Three Giant Men (1973)
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Spider-Man is a violent psychopath who runs a counterfeiting operation in Istanbul. He is opposed by Captain America, who has no shield, and a Mexican luchador called Santo.
Historian Ed Glaser calls this the first comic book crossover film ever made, produced decades before Marvel built an empire on the concept.
The Turkish film industry, nicknamed Yeşilçam for the Istanbul street it was centered on, produced more than two hundred films a year. By some counts it stood as the third largest film industry in the world, behind Hollywood and India.
Turkey had no effective copyright law for film until 1986. 3 DEV ADAM (1973) - translated as "3 Giant Men" - was, of course, unauthorized.
Physical Media
About the Film
- Directed By
- Tevfik Fikret Uçak
- Runtime
- 81 minutes
- Released
- November 1, 1973
- Certification
- 13+
- Country
- Turkey
- Starring
- Aytekin Akkaya, Tevfik Şen, İsmail Yavuz Selekman, Deniz Erkanat, Mine Sun
More Credits
- Genres
- Action
- Language
- Turkish
- Origin
- TR
- Studios
- Yerli Film
- Written By
- Doğan Tamer, Aytekin Akkaya
- Produced By
- Ridvan Tual
- Cinematography
- Orhan Kapkı
- Also Starring
- Altan Günbay, Ersun Kazançel, Hasan Ceylan, Doğan Tamer, Osman Han
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Unfortunately the Turkish film industry never seems to have produced a visionary director who might have elevated the medium as happened in other countries. I haven’t seen one yet that was better than adequate and most are pathetically amateurish.
Maybe J Jonah Jameson wanted to make an anti-Spider-Man movie and Turkey was the only country that did it?
It also helps that JJJ is a fan of Captain America
Ricardo Soto I would love it if they used that concept to make this movie part of the MCU.
Had a bootleg VHS tape many years ago.
Understood their characters better than Zack Snyder understood his.
Actually just got this as a bootleg dvd.
Haven’t had a chance to watch it yet….
Dominick
Looks awesome
I’m surprised someone hasn’t used it in a music video