Ill-fated attempt at creating a sort of amphibious counterpart to Modesty Blaise (whose own attempts at cinematic translation weren’t exactly well-fated to begin with) starring Raquel Welch as an undercover agent – under the cover, and that’s pushing it, of a startling lime green bikini – sent to recover an atomic device from those pesky commies. Unusually for an unashamed Hollywood star vehicle, it is lent some decidedly eccentric ‘Brit’ touches by the deployment of a brass-blaring Johnny Dankworth soundtrack and, somewhat more jarringly, by the presence of a very young Richard Briers as an unlikely ‘handsome’ male sidekick.
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Great Bustard
August 20, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Worth mentioning too the great Clive “Funny, I thought I was in The Empire Strikes Back” Revill as a very strange villain, with a monocle and a ten degrees lower than normal body temperature. He must have been boiling in that Spanish heat all wrapped up like that.
johnnyboy
August 25, 2010 at 8:55 am
“Hey, Richard! I’m up here!”
“I’ve made my choice.”
Arthur Nibble
August 30, 2010 at 1:41 am
Raquel Welch? Felicity Kendal? That Richard Briers has had a tough life, hasn’t he?
johnnyboy
September 18, 2010 at 8:50 pm
It’s on tv (film 4) Sun 19th. Might try and watch them, ….er, it.