Colorful but inferior production about secret agents and international conspiracy in the Sixties and Seventies style, when abounded this sort of films into the Euro-spy sub-genre. Stars a Colonel : Howard Vernon from the British Secret Service who is tasked to solve the murders carried out by blinded killers against notorious políticians. He is accompanied by another agent : Jose Llamas . They join forces to go to Bangkok and eventually discovering the criminal mastermind, a leader of a weird sect.
Produced by Manacoa Productions , Jesús Franco's owner , containing action , thrills , humor with tongue-in-cheek , plot twists and brief nudism . The film has nothing to do with Edgar Wallace novels , being loosely based on his books , taking parts here and there .There are various locations from Palma de Mallorca and Benidorm , and also in Bangkok and Singapur , but the latter shot by cameraman Julián Soler who moved himself to these countries to shot some scenes with no starring actors. It displays a jazzy musical score in Franco style , as well as atmospheric photography. Stars unknown actors exception for Howard Vernon , Franco's usual, and, of course , secondary acting by Jesús Franco himself .
The motion picture was regularly written, edited, produced and directed by Jesús, Jess, Franco. Jess was a Stajanovist, restless writer, producer, director who realized over 200 pictures. His career spans over 50 years with a few successes and lots of flops, making all kind of genres : thrillers, adventures, action and with penchant for Terror and erotic genre . Jesus used to sigb under pseudonym, among the aliases he used apart from Jess Frank or Franco Manera, were the following ones : Frank Hollman, Clifford Brown, David Khune, James P. Johnson, David Though, among others. Franco used to use ordinary trademarks, such as : zooms , nudism, foreground on objects , filmmaking in DIY style and managing to work extraordinarily quick in very low budget, as well as frequently releasing various titles at the same time. He was a prolific filmmaker, directing a lot of lousy movies. However, making some acceptable fiñms , such as : We are 18 years old, The awful Dr Orloff, The Bloody Judge , Count Dracula, 99 women, The Blood of Fumanchu, Faceless and a few others. And many of them were heavily cut and with double versions. Rating Viaje a Bangkok : 3.5/10 . Inferior and below average action movie. Only for Jess Frank completists.
