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Bella Cortez Movies

1967  
 
Ed Fury, hero of many a sword and sandal epic, once more dons tunic for the Italian Seven Revenges. This time, Ed and a cohort find themselves in the service of Genghis Kahn. In order to prove their worth, they must carry out the titular revenges. Hollywood expatriate Elaine Stewart is the heroine. Among the scriptwriters of Seven Revenges was Sergio Leone, on the brink of bigger thinks. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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1964  
 
The Italian None But the Lonely Spy stars Ken Clark as this week's James Bond imitator. Assigned to track down a drug-smuggling ring, Clark goes undercover. Only his immediate superior knows what he's up to, so our hero is as much in danger from the authorities as he is from the criminals. Bella Cortez plays the inevitable modern Mata Hari. None But the Lonely Spy was one of several full-color foreign espionage films bundled up for American TV in 1965 to cash in on the "007" craze. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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1962  
 
With a setting in medieval Russia and two top film stars leading the action -- Victor Mature as Oleg and Orson Welles as Burundal -- this otherwise uninspired costume drama has its moments. The Vikings and their leader Oleg are pictured as pacifists, while the Tartars and Burundal are the real culprits, evil and brutal. Both factions hold a coveted woman hostage while they try to work out a deal. That tactic fails and as the slaughter and bloodshed mount, a romance between a young, mixed couple (Viking/Tartar) is beginning to heat up. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Orson WellesVictor Mature, (more)
 
1961  
 
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In the year 20,000 B.C., the continent of Atlantis is ruled by King Yotar (Roldano Lupi), who has set his people on a course of fantastic scientific development. The Atlanteans have dominated the Earth from their capitol city of Metropolis with their powers and technology, but they have also inflicted terrible cruelties on humanity. Yotar has begun experimenting with the powers of life and death on his young son, hoping to grant him immortality. The hero Obro (Gordon Mitchell) appears at the outskirts of Metropolis, leading a quest to stop the Atlanteans and their bloody reign over the Earth. Obro's brothers and allies are killed by the powerful rays dispatched by the Atlanteans, but he is strong enough to survive them -- he is captured, but rather than kill him, Yotar decides to see if Obro's super-strong physique would make him a better subject than his son for his experiments. Obro is put through various tortures, and set upon by menaces including a murderous giant and a horde of blood-thirsty dwarves, and is finally liberated by rebels against Yotar's rule, including Yotar's own daughter, Mesede (Bella Cortez). With their help, Obro begins killing the king's guards and retainers, terrorizing his underlings and eluding capture as he isolates Yotar; meanwhile, Yotar is becoming increasingly concerned not only with his experiment, which is about to reach its conclusion and which may kill his son in the process, but with the volcanic forces that seem to be building up beneath Metropolis. Finally, as if in rebellion against the king's profane use of science, an eruption ensues -- earthquakes rend the city and tidal waves threaten to engulf Atlantis, and amid the conflagration, Yotar is moved to pity by the pleadings of his son. He turns to Obro and Mesede to help save the boy from the doom that he has brought upon Atlantis, its people, and himself. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi

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1961  
 
This redundantly titled muscle-man epic stars Steve Reeves wannabe Rod Flash (not Rob Flash, as has sometimes been alleged). The central conflict in the film pits ordinary mortals against the Olympian gods. The 76-minute running time suggests that something was taken out before the film was made available to American viewers. Also starring Gordon Mitchell, Vulcan God of Fire was lensed sometime in the early 1960s, then distributed stateside via TV syndication. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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1961  
 
Rod Flash is the star of Ali Baba and the Sacred Crown, and we don't believe that name for a minute. However, Rod does moves quick as a flash to locate the titular crown on behalf of a beneficent Genie. To do this, however, he must go the Hercules route and perform seven near-impossible tasks. He is rescued from the most ungovernable of these tasks by heroine Bella Cortez, who soon needs rescuing herself from the film's despotic villain, Furio Meniconi. Ali Baba and the Sacred Crown was originally released as Le Sette Fatiche di Ali Baba. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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1960  
 
In this historical martial arts adventure, a medieval warrior tries to free an oppressed village from a band of deadly crooks. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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1960  
 
Miami mob members are knocked off by another partner whom they thought was dead. ~ Rovi

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