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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Peter Graham Scott, Roger Jenkins, John Krish, Robert Day, Don Sharp, Jonathan Alwyn, Don Chaffey, Bill Bain, Robert Fuest, Sidney Hayers |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 28 March, 1966 |
| MANUFACTURER: | A&E Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action, Action / Adventure, Adventure, Movie, TV Shows, Television |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 733961171433 |
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Customer Reviews of Avengers: Epic & Superlative Seven
Emma Takes A Screen Test - Steed Doubles Stunts "Epic" is a love-it-or-hate-it high-camp series entry. Nothing in it is there to make sense - it's all just great fun. Emma is stalked by mad film director Z. Z. Von Schnark (portrayed a la Otto Preminger), who kidnaps her to an abandoned movie studio to film his greatest epic: "The Death of Mrs. Peele." Von Schnark is only half the fun - two out of work actors fanatically devoted to the director play the supporting roles, Peter Wyngarde particularly shining when he keeps replaying the same scene in different costumes and accents. Emma refuses to take any of it seriously, even when tied to a buzz-saw, and mocks them throughout.
"The Superlative Seven" is a well-done, atmospheric high melodrama, benefiting from stellar performances - including appearances from very young up-and-comers Donald Sutherland and Charlotte Rampling - and gorgeous costumes, sets, and color. It's Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," with Steed one of the invited isolated party victims. The episode has only one great flaw, and that is that the game is revealed in the opening scene, ruining a great deal of the suspense. But it performs quite well, and is enjoyable even when you're a step or two ahead of what's coming.
These two make a nice pair on one tape, the former being an Emma-minus-Steed episode, the latter a Steed-minus-Emma one. Oh, the other half of the dynamic duo make their appearances, all right, in each one, giving them the chance to be each other's backup/bailout. That's all just part of the fun.
Superlative Seven retains mystery and spooky atmosphere
Clemmens wrote his best script of 1967 when he penned superlative 7. According to Avengers Dossier it was a rewrite- he was running out of ideas. I enjoyed it when I saw it -ouch more than 30 years ago. It is a send up of Agatha Christie's Ten LIttle Indians mystery and the movie The magnificent 7. Usual charming opening teaser of Emma and Steed. Sadly, Diana Rigg then vanishes until the last 10 minutes. I didn't enjoy seeing it again half as much as I thought I would. This episode would have worked better for Diana Rigg if Emma had been the one on the island with a group of 6 men and the announcment that 1 of them was a killer. The 6 coffins was a nice touch! It has a good cast, atmospheric dark house on a deserted island with the door always open and leaves blowing in. Emmma's arrival on the island by parachute saves the episode for me and the day! Epic was dull and weird. Diana Rigg infuses an otherwise dull, dumb script with her wit. Bound to a table with a pendulum coming closer she quips "I am in danger of becoming a split personality." The ending is the best part of the story. Steed has rescued Emma from torture and death and they try to find a film to attend. She enthusiastically reads about a film that features "unbridled passion- that won awards." "It closed yesterday," she says sadly. "Unbridled passion," smiles Steed. "Let's stay home." Anyone naive enough to object to Steed kissing Emma in the film and their attraction to one another must have missed every innuendo in the show. I wasn't that naive even when I was an innocent teenager. I never mistook Steed and Mrs. Peel for a boy scout and a girl guide!
Clemmens should have switched his cliches and had Steed trapped in Murdersville or Epic and Emma rescue him. It would have been a change.