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Ridiculously bad, this silly Burt Reynolds movie set in the Philippines has no real sense of direction, mainly thanks to an insipid screenplay and a ridiculous story that paints its characters as animated rather than real. It's all about the search for WWII gold stashed somewhere in the Philippines, and Reynolds is over there fighting some one note villains while dealing with a violent tempered Anne Francis. Then there's a Native American man dealing with his possessive wife when he leaves home to go to the Philippines, and entering a bordello finds that the Madam is an exact look-alike of her, storming out cautiously as she demands that he come back.

So what was the motivation for having the female characters be also bile in this? There's a young hippy played by Joanne Dalsass who practically gets the lights knocked out of her for refusing to take a bath, having her top pulled off by Francis who then violently pushes her in the bathroom. The storyline takes a backseat to all these ridiculous moments oh, and just when you think you've seen it all, another ridiculous moment to overpower the previous ridiculous moment comes on. It's attractive looking with nice locations, but when you've got a ridiculous cartoonish storyline, it's easy to give up. Not really one of Burt's finest moments.

Burt Reynolds leads a group of vets, trying to find gold hidden on the island of Corregidor before WW II. Simple enough, Hollywood and Europe have made scores of these movies before 1968. So why did they screw up so badly on this one?

First off Reynolds' girlfriend is the wife of his good friend who is essential to his plan. Another essential character gives racists and ugly Americans a bad name. And then there's the guy who has a bad heart. His daughter thinks he's dead so he has to sneak in to see her pro tennis game and he has a heart attack during the game. His daughter has a hippie fan who is stalking her. The daughter takes in this really annoying cliché hippie and mothers her. A disreputable reporter convinces her her father is alive but he wants money and sex before he will give her the details. She karates him out the door and this all happened in act one.

In act two Reynolds learns the guy had a heart attack and disappeared. He falls for the daughter, Ann Francis and a lot of other character stuff happens and the young Burt Reynolds is the best actor in the group. In the entire 96 minute movie there's maybe 20 minutes of looking for the gold. AND... They get caught!

Who thought this would sell?

Who thought Ann Francis and Burt Reynolds had chemistry?

Who ignored seventy years of movie making experience to invest in this piece of crap?