From the makers of LICENCE TO KILL (a 1965 Bond spoof) and stars the Bond clone Tom Adams! Adams this time is in the opposite side of the law as a jet setter criminal who masterminded a heist and uses 3 guys and a girl to rob 4 million pound (UK currency) of diamonds, but the double crossing begins. Slow film with little care for any character make this film worthless to watch. Adams acting is same as if he was playing Charles Vine from those BOND take off films. The U.S. video print are edited TV prints and advertised like some kind of a biker film. Not recommended.
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Heist gone right (and more)
BandSAboutMovies24 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
There are several phases to the career of Lindsay Shonteff. He started making cheap horror like Devil Doll and Voodoo Blood Death before making two Eurospy films - The Second Best Secret Agent In the World and The Million Eyes of Sumaru - a genre he would return to several time, making Spy Story, Undercover Lover, No. 1 of the Secret Service and Number One Gun, usually going back to his Bond character Charles Bind every few years or so. He even had a Shot On Video period, in which he kind of remade Night, After Night, After Night as Lipstick and Blood as well as a post-nuke wandering in the boredom movie called The Killing Edge. Oh yeah! He also made Permissive and The Yes Girls, two sexploitation movies about groupies. And I forgot Big Zapper and the sequel, The Swordsman, which are about the adventures of Harriest Zapper.
Max Stein (Tom Adams) is a ruthless criminal who has put together the perfect team to pull off the perfect crime, which happens in the early part of this movie. What follows is Stein killing off the team as they all fall out from one another. Jeremy Dryden (Michael Culver) is the only member of the gang that might have something close to a soul, but that won't help you in this dark world of stealing and selling one another out.
Supposedly, Ingrid Pitt was going to be in this, but her husband George Pinches told her she wasn't permitted.
Stealing 4 million pounds worth of diamonds was supposed to be the hardest part of this heist. Trust me, that was the easy part.
I would say that Shonteff does well with a small budget, but I don't think he ever had a decent one to work with.
Max Stein (Tom Adams) is a ruthless criminal who has put together the perfect team to pull off the perfect crime, which happens in the early part of this movie. What follows is Stein killing off the team as they all fall out from one another. Jeremy Dryden (Michael Culver) is the only member of the gang that might have something close to a soul, but that won't help you in this dark world of stealing and selling one another out.
Supposedly, Ingrid Pitt was going to be in this, but her husband George Pinches told her she wasn't permitted.
Stealing 4 million pounds worth of diamonds was supposed to be the hardest part of this heist. Trust me, that was the easy part.
I would say that Shonteff does well with a small budget, but I don't think he ever had a decent one to work with.
Vastly underrated crime study...
ccmiller149220 December 2011
Tom Adams gives a masterful performance as a ruthless, cold-blooded and thoroughly brutal criminal mastermind in this vastly underrated crime study. We see him conceive of the plan of a seemingly impossible bank heist, meticulously plan every necessary move to the last fraction of a second, and set about assembling the most expert and competent criminal personnel to pull it off successfully...a race car driver, explosives expert, killer marksman, etc. After perfecting their parts through precision timed rehearsals, they successfully execute the robbery which will make them each rich....and then the betrayal begins. This is a film with a cold, dispassionate core. Michael Culver, in a supporting role as one of the participants who genuinely loves Adams' two-timing abused mistress, is the only one with any redeeming human qualities. Nevertheless, enough interest has been generated for the viewer to be surprised at the abrupt and unexpected conclusion.
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