History Film / DangerDiabolik

This 1968 movie, which was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by Creator/MarioBava (yeah, [[{{Giallo}} THAT Mario Bava]]), is [[ComicBook/{{Diabolik}} based upon an Italian comic book character]]. The movie also served as the inspiration behind the Music/BeastieBoys' music video for "Body Movin".

* AdaptationalUgliness: A mild example, but still: In the original ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'' comics, Ginko is a suave, conventionally attractive, relatively young man; in this film he's portrayed by the middle-aged, balding, and ''not'' conventionally attractive Michel Piccoli.

* XanatosGambit: Ginko tries to make a shipment of gold Diabolik-proof by melting it into a single 20-ton ingot and welding it inside a huge container. When Diabolik manages to steal it anyway, Ginko reveals that he also had the container "radioactivated," meaning the police can trace it back to Diabolik's hideout.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VROTap6uJoU original trailer]] includes the ''entire ending scene'', where Diabolik [[spoiler:gets incased in gold.]]

* UnfortunateNames:
-->'''Valmont''': ''[Watching a speedboat approaching]'' [[AccidentalInnuendo Is that Stud, coming]]?

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* MaleGaze: Eva, oh so much.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VROTap6uJoU original trailer]] has the ''entire ending scene'' of the movie, spoiling the whole thing.

* ElaborateUndergroundBase -- It's so [[TheSixties '60s]]! And so ''huge'' considering there's only two people actually living there...

%%* FemmeFatale: Eva

** ElaborateUndergroundBase -- It's so [[TheSixties '60s]]! And so ''huge'' considering there's only two people actually living there...
** WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys? Most likely he pays for them using his stolen money, or he steals them too.

* {{Sidekick}}: Sgt. Danek really has only one scene where he has a significant amount of dialogue. He also has one scene where he is independently taking any action to apprehend Diabolik -- offscreen. Adding insult to uselessness, [[PlotArmor he fails]]. For the rest of the film he's pretty much just hanging around with Ginko.

* {{Fanservice}}: Eva. Oh so much.
** Also, the entire film has John Phillip Law in leather or shirtless.
* FemmeFatale: Eva

* JokerImmunity: The only explanation for the last scene.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Diabolik trapped in gold. Ginko invokes this.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Played oddly straight when Diabolik is [[ConvectionSchmonvection coated in molten gold]], even though he's wearing a "swimming through the sun"-proof suit.

** ElaborateUndergroundBase -- It's so [[TheSixties 60s]]!

* PoliceAreUseless: Kind of averted, since most of the time Ginko only seems to fail to catch Diabolik because of some [[PlotArmor increasingly ludicrous plot contrivances]], including Diabolik exiting one elevator just after Ginko and the cops enter the one next to it.

* PrettyInMink: Eva again.

* {{Sidekick}} / SatelliteCharacter: Sgt. Danek really has only one scene where he has a significant amount of dialogue. He also has one scene where he is independently taking any action to apprehend Diabolik -- offscreen. Adding insult to uselessness, [[PlotArmor he fails]]. For the rest of the film he's pretty much just hanging around with Ginko.
* StealTheSurroundings: Authorities try to prevent Diabolik from stealing 20 tons of gold from a train by melting it into a single ingot and sealing it into a thick welded steel container. Diabolik blows up a bridge that sends the train into the water, where the super villain steals the entire container with the aid of balloons and a mini sub. Once back at his lair Diabolik drills a hole at the top of the steel container to insert a super heated rod to melt the gold inside. He then attaches a hose to a hole drilled at the bottom of the container in order to pour the melted gold into molds so that it can be converted to regular sized gold bars. This is taken step for step from the comic book (the story "Desperate Fight").

* VillainProtagonist: Diabolik. He's also a villain protagonist in the source material who has no problem with stealing and killing, but here he's a bit less indiscriminate about the latter.

* XanatosGambit: Ginko tries to make a shipment of gold Diabolik-proof by melting it into a single 20-ton ingot and welding it inside a huge container. When Diabolik manages to steal it anyway, Ginko reveals that he also had the container "radioactivated", meaning the police can trace it back to Diabolik's hideout.

* ExpoLabel: The "exhilaration gas" and "anti-exhilaration pills"

** NotDistractedByTheSexy: Ginko is immune to her charms, however.

* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter -- Averted, we assume.

** The pill works on a very rigid timetable, too. He says it knocks him out for exactly 12 hours before it kills him and Eva wakes him up with exactly three minutes to spare. Pulse rate? Body mass? Don't matter; it's 12 hours on the dot before you die, and that's that.

* WorthyOpponent: Diabolik thinks this of Ginko. To Ginko's credit, he does ''not'' feel the same of Diabolik, save refusing to [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimate him]].