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• Actors: Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Siegfried Schürenberg
• Directors: Jesus Franco
• Writers: Jesus Franco, Arne Elsholtz, Edgar Wallace, Ladislas Fodor, Paul André
• Producers: Artur Brauner, Karl Heinz Mannchen
• Format: PAL
• Language: German
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004RN1B

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Slice of Strangeness from Jess Franco, March 15, 2004

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Oscar De Los Santos (Waterbury, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devil Came from Akasava (DVD)

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA is another terrific piece of work from Jess Franco. I think that in many ways, this is one of his most ambitious and taught thrillers. It's Franco doing the spy game for us as only Franco can, with the lovely Soledad Miranda as a gorgeous agent and Franco himself playing a nebulous character that always seems to be on the periphery of the action. The action centers on a stone that turns other stones into gold. Naturally, several global parties are after this most precious of rocks. In between, we have many Jess Franco staples played out: the gorgeous performing woman ogled by a mesmerized crowd, the black humor surrounding a body in need of disposal and its long trek toward a final resting place, the shootouts and chases, the voyeuristic camera that makes love to the luscious starlet (in this case, Soledad Miranda in the shower, onstage, in bed, etc.). One final observation: THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA includes the kind of snazzy wild jazz soundtrack that is an integral part of Jess Franco's best films. This is a circa 1970 picture. If you're into offbeat European cinema from that era, here's a true winner from one of the maestros!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Average Franco, September 18, 2006

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NoWireHangers (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Devil Came from Akasava (DVD)

"The Devil Came from Akasava" was made around the same time and with much of the same cast as "Vampyros Lesbos" and "She Killed in Ecstasy". It's not as psychedelic nor as good as either of those, but it's still a very watchable Franco film. Soledad Miranda is good as usual and the underrated Ewa Strömberg also does a very good job.

Those who expect to see a horror movie or a sleazy sexploitation film are likely to be disappointed. This is more of a spy movie. If you take it for what it is it's not bad.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Blah., September 21, 2007

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Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Lakewood, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devil Came from Akasava (DVD)

The Devil Came from Akasava (Jess Franco, 1971)

Jess Franco and zombies? Where do I sign up? Unfortunately, my enthusiasm was almost entirely unfounded, for the "Jess Franco" side of that equation is far, far more prominent than the "zombies" side.

The plot, if you're brave enough to call anything in a Jess Franco movie a plot: the Philosopher's Stone is uncovered. It has the fabled trait of turning metals into gold, but it also has the unfortunate side effect of killing those who handle it without protection. Needless to say, a whole lot of agencies, both legal and not-so-much, want to get their hands on it. One of those is MI6, who sends trained undercover operative Jane Morgan (Soledad Miranda of Vampyros Lesbos) to retrieve it. She hooks up with the nephew of the chap who discovered it, Rex (The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse's Fred Williams), and they go looking. Unfortunately, many stand in their way...

Soledad Miranda, a gorgeous brunette who made a hefty name for herself in European softcore flicks in the sixties, is the best thing about this movie. Tragically, it was one of the last she worked on, as she was killed in a road accident not long after filming wrapped. The rest of the movie looks rather limp and unpolished around her. Far from being the zombie-fest most descriptions of the movie promise, The Devil Came from Akasava seems to have been Jess Franco's entry in the low-budget spy genre (think Danger! Diabolik or The Girl in Gold Boots), and if you like that kind of movie, you'll probably get a kick out of this. I was just happy I had Soledad Miranda to distract me from everything else. **