardboard walls and sink people with one fatal blow. I lost track of how many cardboard doors and walls he must have walked through during the film's brief 90 minutes, but it must have exceeded 20+. Although I loved the robot and the wrestling, amongst other things, the movie has far too much dialouge for its own good, making it pretty dull for non-Spanish talking people like me. Thus, I cannot really recommend this film to others than Hispanic viewers or fans of Mexican wrestling.