Mad doctor/scientist Walter Rilla believes he can create a genius by placing the subject's head under an illuminated hairdryer and twiddling a few knobs. Unfortunately, his previous experiments have produced only a legion of expressionless, zomboid, mutant motor-morons, who wander around aimlessly.... and only slightly less aimlessly in response to a blast from Wally's whistle.
The action takes place in the tiny, obscure European state of Gudovia, remarkable for the absence of both trains and cars, but an astronomically high mortality rate, due to a series of 'unfortunate accidents'. At least, traffic collision and rail crash can be ruled out as a cause of death!
Into this highly unusual community arrive chess playing music fan buddies, Paul Douglas and Leslie Phillips, creating a political furore when they drift in by rail, along a remote, overgrown stretch of track, bringing a whole new meaning to the term branch line, following a freak coach detachment and a points change. It's hard to envisage a more incongruous match than the stocky, bluff, no-nonsense Douglas and the refined, educated Phillips. (Amazing, what being into the same music can do for a friendship). As the plot unfolds, the pair appear to be playing it increasingly for laughs. Eva Bartok, initially ensconced in Wally's world, emerges as the romantic interest. Also notable is nasty, noxious rude boy Michael Caridia. The remaining cast are either unfriendly, or of a distinctly nervous disposition, communicating their ill feelings in a bog standard mid-European accent.
'The Gamma People' is the kind of movie that better judgement screams at you to consign to the deepest recesses of your mind, yet it remains oddly memorable....for all the wrong reasons.
The action takes place in the tiny, obscure European state of Gudovia, remarkable for the absence of both trains and cars, but an astronomically high mortality rate, due to a series of 'unfortunate accidents'. At least, traffic collision and rail crash can be ruled out as a cause of death!
Into this highly unusual community arrive chess playing music fan buddies, Paul Douglas and Leslie Phillips, creating a political furore when they drift in by rail, along a remote, overgrown stretch of track, bringing a whole new meaning to the term branch line, following a freak coach detachment and a points change. It's hard to envisage a more incongruous match than the stocky, bluff, no-nonsense Douglas and the refined, educated Phillips. (Amazing, what being into the same music can do for a friendship). As the plot unfolds, the pair appear to be playing it increasingly for laughs. Eva Bartok, initially ensconced in Wally's world, emerges as the romantic interest. Also notable is nasty, noxious rude boy Michael Caridia. The remaining cast are either unfriendly, or of a distinctly nervous disposition, communicating their ill feelings in a bog standard mid-European accent.
'The Gamma People' is the kind of movie that better judgement screams at you to consign to the deepest recesses of your mind, yet it remains oddly memorable....for all the wrong reasons.