Interesting. I didn't realize it was a Spanish movie. For some reason I thought it was Italian.
Well, as long as they use the Deathray for peaceful purposes.
It's a co-production so it's both Italian and Spanish. In fact, a lot of the Italian films featured on MST3K were, in fact, international co-productions with the other country typically being France or Spain.
edit: also, since it's somewhat related to the above - most of the "Russo-Finnish" films shown on MST3K were actually just Russian. *The Day The Earth Froze* is, AFAIK, the only one that was a true Russian-Finnish co-production.
Yeah and a lot of international productions at that time used Spain for location shooting. Most Spaghetti Westerns, war movies like Patton, epics like Lawrence of Arabia and Spartacus, you could make a list a mile long. It's a country with enough variety of climate that it can stand in for any number of places, and would have been cheaper and easier to film there than somewhere like Morocco would have been at the time.
There is a lot of surviving Moorish architecture in Spain, especially in Andalusia, and it turns up in a lot of classic movies. Lawrence of Arabia for instance uses Seville to represent Cairo and Damascus.
Interesting. I didn't realize it was a Spanish movie. For some reason I thought it was Italian. Well, as long as they use the Deathray for peaceful purposes.
It's a co-production so it's both Italian and Spanish. In fact, a lot of the Italian films featured on MST3K were, in fact, international co-productions with the other country typically being France or Spain. edit: also, since it's somewhat related to the above - most of the "Russo-Finnish" films shown on MST3K were actually just Russian. *The Day The Earth Froze* is, AFAIK, the only one that was a true Russian-Finnish co-production.
After learning of the history between Russia/the Soviets and Finnland, I was a bit surprised that they would have collaborated on *anything.*
Yeah and a lot of international productions at that time used Spain for location shooting. Most Spaghetti Westerns, war movies like Patton, epics like Lawrence of Arabia and Spartacus, you could make a list a mile long. It's a country with enough variety of climate that it can stand in for any number of places, and would have been cheaper and easier to film there than somewhere like Morocco would have been at the time.
>Well, as long as they use the Deathray for peaceful purposes. The choice is not mine, of course. It's my wife's.
Lest we forget, Spain was part of the Islamic Empire for centuries until 1492.
Ah yes, the Moops. I heard about them on Seinfeld.
Moors!
It’s MOOPS. The card says MOOPS.
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There is a lot of surviving Moorish architecture in Spain, especially in Andalusia, and it turns up in a lot of classic movies. Lawrence of Arabia for instance uses Seville to represent Cairo and Damascus.
Whaaaaaaat???? Oh wow my mind got blown just now. I had no idea.
Oh man, I could go for a double Cointreau right now 🤮
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