This dull spy flick, originally titled Mister Dynamit – Morgen küßt euch der Tod and also known as Die Slowly, You’ll Enjoy It More, stars Lex Barker as a West German secret agent called in to assist the United States when a master criminal is using a missing atomic bomb to blackmail the country. The …
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Three black-clad agents — the Tigresses: Emily, Diana, and Barbara — battle the master criminal Garrick, who is after a secret formula, though their efforts are complicated by the fact that one’s boyfriend actually works for the evil villain. A maid who wants to become an agent herself provides some comic relief. A fairly entertaining …
A Chinese schoolteacher (Anna May Wong) becomes a secret agent for her country in the wake of a Japanese bombing of her village that resulted in one little student’s death. The meat of the movie that follows is largely a mystery: A group of travelers forced to take shelter at a monastery clearly contains a …
A freelance photographer (Robert Stack) ends up in possession of a medallion that provides a key to hidden treasure, and others (most notably crooks led by Nancy Kwan) are after it. And can the photographer trust the purported widow (Elke Sommer) of the man who entrusted him with the item? Stack’s protagonist is effective in …
Hugh Drummond (John Howard), together with Algy (Reginald Denny) and Tenny (E. E. Clive), and with Phyllis (Heather Angel) aboard his plane as a stowaway, dashes off to Morocco when he learns that Colonel Nielson (H. B. Warner) has been abducted by a ruthless spy (J. Carrol Naish). A hostile reception from the local British …
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In the days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a somewhat shady nightclub owner (Preston Foster) gets tangled up with a British spy (Lynn Bari) and the Japanese forces in Shanghai when his club is used as the delivery spot for a coded letter with explosive contents. The leads are unimpressive, but …
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The Lone Wolf (Warren William) is in London, where he steals important plans from an official’s home safe, putting Scotland Yard, and the visiting New York police, on his tail. Unbeknownst to them, he is working with the official to try to trap a ring of German spies, but his efforts are endangered after the …
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Richard Johnson returns as Bulldog Drummond, super-spy, continuing the character portrayal begun in Deadlier Than the Male, though this time around there’s no nephew. Drummond is charged with investigating a series of accidents befalling those working on the SST, and he eventually must confront an evil mastermind who has created an army of female robots …
Weng Weng returns as Agent 00 in the follow-up to For Y’ur Height Only. This time around, the 2’9″ secret agent is working for Interpol, and his mission involves foiling Mr. X, a master criminal who is menacing the country and whose identity is unknown. More fun fights and amusing shenanigans make this an OK …
The 2’9″-tall Weng Weng stars as Agent 00, a Filipino secret agent tasked with foiling a villain’s plans to use a scientist’s lethal invention to blackmail the world. Amusing sequences and lines, clever gadgets, and a rather wild plot help explain why the movie was a surprise success. Fans of the spy genre are likely …
