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From the B-Movie Vault: Captain America and Captain America II: Death Too Soon
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From the B-Movie Vault Issue #15: Captain America (1979) and Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest From the B-Movie Vault. I’m Bryan Kristopowitz.
A little over ten years ago, I did a series of reviews focusing on low-budget Marvel superhero movies. Most of these low-budget Marvel movies were TV movies, with the exceptions being the Dolph Lundgren led The Punisher (1990), which debuted on home video in North America (it did get some international theatrical play), and the officially unreleased Fantastic Four (1994) produced by Roger Corman. I reviewed the two The Incredible Hulk TV movies, the two Captain America TV movies starring Reb Brown, and then, eventually, the Albert Pyun directed Captain America (1989), the David Hasselhoff led Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD (1998), and that Dr. Strange TV movie from 1978 (this review is the only one that currently still exists online. You can read it here). I generally liked all of those movies, and I figured why not resurrect a few of those reviews for the From the B-Movie Vault column? I haven’t done one of those in a while. So that’s what I’ve done. The first ones to be resurrected are those two Reb Brown Captain America movies.
The great Reb Brown is probably best known for those two Captain America movies, along with the Italian action flicks Strike Commando (read my review of that awesome flick here) and Robowar (check out my review of that flick here), the sci-fi fantasy flick Yor, the Hunter from the Future (read my review of that flick here), and the classic low-budget sci-fi action flick Space Mutiny (read my unironic review of Space Mutiny here). The only classic Reb Brown flicks that I haven’t reviewed yet are the awesome underground cage fighting action flick he did with his fellow low-budget Marvel superhero performer Lou Ferrigno, Cage (1989), the ensemble action flick from Cannon Films, Mercenary Fighters (1988), and the notorious 1985 horror sequel Howling II… Your Sister is a Werewolf, the second movie Reb Brown made with the great Christopher Lee (the first movie, of course, is the Captain America TV movie sequel, Captain America II: Death Too Soon). Hopefully, I will get to review those movies at some point. Reb Brown really is a goddamn international treasure.
And so, without any further what have you, let’s take a look back at those Reb Brown Captain America movies, Captain America (1979) and Captain America ii: Death Too Soon (1979). Enjoy.
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(Author’s Note: This review originally appeared in issue #352 of The Gratuitous B-Movie Column, which came out in April, 2016)
Captain America (1979)
Captain America, directed by Rod Holcomb, is a TV movie from 1979 that, according to information I read on Wikipedia, was a pilot for a possible Captain America TV show for the CBS network. The movie stars Reb Brown as Steve Rogers, a former Marine and current motocross aficionado turned sort of hippie artist who likes to travel around California in his cargo van. While hanging out at the beach, Rogers gets a telegram from Simon Mills (Len Birman), a government scientist who used to work with Rogers’ deceased father, also a government scientist. Mills wants to talk to Rogers as soon as possible about something incredibly important that relates to his father’s old work for the government. Rogers is hesitant to meet with Mills at first as all Rogers really wants to do is be left alone to work on his art and drive around in his van. The opening of the movie features a sweet mellow 1970s driving around theme that makes you want to mimic Rogers and go for a meandering drive to nowhere in particular. Well, that’s what happened to me. After a weird road accident involving an oil slick deliberately created by a truck full of bad guys, Rogers decides to meet with Mills to find out what the heck he wants.
So Rogers goes to meet Mills and learns that Mills would like to use him, or really, his cells, in an experiment that his father had been working on when he died. See, Rogers’ father had created a super serum called FLAG (Full Latent Ability Gain), a serum that could, theoretically, unlock the full potential of humanity. Rogers’ father used it on himself and had become a sort of crime fighter, working against bad guys from all over as Captain America (that was his nickname. That wasn’t Rogers’ father’s name or anything like that). Mills hopes that with Rogers’ participation and Rogers’ cells that he’ll be able to improve on FLAG and make it work as hoped. While Rogers is sympathetic to what Mills wants to do, Rogers isn’t interested. He’d much rather drive around in his van and work as an artist and see the “faces of America.” Mills accepts Rogers’ plan for himself, and since Mills isn’t an asshole, he lets Rogers go and do his thing, hopeful that he’ll come around and change his mind and help him out.
