PERRY GRANT AGENTE DI FERRO - "The Big Blackout" (1966)

Tonight's Wild Wednesday feature is a film made in 1966, a year that many people, including myself, consider to be one of THE greatest years in the history of Pop Culture!

 It's also a movie that proves that Wednesdays can be Special too!

The title is "Perry Grant Agent Di Ferro," and was released in English as

"The Big Blackout!"

Peter Holden is Perry Grant! Peter is a tough guy to find out much information on! On the IMDB website, there are no less that 13 Peter Holden's listed, and this one probably has the least amount of information written about him! They don't even have a birth date for him!

 All I can really tell you about Peter is that he apparently only made two movies, this one and another Italian film, a weird cowboy movie titled "Giurò... E Li Uccise Ad Uno Ad Uno... Piluk Il Timido" or "Piluk, The Timid One!"

Here's my favorite part of "The Big Blackout!" It's a club scene where a band called The Planets are playing! Now I don't know about you, but I never had heard of The Planets before, but fortunately, there's a Helluva lot more information about them to be found than there is about Peter Holden!

You never really know if the bands in these 1960's Italian movies are real bands or actors, and there's no credits for them, but since they had their name and logo on the drums I started digging around and found out a few interesting things!

The Planets were indeed a real band from Italy that existed from 1964 to 1968!

They were also in a 1966 Lina Wertmüller film called "Rita La Zanzara," starring Rita Pavone, who they became the backup band for, and"Colpo Maestro Al Servizio Di Sua Maestà Britannica," or

"Master Stroke" in 1967.

If you want to read more about them, The Planets' Wikipedia page is entirely in Italian!

In 1968 The Planets morphed into a group called The Others and Pataxo!

They even had time for a drum solo!

The Planets released one self-titled album in 1967. 

There are only three copies of the original album available on Discogs. They're all in Italy, and the cheapest one is $674.16.

There have been many bands called The Planets over the years, and around the world!

Here's a very interesting album cover of just one of them!
There was also a 60's Australian surf band, and a late 70's new wave band called The Planets just to name a couple more.

 If you crossed a Fiat with a Smart Car, you'd probably get a Fart Car, and this car looks so tiny, I'm sure it was a real Gasser!!

I really thought "Perry Grant Agente Di Ferro" was an interesting enough movie with shots like these!

Perry Grants gets himself into and out of quite a few pickles in 96 minutes!

I could never look cool in a peppermint striped robe like this, but Peter Holden can pull it off, and he does, along with his shirt, a number of times!

Marilù (Amazzone, Olympia, Princess Ate, Velida, Galienus' Daughter) Tolo is one of the gal's that drives Perry crazy!

Perry is one of the smarter secret agents I've seen! Before going where he knows he's going to get shot at, he covers himself, including his elbows, with bulletproof material, and gives him yet another chance to take off his shirt!

Now this is just a cool 'secret agent at work' shot!

This is the handheld version of the blackout device that works as a sonic disruptor of sorts!

This larger version is going to enable the takeover of the whole world, but Perry Grant has other ideas!

Perry Grant is not the kind of guy you really want to F with!

Luckily for all of us, he was on the job!