Saturday, January 7, 2012

Neutron and the Amazing Dr Caronte (1963)


Third in the series picks up more or less right where the second one left off. Caronte is dead (or so the world thinks). The three friends are still jockeying for position in the heart of their lady love, Nora. Added to the mix is the addition of a foreign agent who is looking for the neutron bomb formula. As Neutron thwarts the foreign agents, Caronte comes back again from the dead...and has his identity discovered... only to commit suicide....

And if you think that's the ends you're sadly mistaken....

More Neutron madness that continues the story from the first two films and bends the tale further and further in more fantastic directions. As with the first two films the film is largely plot driven, though to be perfectly honest this film only has a minimum of fight scenes with much of the time actually taken up by plot twists.

Assuming you've been watching the series from the beginning you'll have a great time continuing onward. The trouble is that if you are watching this out of order you're going to be hopelessly lost. This film simply doesn't work as a stand alone film since so much of what is going on is a reference back to the earlier films.

More in keeping with the second film, this film completes a trilogy concerning Neutron's Battles with Caronte. After this there were two more stand alone films before Neutron was retired as a character.

Not out officially in the US, I know it can be had on the collectors market.

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