S.O.S. Conspiración Bikini

S.O.S. Conspiración Bikini (English: "S.O.S. Bikini Conspiracy") is a 1967 Mexican action adventure spy film written and directed by René Cardona Jr. and starring Julio Alemán, Sonia Furió and Sonia Infante.[1][2] It is the first film in a duology centered on the character of Alex Dinamo, the "Mexican James Bond", followed by Peligro... Mujeres en acción (1969).[3]

S.O.S. Conspiración Bikini
Directed byRené Cardona Jr.
Screenplay byRené Cardona Jr.
Story byRené Cardona Jr.
Produced byCarlos Espinoza
Alberto López
Pablo Ulloa
StarringJulio Alemán
Sonia Furió
Sonia Infante
Roberto Cañedo
Maura Monti
Noé Murayama
Carlos Agostí
Isela Vega
CinematographyCarl Carvahal (as J. Carlos Carbajal)
Edited byAlfredo Rosas Priego
Music byErnesto Cortázar II
Production
company
Filmadora Panamericana
Release date
  • 3 August 1967 (1967-08-03) (Mexico)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Plot

The Secret Organizational Service (S.O.S.) is an international crime syndicate that has been successful with their all-female agents operating under the guise of a fashion model agency led by Madame Bristol (Sonia Infante). Meanwhile, the International Service is the governmental secret service dedicated to put an end to SOS's actions. An agent has infiltrated SOS, but she is in danger after sending a coded message to her supervising inspector. As a result, the International Service sends their top agent, Alex Dinamo (Julio Alemán), alongside agent Adriana (Sonia Furió), to give the undercover agent a hand.

Cast

Production and release

The film was shot in Ecuador, one of several Mexican film productions that were filmed in the country in the 1960s.[4][5][6]

The film was released in Mexico on 3 August 1967, on the Roble and Carrusel cinemas, for two weeks.[1]

Reception

Héctor Trejo Sánchez Pinceladas de cine mexicano. La cultura popular mexicana retratada por el séptimo arte wrote positively about S.O.S. Conspiración Bikini and Peligro... Mujeres en acción, in particular about the latter, saying that Alex Dinamo was the most relevant character of the Mexican spy cinema, and that it was successful in giving James Bond "a Latin face" and "a Latin American spirit."[3] In Breve historia del cine mexicano: primer siglo, 1897–1997, Emilio García Riera was less enthusiastic, however, when citing the film as an example, alongside El asesino se embarca (1967) and Cuatro contra el crimen (1968), of Mexican films made in the 1960s to cash in on the success of the James Bond films, referring to them as examples of "underdeveloped James Bond-ism."[7]

References
  1. Amador, María Luisa; Ayala Blanco, Jorge (1986). Cartelera cinematográfica, 1960–1969 (in Spanish). Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos, UNAM. p. 322. ISBN 968-837-945-X.
  2. García Riera, Emilio (1992). Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1966–1967 (in Spanish). Universidad de Guadalajara. p. 91. ISBN 968-895-343-1.
  3. Trejo Sánchez, Héctor (2017). Pinceladas de cine mexicano 1. La cultura popular mexicana retratada por el séptimo arte (in Spanish). Editorial Digital UNID. p. 44.
  4. Villacís Molina, Rodrigo (1997). Manual de periodismo cultural (in Spanish). Editorial Abya Yala. p. 130. ISBN 9978-04-346-2.
  5. Ecuador del siglo XX: hechos e imágenes (in Spanish). Dinediciones. 1999. p. 137. ISBN 9978-954-19-8.
  6. San Miguel, Santiago (23 March 2020). "México y Ecuador, un romance de película" [Mexico and Ecuador, a movie romance]. Expreso (in Spanish). Ecuador. Archived from the original on 1 April 2020.
  7. García Riera, Emilio (1998). Breve historia del cine mexicano: primer siglo, 1897–1997 (in Spanish). Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía. p. 1968. ISBN 968-5096-00-7.
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