This is a rather bizarre film to try to describe, a future where the population is now at a minimum and they don't have long to survive. That future consists of mansions that turn into fun houses, one brother trying to outwit another (and vice versa), a sexy femme fatale and a plethora of doddering old character actors, both British and American.
This is purely a visual treat, slight in a believable plot and bizarrely convoluted yet a lot of fun if you can tolerate the ridiculous elements of it all. Jon Finch is the hero, although I'd hardly describe him as a desireable one, dealing with the seductive Jenny Runacre, not someone you can define well as far as characterization she plays.
Such character actors like Sterling Hayden, Harry Andrews and Hugh Griffith appear, their wacky parts like futuristic versions of the inventors from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Sarah Douglas has a small part as Finch's old girlfriend who has a pill addiction. The traps of the mansion in the early scenes are fun, but after a while, you begin to wonder what pills the writer was taking. The ending is one I can envision the audience looking at each other and asking, "Huh?"
This is purely a visual treat, slight in a believable plot and bizarrely convoluted yet a lot of fun if you can tolerate the ridiculous elements of it all. Jon Finch is the hero, although I'd hardly describe him as a desireable one, dealing with the seductive Jenny Runacre, not someone you can define well as far as characterization she plays.
Such character actors like Sterling Hayden, Harry Andrews and Hugh Griffith appear, their wacky parts like futuristic versions of the inventors from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Sarah Douglas has a small part as Finch's old girlfriend who has a pill addiction. The traps of the mansion in the early scenes are fun, but after a while, you begin to wonder what pills the writer was taking. The ending is one I can envision the audience looking at each other and asking, "Huh?"