"The Corrupt Ones" opens with a pretty brutal fight inside a moving train (homage to "From Russia With Love"?), but although you may assume otherwise, the winner of that fight is not the main character. He does give the medallion that the whole plot is centered around to the REAL main character - a photographer currently working in China. This medallion apparently reveals the location of a buried treasure, and the hero, in a classic case of being "in the wrong place at the right time", finds himself pursued by two rival groups of baddies who also want to get their hands on the treasure. Structured like a mystery in the first half, the film later becomes a more traditional "treasure hunt" adventure. Robert Stack is an appropriately muscular hero, and has a couple of impressive fight scenes. Elke Sommer and Nancy Kwan are prime 60's babes, but I wish they'd been a bit more active. Elke is the good girl, Nancy the villainess, I was expecting some sort of fight between them but it never came. Anyway, the film is better than expected and will appeal to fans of mid-1960s European co-productions. **1/2 out of 4.
Review of The Corrupt Ones
