Dir: Terence Young | Cast: Christopher Plummer, Rome Schneider, Yul Brunner | UK Thriller
Proudly declaring itself in the opening credits ‘Terence Young’s Triple Cross’, the first half is basically James Bond With Nazis, reuniting Gert Frobe from ‘Goldfinger’ and Claudine Auger from ‘Thunderball’ (with Anthony Dawson from ‘Dr No’, Francis de Wolff from ‘From Russia with Love’ and Edward Underdown from ‘Thunderball’ in smaller parts).
Christopher Plummer is the dashing star who certainly seems to be having more fun than in ‘The Sound of Music’, and the gun with a curved barrel for shooting round corners suggests someone’s tongue was initially in their cheek. But Young’s direction is lazily dependent on pans and zooms, it all goes on for far too long, and becomes increasingly plot-heavy as it grinds it’s way towards the two-hour mark. RichardChatten
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