Three Giant Men (1973)
"3 dev adam" (original title)

Istanbul is being terrorized by a crime wave, and the police call in American superhero Captain America and Mexican wrestler Santo to put a stop to it.

Director:

T. Fikret Uçak

Writer:

Dogan Tamer

Stars:

Aytekin Akkaya, Deniz Erkanat, Yavuz Selekman

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Aytekin Akkaya	...	Capt. America
Deniz Erkanat
Yavuz Selekman	...	Santo
Teyfik Sen
Dogan Tamer
Mine Sun
Altan Günbay
Ersun Kazançel
Hasan Ceylan
Osman Han
Aysen Taskin
Mahmut Gülay
Ali Ekdal
Niyazi Vanli
Alev Bora

Storyline

Istanbul is being terrorized by a crime wave, and the police call in American superhero Captain America and Mexican wrestler Santo to put a stop to it.

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Plot Keywords:

mexican wrestler | wrestler | superhero | masked man | digit in title | 

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Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

Turkey

Language:

Turkish

Also Known As:

3 Mighty Men

Filming Locations:

Istanbul, Turkey

Company Credits

Production Co:

Renkli

Technical Specs

Runtime:

81 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Version of Spider-Man (2003)

User Reviews

Spider Man is killing people with his fantastic superpowers! Er, switchblade.

So here's an odd movie. Spider Man is a bad guy. And his mask is radically different. And he has these massive eyebrows--or maybe they were antenna? Anyhow, this has nothing to do with everybody's favorite webslinger. Technically, he is called Spider Man and kinda dresses like him, but instead uses the awesome powers of a switchblade to kill people and steal statues. Oh, and I think he can clone himself whenever he dies. Maybe. Didn't make much sense at the time.

Come to combat this villain are the awesome duo of Captain America and El Santo. For those of you not up on your lucha libre, El Santo is the most famous Mexican wrestler of all time, having starred in approximately 100 movies in his forty-year career. The silver-masked man revealed his identity only a month before he died and was laid to rest in his cloak and cowl. Anyhow, they're fighting Spider Man. At least Captain America (not an American by any means) is, since El Santo isn't in this too much. After a few rumbles, good is triumphant.

Worth a see? Definitely, if you like your cheese thick and incomprehensible (as detailed previously, there are no English dubbed or subtitled prints). It's no classic, but it is fun if you've got a wad of meat in each shoe (I never did understand that saying). Don't look too hard, but if you're in the back of a small, locally owned video store and this falls off a shelf onto your head, rent it.