Seven Golden Men Strike Again

Unfortunately this is a rather disappointing sequel in a lot of respects, but there is still much to enjoy.Our heroes get stopped mid-job and The Professor reveals that he's been showing off for the US government and the "LBI" - now the team has an assignment of international import.As it turns out they kidnap and return a Castro-like socialist dictator of a Cuba-like island, all the while plotting to steal a boatload of communist gold that's inexplicably moored in the local harbor. That plot is not very well laid out to the viewer - one of the great features of the first movie was that you understood what was going on intuitively without the movie having to stop and explain, but you'll be confused in parts for the lack of explanation here. Just think of it as a Mission: Impossible episode, or more accurately two episodes happening at once.Most of the characters are holdovers from the previous film (or at least all the important ones are), but at times they act rather inexplicably different than in the prior movie. For example, Adolf the German turns from a sympathetic thief into a national stereotype, Georgia goes too far overboard for fake Castro (at least she has a bigger part!), and the Professor is a little bit too overbearing (for example, when he out-interrogates the "LBI"). The rather mean-spirited gunfight between the boys towards the end serves no purpose to the plot (except, I guess, to help set up the false endings in some way) and undermines the viewer's connection to the "team" (as though the IMF started shooting at each other after a mission while Jim had his back turned).There is a ton of creativity on display, though, from arty camera angles to intentionally-cheesy props (or am I just assuming metahumor?). Overall the film doesn't drag, and certainly I don't regret watching it. But compared to the classic original, SEVEN GOLDEN MEN STRIKE AGAIN falls a bit flat.(Print is considerably more damaged than the first SEVEN GOLDEN MEN as well.)

This sequel to '7 GOLDEN MEN' (read my review) misses its mark more often than not. The print quality isn`t as good as the first, and is marred by a white bar at the top of the picture frame that`s distracting. The script is a retread of the first film for the most part - The 'Professor' (Phillipe Leroy) and his men are captured by U.S. agents during an attempted train robbery. To avoid jail, they must kidnap a Latin dictator. From there, it`s the same stuff we saw in the original. We`re back to stealing 7 thousand tons in gold bars, only now to finance a revolution. This time out, 'the Professor' is an arrogant, irksome twit and not the clever double-crossing mastermind he was in the first film. Rossana Podesta is still adorable as the cute Eurovixen, but the constant wigs, costumes and contact lens eye color changes were wearysome but forgivable on someone that delectable. Under-utilized, she was little more than eye-candy, capable of more. The 7 Golden Men were reduced to Snow White`s 7 Stooges this time, and will have your finger poised on the fast-forward button periodically. Parts 'Thunderball' (the underwater sequences),'In Like Flint' (another inferior sequel),'The Dirty Dozen' (the action scenes w/ the revolutionaries), and EuroBankHeist flick, I thought it over-reached and fell short. But decent, campy, low-budget fun? Probably. Deserving of shelf space in your permanent collection? Not really. And the soundtrack varied from annoying to incongrous with the movie, probably stock music except for the title theme. Only for hardcore 60`s Eurospy fans and cult completists, try renting instead. It IS obscure and the price is right, you might purchase to watch and unload on Amazon or Ebay afterwards.

Excellent 60's Gold Heist movie with gorgeous and Shapely 60s sex goddess - Rosanna Podesta, a pleasure to watch even though the quality of this DVD transfer by Sinister cinema is like watching a pan/scan bad VHS video. I havea VHS copy from Something Weird collection which is much better in quality than this Sinister Cinema DVD.Its a great movie to watch with a nice twisting plot, too bad this DVD is such a poor quality, but watchable.

it is a wonderful film with images, action, soundtrack, and less words. So it is a movie with a sense of timing not easily seen.

Great Movie. Very interesting and well made. Podestta and the other actors were great. I saw this movie in Cuba (1967)and I like it very much. I'm giving to this movie 5 stars with no hesitation at all.

Enjoyable to watch good euro crime movie.