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Some screenshots:
(click to enlarge – more pictures on the page of episode 4, link above)
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The post is a little later as usual, but I had a rather unusual thing to do yesterday, so I didn’t have enough time to write the review on Monday evening as usual.
Actually, this movie was featured in one of the earliest posts on this blog back in 2013.
Some weeks ago I still thought that it actually still was on the blog, but it wasn’t anymore….and honestly, I am not sure what exactly happened.
However, I was planning to make a new post about it. A nice guy recommended me a store that actually has a DVD of this rare movie quite a long time ago.
Finally, I bought the DVD, even it was rather expensive in total, but hey….I just had to have this one in the best quality available.
So, why this movie is so interesting?
Because it’s about a gang of female robbers! They are wearing full masks in two rather short scenes and then are running around in sexy smoothskin wetsuits and masks for nearly 20 minutes!
So again, it would partially fit my Frogwoman blog as well, and I will make a post on it as well, with an additional short scene. More on that later.
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So, let’s start this post with the two scenes where you can see the original team of 3 women!
Preview:
Ordinary Burglars?
NO! A gang of female….
….burglars!
The next heist!
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And here is the video:
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Yeah, two good scenes with effectively masked women! Really well disguised!
As later on, they are dressing like men to fool anyone who might see them. In a later video, you see who they even hide their “twins”.
The unmaskings are rather disappointing for me since they are cheating big time! I guess the director or someone else was concerned that their hair would look messy if they just pull these masks off. So they got their hair done nicely and held their masks close to their faces and removed them from then on so it would look more or less like they would pull the masks off their heads in that scene. 🙁
I certainly wouldn’t have done it and would have shown their unmaskings without any cuts or tricks.
Perhaps some folks might have been surprised that there are women under these masks, even I think you certainly can see that in close-ups on their masked faces, that these aren’t men…if you look at the “exposed” eye sections.
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So, I divided the long hotel robbery scene into 4 videos to keep these short.
That way the chances are better that they can stay on Youtube.
3 more women have joined the team to make the big heist that they have planned.
A big hotel on a rather remote island is their target!
Preview:
Ready for action!
The sexy burglars assemble!
She will remember this night for sure!
Busted!
He is yanking on her mask!
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And here are the videos:
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Well, that was quite a robbery! I just love the idea to have 6 women in wetsuits and (modified) scuba masks robbing a hotel!
The preparations pay off and the job goes pretty smoothly for the most part.
Of course, my highlight is the ending where the two guys sneak up on her and then try to unmask her! That is so sexy. The way she desperately struggles to keep her mask on is really well done.
She knows exactly that she would be finished if they manage to yank that scuba mask off. Yeah, she would still have her hood on, but they would see a face that they then could describe to the cops.
Of course, the scene should be a little longer, but ok, it’s a rather AWESOME scene anyhow 🙂
Luckily they are wearing sexy black wetsuits that are appropriate for such a nightly action.
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You can find an additional scene on my other blog!
Here is the german poster to this movie I just found today:
Well…..how great is that???!!!
Ok, the poster maker took a LOT of liberties as they are wearing completely different wetsuits, doesn’t look anything like these girls, don’t use spear guns, and so on.
But damn, it’s a very attractive poster for sure 🙂
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So, if you want the DVD of this movie, I can recommend the site where I got it.
I had to pay 19 Pounds incl. postage, but it was surely worth it!
Another one I was pointed at through an epic Youtube video! Again, thanks to the guy for making this compilation 🙂
In this scene, we have a young guy who is suspected to be a (masked) killer.
But as you might guess, the one under the mask….isn’t a man as I would post about it otherwise 😉
Preview:
Looks like he tries to UNMASK her!
Struggling with the killer!
That would be rather bad for your health….
Isn’t that Christopher Walken? YES!
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And here is the video:
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Ok, what do I like and dislike about this one?
And yes, that’s the only scene where you can see the masked killer which lasts longer than a split-second 🙁
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I really dislike that she isn’t more “visible” in the movie. I would love real fight scenes with her. More suspense before the unmasking.
And they really screw up the unmasking. Why doesn’t she defend her mask? Why don’t we get to see a little more of her before his hand reaches her mask?
