A mysterious figure called Madame Sin kidnaps an ex-CIA agent to help her steal a Polaris submarine. Fortunately she lives on a Scottish island near to a submarine base and fortunately the agent Anthony Lawrence knows the commander in charge of the submarine. There are other plot strands to do with Lawrence's personal and professional past. Madame Sin is aided by the financial wizard Malcolm De Vere and a low lifer called Monk. It is a low budget spy film but I enjoyed it quite a lot. Partly due to the lovely Scottish locations where a lot of it was filmed and mainly due to some of the cast.
Robert Wagner is all right I suppose as Lawrence but he is outshone by the legendary Bette Davis as Madame Sin who is wicked but also amusing and makes even the merest of routine dialogue sound interesting. Denholm Elliott as De Vere and Dudley Sutton as Monk are almost as good. With a stronger script it would have been excellent.
It was the pilot for a television series that never happened which was a shame as with better writing it would have been fun to follow the fortunes of Madame Sin, de Vere and Monk as they plotted nefarious schemes about the world, with the same actors of course. Shame it never happened. As for the character of Lawrence? The penultimate scene tells all.
Robert Wagner is all right I suppose as Lawrence but he is outshone by the legendary Bette Davis as Madame Sin who is wicked but also amusing and makes even the merest of routine dialogue sound interesting. Denholm Elliott as De Vere and Dudley Sutton as Monk are almost as good. With a stronger script it would have been excellent.
It was the pilot for a television series that never happened which was a shame as with better writing it would have been fun to follow the fortunes of Madame Sin, de Vere and Monk as they plotted nefarious schemes about the world, with the same actors of course. Shame it never happened. As for the character of Lawrence? The penultimate scene tells all.