Altin Çocuk (1966) Poster

(1966)

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Turkish James Bond
yusufpiskin19 October 2021
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A beautiful film, for which Goksel Arsoy took the stage name, again bears the signature of Memduh Ün. Goksel Arsoy, an 'MIT' agent known as the Golden Child, succeeds at home and abroad by the order of the organization. Foreign agents set up all kinds of traps for him, but he sneaks out of any event. Gökse Arsoy and Altan Gunbay left their mark on the film. Altan Gunbay, who is the chief of the foreign organization due to his role.

That gear trap in the cabin and the woman who betrayed him, he put it on the ice tray and melted it with a projector and hanged it. Those underwater scenes at the end of the movie, explosions, were the scenes that marked the movie. Apart from the Swedish cover beauty, the French and English actors on stage in London are: Helen Maville, Jackie Burdett, Michele Quender, Julie Collins. The movie made great use of the James Bond adventure Thunderball, which was translated in 1965. At the beginning of the movie, the Golden Boy surgically kills someone who looks exactly like him in 5.5 months. In the movie Thunderball, Angelo Palazzi undergoes various surgeries to look like Francois Derval. The murder of the Golden Boy at the beginning of the movie is also a reference to the movie From Russia With Love, as at the beginning of that movie, someone who looks like our hero is killed by the SPECTRE agent Grant.

The movie made great use of the James Bond adventure Thunderball, which was translated in 1965. At the beginning of the movie, the Golden Boy surgically kills someone who looks exactly like him in 5.5 months. In the movie Thunderball, Angelo Palazzi undergoes various surgeries to look like Francois Derval. The murder of the Golden Boy at the beginning of the movie is also a reference to the movie From Russia With Love, as at the beginning of that movie, someone who looks like our hero is killed by the SPECTRE agent Grant.
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4/10
Golden Boy
BandSAboutMovies7 August 2023
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Altin Çocuk means Golden Boy, who is the name of the superspy played by Goksel Arsoy. His mission? Stop Demetrius (Altan Gunbay), a supervillain who plans to destroy Turkey by firing missiles into Istanbul's biggest nuclear reactor. Golden Boy was also Arsoy's nickname, so this is his show. He also produced it.

This even gets the James Bond formula down so well that it starts with credits over a gorgeous woman and has an action scene before the main story, as an evil spy named The Wolf rises from the waves and tries to kill our hero with a speargun. But wait - it turns out that The Wolf was actually wearing a Golden Boy disguise and the killer is our hero. Hit the strip club sounding music and we're off to the Eurospy - err, Turkspy? - action.

They even shot some of the opening in London to give this a more continental air. We get to see Golden Boy drive a sportscar and win over some British ladies before we get down to the actual spy intrigue. But once he gets back to Turkey, he learns that his fellow agent S-99 has been killed and starts to investigate. He also meets a capable female (Sevda Nur) who fights by his side for the rest of the movie.

Directed by Memduh Un, this even has an ending where Golden Boy and his female friend SCUBA into Demetrius' underwater lair just like Thunderball.

Golden Boy would return in Altin Çocuk Beyrut'ta (Golden Boy in Beirut).
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