TOBOR, THE GREAT

One of the great actors in movie history, and not only related with horror films, Peter Cushing has been forgotten by many critics (or art defenders). This documentary is a long and enthusiastic interview in which Peter talks about a lot of things, including movies, great anecdotes and famous colleagues he has worked with. But what about himself, his unforgettable career, his fame made by lots of young and old fans? Unfortunately, Peter makes many references about "the pleasure of working with...", "it was something incredible to have a dialogue next to..." instead of estimating himself. I don´t mean "hey, look how good I am working as an actor", but at least a little more time for himself and his own feelings and classic movies he starred. We know Peter was an excellent person and not a presumed professional. That´s why he talks here with an enormous respect for his colleagues. He was a great man, always with that sense of humor we couldn´t see very often in his works. I have always seen him (this is a very personal opinion, of course) as "the arm of God", as the title of the Film Comment note published due to his death in 1994. He´s simply a celluloid legend.

This film is something unbelievable. It is so, so, so, so, so, bad that you would probably start to laugh instantly. A lonely agent, worried about the corruption in his own work, tries to stop a kind of Darth Vader Buda who wants to dominate the Middle Orient with an army that you must see to believe it. There are two awful and freak dwarfs (the bodyguard), an intellectual bold (he talks and talks, but never fights), Pentagon!!! (the best soldier that finally dies like a fly on the wall) and a bunch of dog heads that made themselves all the dangerous action scenes, in which, I guess, many, but many people were seriously injured, trying to imitate Mad Max battles. But what about the main actor. Wow! He penetrates with a blinded car and a gun into the enemy fortress and with the intention of beating thousands and thousands of bad people. And the enemy never had the idea of shooting a bullet straight to his wheels car. Well... there are some many good scenes...: the rituals, the conversations, the love dramas, the fights. One of the worst films of all times, and one of the bizarre masterpieces made in Europe.