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they're traversing a deserted they are captured by nomads and brought to the abandoned fort at El Faiu . Within the fort is a hidden laboratory designed by the twisted mind of Devilman, Devilman dreams of swapping his natural brain with an artificial one that he believes will make him perfect. Mike, Christine and Professor Baker make a desperate attempt to escape from the fortress before the transfer occurs. They are rescued by an army of Moors.
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was referred to as a "routine mad scientist offering. The plot is so traditional that it wouldn't have been out of place in a thirties serial" The review praised the sets of the film, specficially Devilman's secret laboratory noting that "as is so often the case in Italian science fiction films of
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Journalist Mike Harway decides to help his friend Christine Becker in her search for her father, professor Baker. Her father, a leading brain specialist, is in Rome for a conference but has mysteriously disappeared. After some time, their investigation brings them to Africa. While in Africa as
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declared the film as a "routine formula of the power-crazed scientist whose manic schemes are thwarted by an inevitable final holocaust" while noting that the film had "some splendid desert locations and some "austere chrome and glass SF sets."
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Film historian Roberto Curti noted that the film is often misleadingly described as a
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Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema
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Paolo Bianchini spoke negatively about the production and the film, stating that "
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was the only one who took the whole thing seriously. It was such crap!" In
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https://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-devils-man/review/112893/
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The Devil's Man review. TV Guide. retrieved 6/16/20
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Paolo Bianchini
Guy Madison
Luciano Pigozzi
Diana Lorys
Italian
science fiction film
Paolo Bianchini
Guy Madison
Luisa Baratto
Alan Collins
Diana Lorys
Giovanni Cianfriglia
Paolo Bianchini
Gabriele Crisanti
I predoni del Sahara
Guido Malatesta
spy film
Monthly Film Bulletin
Guy Madison
Phil Hardy
TV Guide
List of Italian films of 1967






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