“3 Dev Adam” (also known as “Three Giant Men”) is one of those weird Turkish knock-off films from the 70s. In the 70s and 80s, the Turks did rip-offs of “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Jaws”, “Superman” and many other films with a blatant disregard for copyright. “3 Dev Adam” features both Spider-Man and Captain America.

In this film, Spider-Man is an international criminal, who appears in Istanbul with lots of counterfeit money. This Spider-Man is also a violent killer and thinks it nothing to murder anybody that gets in his way. Captain America joins forces with Mexican wrestler El Santo in order to destroy Spider-Man’s gang.

This depiction of Spider-Man is about as far removed from the traditional character as you could possibly get. Even the Japanese Spider-Man isn’t this vastly different from the original comic character. This Turkish Spider-Man kills a woman with a propeller and strangles another woman to death with a phone cord. It’s hilarious seeing Spider-Man do and this and yet never does he show any signs that he has the ability to shoot webs or do anything like that. The Captain America we get does not even have a shield. The El Santo we see here is a rip-off of the El Santo from the luchador films from Mexico. There’s also a random stripper girl that appears in one lengthy sequence.

“3 Dev Adam” is as ridiculous as many of the other Turkish rip-off films. They remind me a lot of the Godfrey Ho martial arts flicks from Hong Kong. Such blatant disregard for copyright would never be allowed today for a film that actually gets released for profit anywhere in the world. This film is terrible but it is funny in the same way that an Ed Wood movie such as “Plan 9 From Outer Space” is funny.