That is done way too quickly!
This is how you NOT do an unmasking! Especially with such a hot woman underneath the mask.
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I do like that Christopher Walken shows up in the scene! He is great all the time, even in here as he shots the knife out of her hands in a way too cool fashion 😆
Also, as you can see in the first picture, he seemingly tries to unmask her in the struggle! It’s only a split second and I nearly missed it as I watched it as it is so horribly cut.
But nonetheless, it’s great that he goes for the mask!
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Some screenshots:
(click to enlarge – more pictures on the page of episode 3, link above)
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Have you seen it already?
What do you think about it?
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Well ok, not all at once, but two of them at the same time 😉
Thanks to the friendly guy who recommended me this gem that combines quite a lot of great features!
I decided to post this one here instead of my Frogwoman blog, but it would fit in there as well!
As I always divided upon where to post gas mask scenes, on this blog (since it is a mask) or on the other blog (since it is a breathing device) it may fit better to the other blog this time with all the swimsuit and wetsuit scenes….but, quite honestly….I have much more material for the frogwoman blog right now, so that’s why it is here.
Preview:
She has arrived at the beach in her wetsuit
Now in a swimsuit and a gas mask!
Quite a combo!
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And here is the video:
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Wasn’t easy to cut this video as they have very short scenes in the original where they cut pretty often to the next location. But I included all of her scenes in wetsuit and gas mas.
Ok, in my version she would have dropped from a boat in scuba gear and rubber wetsuit, fighting off 2 or 3 scuba henchmen in a long struggle, arrived on the island, put on her gas mask, and then would have an extensive fight with a sexy villainess, where both would try to yank off each other’s gas mask to kill the other one (as there would have been gas in that room) ….but that’s just my fantasy 😉
…..but….I really like what they have filmed here!
The wetsuit/swimsuit/gas mask combos are great and I love how she infiltrates the island as an agent. Sadly, we see such stuff way too rarely in movies or TV shows.
As in my version, I would have loved some struggle in this scene where she has to fight against someone while wearing the gas mask. Or at least gas in the room to add more danger as she -in this case- only was wearing the gas mask as a precaution.
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Oh, and I have a little bonus video for you guys!
At the very beginning of the episode you have this scene:
That demonstrates what could have happened if she would have been gassed with this stuff.
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Wanna know from which movie or TV show these scenes are?
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Some screenshots:
(click to enlarge – more pictures on the page of episode 2, link above)
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Have you seen it already?
What do you think about it?
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Thanks a lot to the guy who recommended me this one!
In this Colombian drama TV show, you can find 2 short scenes with the same woman in different masks.
Preview:
A very functional and rather ugly mask!
Who is she?
Time to unmask!
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And here is the video:
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Quite nice to have a woman with 2 different masks in 2 scenes. As this show is from Colombia, I honestly don’t have a clue about what’s going on here due to the fact that I don’t speak Spanish.
And I hardly doubt this show got subtitled or dubbed in English.
Sadly, these scenes are her only masked scenes in these episodes at least.
And quite odd to show her in front of the prison with the gear and mask, then showing her entering the prison as well….but that’s it. What happened to her in there?
Something you would expect to see later on 😉
There is actually a riot in that prison so it would have been nice to see her fighting against some thugs there. Perhaps even with a nice unmasking 😉
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These scenes were taken from episodes 9 and 10 from this show:
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Some screenshots:
(click to enlarge – more pictures on the page of episode 1, link above)
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Have you seen it already?
What do you think about it?
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*EDIT* Update, January 19:
Added some more thoughts to the review and finally installed a browser spell-checker 😉
To celebrate this SPECIAL day….the day where the Batwoman TV shows starts into its second season (8PM at the CW)…I have a “Batwoman Beyond comics special” for you!
It’s the “Batwoman BEYOND” version from the “Batman Beyond” run.
In that run a version of Batwoman appeared in issues 37 to 42.
For some reason I forgot to post about these comics back then, time to finally do that now!
In this gallery you find the highlights from my perspective with some peril moments and all the (un)masking action!
These pages are from issues 38 to 42. You will find more of course in the comics as I couldn’t put them all in a gallery 😉
You should check out all these comics!
