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As a scrawny adolescent in the mid-1960s, filmmaker Floyd Webb became entranced by advertisements in his superhero comic books that promised to pass on the secrets of martial arts warfare for a mere five dollars.
The ads were placed by a character who identified himself only as “Count Dante, The Deadliest Man Alive”.
In this film, Webb investigates the truth behind the figure of Count Dante, and discovers a life infinitely stranger and more mysterious than any fiction.
For Dante turned out to be one John Keehan, an early promoter of martial arts events, yes, but also a sometime hairdresser to Playboy bunnies, used-car salesman, voodoo priest, mobster associate, and mastermind of a four million dollar heist.
Dante was many things to many people, and a mystery to them all. In this film Webb weaves interviews, film clips and archive shots together to tell the fast-paced, irresistible, and improbable tale of his life. |
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