Now, Rogers isn’t just in town to hang out at the beach and be a hippie van artist. Rogers is actually in town to see his old buddy Jeff Haden (Dan Barton). Haden is in some sort of trouble and Rogers hopes that he’ll be able to help him out. Rogers goes to Haden’s home and finds him dead on the floor. Dead on the floor? What the hell kind of trouble was Jeff Haden in? We eventually find out that Haden was a government scientist, working at the same lab as Rogers’ father, and that he, too, was working on a super-secret project for the government. Mills is also involved, too (Mills was Haden’s boss at the lab).
What the hell was Haden working on and who the hell wanted him dead? It seems that Haden was working on something called Project Zeus and that he was involved with a nefarious businessman named Lou Brackett (the great Steve Forest) that wants to sell the information regarding Project Zeus to the highest bidder. Haden apparently decided that he didn’t want to be involved with Brackett and his main henchman Harley (Colonel Decker from The A-Team TV show hisself, Lance LeGault) anymore and so, in the process of breaking away from Brackett, Haden was killed. However, Haden didn’t give up every bit of information he could have regarding Project Zeus. There’s a missing film strip with this information on it, and it’s now the one thing that Brackett needs and will do anything to retrieve.
So then some stuff happens, Rogers is run off the road by Harley, and Rogers is horribly injured. While dying in the hospital, Mills injects the FLAG serum into Rogers and, basically, brings him back from the dead. Pissed that he was forced to take the serum, Rogers insists that he doesn’t want to work for the government in any capacity and would much rather live out the rest of his life on his own terms. So then some more stuff happens, Harley kidnaps Rogers and tries to get him to talk about what he knows, and Rogers ends up beating the crap out of Harley and two fellow henchmen in a meat packing plant. It’s at this point that Rogers changes his mind and starts to warm to the idea of working for the government and decides to take Mills up on his job offer of working as a super crime fighter. With a new tricked out van, a super motorcycle, and a costume resembling a sketch that Rogers did of a superhero, Steve Rogers becomes the real deal Captain America.
The rest of the movie features Rogers testing out his new crime fighting equipment, getting close to Mills’ assistant Dr. Wendy Day (Heather Menzies), and figuring out how to take out Brackett and stopping him from selling Project Zeus to the bad guys of the world.
Back when I was a kid Captain America and its sequel Captain America II: Death Too Soon (review appearing below, but you already know that. Ha) would show up every so often on Saturday afternoons on the superstation WWOR, usually paired with syndicated episodes of The A-Team and Knight Rider. It was always a big deal because, outside of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies and the occasional episode of the cartoon Super Friends (1973), the 1960’s Batman TV show or The Incredible Hulk TV show, superhero entertainment was scarce on television. When you knew Captain America was on, dammit, you watched it. Now, I knew it wasn’t the greatest superhero movie back then but, again, it was always worth checking out, and to a certain extent it is still worth checking out. You just need to be aware that it’s very much “of its time” and a low-budget movie made for television.
Captain America is pretty slow and isn’t what anyone would call a “thrill-a- minute” piece of action adventure entertainment. It plays exactly like what it is, a late 1970s low-budget TV movie, and takes its time getting to where it wants to go. The car and motorcycle stunts are fairly decent, but the fighting scenes are slow and don’t flow all that well. It almost seems like the director only had time to do one or two takes per fight scene and used the best footage from those takes that they had to create the fight. The fights aren’t exactly disjointed, but they don’t feel “right,” either. And the plot, while eventually diabolical, isn’t treated as that big of a deal, despite the fact it eventually involves detonating a neutron bomb in Los Angeles. You’d think that something like that would generate some panic and dread from someone, even in the mellow laid back late 1970s.
