Even though the poster shows a F-1 race car, that sequence only lasts for a minute at the start, while the rest of the movie is about a HEIST on an impregnable vault. If you watch the trailer it is trying to make a super star out of Thomas Hunter, which he isn't. Erica Blanc is barely seen in the movie. There are many familiar faces of good actors (you will recognize them if you watch a lot of European movies like I do), that are sparsely used in the story and thus WASTED. A retired jewel thief turned race car driver, is coerced into breaking into a large vault to steal some "document" which turn out to be plans for a nuclear bomb. Instead of breaking into the vault from the outside, Tony hides inside the vault and then works his way OUT and almost dies in the process. They include this overly long bicycle chase along the famous canal in Holland which looks silly at best. The producers were apparently trying to make a Euro-Spy style movie but totally missed the mark. It just rambles on and was painful to watch.
Review of The Magnificent Tony Carrera
The Magnificent Tony Carrera
(1968)
CONFUSING JEWEL HEIST TALE TRYING TO BE A EURO-SPY.
5 April 2020