Some fantastic European location footage and well done skiing sequences can't hide the fact that this is one of the lamest thrillers ever made, with one of the creepiest characters ever to lead. Omar Sharif is a prominent businessman which happens to be a serial cheater and most likely am embezzler, which of course he denies like a cornered child when confronted. Tired of his cheating, wife Karen Black decides she's going to let young hick Joseph Bottoms fly her plane, taking him to a creepy castle, and stalked by her husband.
This is one of those very odd 1970's European English language movies that stars took for a nice working vacation in an exotic place, knowing that it wouldn't get any awards let alone get a major release anyway. Sharif really plays a pig of a character, just grabbing young pretty servant girls and hotel maids and ravaging them as if they were begging him to. Black and Bottoms have one of the dullest seduction scenes ever, with its depiction of a older woman and younger man who seem like mother and son, not passionate lovers.
There's some suspense about someone trying to kill him and some comedy with the massage he's expecting performed by an enormous Amazon with her breasts flopping out, a poor redo of a classic movie sequence with Richard Conte and Hope Emerson in "Cry of the City". Black is absolutely dull here, and Bottoms stuck with a truly dumb character that is totally unbelievable. Ultimately pointless, although I'll give it credit for taking me on a cinematic vacation to a place I'll never get to in person. Gave me a few laughs however, mainly at its expense.
This is one of those very odd 1970's European English language movies that stars took for a nice working vacation in an exotic place, knowing that it wouldn't get any awards let alone get a major release anyway. Sharif really plays a pig of a character, just grabbing young pretty servant girls and hotel maids and ravaging them as if they were begging him to. Black and Bottoms have one of the dullest seduction scenes ever, with its depiction of a older woman and younger man who seem like mother and son, not passionate lovers.
There's some suspense about someone trying to kill him and some comedy with the massage he's expecting performed by an enormous Amazon with her breasts flopping out, a poor redo of a classic movie sequence with Richard Conte and Hope Emerson in "Cry of the City". Black is absolutely dull here, and Bottoms stuck with a truly dumb character that is totally unbelievable. Ultimately pointless, although I'll give it credit for taking me on a cinematic vacation to a place I'll never get to in person. Gave me a few laughs however, mainly at its expense.