The performances are generally good. Reb Brown is excellent as Steve Rogers and eventually as Captain America. Brown handles the action scenes well and you get the sense as soon as you see him that he’s a decent guy, something that you absolutely have to have with someone named “Captain America.” He’s probably a little too soft spoken at times but it fits with the world that he lives in. The Captain America costume is a little too blue at times, and the shield is clear and only bulletproof, but Brown makes it work and he never looks ridiculous decked out in any of it. There are times where it seems like Brown is somewhat uncomfortable wearing it, but that fact actually makes you like him more.
Len Birman, shockingly, is actually more laid back than Brown while playing Dr. Simon Mills. He talks slowly, deliberately, and sounds precisely like a character in a low-budget 1970’s sci-fi movie. Mills isn’t a charismatic figure by any stretch of the imagination, but he comes off as a decent guy, too, even when he’s doing something potentially terrible, like injecting Rogers with the FLAG serum without his consent. You like him and you want to see him succeed.
The great Steve Forest isn’t as effective as he could be as the bad guy, Brackett. If he’s going to be low key in terms of his general demeanor it would be nice if he would shoot someone in the head just for kicks, just to show you what kind of an asshole he really is (laid back bad guys are capable of truly heinous actions). Brackett isn’t scary, isn’t nasty enough, and just comes off as some guy that just happens to have an evil scheme up his sleeve. I mean, the guy sits in the back of a tractor trailer reading a book with the bomb just feet away. Why the hell is he doing that? And why does he have that nifty set up back there, with the chair and the reading light and whatnot? Who the hell does that? Now, Lance LeGault would have made a much better main villain. He knows how to be a nasty asshole and has the voice to make it work. You can see why the people behind The A-Team wanted him to go after The A-Team. You just hate the guy.
I’d love to know why Captain America ends up having two different costumes. I get why, in the story, he has two different costumes, but why not just have him in the “typical” costume that Rogers ends up wearing at the end of the movie throughout the whole thing? Did the producers try to pay homage to the way Cap looked in the comics back in the old days with the first costume? If only we could get a special edition DVD or Blu-ray of this movie with special features explaining all of this stuff. You’d think we would have had one or the other (or both!) by now. Shout! Factory should have done it by now. People would buy that special edition home video release.
Captain America isn’t going to be for everyone, especially people expecting a more “modern” superhero type movie. Captain America is flawed and kind of slow and meandering, but it’s still a solid piece of entertainment and worth checking out, even if it’s just for nostalgia purposes. It isn’t as good as it was back in the day when it was on WWOR on some random Saturday afternoon, but then very few things are, are they?
See Captain America. See it, see it, see it!
So what do we have here?
Dead bodies: One.
Explosions: A few small ones.
Nudity?: None. TV movies in the late 1970s didn’t have that kind of thing in them.
Doobage: A meandering drive on a highway somewhere in California. A big bridge. The beach. A road construction trap. A deliberate oil slick. A spectacular slow motion “van-driving-off-the-road” stunt. A bunch of exposition. A police interrogation. A murky night time car chase with a second van stunt and an exploding motorcycle. Multiple beat downs. A hilarious fight in a meat packing plant with flying slabs of meat. A henchman crushed by a giant slab of meat. Walking on the beach. A super badass van with a hidden motorcycle inside. Some sweet motorcycle riding in the desert for no apparent reason. Attempted helicopter attack with chase. A nifty ramp stunt. Infiltration. Multiple “stylish” jumps. Cabinet destruction. Metal door removal. A gigantic dot matrix computer printer. Motorcycle launched out of a helicopter. Truck attack. Truck exhaust used as a weapon.
Kim Richards?: None, although there would have been if that neutron bomb destroyed Los Angeles.
Gratuitous: Mellow late 1970s TV movie vibe. Reb Brown. Reb Brown in a van driving around California for no apparent reason. Surfboard sanding. A late 1970s TV movie zoom in on the face. Test mice. Coffee. Groovy/funky 1970’s TV movie music. Cell animation. A silencer. Bad guys building a neutron bomb. Steve Forest reading a book. An uplifting ending.
