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Actors: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Our Man Flint |
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Before Austin Powers, before Matt Helm, before Maxwell Smart, there was Derek Flint, a karate black-belt, master fencer, ballet dancer, quick-change artist, brain surgeon, nuclear physicist, and all-around super-spy.
When the weather and seismological patterns of the world are thrown into chaos by a mysterious band of criminals, Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization on World Intelligence Espionage) leader Cramden (Lee J. Cobb) is ordered by the President to recruit former secret-agent Derek Flint (James Coburn) to investigate.
Flint, a wealthy playboy and technical genius who lives with four beautiful women in his New York love-nest and has 82 different weapons and other devices hidden in his lighter alone, doesn't want the job, but agrees to do it when an assassin tries to eliminate him and almost kills Cramden.
Tracking the assassin to Marseilles, France through traces of bouillabaisse on the dart the assassin used, Flint discovers that the group behind the disasters is a high-tech band of terrorists calling themselves Galaxy.
Tracking the group to Galaxy Island, Flint discovers that he must not only save the world, but also rescue his four girlfriends from being brainwashed into love-slaves.
But foiling Galaxy will be no easy task, as Flint will be forced to battle an army of goons, a Nazi war-criminal (Michael St. Clair), a sultry femme fatale (Gila Golan), a suave British assassin (Edward Mulhare), and three mad scientists (Benson Fong, Rhys Williams, and Peter Brocco) to save the world from being forced into an unending, universal peace!
--James Craver, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Our Man Flint |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
- Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
Romance
Yes
The terrorist enemy is...
- terrorist group
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- very skinny (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Genius
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
Profession/status:
- terrorist
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- fire/thunder/weather cntrl
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
- France
Island?
Yes
Island:
- Pacific Island
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- scientific labs
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
How many deaths in film?
- hundreds
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 10 (a tremendous amount)
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- mission to destroy something
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- flamed
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
- visually blown into pieces
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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