(use the arrows to navigate through the pages)
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[Read the pages before you go on!]
I really like that she actually had a secret identity in these comics for a while as not even the reader knew who was under that mask.
The advantage of such a full face mask is ….obviously….that the whole face is covered, so it provides a perfect disguise.
I do love such a mystery! It also provides some opportunities to show scenes where the mask gets damaged or ripped.
Sadly they don’t much use of that here. I mean if someone delivers hard punches to her face or threws her around the mask should get damaged at some point. But well, I don’t know what high-tech material they use in these Batman Beyond masks. So, her costume does only really damaged once through that explosion.
My favorite is the scene where a hand of the villain gets really close to her face as she is lying on the ground. But sadly, it seems like he didn’t want to unmask her as he immediately starts to choke her instead of yanking her mask off. That moron 😉
The self unmaskings are well done even I would have prefered that someone else had unmasked her at one point or at least try to do that.
But in the end these comics with this Batwoman Beyond version are my favorites from the last 5 years!
Season 2 of Batwoman is only DAYS away as it starts THIS SUNDAY, January 17 at the CW at 8pm.
After no fresh episodes since May I’m more than hyped! 🙂
A lot of articles and news surfaced the last days and on this post I wanna collect all the new info prior to episode 1.
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Safiyah is one of the big villains in season 2, we know that for quite a while now. She was already mentioned a few times in season 1 and has some connections to Alice and Kate(?).
Shivaani Ghai was casted for that role.
Now we get some first look images + an interesting text on EW:
Now we got news that infamous villain Black Mask also joins the villains of season 2 on the show!
No info on the actor who will play him are out yet….but damn, that’s great news! I always liked his role in the comics and his appearance was one of the plus points of the Birds of Prey movie.
This one was a lucky find I stumbled upon by pure luck.
I saw this poster, and of course I HAD to watch the movie 😉
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As you can see the poster is strangely cut at both sides, but well, the most interesting part is there to see.
Quite interesting is that the hero is in the background while the masked woman is in fact the “right hand” of the movie’s villain.
But I guess they thought it would help to put an attractive, mysterious woman right in the middle of the movie poster 😉
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Let’s move on to the movie, here are some pictures as a preview:
There she is, the masked villainess!
The villain and his right hand
She enjoys torturing people
She seems …afraid…
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And here is the video:
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I really like the idea of having such a masked villainess in the movie! It is a rare thing in a movie even today, but especially hard to find such a character in a movie from 1959!
Her movie role is quite odd, naturally to the age of the movie and the way women were portrayed…..she doesn’t actively fight, but rather tortures and kills people from the distance or by backstabbing them (literally). She fights with an epee for about smashing 5 seconds, but we will come to that later on.
Now to the video above: The ending is bitter sweet for me. It’s great that he rips her mask off in such manner. Sadly…we can’t see it as the movie shows it from that perspective. And she runs away without allowing us to see her unmasked face. What a wasted opportunity!
And it’s also sad that she actually never puts on her mask again througout the movie. 🙁
She always is wearing that outfit, where she covers her hair completely. Ok, that could be seen as some sort of disguise, but well, doesn’t really work for me 😆
The movie had also a german audio track which I used as I watched the movie. And as you can possibly tell when you know german TV it was a german TV airing (MDR is the channel).
Interestingly the german dialogue is quite different. As the movie is italian, both english and german audios are dubs from the original language.
In german the villain approaches her and says “….say that you laugh at me under your MASK….” in translation.
Here is the scene for those of you who can understand it:
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So, you may wondering what happens to her at the end of the movie?
Well, here is her ending:
[Watch the video first before you continue!]
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After another sneaky murder she meets her final fate as some random soldier kills her with a banner pole!?!
Quite an odd way to finish her off. Especially as it should have been the hero’s job to do that and get his revenge on her after all the things she had done to him, his father and friends.
Interestingly we finally see her hair, she is finally fully “unmasked” in these seconds. A continuation error as we never see that cloth coming off as she still was standing.
Fittingly she has red hair….which was/is a popular hair color for showing evil/crazy women 😉
And here is a promo poster for the movie where she actually shows her hair (which she never does like that):