Retro
Treasure of the Four Crowns (3D)
El tesoro de las cuatro coronas | Ferdinando Baldi | IT/ES/US 1983 | 101 Min
| DCP
Metro Historisch
Sa,20.09.▸13:00
© 1983 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
In 1981, actor/producer Tony Antony, cowriter Lloyd Battista, and director Ferdinando Baldi formed a posse that were trailblazers of the next wave of Hollywood 3D with the western Comin’ at Ya! But their true masterpiece came two years later, with Treasure of the Four Crowns—a variation on the motifs and themes of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) so impossibly overwrought that it makes Spielberg’s original look like a study in Neorealism—after all, Indy didn’t have flames shooting out of his fingertips! Along with its eccentric story and the protagonist’s truly unforeseeable evolution, the film also dazzles with a barrage of eye-popping 3D tricks—some apparitions reaching for the audience here are unmatched and unrepeatable! (Olaf Möller)
Ferdinando Baldi
Ferdinando Baldi (1917–2007) was a screenwriter and director who made a wide range of films from the 1950s to the 1980s. He sometimes worked under pseudonyms like Ted Kaplan, a name he also used for Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission, a 1988 Italian-North Korean co-production shot in North Korea and featuring American actors (insert as many exclamation marks as you like). Before that, he had directed Orson Welles in David and Goliath, Franco Nero in the Django spaghetti western Texas, Adios, and Ringo Starr in Blindman. The theatrical success of his 3D movie Comin’ At Ya! (1981) motivated its production company, the legendary Cannon Group, to hire him back for another venture into the three-dimensional territory, Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983).
Ferdinando Baldi (1917–2007) was a screenwriter and director who made a wide range of films from the 1950s to the 1980s. He sometimes worked under pseudonyms like Ted Kaplan, a name he also used for Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission, a 1988 Italian-North Korean co-production shot in North Korea and featuring American actors (insert as many exclamation marks as you like). Before that, he had directed Orson Welles in David and Goliath, Franco Nero in the Django spaghetti western Texas, Adios, and Ringo Starr in Blindman. The theatrical success of his 3D movie Comin’ At Ya! (1981) motivated its production company, the legendary Cannon Group, to hire him back for another venture into the three-dimensional territory, Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983).
Screenings
Metro Historisch
Sa,20.09.▸13:00
