umberto lenzi have almost always be one of italy well b movie director and deliver consistently entertain film throughout his career right up to the mid 80 . ironmaster be a bit of a turning point and with lenzi work with small and small budget and with less and less know actor . with this dead serious caveman adventure and we have most of the old regular from lenzi crime film like nello pazzafini and giovanni cianfriglia and ottaviano dellacqua and and riccardo petrazzi ( most of whom be primarily stunt men ) . a couple other familiar face like william berger ( keoma ) and george eastman ( king david ) and danilo mattei and walter lucchini ( both from cannibal ferox ) and that kid with the wounded leg in nightmare city . but who do lenzi producer luciano martino cast a the lead . the answer be the pretty mysterious case of bodybuilder sam pasco and who seem to have appear out of nowhere and then disappear ( have never act in a film since ) even though he really isn not bad at all in this movie . anyway and the whole thing be a pretty obvious parable of ww2 with eastman character vood a basically hitler caveman equivalent and though he go around smash thing while his lady friend do all the talk for him . it actually not a bad plotline either and aid by some sumptuous photography and decent special effect and some really energetic editing and and one of guido and maurizio de angelis best forgotten score ( omit the really lame title theme ) . the movie main weakness be the heavy handedness of everything and with moral be pitch left and right when the movie be really too low budget and silly to be take seriously . almost universally and this film be trash a one of the all time bad but it really isn not that bad at all . much like bruno mattei much malign robowar and sergio martino slave of the cannibal god ( which this film recycle some music from ) ironmaster really would have be give a lot more credit have the producer put a little more money into it . it still quite a lot of fun and and pretty far from bore to say the least .