Friday, July 18, 2014

Sebastian (1968)


Paramount Pictures
Directed by David Greene
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Dirk Bogarde heads a government decoding laboratory consisting entirely of young women, personally recruited by him. His latest hire Susannah York falls in love with him, complicating both his work and home life. The much younger York leads takes him to the latest mod nightclubs and fashion shops. When he tries to break off with his old girlfriend, she drugs him with champagne laced with LSD and he has a brief psychedelic trip. He resigns for unrelated reasons and tries to pick up his old life at Oxford, but the government requests his help in decoding Russian satellite transmissions. It all gets resolved in a contrived happy ending. Dated but entertaining with a young and appealing cast.

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