Best lines: “Hey, Steve-O, how ya doing, buddy?” “What do we do? I don’t know.” “Hey, Jeff! It’s Steve!,” “Sooner or later Rogers is going to be given that FLAG serum and I want him out of my hair before that happens!” “Why, Steve? Why?” “Simon, if he was photographing classified material there’s got to be another explanation. Jeff Haden is no traitor.” “Who are you guys? What have you got to tell me?” “Simon, I’m afraid it’s very bad.” “Simon! There’s no cell rejection!” “Get dressed, Mr. Rogers, we’re going to take a little trip. It won’t make a sound but it will make a very big hole.” “Well, Mr. Rogers?” “Not bad! You’ve got talent!” “If I’m not thinking about what I’m doing, I could hurt someone.” “I hope I’m interrupting.” “She really is something, isn’t she?” “Hey, does this scramble eggs on Sunday, too? It also whistles Dixie.” “Be Captain America, Steve! Jam Captain America down their throats!” “Come on, little man.” “He’s gonna make it? That means we’re all going to make it, right?” Captain America did a pretty good job, didn’t he?” “How do you like it, Simon? Magnificent!”
Rating: 7.0/10.0
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(Author’s Note: This review originally appeared in issue #353 of The Gratuitous B-Movie Column, which came out in April, 2016)
Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)
Captain America II: Death Too Soon, directed by Ivan Nagy, picks up a few months after the events of the first Captain America movie and has Steve Rogers (the returning Reb Brown) working for the government as Captain America. Rogers is still hanging out every chance he gets, though, riding around in his awesome van, painting, and trying to be mellow. After beating the crap out of a bunch of scumbag gang members that like to mercilessly rob old people at the beach, Rogers is summoned by his boss/friend/handler Dr. Simon Mills (the returning Len Birman) to help investigate the suspicious disappearance of Professor Ian Ilson (Christopher Cary), a government scientist involved in some serious, top secret research involving the effects of aging. Mills believes that the international terrorist Miguel (Christopher Lee. Yes, that Christopher Lee) may have had something to do with it (Ilson apparently left behind a clue in his trashed lab). But why would an international terrorist kidnap a scientist trying to make it harder to get old? Mills wants Rogers to find out.
So Rogers puts on his Captain America gear, heads down to a local pier that’s expecting a delivery of a special package from Ecuador, completely destroys some random henchmen, and then follows a different set of henchmen to a small town called Belleville. After investigating an abandoned van left just outside of town, Rogers decides to enter Belleville and poke around. What the heck is so special about Belleville? It doesn’t take long for Rogers’ presence in town to make a group of thugs suspicious. Rogers sits in a local park and makes a painting of a cat. The thugs come over and mess up Rogers’ painting and threaten to beat him to death. Who the hell is this gigantic hippie painting a cat?
So then some stuff happens, Rogers meets a local single mother named Helen (Katherine Justice) and her annoying son Peter (John Waldron), dicks around with a veterinarian who really isn’t a veterinarian, and tries to figure out what is really going on. Where is Miguel?
Yes, Miguel is responsible for everything, he’s set himself up in a penitentiary, and he’s threatened to kill thousands, maybe even millions of people unless the United States government gives him a billion dollars. Using a version of Professor Ilson’s aging research, Miguel has developed a chemical that, when weaponized, can age people thirty eight days every hour. At first, the President of the United States doesn’t take much stock in Miguel’s threats, but he can’t quite completely dismiss them. Simon tells the President that Captain America is on the case and will figure out what’s real, what isn’t, and what everyone should be afraid of.
Unlike the first Captain America, Death Too Soon doesn’t really feature much of Brown’s Rogers wandering around trying to figure life out. Instead, the movie does spend quite a bit of time with Rogers putting the moves on scared local woman Helen, trying to be a father to her annoying son Peter, and ferreting out information about the thugs in town. Brown does have chemistry with Justice, but with John Waldron’s Peter constantly around, those “together scenes” are mostly death. I will say that the movie is far more exciting and action packed than the first one. The fight scenes are more elaborate, and there are some pretty cool motorcycle stunts spread throughout the movie’s 87 minute running time. There’s a great scene at a dam that is nothing short of badass. I will say that the big fall from the dam is easily one of the greatest things ever put in a low-budget TV movie or, really, any kind of movie. The sequence looks good and is kind of scary, even when it’s obvious that what you’re watching is a dummy on a fake motorcycle fall into a bunch of water. Just goddamn amazing.
