LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Before Chris Evans was Captain America, B-movie impresario Menahem Golan produced a Captain America movie released in 1990. The director's cut of that movie, which screened Saturday at the Big Bad Film Fest, reflects a sincere effort at bringing the superhero to screen in the pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe era.
The film opens in 1943 with a young Tom Kimball (Garrette Ratliffe) witnessing Captain America (Matt Salinger) steer a rocket away from the White House. Captain America, aka, Steve Rogers, crashes in Alaska where he is frozen until 1993.
Captain America seems to walk from Alaska to Canada, where he gets a ride to the United States from reporter Sam Kolawetz (Ned Beatty). Sam informs Rogers that Tom has become President, now played by Ronny Cox in a Deliverance reunion with Beatty.
Marvel waited until the end of 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger to freeze Rogers. Much of this movie's first half revolves around Rogers finding out what became of his loved ones and colleagues, and adapting to the modern world of 1993.
At least it's usually 1993. At one point, Sharon (Kim Gillingham), the daughter of his '40s era girlfriend Bernie (also Gillingham), says it's the '80s. Continuity can be overlooked as both the '80s and '90s would be a contrast to Captain America, even if they couldn't decide which.
