The Great Adventure (1974 film)

The Great Adventure (La Gran aventura) is a 1974 Argentine action film comedy directed by Emilio Vieyra. The film stars Víctor Bó, Graciela Alfano and Ricardo Bauleo. The film marked the end of Vieyra's contract with Pel-Mex, and start of collaboration with producers Aries Cinematográfica Argentina and other small producers. The film features a Dollars trilogy-type whistling and gun-firing score.

Cast

 * Graciela Alfano as Afrodita
 * Ricardo Bauleo as Apolo
 * Víctor Bó as Hércules
 * Leonardo Bonzi
 * Juan José Camero
 * Florencio Alegre
 * María Fernanda Cartier
 * Rey Charol
 * Julio De Grazia
 * Noemí del Castillo
 * Beto Gianola
 * Alberto Golán
 * Liliana Lagos
 * Juan Carlos Landers
 * Roberto Landers
 * Stella Maris Lanzani
 * Ricardo Lavié
 * Maria Estela Lorca
 * Gilda Lousek
 * Oscar Maril
 * Jorge Martínez
 * Enrique Milio
 * Guillermo Murray
 * Arturo Noal
 * Enrique Nóbili
 * Ignacio Quirós
 * Gigi Rua
 * Dudy Sicorski
 * Julieta Vertier
 * Emilio Vieyra as Cameo
 * Norberto Vieyra

Reception
Although the director Emilio Vieyra was often criticized and his films dismissed by critics, The Great Adventure was a commercial success and considered a "blockbuster". Fernando Gabriel Varea in his 2006 book El cine argentino durante la dictadura militar, 1976/1983 described the film as a "super super adventure", "sort of cross between James Bond and the Three Stooges. The Great Adventure was also the first of several of Vieyra's films which featured fish and dolphins.