This stinker is available on BBC iPlayer all this week!

Caught this flick late last night after returning home from a boozy dinner with friends.

Oh boy!
This is an absolute stinker that needs to be seen to be believed.
Unintentionally hilarious.

Ok, so we missed the very beginning and were a little lubricated to say the least but we could not work out what the hell was going on. The continuity was shot to pieces. People quite literally appeared to teleport from room to room. Nothing made sense timeline wise. Simple shot-reverse-shot sequences seemed to be manufactured by monkeys. The climatic car chase was a masterclass in how not to edit. The ending is jaw dropping in it's incomprehensibility and sheer idiocy.

Acting is wooden or er, daringly experimental...

Hair, make-up and costumes range from awesomely inept to brain bendingly bizarre. One black satin(?) jumpsuit especially comes to mind.

It really felt like they just gave up bothering to make it halfway through.

It's difficult to believe that this was written by Mickey Spillane and was directed by Cahiers du Cinema favourite and uber prolific director for hire Tay Garnett who had previously made classics like The Postman Always Rings Twice and Bataan. Obviously by the age of 76 he'd just totally lost it (he made two further flicks though and died at the grand old age of 83...so good on him).

There is some interesting use of colour in certain scenes and it also notably features Mickey Spillane's second wife Sherri in a supporting role. I don't think she went on to do much else...

Anyway, watch it with friends and a coupla drinks if you dig kitschy 60's spy nonsense.