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script that strives after witty effect and ends up looking only like a pastiche of the spy film formula. Rod Taylor looks a little flabby as the reluctant assassin, but he does manage to make the character appealing, and Trevor Howard wickedly proves how dialogue can be made to sound better than it is; and there is an amusing interlude in the shape of Akim
Tamiroff as a blundering torturer doing his best to look villainous. But these are the only flashes of light in a generally gloomy film."
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surprise, the pilot is none other than Iris, who informs him that she is the coordinator of the operation. He is able to overpower her and, with radio help, return the aircraft to the base, dumping the aircraft into the grass by accident.
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