No wonder he takes on a simple last name when he goes on missions.......otherwise it would take him twenty minutes to sign in at the hotel front desk.......
Lazy is the operative word here, since the director of these OSS opuses, Andre Hunnebelle, helms these movies like he's just swallowed his 90 day Valium supply......
But it's always nice to see a familiar face and once again we have our favorite opponent of Ray Harryhausen creatures, Kerwin Matthews, donning a secret-agent suit and tie......standard requirement if you're off to Bangkok to kiss the babes and karate the bad guys......
Praise the Movie Gods, widescreen and color this time.......(still have no clue as to why the first one of these was shot in black and white...)
In case you couldn't guess the identity of Evil Mastermind.......well, there's a character named Dr. Sinn skulking about. Oh wait.......could it be......him??
In the course of romancing Dr. Sinn's lovely sister (the impossibly beautiful Pier Angeli), the Hube-Meister gets to shoot and machine gun hordes of Dr. Sinn's armed guards.......(somebody should really have woken up director Hunnebelle during these slack firefight scenes, since some of the minions drop dead even before they've been shot.....)
What else can we say? Colorful location filming.......and Kerwin Matthews nimbly mixes it up it his hand-to-hand brawling..... (once again, the only scenes where Hunnebelle directs with his eyes open...)
We know a movie like this isn't for everybody, but we're well known for our Eurospy-Completist addiction, so we could never, ever resist.......which is why we promise to cover the 3 other 1960's OSS outings. For this one.....2 & 1/2 stars (** 1/2).....the 1/2 extra star for Kerwin, Pier, the scenery and the fight scenes.....
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