Thursday, April 4, 2013

The Road to Corinth (1967)

CCFC (France)
Directed by Claude Chabrol
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Pathfinder)

Limp thriller from the usually reliable Chabrol. French actors play American undercover security agents in Greece who discover a plot to jam government radars with "black boxes" hidden inside marble statues. One of them is killed early on, but his wife, the lovely Jean Seberg, takes up the investigation. She gets in a series of predicaments, but always escapes using nothing more than her charm and good looks. There is a wry undercurrent to the proceedings, but Seberg is just too much of a lightweight to carry this film.

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