3 Dev Adam

Three Giant Men
Directed by	T. Fikret Uçak
Produced by	Hasan Tual
Written by	Doğan Tamer
Starring	Aytekin Akkaya Deniz Erkanat Yavuz Selekman Tevfik Şen Doğan Tamer Mine Sun
Cinematography	Orhan Kapkı
Editing by	Hüsamettin Üren
Studio	Tual Film
Release date(s)	November 1, 1973 (1973-11-01)
Running time	81 minutes
Country	Turkey
Language	Turkish

3 Giant Men (AKA: Captain America and Santo vs. Spider-Man; Turkish: 3 Dev Adam) is a 1973 Turkish cult action film, directed by T. Fikret Uçak and written by Doğan Tamer based on the characters created by Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Joe Simon and Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, featuring Aytekin Akkaya as Captain America and Yavuz Selekman as Santo called to Istanbul on a special mission to stop the villainous Spider-Man and his criminal gang. The film, which went on nationwide general release across the country on November 1, 1973 (1973-11-01), was completely unauthorised by the copyright owners of the characters depicted.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Depiction of characters 3 References 4 External links

Plot

The story takes place in Istanbul, where a violent criminal organization led by Spider-Man ("Spider's Gang") surfaces in the city with counterfeit United States dollars. A small task-force consisting of Captain America, Santo and Captain America's girlfriend Julia arrives to help local police stop Spider-Man and his gang.

Captain America's girlfriend, who has infiltrated Spider-Man's hideout, is captured and taken to a house in a remote location. She manages to send an SOS signal to Cap. Captain America saves Julia and chases after Spider-Man, who manages to escape.

Meanwhile, Mexico's national superhero/wrestler, Santo, infiltrates the dojo that is used as a front for counterfeiting. After being captured, he manages to escape along with incriminating evidence.

Captain and Santo raid a very important hideout where most of the counterfeiting operation is taking place. They manage to shut down the hideout while Spider-Man kills a couple, steals a statue and runs away.

Soon afterwards, another fight between heroes and Spider-Man begins. Spider-Man somehow "resurrects" himself over and over after his death. He is beaten to a pulp by Santo and strangled to death by Captain but reappears again and manages to escape.

Captain America and Santo decide to go undercover in a club. Spider-Man's gang notice them and a fight occurs. The heroes are seemingly overpowered this time and are taken to Spider-Man's hideout. Once there they act like they are fighting themselves to confuse their captors but manage to break out and eliminate most of the gang members. Spider-Man flees, with Captain America in hot pursuit.

As he catches up to Spider-Man, Spider-Man again resurrects himself multiple times but is seemingly killed.

As the heroes are about to leave Istanbul, Captain America sees the face of Spider-Man in a taxi and furiously runs and removes the mask of the person in the car, realizing that it was a kid wearing a toy mask.

Depiction of characters

• Santo: Most "normally" depicted character (compared to Spider-Man and Captain America). The primary difference between this version of El Santo and the original is that the character in the film only briefly wears a wrestling mask, whereas the "real" Santo was never seen in public without one. Santo was famous during the '60s, and he was very well known in Turkey. There is even a statue of him outside a movie theater in Istanbul.

• Captain America: Played by Aytekin Akkaya, an action star, Captain is little more faithfully depicted. He also has a girlfriend with him whose identity is never explained in the movie. Just like he is shown in the poster, he doesn't have his shield and his mask lacks the wings on the side of his head.

• Spider-Man: Most notoriously depicted character. Spider-Man in this movie definitely doesn't look like his real official self. The costume used in the movie (as opposed to the one used on the poster) has many flaws: it has no web patterns (or at least they are so poorly done that they are invisible on most transfers of the film), the blue parts of his costume are actually painted light green, he wears black leather gloves, a leather belt and black leather boots, he doesn't look athletic like Peter Parker (the actor playing him has a pot-belly), the Spider symbol on his chest and back is drawn incorrectly, his mask doesn't have lenses in the eye sockets and, most importantly, he has extremely long eyebrows that extend beyond his mask. His personality is also not like the real Spider-Man. He is depicted as a psychopathic murderer and ruthless gang leader with a knack for sadistic laughs. It is unknown why the writer and director depicted Spider-Man as a villain. His girlfriend, named Nadia, is as deranged and ruthless as himself. The strength, agility, and other standard powers of the legitimate Spider-Man are not present in the film. Unlike in the film's poster, he never uses his webs in combat, preferring brute force and whatever he can find to dispatch his opponents, such as a switchblade. Although he is not seen crawling walls, at one point in the movie he can be seen entering a house by crawling through a drain pipe. His only unusual ability shown is the apparent power to come back unharmed from death multiple times.

References

External links

• 3 Dev Adam at the Internet Movie Database
• Review of film with screenshots and clips
• Review of movie at I-Mockery (contains significant plot detail)
• The film on Google Video

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