Captain America (1990 film)

Captain America is a 1990 superhero film directed by Albert Pyun. The film is based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. While the film takes several liberties with the comic's storyline, it features Steve Rogers becoming Captain America during World War II to battle the Red Skull, being frozen in ice, and subsequently being revived to save the President of the United States from a crime family that dislikes his environmentalist polices. The film received a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America.

Plot

In 1936 Fascist Italy, the government kidnaps a boy and kills his family. The child is needed for an experimental project to create a Fascist supersoldier. Dr. Vaselli (Carla Cassola) objects to using the boy, and under the cover of gunfire flees to the USA to offer her services to the Americans.

Seven years later, the American government finds a volunteer in Steve Rogers, a loyal all-American who is excluded from the draft because of his polio. The formula successfully transforms Rogers into a superhero, but before any more super soldiers can be created using the formula she keeps in her head, Dr. Vaselli is murdered by a Nazi spy. Meanwhile, the Italian boy has become the Red Skull and is planning to launch a missile at the White House. Rogers, code named Captain America, is sent in to defeat the Skull and deactivate the missile.Rogers manages to penetrate the launch compound, but after an...
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