Permission to Kill (1975)
Country: US/ÖST
Technical: col/scope 97m
Director: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Bekim Fehmiu, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton
Synopsis:
A Communist defector takes it into his head to lead an uprising in his own country, and Western agencies fall over themselves to try and stop him.
Review:
An unconvincing premise (why would the governments not already have got what they needed from a defector?) soon degenerates into farce as the original team of troubleshooters conspires to help him leave after all. Cold War thrillers had become 'stale buns' by this time, and film-makers were trying everything they could think of.
Country: US/ÖST
Technical: col/scope 97m
Director: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Bekim Fehmiu, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton
Synopsis:
A Communist defector takes it into his head to lead an uprising in his own country, and Western agencies fall over themselves to try and stop him.
Review:
An unconvincing premise (why would the governments not already have got what they needed from a defector?) soon degenerates into farce as the original team of troubleshooters conspires to help him leave after all. Cold War thrillers had become 'stale buns' by this time, and film-makers were trying everything they could think of.
Country: US/ÖST
Technical: col/scope 97m
Director: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Bekim Fehmiu, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton
Synopsis:
A Communist defector takes it into his head to lead an uprising in his own country, and Western agencies fall over themselves to try and stop him.
Review:
An unconvincing premise (why would the governments not already have got what they needed from a defector?) soon degenerates into farce as the original team of troubleshooters conspires to help him leave after all. Cold War thrillers had become 'stale buns' by this time, and film-makers were trying everything they could think of.