Treasure of the Four Crowns
Treasure of the Four Crowns is an action adventure film, featuring Tony Anthony, Ana Obregn, Gene Quintano and Francisco Rabal and directed by Ferdinando Baldi.
The movie follows J.T. Striker, a Soldier of Fortune Tony Anthony, who has been hired to assemble a group of professional thieves to retrieve the gems which are hidden inside two of the remaining four Mystical Crowns. Striker braves a mysterious magical cave in which skeletons and spears appear and jump out at him. He discovers a scroll in one of the crowns in the cave, which tells him that the fourth crown had disappeared long ago. He denies that the gems are magical or even valuable. He succumbs to the belief eventually and sets off to find the last two crowns, which are being held inside a heavily guarded compound that is the home of a cult led by the evil Brother Jonas. Strikers team suffers casualties from booby traps as it performs a dangerous acrobatic commando raid on the room where the crowns are kept. Striker retrieves the gems from the two magical crowns, and the magic makes his head literally spin. His face becomes half deformed, like that of TwoFace. Striker shoots fire from his fingers, melting the henchmen, their weapons, and Jonas. After, the film cuts to a shot of a boggy swamp, where a large pile of slimy brown sludge rises from the swampy water. A head like that of a moray eel with crystal blue eyes shoots towards the screen for a 3D effect, setting up for a sequel that never happened.Although promotional materials for Treasure of the Four Crowns heralded SuperVision and WonderVision, the film was actually shot using the Marks 3Depix Converter, which had previously been used for Friday the 13th Part III. Like other 3D systems in use in the early 1980s, 3Depix stacked its Techniscopesized left and right images one above the other on a single band of 35mm film. The resulting stereoscopic image had an aspect ratio of about 2.41. ........
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