| The Phynx | |
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| Directed by | Lee H. Katzin |
| Written by | Bob Booker Stan Cornyn George Foster |
| Produced by | Bob Booker George Foster |
| Starring | Michael A. Miller Ray Chippeway Dennis Larden Lonny (Lonnie) Stevens |
| Cinematography | Michel Hugo |
| Edited by | Dann Cahn |
| Music by | Mike Stoller |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
| Language | English |
The Phynx is a 1970 Americancomedy film directed byLee H. Katzin[1] about arock and roll band named The Phynx and their mission in foreign affairs. The group is sent toAlbania to locate celebrity hostages taken prisoner by Communists. The last part of the film, supposedly set in Albania, was filmed in the Spanish city ofÁvila, recognizable by its medieval walls.
This turned out to be the final film appearance for several of the veteran performers in the cast, includingLeo Gorcey,George Tobias andMarilyn Maxwell.
Four young men, the members of the Phynx rock group, are assigned to recover a number of famous American citizens that have been lured to Albania and then trapped behind a tall wall, threatened by the country’s solitary tank, and cannot leave. The Phynx must find the secret map to infiltrate the castle. It is printed in parts on three different women’s stomachs in three different European countries. To discover the girls marked with the maps, the Phynx must have sex with hundreds of girls. Their labors are lessened when in Rome they are given X-ray glasses, which visually strip the girls down to their underwear.Finally, the four get into the castle and hatch a plot to hide the celebrities in wagons of radishes, topple the enclosing wall with hundreds of electric guitars, and escape.
The Phynx received an extremely limited release, and has since become an obscure, rarely seencult film; bootleg copies for many years turned up on auction websites beforeWarner Archive officially released the film on DVD in October 2012.[2]
This was Gorcey and Hall's final time they appeared in a film together; the duo made dozens of films together asThe Dead End Kids,East Side Kids, andThe Bowery Boys from the 1930s to the 1950s.[3]
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