Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt (1966)

Operazione Goldman

Submit to the master now...or be quick-frozen forever in his cold-storage harem! Lightning Bolt strikes like a ball of thunder!

A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project.

Date of release
1966-04-22
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Action, Thriller
Director
Antonio Margheriti

Casting

Interesting facts

Lightning Bolt is a 1966 spy-fi film shot in Techniscope in 1965 that was directed by Anthony Dawson in his first entry into the Eurospy genre. The film was co-financed and released in the US by the Woolner Brothers who re-titled it Lightning Bolt with the tagline "strikes like a ball of thunder". It was released as a double feature with Red Dragon in 1967 two years after the film had been shot. The film's star, Anthony Eisley, commented that the film was released too late to take advantage of the James Bond craze.

Production

Sent to Italy by the Woolner Brothers, former Hawaiian Eye actor Anthony Eisley was told by director Antonio Margheriti that he looked "too Italian". Margheriti insisted Eisley's dark hair be dyed blonde; it came out red. Eisley recalled that working on the film in Rome and in Lazio, where the production designer recreated Florida, was one of the most fun experiences he ever had.

To make the film seem as if it had been made in the United States, the director, Margheriti, was billed as "Anthony Dawson" and Wandisa Guida was billed as "Wandisa Leigh".

Eisley recalled that the original negative of the film was lost and for its American release it had to be reassembled from various prints, which gave it a varying but low picture quality.

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