Danger!! Death Ray

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Danger!! Death Ray

Directed by	Gianfranco Baldanello
Produced by	Daniel P. Culvert
Written by	Dick Arthur Juan Antonio Cabezas Al Christian Jaime Comas Gil Aldo Cristiani Domenico Paolella
Starring	Gordon Scott Maureen Delphy Nello Pazzafini
Distributed by	Asdrúbal
Release date(s)	1967
Running time	93 min.
Language	Italian
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Danger!! Death Ray, also known by its original Italian title as Il Raggio infernale which translates to “The Infernal Beam,” is a secret agent spy film created in Italy and released in 1967 during the wide popularity of the James Bond films and many subsequently created spy films of the 1960s. It is also known as Nest of Spies, and Death Ray.

[edit] Synopsis

Scientist Jean Karl Michael invents a Death Ray to show a group of European NATO representatives, for peaceful purposes according to him. As he is demonstrating it, a group of agents disguised as officials steal the death ray, kidnap the scientist, and escape by car under the cover of night, then by helicopter which lands on a submarine and is discarded as the submarine submerges. About to go on vacation, Agent Bart Fargo is given the assignment, by his boss, of retrieving the death ray and saving the scientist. He travels to Madrid on a lead to find an evil organization that may be behind this. Rooting out a nest of spies in an ever enclosing trail, Bart Fargo meets a lady when he hides in her house from opposition and befriends an enemy agent who later helps him to stop the evil organization.

[edit] Trivia

This film is one of many films satirized on Mystery Science Theater 3000. It’s particularly infamous due to a poorly made scene involving a submarine and a helicopter which was obviously made with toy models. It may have also been the inspiration for the pilot episode of the Venture Bros. cartoon.^{[citation needed]}