Robert Horton is a retired spy, or so he thinks. He's asked by Sebastian Cabot to go on a trip to Russia, where he'll be picked up by the government as an agent and traded back to Britain in return for a turned Russian agent who will be promoted. He says no. However, when girlfriend Jill St. John is to be deported, he says yes. After he's captured, there's a problem: the spy he was traded for is dead. So he agrees to do a job for Soviet spymaster Eric Pohlmann.
It's a nicely tangled web of intrigue in its late 1960s style, with Horton fashionably dressed in a white turtleneck amidst elegant surroundings that belie the dirty dealings of all involved. It's efficiently directed by Roy Ward Baker from a script by Terence Fisher. The plotting is excellent, I unraveled the well constructed mystery, which always pleases me, and it only took 75 minutes. With Clive Graham and Carol Cleveland.
It's a nicely tangled web of intrigue in its late 1960s style, with Horton fashionably dressed in a white turtleneck amidst elegant surroundings that belie the dirty dealings of all involved. It's efficiently directed by Roy Ward Baker from a script by Terence Fisher. The plotting is excellent, I unraveled the well constructed mystery, which always pleases me, and it only took 75 minutes. With Clive Graham and Carol Cleveland.