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Diana Rigg's 1968 "Mini-Killers" project is shrouded in mystery. (Incidentally, it's "Minikillers" in the titles, no hyphen.) I've posted the details behind this movie in the "trivia" section.

Minikillers is comprised of 4 minifilms. Filmed in Spain the movie takes advantage of the scenic locales of Costa Brava – however most of the scenery is lost in the washed-out and blurry 8mm film print. Long story short: Minikillers looks like garbage. My DVDR is taken from the original 8mm film and looks rough; colors are muddy, faces are blurred. But Diana Rigg still glows.

Part 1: Operation Costa Brava – Lounging by the pool in her bikini, Rigg notices a toy doll walk up; somewhere distant a Telly Savalas-lookalike sets a time-bomb activation clock. The doll stops in front of some guy by the pool and squirts poison through its eyes; the guy dies. In the melee Rigg takes the doll, investigating; the bald henchman sees this and sends a stooge after her. A quick judo fight outside Rigg's house; she tosses this guy and as he slouches off she spots a clock which has fallen from his pocket – it's the same kind as the clock used to activate the doll. Rigg goes into her swank room to inspect the doll. Unseen by her another doll another comes in, controlled by the Savalas lookalike; Rigg leaves her place just as the poison sprays from doll #2's eyes – Rigg never even sees that it's there.

Part 2: Heroin – Rigg sits along the beach in a wrap, mini-camera in hand. She snaps photos of a yacht and the men onboard – including the mustache-sporting main villain – spot her. The main boss gives the order and the men on his yacht hoist a lever, activating a trap. A strange scene where Rigg realizes she is surrounded by mannequins on the beach – as if she didn't notice? A net comes up from the sand and ensnares the mannequins and Rigg and drags them into the water. Guntoting stooges in the yacht wait as the net's dragged from water – but it's empty! Meanwhile Rigg comes out of the ocean unseen by them – wearing only white panties and a bra, her wrap lost in the tumult – and sneaks onto into the yacht. She slinks onto the bottom deck, investigating – minikiller dolls everywhere. Ever curious Rigg looks into one, finds a bag of heroin tucked inside it – the dolls transport drugs as well. Cute bit where she waves a "naughty naughty" finger in the doll's face. Next she finds a photo of two men, with "Interpol" written above them, and X marks over each face; one of the faces is the man killed in part 1. The yacht gets back to the dock; while sneaking off Rigg's spotted by the Savalas lookalike. A few judo chops and she beats away her attackers; escapes into the main villain's car, races off. Ends with Rigg depositing the stolen car on the street and hopping into her own race car, jetting off; a cop puts a ticket on main villain's car for being illegally parked.

Part 3: Macabre – Rigg enjoys a coffee at an outdoor restaurant. The Savalas lookalike and the main boss watch her from afar. They take the minikiller (from part 1) from her car and activate it, then place it back in Rigg's car. She leaves and they follow in another car. She hears a ticking noise and so stops to look at the doll. Realizing it's been armed, she throws the doll at her pursuers and it explodes; men scatter. Cool bit where Rigg saucily gets out of her car and challenges the bald henchman. A quick fight: she judo-chops him and he plunges off of a hill, out cold. Back at her hotel a porter hands Rigg a note. Apparently she's asked to come to a certain address. That night, Rigg in sexy black minidress arrives at a palatial estate. Men there await with a coffin, one of them the Savalas lookalike. She beats them up and escapes in a horse-drawn carriage.

Part 4: Flamenco – Rigg sits in a packed nightclub, enjoying a flamenco dancer named Sali. In an upper balcony sit the main villain and his Savalas lookalike henchman. Sali it appears is the second of the two Interpol agents in the X'd out photo from part 2. Flamenco over, Sali goes to his dressing room. A minikiller appears and kills him. Later Rigg comes down to Sali's room. Before she can go in she's caught and strapped inside of a cliffhanger serial-type device: bound flat while the stone ceiling slowly descends on her; soon she will be crushed to a pulp. She reaches for the gears… Savalas lookalike comes along to see if she's dead, but discovers that the device is empty. A ring's been jammed between the gears. Savalas himself gets caught in the device. Rigg pounces off into Sali's dressing room, finds beside it a hidden room. Inside it several crates filled with minikillers. Rigg takes one of the dolls out of a crate, remembers the clock-activation device she got from the henchman in part 1. Meanwhile upstairs the main villain messes with a minikiller of his own, charging it up with a syringe of poison. Downstairs, Rigg sets up her minikiller to test it out. She winds the clock and sets it off, but somehow this sets off the minikiller in the main villain's hands. Poison sprays in his face and he dies. The film ends with Rigg enjoying a drink at a bar as cops lead off the bound Savalas lookalike; Rigg winks into the camera, takes another drink, and the credits roll.