''Avenger X'' ( it, Mister-X) is a
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
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film based on the Italian comic series '.
Plot
George Lamarro is the head of a pharmaceutical company that is also involved in the production and distribution of illegal narcotics. When his secretary attempts to blackmail him for a share of the profits and his hand in marriage, he has her killed with her death arranged in a way to implicate a master criminal called "Mister X" who is a master of disguise, efficient killer and professional golf champion. The real Mister X uses his skills to discover the criminals are involved in a scheme by an unnamed foreign nation using the company and a Scottish and an American criminal to distribute illegal narcotics in the Western World.
Cast
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Pier Paolo Capponi
Pier Paolo Capponi (9 June 1938 – 15 February 2018) was an Italian actor and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Subiaco, after his studies Capponi attended a theater school and later was chosen by director Vittorio De Seta for an import ...
as Mister X
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Gaia Germani
Gaia Germani (30 August 1934 - 20 February 2019) was an Italian film and television actress.
Biography
Born in Rome as Giovanna Giardina, she made her film debut in a French film, Georges Lautner's ''En plein cirage'' and later starred both in I ...
as Timmy
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Armando Calvo
Armando Calvo (25 December 1919 – 6 July 1996) was a Puerto Rican-born Spanish actor. His father was Juan Calvo Domenech, a Spanish actor and his mother was Minerva Lespier, a Puerto Rican. Calvo worked in Spain, Italy, and Mexico appearin ...
as George Lamar
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Anna Zinnemann as Dolly
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Umberto Raho
Umberto Raho (4 June 1922 – 9 January 2016) was an Italian stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Bari, the son of an Italian father and a Bulgarian mother, Raho graduated in philosophy and then, immediately after the w ...
as MacDoug
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Renato Baldini
Renato Baldini (18 December 1921 – 5 July 1995) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 87 films between 1950 and 1983. He was born in Rome, Italy.
Selected filmography
* '' It's Forever Springtime'' (1950) - Un carabiniere al processo ...
as Jack Caruso
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Franco Fantasia
Franco Fantasia (5 March 1924 – 10 November 2002) was an Italian film actor, stuntman and fencing master. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1951 to 2002. He was the brother of actor Andrea Fantasia. Illness and Death
Septembe ...
as Inspector Roux
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Dante Posani
Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ' ...
as Jim
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Helga Liné
Helga Liné (; born Helga Lina Stern on 14 July 1932) is a German-born Portuguese-Spanish-American film actress and circus acrobat best known for her work in the horror genre of film. She made 132 appearances mostly in film between 1941 and 20 ...
as Gloria
Production
''Avenger X'' was based on the comic series ''Mister-X'' as created by writer
Cesare Melloncelli and drawing artist
Giancarlo Tenenti. The comic was first published by Milan's
Edizioni Cervinia in October 1964. Unlike other ''
fumetti neri
''Fumetti neri'' (Italian for "black comics") is a subgenre of Italian comics, born in Italy with the creation of the ''Diabolik'' character (1962).
Overview
The "Fumetti neri" name comes from "cronaca nera", the Italian name for crime news. A ...
'' of the era, ''Mister-X'' had very little violent content, with the titular character being a gentleman thief similar to
Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin (French pronunciation: ʁsɛn lypɛ̃ is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the maga ...
. In the film, the titular character Mister X visually differs from the comics design who had a black hood and leotard opposed to the red cape, white boots and hood that covers his face that his comic book counterpart wears.
Parts of the film were shot in
Rome
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including location shooting at the
Stadio dei Marmi.
Release
''Avenger X'' was released in Italy in 1967 as ''Mister X''. The English-language title of the film ignores the characters name and is titled ''Avenger X''. Director
Piero Vivarelli
Piero Vivarelli (26 February 1927 – 7 September 2010) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and lyricist.
Vivarelli was born in Siena. After his father's death in 1942 at the hands of Yugoslav Partisans, Vivarelli joined the Republi ...
stated most of the violent scenes in the film were removed from the Italian version of the film to earn a V.M.14 rating. Censors documents only suggested that 47 seconds of the film were cut in Italy This included scenes where a blowtorch approaches Mister-X's bare chest and a shot of a speedboat moving towards a reef. The film grossed 112 million Italian lire in Italy during its theatrical run. The film was distributed by Euro International.
The film was released in Spain on 22 January 1968 where it sold 707,889 admissions.
See also
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List of films based on comics
This is a list based on comics. It includes films that are adaptations of comics, and those films whose characters originated in those comics.
English, French, Japanese
As some languages and forms have been extensively adapted into films, they ...
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List of Italian films of 1967
A list of films produced in Italy in 1967 (see 1967 in film):
References Footnotes
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External linksItalian films of 1967at the Internet Movie Database
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List of Spanish films of 1967
A list of films produced in Spain in 1967 (see 1967 in film).
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Spanish films of 1967at the Internet Movie Database
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1967 films
Spanish crime films
1960s crime films
Films based on Italian comics
Live-action films based on comics
Films shot in Rome
Films directed by Piero Vivarelli
Italian superhero films
1960s superhero films
1960s Italian films
Spanish superhero films