The Million Eyes of Sumuru BluRay Review
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Review of the Blue Underground BluRay release of The Million Eyes of Sumuru.
Lady Sumuru (Shirley Eaton) leads a network of deadly female assassins (the million eyes) in a quest for a feminist world domination that involves killing a number of influential world leaders. Tommy Carter (Frankie Avalon) and Nick West (George Nader) are CIA agents that are not quite voluntarily tasked with infiltrating the outfit. In cooperation with British Intelligence, the two are two thwart an effort by the million eyes to kill the sidonese President Boong (Klaus Kinski) by way of one of their Lolita-style assassins Helga (Maria Rohm). As Carter gets captured by the Sumuru army and ostensibly turned, Helga starts to doubt in her leader.....
//// from wikipedia The Million Eyes of Sumuru is a 1967 British spy film produced by Harry Alan Towers, directed by Lindsay Shonteff and filmed at the Shaw Brothers studios in Hong Kong. It was based on a series of novels by Sax Rohmer about a megalomaniac femme fatale. The film was released in the USA by American International Pictures on 17 May 1967. In the UK it was released through Warner-Pathé on 3 December, titled simply Sumuru.[2] Shirley Eaton reprised her role as Sumuru in Jess Franco's The Girl from Rio (1970). /////
Filmed in part at the famous Shaw Brothers studios, The Million Eyes of Sumuru is a rather interesting take on the exotic euro-spy flick genre. Once again, some evil genius is plotting an evil scheme in an exotic location, and a hapless Yankee Bond-wannabe is stumbling into it, solving it with ease and charme. What makes this one particularly interesting are the comedic elements (Nader is really having a ball) on the one hand, and the at times rather ambitious moments (a D-Day style landing of the Hong Kong police for instance) on the other. In between we get a moderate amount of not-quite-sleaze (there isn’t really any nudity in the film and also not much violence) and some ridiculous fight sequences.
The Klaus Kinski cameo is ridiculous to say the least, and pointless as well. It is almost as if they invited him over for two hours to just do whatever he wanted in front of the camera.
The BluRay presents the film in a nice looking shape. The material looks slightly faded and offers a minimum of damage at times, but looks impressive overall. Probably not more than a 2k transfer though, it lacks that last bit of detail. A fine looking presentation, graced with only the English dub of the film, in decent quality. Overall no reason for complaints and tip of the hat to Blue Underground for giving this oddity the limelight it deserves.
Subtitles English SDH Audio: English Extras: Theatrical trailer; poster and still gallery
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