Underground U.S.A. (1980)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 25M
Director : Eric Mitchell
Sinopsis
The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children. We've been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler's meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell's ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.
El principe Fujiyata y Mao asesinan al profesor Sorva,quien a descubierto con el profesor Tellez,un valioso codice azteca.Telles,prevenido por su sobrino,acerca de la amenaza oriental,divide el codice en tres partes.Loreta y Rubi dos luchadoras que vieron el asesinato de Sorva,se veran envueltas en este caso de trafico de arte y tesoros prehispanicos,ademas de enfrentar a una resucitada momia
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