When you've got a spy drama featuring Joan Collins wearing lots of glamorous outfits (reunited with Richard Todd from "The Virgin Queen"), fooling around with American CIA agent Gene Barry on husband Tom Adams, a Bond girl toss-off (Susannah Leigh), tossed in with a mop topped Beatles look alike, you know you're going to have a campy 60's film. The problem it is that it takes forever after the initial setup for everything exciting to happen, and with the Collins plot developments goes off track quite often.
Collins is always delightfully watchable, and she seems to be looking into the future with her campy film roles and of course "Dynasty" later on. This wasn't one of the highlights of her career, but she's quite good in it,, wearing furs like a fox, leather like a dominatrix's boot, and gowns and hats accompanying chick ensembles that the 60's version of Alexis would have been wearing in whatever alternate universe they lived in. Leigh in her smaller part makes you wish she was on more.
But Barry is not very charismatic, and Todd and Adams play characters not fully developed, definitely an issue of the screenplay. The interesting location footage is aided by plenty of action, and a sequence at a British zoo is particularly memorable, although the shots of the individual animals move rather fast, awkwardly so. The plot itself is immediately forgettable, with the spy aspects forced and not really interesting. Only when Collins and Adams' son is kidnapped does it really bring in any real danger. So it's on occasion intriguing, but like a fast food meal, not something worth repeating, especially since it's so familiar to what other films had already done.
Collins is always delightfully watchable, and she seems to be looking into the future with her campy film roles and of course "Dynasty" later on. This wasn't one of the highlights of her career, but she's quite good in it,, wearing furs like a fox, leather like a dominatrix's boot, and gowns and hats accompanying chick ensembles that the 60's version of Alexis would have been wearing in whatever alternate universe they lived in. Leigh in her smaller part makes you wish she was on more.
But Barry is not very charismatic, and Todd and Adams play characters not fully developed, definitely an issue of the screenplay. The interesting location footage is aided by plenty of action, and a sequence at a British zoo is particularly memorable, although the shots of the individual animals move rather fast, awkwardly so. The plot itself is immediately forgettable, with the spy aspects forced and not really interesting. Only when Collins and Adams' son is kidnapped does it really bring in any real danger. So it's on occasion intriguing, but like a fast food meal, not something worth repeating, especially since it's so familiar to what other films had already done.