In Like Flint ** (1967, James Coburn, Lee J Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 5924

‘Derek, darling, your American music is so decadent.’

‘Well, that’s where it’s at, honey.’

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1967 spoof spy adventure is the mindless, daft but fairly enjoyable 1967 follow-up to the 1966 Swinging Sixties send-up espionage thriller Our Man Flint.

This time super-cool super-spy Flint (a rare but noble case of a hero called Derek) is on the trail of the three female spies who have snatched the US President Trent and replaced him with a controllable substitute (both men are played by Andrew Duggan).

Naturally, the women are out to control the world as well, so they pack nuclear bombs into a space station.

It helps that the performances are bright and lively. James Coburn is once more engaging as Flint and so again is Lee J Cobb as the spy chief American intelligence chief Lloyd C Cramden, as well as vintage star Anna Lee (1913–2004) as the most engaging of the wicked ladies, Elisabeth, the leader of the seductive women in the Virgin Islands ‘where the Bad Guys Are Girls!’

The 20th Century Fox studio provides a lavish production and Hal Fimberg’s gadget-heavy and innuendo-laden screenplay keeps the soppy spoof on the rails.

The intended series of send-up espionage thrillers surprisingly terminated abruptly after this, though a TV movie belatedly appeared in 1976, Our Man Flint: Dead on Target.

Also in the cast are Jean Hale, Yvonne Craig, Steve Ihnat, Herb Edelman, Jacki Ray, Mary Michael, Diane Bond, Totty Ames and Hanna Landy.

© Derek Winnert 2017 Classic Movie Review 5924

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