As Robert Mitchum indicated when asked about this film, it was just a paid vacation to an exotic land and a few months or so of work. He is the former head of a world organization trying to stop drug trafficking and when he is contacted by aging drug lord Keye Luke, he is brought back into the organization to privately bring it down. That means that there's lots of shootouts chase sequences, kidnappings and threatening phone calls, but that's pretty much all it is, a B action picture with a weak story line.
Mitchum is joined by veteran actors Richard Egan, Leslie Nielsen and Bradford Dillman, and it's difficult not to laugh when you see silver haired Nielsen pre-"Police Squad". But this is the type of film that movie studios were shoving out by the dozens for neighborhood theaters in the 1970's and 80's, and like the majority of those, there is not a lot of time for character development or something that will make sense to the audience.
We're supposed to just take the writer's word that organizations like this really exist and operate like this one does. A bit of comedy is provided by an Asian actor who overuses American slang and refers to "Operation Juliana" by asking sardonically, "As in the queen?" A scene with two Australian soldiers and Mitchum is set up for Mitchum to insult them to get laughs but it just lays there. At 90 minutes, it moves by at a speedy pace, but it's one of those films that you'll forget you saw shortly afterwards.
Mitchum is joined by veteran actors Richard Egan, Leslie Nielsen and Bradford Dillman, and it's difficult not to laugh when you see silver haired Nielsen pre-"Police Squad". But this is the type of film that movie studios were shoving out by the dozens for neighborhood theaters in the 1970's and 80's, and like the majority of those, there is not a lot of time for character development or something that will make sense to the audience.
We're supposed to just take the writer's word that organizations like this really exist and operate like this one does. A bit of comedy is provided by an Asian actor who overuses American slang and refers to "Operation Juliana" by asking sardonically, "As in the queen?" A scene with two Australian soldiers and Mitchum is set up for Mitchum to insult them to get laughs but it just lays there. At 90 minutes, it moves by at a speedy pace, but it's one of those films that you'll forget you saw shortly afterwards.