Friday, July 19, 2013

Assignment K (1968)

Columbia Pictures
Directed by Val Guest
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony Choice Collection)

Slow-building spy thriller starts out as a romance in the Alps between Londoner Stephen Boyd and ski bunny Camilla Sparv. They continue their relationship back in London, where she is promptly kidnapped. Boyd turns out to be working for the British secret service, although he has his own private network of operatives. The kidnappers want their names or else, while Boyd tries to rescue his new girl. There are a couple of plot twists at the end, one completely predictable and the other only marginally less so.

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