Our Man Flint

When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.

• Director: Daniel Mann
• Genre:Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
• Runtime:108 minutes

Cast

James Coburn : Derek Flint
Lee J. Cobb : Cramden
Gila Golan : Gila
Edward Mulhare : Malcolm Rodney
Benson Fong : Dr. Schneider

Spy extraordinaire Derek Flint (James Coburn), ex-agent of Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage), is dragged out of retirement to deal with the threat of Galaxy, a world-wide organization led by a trio of Utopian mad scientists: Doctor Krupov (Rhys Williams), Doctor Wu (Peter Brocco), and Doctor Schneider (Benson Fong). Despairing of the world’s governments ever getting their acts together, they demand that the governments all capitulate to Galaxy. To enforce their demands, they initiate earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, and other natural disasters with their climate-control apparatus.

Flint is motivated to take them on, not by the pleas of his former boss Lloyd Cramden (Lee J. Cobb), but due to a preemptive assassination attempt by Galaxy’s section head Gila (Gila Golan), who covertly replaces a restaurant’s harpist while Flint is dining with his four live-in “playmates”: Leslie (Shelby Grant), Anna (Sigrid Valdis), Gina (Gianna Serra), and Sakito (Helen Funai). Gila uses a harp string as a bow to fire a poisoned dart, which misses Flint, but hits Cramden. Flint pulls the poison out of the wound, saving Cramden’s life.

The discovery of a chemical trace on the dart takes Flint to Marseilles for bouillabaisse. In one of Marseilles’ raunchiest strip clubs he stages a brawl to gain some useful information from “famous” Agent 0008, who is investigating the narcotics trade that is keeping Galaxy in business. Galaxy agent Hans Gruber (Michael St. Clair) is in the club enjoying his favorite soup while waiting to rendezvous with Gila. Gila sends Gruber to ambush Flint in the lavatory. Flint fights and ultimately kills Gruber in a toilet stall, while Gila exits the scene – leaving behind a cold cream jar she has booby-trapped with explosives. Flint detects the trap and chases the unwitting bystanders from the club before he detonates the bomb. Read more