This film also shows us that there was another class of criminals wreaking havoc on the Caribbean island: The mad scientists. It is a known fact that in Batista's Cuba organized crime was at large: The Mafia casinos, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky. He leads a double life, because while he presents himself to society as a respectable and prestigious scientist, he is really a dangerous megalomaniac with aspirations of world domination. From that moment on, the mysterious individual who covers his face (and who is none other than Santo) will blindly carry out Campos' orders. Campos, who injects him with a serum to appropriate his will. Unconscious, they take him to the laboratory of Dr. Highly recommended for all Santo fans! "Several bandits chase a masked man until they surround him in an alley and knock him out. The following review is an extract from the book "Santo, the Wrestler with the Silver Mask: A guide to all his films", which is now available on Amazon. Still, it's an enjoyable if somewhat lightweight watch. It's still not up to the quality of the later films that Santo made - particularly after the advent of color photography in the series.
A little better than its companion feature, HOMBRES INFERNALES, this features the first of numerous bouts between Oses and Santo, and some interesting tricks. Their work done (evidently they assist various police agencies around the world), Enmascarado and El Incognito fly away for parts unknown. During the fight, El Incognito is shot, but he survives. At the right time, he attacks the thugs, as does El Incognito, who's already tipped the police off on the lab's location. He restores Enmascarado to his proper mind, but the silver-masked agent pretends to still be under control. El Incognito discovers where the evil scientist is conducting his business. The researcher is also brainwashing others in the city, including a bank officer who robs his own bank while under hypnotic control. Here, he's placed under hypnotic control and assists in a kidnapping. Gangsters capture police agent Enmascarado and carry him to a mad scientist's lair. Oses appeared in countless wrestler hero films (generally as a crook or a henchman) and wrote the stories and/or scripts for many more. Forced by an injury to sideline a career in wrestling, Oses was a formative influence in the lucha film genre which stretched from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. What's intriguing about this film is that Fernando Oses plays El Incognito, a second, masked agent who works with the unspecified Santo (he's simply called Enmascarado in the film). In these first efforts, Santo appeared as a gimmick - a police agent who wore a mask to protect his identity. The flashy features starring MIL MASCARAS, BLUE DEMON and a fully unleashed SANTO were still years away.
The genre was still creeping tentatively along. His first work consisted of two features shot back-to-back in Cuba - CEREBRO DEL MAL and SANTO CONTRA HOMBRES INFERNALES. Several years after turning down his first film offer, El Santo reconsidered.
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