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Nick Carter va Tout Casser
License to Kill
France/Italy 1964
produced by André Legrand, André Michelin for Chaumiane, Florida Films, Filmstudio
directed by Henri Decoin
starring Eddie Constantine, Daphné Dayle, Paul Frankeur, André Valmy, Charles Belmont, Jean-Paul Moulinot, Barbara Sommers, Valéry Inkijinoff, Yvonne Monlaur, Margo Lion, Mitsouko, Maurice Rousselin, Antoine Band, André Cagnard, Yvan Chiffre, Jean-Pierre Janic
written by Jean Marcillac, André Haguet, André Legrand, based on a character created by John R.Coryell, Ormond G.Smith, originally published by Street & Smith, music by Pierick Houdy
Nick Carter, Nick Carter (Eddie Constantine)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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FBI-agent Nick Carter (Eddie Constantine) travels to the French Côte
d'Azur to help out an old scientist friend of his, professor Formentaire
(Jean-Paul Moulinot), but even on his way there, he is shot at, and once
he has arrived he finds out why: Formentaire has invented a flying disk
that can take shoot down airplanes via remote control and always come back
to home base - a super weapon back then. Unsurprisingly, enemy agents want
the weapon ... and wouldn't you know it, the professor is killed soon. It
doesn't take Carter long to find out that the professor's own slacker
grandson (Charles Belmont) is behind Formentaire's death, and a sleazy
barowner (Paul Frankeur) is also somehow involved. But that doesn't
convince Carter, as a slacker and a barowner are hardly interested in a
superweapon of this scale. So after the professor's death, Carter tries
numerous poys to lure the real baddie out into the open: Li Hang (Valéry
Inkijinoff) an evil oriental working for even more evil
foreign powers. Li Hang does the best to steal the professor's
superweapon, and when he fails and fails again, he wants to throw bombs
onto the professor's lab to destroy it - but Carter just launches the disk
to destroy the bomber plane instead. However, to wipe out Li Hang's gang
once and for all, Carter has to first fake his own death, then lure the Li
Hang's gang to a warehouse where they are all defeated in an extended
shootout. And in the end, Carter gets the girl, the professor's
granddaughter (Daphné Dayle), who has featured more or less prominently
in the preceding story. Somehow, this is a film to make you go
"hmmm". On one hand, it's one of the better Eurospy movies - low
budget European espionage films made in the wake of the success of the James
Bond-series -, as it keeps its camp content to a minimum,
features a relatively plausible plot, and the film doesn't try to be more
than the budget allows. On the other hand though, when it comes to pure
entertainment value, the film is no match to Eddie Constantine's earlier Lemmy
Caution-series (which the James
Bond-series was partly based on, actually), and Eddie
Constantine's rather restrained performance is not half as much fun as
when he lets it all hang out. Still, the film is ok by genre standards,
just by no means a must-see.
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