Lightning Bolt (film)

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Lightning Bolt
Anthony Dawson[1]
Screenplay by
Produced by
  • Giuseppe De Blasio
  • Anacleto Fontini
Starring
CinematographyRiccardo Pallottini[1]
Edited byJuan Oliver[1]
Music byRiz Ortolani[1]
Production
companies
  • Seven Film/BGA
  • P.C. Balcazar[1]
Release dates
  • April 1966 (1966-04) (Rome)
  • 1966 (1966) (Spain)
Running time
94 minutes
Countries

Lightning Bolt (

Eurospy genre. The film was co-financed and released in the US by the Woolner Brothers who re-titled it Lightning Bolt with the tagline "strikes like a ball of thunder". It was released as a double feature with Red Dragon in 1967[2] two years after the film had been shot. The film's star, Anthony Eisley, commented that the film was released too late to take advantage of the James Bond craze.[3]

Plot

Department "S" of the Federal Security Investigation Commission sends Harry Sennitt, an international

laser cannon that will be targeted at cities on Earth.[4]

Cast

Production

Sent to Italy by the Woolner Brothers, former

production designer recreated Florida, was one of the most fun experiences he ever had.[3][5][6]

To make the film seem as if it had been made in the United States, the director, Margheriti, was billed as "Anthony Dawson" and Wandisa Guida was billed as "Wandisa Leigh".

Eisley recalled that the original negative of the film was lost and for its American release it had to be reassembled from various prints, which gave it a varying but low picture quality.[3][5][6]

Release

US Woolner Brothers 1967 newspaper advertisement

Lightning Bolt was released in Rome in April 1966 as Operazione Goldman with a 96-minute running time and in Spain in 1966 as Operación Goldman with a 100-minute running time.[7]

Reception

The

Monthly Film Bulletin described the dubbed dialogue as "taut, witty, even idiomatic" and added that it camouflages "what were obviously rather wooden performances".[8] The review went on to note that the sets of underwater city are "particularly attractive".[8]

Variety stated that the film's plot unfolded in a "professional and rapid" manner, but it was still "standard spy fare". The review also noted that Margheriti's direction was "adequate" while Riz Ortolani's score was an unusual departure for him, and closer to Morricone's music for the Dollars Trilogy.[9]

in 1986, Kim Newman wrote about the film in the Monthly Film Bulletin while covering the "Eurospy" trend.[10] Newman described the film as "fast, witty and absurd enough to pass muster."[10]

In

James Bond series of films".[11] Hardy praises the sets, particularly the underwater city, and the "apocalyptic conflagration at the end", as "wittily engineered".[11]

Notes

  1. ^
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  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-12-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ a b c Weaver 2006, p. 134.
  4. ^ pp.134-136 Blake, Matt & Deal, David The Eurospy Guide 2004 Luminary Press
  5. ^ a b Weaver 2006, p. 135.
  6. ^ a b Weaver 2006, p. 136.
  7. ^ "Lightning Bolt". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  8. ^
    ISSN 0027-0407
    .
  9. ^ Willis 1985, p. 219: "Review is of English-language version viewed in New York on May 24, 1967"
  10. ^
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  11. ^ a b Hardy 1984, p. 243.

References

External links
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