In Like Flint (1967)

Regisseur:

Gordon Douglas

Drehbuchautor:

Hal Fimberg (writer)

Premierendatum:

15. März 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Abenteuer | Komödie | Sci-Fi

Werbezeile:

FLINT'S BACK! IN Action IN Danger IN Fun

Plot:

Super-spy Flint takes on a cabal of women plotting to rule the world.

Plot Keywords:

Bikini | Time Lapse | Moscow Russia | Female Takeover | Female Takeover Of World

Filmpreise:

1 win & 1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

A Genuine Romp; The Funniesr Cold War Comedy; Clever and Genial

Besetzung

James Coburn	...	Derek Flint
Lee J. Cobb	...	Lloyd C. Cramden
Jean Hale	...	Lisa
Andrew Duggan	...	President Trent
Anna Lee	...	Elisabeth
Hanna Landy	...	Helena
Totty Ames	...	Simone
Steve Ihnat	...	General Carter
Thomas Hasson	...	Lieutenant Avery
Mary Michael	...	Terry
Diane Bond	...	Jan
Jacki Ray	...	Denise
Herb Edelman	...	Russian Premier
Yvonne Craig	...	Natasha, the Ballerina
Robert 'Buzz' Henry	...	Austin (as Buzz Henry)

Alternativ:

Derek Flint - hart wie Feuerstein (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

114 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Altersfreigabe:

West Germany:12 (nf) | Norway:16 | Canada:G | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Unrated | Singapore:PG

Firma:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Dies und das:

This was the final film that Twentieth Century Fox produced in its CinemaScope process. Later productions shot in anamorphic widescreen would use Panavision or other optics.

Pannen:

Filmfehler: Obvious mannequin when the president's double kidnaps the real president.

Dialogzitate:

Lloyd C. Cramden: Flint, How do you find time to read all these books?
Flint: No, no, no, sir, I wrote those.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in The Musician's Magician (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

Hail To The Chief

A Genuine Romp; The Funniesr Cold War Comedy; Clever and Genial

As a writer and as someone who suffered the 1970s as a burden, I find this late 1960's projection of women's lib and computers run mad about as funny as any film I know. James Coburn was a thin, charismatic and intelligent actor with limitations by way of his accent but in no other respect. He should probably have been hired to make more westerns and more high-tech thrillers; but in Derek Flint, zen-trained super-spy, in the two films he was allowed to complete in this series, he found his most famous and acclaimed role. The first was "Our Man Flint", also co-starring Lee J. Cobb, which was in my opinion a superior satire but less successful The storyline in the second entry has to do with an offer to Flint's three female assistants to visit an Island run by an outfit's leaders calling their operation "Fabulous Face". As if the girls needed improving. Of course, the corporation's heads turn out to be furious women's liberation advocates bent on world domination, planning to rid themselves of male frustrations, advice and competition forever. Forget the plot. Derek Flint's girls are in danger and that leads his organization, Z.O.W.I.E., his boss Lloyd Cramden and Flint into the exotic blackmail-the-world plot involving female astronauts and nuclear Macgoffins. But first there are the lethal tricks the ladies have thought up; Cramden loses ninety seconds on a golf course; Flint discovers hair driers are being used for brainwashing sessions; and the island resort Fabulous Face runs in the US Virgins turns out to be replete with pretty girls and pretty dangerous ideas. This is a comedy, let us remembers, with an underlying satire targeting both excessive women's lib and male chauvinism thrown in. And in a comedy, actions speak louder than ideas. The film is subtle in unexpected ways unlike its satirical predecessor which was less funny and more a direct comment on gimmick-heavy spy movies. Here we have mostly guided missiles, the world's most lethal cigarette lighter and Flint. His comment to the board of the ladies who are trying to take over the world is exactly right--"But you can't...you're--women/ladies/females" refers to their idea that they ought to do so merely because they're female, and to the methods they are employing in the name of "liberation". Lloyd Cramden in a dress is hard to take, but this production if colorful, only occasionally cartoonish in its look and very-well constructed. The music is overdone for comedic effect, Action film veteran Gordon Douglas kept the pace moving nicely; Harold Fimberg was given sole credit for a film which obviously had several parents, not one. The art direction for this eye-filling romp was provided by Dale Hennessey and Jack Martin Smith, the many fine costumes by Ray Aghayan, makeup by Margaret Donovan, and the elaborate set decorations by James W. Payne and Walter M. Scott. Forget the postmodernist analyses; this is a send-up of spy movies with knocks at both antagonists in the war between the sexes thrown in. It's an entertainment. It is played strictly for laughs, cornball and subtle ones. In the cast, James Coburn looks awkward at times but handles the super-spy cerebrations and courage aspects well. Lee J. Cobb has much less to do than in the first installment. Jean Hale has a large part and is bright and adequate, not more. Others in the cast include dependable Andrew Duggan as the president and his replacement, Anna Lee as the leader of the lethal ladies, Stephen Ihnat, Yvonne Craig, Hannah Landy, Herb Edelman and many others. This is a seventies-style sexy romp born before its time, less estimable than "Our Man Flint" but funnier and a worthy successor. It was made for people who wanted to forget the Cold War and get on with man's favorite sport--being male and female and having fun exchanging one-upsmanships.