Rumors that Adolf Hitler did not actually commit suicide in 1945, but hid in Latin America along with loyal supporters, persist in the public consciousness. To refute them is a matter for historians, but for cinema this assumption is a ready-made plot for the film. So it happened when the famous figure drive-in cinema David L. Hewitt, coupled with a little-known director Kenneth Hartford, decided to make a film about the Nazi underground, which was discovered by American intelligence agencies in Latin America. Agent Glenn Manning was sent there, who, unlike James Bond, fails one mission after another. So he was quickly captured, but Manning, coupled with another prisoner April, released and declared war on the Nazis.
Hewitt’s picture came out long before Rambo, so there are no exciting fights in the jungle here. Hewitt didn't have any money for action. All the budget was enough for an impressive extra and Hollywood stars in the face of Robert Vaughn, Keenenen Wynn and Aldo Ray. Mary Lynn Ross became famous much later, in the cult film of Mark L. Lester “Class 1984” (1982). That ended her career. Mark became her husband and she became a housewife. And a pity - even in a cheap action movie by David L. Hewitt it looks good.
The director made an application to investigate the nature of violence in human society, which is why he inserted an obscure figure of the narrator, a man from the future who lives on a remote island and is engaged in preserving video information about humanity. His weekdays are devoted to the first 25 minutes (!), which is too much for a cheap action movie. His comments are sometimes curious, but they do not compare with the parables of Stanley Kubrick and Sam Peckinpa of the 1970s, such as “Clockwork Orange” and “Straw Dogs”.
It remains a mystery how Hollywood star Robert Vaughn agreed to play a major role in typical drive-in products. His name, however, did not help Hewitt push his brainchild into the rental - perhaps because of the strange, drawn-out prologue, as well as a primitive scenario where the experiences of the Nazis, espionage themes and naive fights are mixed, when Manning and his combat girlfriend throw a whole crowd of Nazis almost with one blow.
For David Hewitt, this production was the last directorial work. The film was released only two years later, apparently without revenue, after which Hewitt switched to creating visual effects for the mainstream, such as the sequels Superman, Zubastic and Leprechaun, up to the serious productions of Philip Noyce's "Cage for Rabbits" (2002) and "The Quiet American" (2003). But Kenneth Hartford (1922 – 2009), continued to make films category B, in particular, the more famous horror “Monster” (1980).
“The Lucifer complex”, of course, you can see from nothing to do, but you should be ready for a lot of plot absurdity, as well as the general extreme cheapness of the production. A typical one-time movie, if there is nothing more interesting at hand.
5.5 out of 10