A shell-shocked nurse (Nina Foch) recovering from her trauma has a vivid dream in which she sees a young man being attacked on a foggy bridge while she stands nearby. When she later meets the young man (William Wright at the hotel where she and he are both convalescing, her vision sets the stage for …
Read the full post →“<em>Escape in the Fog</em> (Columbia, 1945)”
An espionage agent investigates the theft of important secrets from a noted official’s home. Who among his household has been stealing the papers? Could it even be the official himself? The whodunit element is strong in this film, which predates and is distinct from the 1960s French movie series, but the pace is a bit …
Read the full post →“<em>O.S.S. 117 n’est pas mort</em> (1957)”
In Mission to Venice, a woman who says she’s the wife of one of his father’s old friends persuades young Michael Newman (Sean Flynn, son of Errol Flynn) to head to Venice to look for her husband, who has disappeared. He learns from the authorities that the missing Paul Trégard is thought to be a …
James Coburn returns as super-cool secret agent Derek Flint, this time helping the ousted Lloyd Cramden (Lee J. Cobb) determine just what happened during a missing three minutes on a golf course and then working to foil the villains and effect a rescue from their island base. There’s plenty of silliness in evidence — witness …
Read the full post →“<em>In Like Flint</em> (Twentieth Century Fox, 1967)”
Two unsuccessful businessmen try to contribute to the war effort. After being turned down by all the uniformed services, the well-meaning bumblers hope to make good in their town’s civil defense organization, but even here their talent for accidental destruction makes them misfits. Will they get a chance to serve their country and redeem themselves …
After organized bandits attack a munitions train in Venezuela, the authorities turn to a potential secret agent as the man to get to the bottom of things and keep the bad guys from obtaining weapons and passing them along to rebels. This multinational production — original title: El hombre de Caracas — features a protagonist …
Credit a post at the blog Fists and .45s! for turning me on to the espionage comedy with music Out of Sight. Released in 1966 and starring John Daly as a butler impersonating his secret agent boss, the movie owes a good deal to American International’s beach movies, I’d say, extending even to including musical …
Read the full post →“<em>Out of Sight</em> (Universal, 1966)”
