# Help me ID this campy ultra-lo-budget movie from the '70s

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**Created:** [November 13, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-campy-ultra-lo-budget-movie-from-the-70s/426267 "2007-11-13T18:05:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-campy-ultra-lo-budget-movie-from-the-70s/426267/1 "2007-11-13T18:05:48Z")

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I once saw it on the late late show on a UHF station, after “Creature Feature.” It involves an innocent young yokel who comes to the big city and somehow gets caught up in a crime – a femme fatal named “Plethora” plays a role, IIRC – gets killed, and then is resurrected as a supercool superhero by a mad scientist and goes out for justice/revenge. The script belabors the ethics of vigilantism – the hero, having killed a couple guys, defends himself, referring to the scientist – “To fight for good you must destroy evil! He said it himself!”

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**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-campy-ultra-lo-budget-movie-from-the-70s/426267/2 "2007-11-13T18:12:48Z")

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[Fearless Frank](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061654/).

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**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-campy-ultra-lo-budget-movie-from-the-70s/426267/3 "2007-11-13T18:14:06Z")

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[Fearless Frank?](http://imdb.com/title/tt0061654/)

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-campy-ultra-lo-budget-movie-from-the-70s/426267/4 "2007-11-13T19:22:34Z")

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Just so you know, you can search IMDb by character name. That brings up Fearless Frank as the only exact match for the name “Plethora.”

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**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-campy-ultra-lo-budget-movie-from-the-70s/426267/5 "2007-11-14T06:01:53Z")

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That’s how I did it. After that it was a quick Google search that brought up [this summary](http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/91163/Fearless-Frank/overview), which seemed to closely match **BrainGlutton** ’s memory.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-campy-ultra-lo-budget-movie-from-the-70s/426267/6 "2007-11-14T12:57:21Z")

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Believe it or not, I was actually thinking about FEARLESS FRANK a few days ago in the context of “Movies that were on TV all the time when I was a kid that I haven’t seen in years”… that really needs to be on DVD.