CFFP (France)
Directed by Yves Boisset
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
CIA agent Coplan (a wooden Claudio Brook) gets a call from an old flame who needs his help in Istanbul. He finds are on the run from a group of scientists that want to kill her. They break into her apartment and Coplan tries to fight them off, waking up later on a beach with his girlfriend apparently dead. His search for her leads to castle in the remote countryside where he finds her "twin sister". The castle is owned by a deranged former scientist, her brother, who has some kind of secret hidden in one of the towers of the castle. His dirty work is carried out by a whip-wielding blonde in leather. Coplan is captured and rather than killed set loose in a remote valley where the woman hunts him down with the help of some of her friends. Coplan displays remarkable survival and fighting skills and manages to escape back to the castle and try to save the girl. French Euro-spy film incorporates elements of Hitchcock, especially Vertigo, and even the Most Dangerous Game, with mixed results.
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