The Phynx
Directed byLee H. Katzin
Written byBob Booker
Stan Cornyn
George Foster
Produced byBob Booker
George Foster
StarringMichael A. Miller
Ray Chippeway
Dennis Larden
Lonny (Lonnie) Stevens
CinematographyMichel Hugo
Edited byDann Cahn
Music byMike Stoller
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • May 6, 1970 (1970-05-06)
Running time
81 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The Phynx is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Lee H. Katzin[1] about a rock and roll band named The Phynx and their mission in foreign affairs. The group is sent to Albania to locate celebrity hostages taken prisoner by Communists. The last part of the film, supposedly set in Albania, was filmed in the Spanish city of Ávila, recognizable by its medieval walls.

This turned out to be the final film appearance for several of the veteran performers in the cast, including Leo Gorcey, George Tobias and Marilyn Maxwell.

Plot

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.

Cast

Cameos

Home media

The Phynx received an extremely limited release, and has since become an obscure, rarely seen cult film; bootleg copies for many years turned up on auction websites before Warner Archive officially released the film on DVD in October 2012.[2]

Significance

This was Gorcey and Hall's final time they appeared in a film together; the duo made dozens of films together as The Dead End Kids, East Side Kids, and The Bowery Boys from the 1930s to the 1950s.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Phynx". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". www.wbshop.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "The Last Hurrah of The Bowery Boys- Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall". THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HOLLYWOOD. 12 February 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2021.

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