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Release year: 1965

Storyline

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

Top credits

Directors

Val Guest

Writers

Cast

David Niven — Dr. Jason Love
Françoise Dorléac — Vikki
John Le Mesurier — MacGillivray
Cyril Cusack — Rosser

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Did you know

• According to John Heseltine, who restored the car for the film, star David Niven couldn't master the idiosyncratic gearbox of the white 1937 Cord 812 Supercharged Phaeton Convertible, and subsequently it was driven in bottom gear, resulting in it overheating. The scene in the film showing the steaming Cord was hastily rewritten to work around the problem. The car had to be restored from nothing but a rusty collection of parts in just six months to get it ready for filming.

• Cast and crew who worked on both this movie and the following year's Casino Royale (1967) included star David Niven, actors Robert Rietty, Geoffrey Bayldon, and John Le Mesurier, producer Val Guest, screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz, art director John Howell, editor Bill Lenny, and sound technician Jim Shields.

• The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film studio intended to make a series of secret agent Jason Love movies. David Niven and producer/director Val Guest had even taken out an option on the film rights to the next five "Jason Love" books by James Leasor, but they were never produced.