Enough with the plane hopping, film! The first half of this film will give you a headache due to the amount of locations involved. As far as I can figure out, Fabio Testi is an Italian freelance agent hired by Mossad to keep an eye on Uranium being shipped out of Ziare. Now back in Venice, Fabio gets his pay before himself and Mossad agent Dan head off to either Amsterdam or Antwerp to find out why a seemingly innocent business needs loads of Uranium. Milan, possibly Germany and Gibraltar also feature at certain points.
Fabio isn't daft though - he's got it written into his contract that if a lady person is involved in whatever mission they're on, he gets first dibs on seducing her! Therefore he ends up in bed with Janet Agren, an innocent secretary working for a shadowy company. Fabio says she's the first woman he's ever felt something for, so bad luck to that other lady he bedded just ten minutes earlier in the film. The bad company get wind that someone is on their case, and they keep a close eye on Janet, which leads to a rooftop chase, which leads to an even better speedboat/foot chase that results in the death of one of those organ grinder fellows.
With the exception of Dan, Mossad aren't entirely happy with Fabio so when Fabio gets kidnapped and sent onto the ship containing all that uranium, they're not too fussed about blowing him up along with the ship. Can Dan rescue Fabio in the nick of time?
This film could have done with a bit of trimming as it takes about half an hour to get to any real action. It's about ten minutes too long to be honest, but there was enough action to keep me entertained and things do pick up when the plot moves to the boat. You can't go wrong with a bit of Fabio Testi, with his character being kept in the dark for most of the film and only motivated by his concerns for Janet Agren. As with most of the late seventies action films, the presence of funk on the soundtrack is most welcome.
I'm not sure why both Gianfranco Baldanello and Menahem Golan are credited as directors. I guess no one cares enough to find out.
Fabio isn't daft though - he's got it written into his contract that if a lady person is involved in whatever mission they're on, he gets first dibs on seducing her! Therefore he ends up in bed with Janet Agren, an innocent secretary working for a shadowy company. Fabio says she's the first woman he's ever felt something for, so bad luck to that other lady he bedded just ten minutes earlier in the film. The bad company get wind that someone is on their case, and they keep a close eye on Janet, which leads to a rooftop chase, which leads to an even better speedboat/foot chase that results in the death of one of those organ grinder fellows.
With the exception of Dan, Mossad aren't entirely happy with Fabio so when Fabio gets kidnapped and sent onto the ship containing all that uranium, they're not too fussed about blowing him up along with the ship. Can Dan rescue Fabio in the nick of time?
This film could have done with a bit of trimming as it takes about half an hour to get to any real action. It's about ten minutes too long to be honest, but there was enough action to keep me entertained and things do pick up when the plot moves to the boat. You can't go wrong with a bit of Fabio Testi, with his character being kept in the dark for most of the film and only motivated by his concerns for Janet Agren. As with most of the late seventies action films, the presence of funk on the soundtrack is most welcome.
I'm not sure why both Gianfranco Baldanello and Menahem Golan are credited as directors. I guess no one cares enough to find out.