Scacco internazionale

The kind of movie you look forward to read "The End." Daniela Bianchi's latest film is also her worst, she better not have done it.

This was Tab Hunter's only spy movie, thank goodness. He's a lousy actor, even flubs his lines at one point, so it's fortunate for us that this aging beach bum didn't find more work in the genre. The film is very convoluted and doesn't make much sense in the end so it's hard to give a damn about Tab anyway. Tab's a journalist who prints a story that neither the good guys not the bad guys like very much. Hence, he's marked for death by bad spies and framed for murder by the good spies. He can't win.

There are a few good things about this general failure of a film. Daniela Bianchi is a big plus. Two more actors help to ease the pain of watching too much Tab. Umberto Raho and Franco Ressel aren't given enough to do here but their presence will help keep you awake. Both are good guys in this film, a rare treat in itself.

The score by Carlo Rustichelli (conducted by Bruno Nicolai) is one of the best things about the film but frankly you won't be missing much if you skip this one.

A meandering Eurospy movie, and to top it off our hero isn't even a spy but rather a reporter who has information the bad guys will kill to get their hands on. It's the usual glamorous-looking effort with beautiful actresses in support, but the storyline barely exists and an almost total dearth of action and heavy chit-chat throughout makes this a real chore to sit through.

There's a free copy of it on YouTube, it's an awful copy. I was just interested in seeing the beautiful Daniela Bianchi. Really weak movie. A few interesting views of ol Rome, a nice Jaguar and Berlin. But that's pretty much it.