Colonel Mostyn is the chief of a section of the British Security Services when they are embarrassed by the number of spies and defections. The Chief tells him to do something about it so he hires Boys Oaks as Agent L - The Liquidator, to assassinate people about to cause trouble. Although Boys likes the cars and the girls that his new position attracts he's not any good at it. He's also got a phobia about flying that makes jetting off to exotic places a bit of an embarrassment.
Colonel Mostyn of the British Intelligence Service suspects there is a leak in his department and hires an American expatriate to eliminate various targets working for the Soviets.
Two actors not known for comedy, Rod Taylor and Trevor Howard, lead a cast of British comic stalwarts in this sometimes clever, sometimes dopey, James Bond spoof. Taylor takes the part of &quot;L&quot; (the Liquidator) who actually is what Bond pretends to be: an assassin paid by the British government (i.e., taxpayers). The catch? Taylor&#39;s character (curiously named Boysie Oakes) can shoot pretty well (trained in WW2) but he can&#39;t kill a fly. So he hires a hit-man (Eric Sykes) to do all his murderous handiwork. Then he takes off for the weekend with the boss&#39; secretary (the Miss Moneypenny role, here called Iris–Jill St. John, who never looked lovelier) and all heck breaks loose.<br/><br/>Fine supporting work by Akim Tamiroff, the always watchable Wilfred Hyde-White, and David Tomlinson (not long off &quot;Mary Poppins&quot;) playing . . . well, more or less against type. Though the laughs are few and far between the movie never takes itself seriously, and it starts off with Shirley Bassey belting out a ridiculous theme song over the credits, sounding suspiciously like &quot;Goldfinger&quot; only more so.<br/><br/>So why didn&#39;t Taylor make more comedies? Well, watch &quot;The Glass Bottom Boat&quot; and you&#39;ll see. His humor is pretty ham-handed, and he himself gets nary a smile until the airplane-flying climax. Still, it&#39;s worth a peek for anyone obsessed with Bond and its many duplicates. That&#39;s what the sixties was really all about: spies, spies, and more spies, on tv and the big screen.
I read the other 17 reviews and was thankful that someone noticed that Eric Sykes was in the movie. It is massively disappointing to read reviews by people who have no inkling about the quality of the cast as well as pathos and irony …if you had seen Sykes in The Plank you might have some idea of his talent. Though I must admit that Brit humour is often beyond some of our contributors. In his autobiography Eric said that Tony Curtis was the biggest plonker he met in Hollywood and that got my attention (The Great Race).He certainly got my attention again in this movie. I do like Rod Taylor and was taken aback by how well he underplayed this role and of course a cinema legend like Trevor Howard sending himself up was an utter joy . Please watch some of their movies (Clouded Yellow for Trevor) and maybe (No-one Runs for Ever for a rustic Rod)you will see much more in this comedy.


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