Les tueurs sont lâchés

Private investigator Richard Cutting (Patrick O'Neal) is being hired by an insurance company to investigate shipping magnate Curt Valayan (John Gielgud). They had made a big payout to him despite their suspicions. One of Valayan's man may be the key to the fraud but he is missing under mysterious circumstances. Cutting finds the man's secretary Dominique Laurant (Joan Hackett), but the investigation is complicated by Matt Wilson (Herbert Lom).

I don't know anything about Sheldon Reynolds who wrote and directed this movie. This is cinematic, but not great cinema. These are solid actors doing solid work. O'Neal is playing the protagonist like an antagonist. The movie needs more action to give it kinetic energy. The fights are old fashion fisticuffs. It can fall into a lack of intensity. I like some of the darker material like Cutting being nonchalant as he's told about killing the 28 sailors. That's cold and that's this movie. It's a bit cold and a bit murky. The story flow meanders sometimes. It's a 60's film looking to the 70's.