And I also defy anyone not to cheer loudly when Captain America throws his motorcycle onto a high wall and then jumps up onto that wall so he can then drive the motorcycle off of the wall. It’s impossible to hate that sequence.
Now, there’s a big chase towards the end of the movie where Captain America’s motorcycle transforms into a hang glider in order to help Cap chase down a fleeing Miguel. This sequence will either make you cheer or it will make you groan as it’s kind of ridiculous. I loved it. I’m actually kind of hoping that, one day, Marvel makes an action figure of Brown’s Captain America with the motorcycle that turns into a hang glider. I’d buy one, and I’m pretty sure the sheer awesomeness of the idea of the toy would make everyone else buy one, too.
While the movie is, again, more action packed and fast paced than the first Captain America, Death Too Soon is still kind of slow compared to modern superhero and action movies. Your general enjoyment will depend greatly on whether or not you’re willing to sit through the movie’s slow parts. If you can sit through the slow parts I think you’ll like Death Too Soon more than the first Captain America. I think you’ll also dig the special make-up effects sequence at the end, which features some of the best special effects make-up of the late 1970s. There’s also a sequence where Christopher Lee uses a machine gun that is nothing short of magnificent. I mean, come on, it’s Christopher goddamn Lee using a machine gun. Why isn’t that image a poster? People would buy that, too. And, of course, this scene should also be its own action figure.
The cast is excellent. Brown does a tremendous job as Rogers/Captain America. He’s a little more assertive in this one, more sure of himself, which is what you need to have when you’re the main character in a superhero movie. Brown also seems a little more comfortable in the costume. It’s a damn shame that Brown never got to play Captain American again after this, either in a third movie or a TV show of some sort. The pop culture world could have used it.
Birman is solid as Simon Mills, but he has considerably less to do in this one. Most of the “scientist trying to figure stuff out” scenes are given to Mills’ assistant Dr. Wendy Day, this time played by Connie Sellecca. Sellecca takes everything seriously and comes off as the kind of scientist you’d want on your side in the event that you’d need a scientist to help you figure stuff out. And Katherine Justice is good as Helen. Again, she has actual chemistry with Brown and when she isn’t worried about her annoying shithead son Peter she’s a joy to watch. If only Peter had been murdered by the aging chemical. I know that sentiment is incredibly wrong, but once you see John Waldron as Peter, you will completely understand. You really will.
Christopher Lee is just awesome as Miguel. It seems so weird now that such a distinguished actor would willingly appear in a low-budget TV movie like Death Too Soon, but if you actually watch Lee in action as Miguel you never get the sense that he thinks he’s just cashing a check. Lee makes Miguel a diabolical piece of shit and you can’t wait to see Captain America take him out. The same can’t be said for Stanley Kamel as Miguel’s main henchman Kramer. Kamel never seems all that engaged in what he’s doing, either in his line reading or his acting. I mean, yeah, all Kramer does is operate the machine that allows Miguel to listen in on the FBI, but you can bet that if Lee had played Kramer he would have acted the fuck out of operating that phone tap machine. It’s fun to see a young Kamel, though.
Be on the lookout for the great William Lucking as a scumbag henchman, and Ken Swofford as a government agent. And is it me or does the gang member at the beach driving the dune buggy look like a young William Forsythe? I know it isn’t him but, man, it sure does look like him.
Captain America II: Death Too Soon is a big improvement over the first Captain America. It’s more action packed, it has Christopher Lee as the bad guy, and it’s fun as hell. Again, I just wish we got at least one more Reb Brown Captain America movie or a Captain America TV show. It would have rocked.
