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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