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It really looks like a TV movie
searchanddestroy-124 May 2012
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This film made for theatres looks like a TV product, or a TV pilot for a series. But it is not. It also smells the sixties at one hundred miles, and I like it. The story has already been told in the plot line. nothing very special here but it remains entertaining, well done, even without any ambition. I saw nearly all the Francis D Lyon's films, and this one is not his best but neither his worst. We can consider it among the tons of mid spy films made in the sixties, with cools heroes, much action atmosphere and beautiful gals hanging around some swimming pools.

I am surprised this film has not been commented yet.

If you like sixties movies, music score, settings and so on, try to get it.
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2/10
Boring!
mls418226 May 2023
I love cheesy 1960s movies but this one had nothing to offer. I had never heard of it until it popped up on YouTube.

John Erickson stars after his moderate success on Honey West. He's attractive but no leading man. Also on board is Lola Albright, well past her shelf life as a screen siren. The big attraction is beautiful starlet Leslie Parrish, who is just as wasted in this film as in her other roles.

The plot is not only dull it is spread pretty thin. For a 1960s film it barely has any camp value, except for the silly, unintentionally funny death scenes in the beginning.

The real attraction is the location of the protagonists house on Naples Island in Long Beach. It is kind of a "poor" man's Balboa in Newport Beach.

Boy the smog was bad in Los Angeles in 1967.
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