See Captain America II: Death Too Soon. See it, see it, see it!
So what do we have here?
Dead bodies: One
Explosions: A few, but nothing large scale.
Nudity?: None. It’s a late 1970’s TV movie.
Doobage: A beach where people seem to be having fun. Painting in public. Purse snatching. Attempted knife fight. Shield to the back of the head. Super-fast running. Dune buggy attack. A trashed lab. Exploding door lock. A massive brawl. Attempted crane attack. Shield to the face. Forklift attack. A plastic bag filled with white powder. Garbage bags. More painting in public. Diabolical terrorism. Henchmen destruction. Double baseball bat attack with body throwing. Balcony destruction. Farm chores. A dead lamb. Prison bar bending. An awesome chase sequence that ends with a motorcycle falling into a dam. Prison infiltration. Riding a motorcycle inside of a building. A vicious dog attack. Prison door breaking. Motorcycle throwing. Hang glider attack. A quick fight. Some truly nasty special effects make-up.
Kim Richards?: None, although there should have been. That little punk Peter.
Gratuitous: Shirtless people playing Frisbee. Roller skating disco Black guy listening to music. Reb Brown painting a picture of an old lady. Christopher Lee. Stanley Kamel. A henchman ruining a cat painting. An annoying child that should have been murdered. A cat named Heathcliff. A snow leopard cub. William Lucking. Hydrogen peroxide. Farm animal feeding. “Portland, Oregon.” CB radio stuff. Stock footage of Air Force One. Groceries. Identical twin children used in a science experiment. Using a digital watch to time how long a gate remains open. Christopher Lee using a machine gun. Christopher Lee driving a station wagon. A sappy ending.
Best lines: “Hydrofluoric acid.” “Miguel? The revolutionary?” “My scientific curiosity does not block out the feeling of hot breath on the back of my neck.” “Let’s check this turkey out.” “What are you doing? Painting. Why here? It’s where the cat is.” “Greenwood’s a dump. Just another big city. This is where you’ll find all of the horse riding trails.” “These people are clams, Simon. If I press too hard their shells are going to close even tighter.” “What’s wrong with this town, Helen? And the people?” “Hey, please don’t do that!” “You got a classic swing, Rogers, but the ball game is over!” “How does the leg feel? Like the New York Yankees used it for batting practice.” “You’re very independent. I like that.” “That’s it! He can’t make that stretch!” “That’s pretty, isn’t it?” “How’s your memory for numbers, Peter? Better than Duke Williams.” “You move well, General.” “Hold it! You didn’t expect to fool an old jungle fighter with a boomerang trick like that?” “Pete, I just paint what I see.”
Rating: 8.0/10.0
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Captain America
Reb Brown– Captain America/Steve Rogers
Len Birman– Dr. Simon Mills
Heather Menzies– Dr. Wendy Day
Steve Forrest– Lou Brackett
Lance Le Gault– Harley
Robin Mattson– Tina Haden
Frank Marth– Charles Barber
Joseph Ruskin– Rudy Sandrini
Dan Barton– Jeff Haden
(check out the rest of the cast here)
Directed by Rod Holcomb
Screenplay by Don Ingalls, based on a story by Chester Krumholz and Don Ingalls, based on characters created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon
Distributed by CBS and Shout! Factory
Not Rated
Runtime– 97 minutes
Buy it here
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Captain America II: Death Too Soon
Reb Brown– Steve Rogers/Captain America
Connie Sellecca– Dr. Wendy Day
Len Birman– Dr. Simon Mills
Christopher Lee– Miguel
Katherine Justice– Helen Moore
Christopher Cary– Professor Ian Ilson
William “Bill” Lucking– Stader
Stanley Kamel– Kramer
Ken Swofford– Everett Bliss
John Waldron– Peter Moore
(check out the rest of the cast here)
Directed by Ivan Nagy
Screenplay by Wilton Schiller and Patricia Payne, based on characters created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon
Distributed by CBS and Shout! Factory
Rated TV-PG
Runtime– 87 minutes
Buy it here
