Vietnam vet and convicted killer Gene Hackman is sprung from prison by a mysterious (governmental?) organization recruiting him to commit a political assassination in Latin America.
Half-baked conspiracy thriller directed by the great Stanley Kramer while in his 1970s decline. Can’t hold a candle to THE PARALLAX VIEW or THE CONVERSATION, although the big-name cast and scenic locations (Puerto Vallarta subbing for Costa Rica) keep it watchable.
Sylvia Sidney is adorable in dual roles playing both a European princess visiting America to get financial aid for her country and a struggling actress recruited to impersonate her when the princess takes ill. Utterly contrived but funny and charming fluffball co-written by Preston Sturges.
A new priest (Humphrey Bogart) arrives at a Catholic mission in rural 1947 China, but his robes seem to conceal a darker past.
Offbeat and rather charming adventure tale
with Gene Tierney as Bogart’s beautiful not-quite love interest and an enormously entertaining Lee J. Cobb as a Chinese warlord (!) who knows Bogart’s true identity.
