An entertaining but cheap looking mafia revenge film where blonde hunk Christopher Mitchum, looking quite hot, goes around on his motorcycle killing the Mobsters who killed his father years ago with him looking on. To get further revenge, he kidnaps one of the mobster's daughters (Olivia Hussey), and holds her hostage, and eventually their attraction becomes quite heated. In the meantime, American detective Karl Malden is going around searching for the man who has killed all of these men, shooting one in traffic on a Manhattan Bridge and another one on an A train, eventually ending up in Spain to finish the job.
For something so obviously cheaply made, this is a fun bad film, although I wish I knew what the motivation for the murder of Mitchum's father was. The location footage of everywhere Mitchum goes is terrific, and if he's certainly not as good an actor as his father, he is just as charismatic. Malden plays a character of mystery, and it's hysterically funny at one point when he mentions Mitchum's visit to an American Express office, obviously a reference to a long-running series of commercials that he did.
Hussey is pretty but outside of her big hit with "Romeo and Juliet" hasn't had the most memorable of careers outside of that Zeffirelli smash and the laughable flop musical version of "Lost Horizon". Still, she looks great in a bathing suit, nearly spilling out of the top. There's a great chase sequence with Mitchum on a motorcycle being followed by mobsters on horseback. Mitchum's the only motorcycle driver who can ride up a grass covered hill with no issue and smoothly move into traffic. '70s films like this are a delight to find even though they haven't become cult classics.
For something so obviously cheaply made, this is a fun bad film, although I wish I knew what the motivation for the murder of Mitchum's father was. The location footage of everywhere Mitchum goes is terrific, and if he's certainly not as good an actor as his father, he is just as charismatic. Malden plays a character of mystery, and it's hysterically funny at one point when he mentions Mitchum's visit to an American Express office, obviously a reference to a long-running series of commercials that he did.
Hussey is pretty but outside of her big hit with "Romeo and Juliet" hasn't had the most memorable of careers outside of that Zeffirelli smash and the laughable flop musical version of "Lost Horizon". Still, she looks great in a bathing suit, nearly spilling out of the top. There's a great chase sequence with Mitchum on a motorcycle being followed by mobsters on horseback. Mitchum's the only motorcycle driver who can ride up a grass covered hill with no issue and smoothly move into traffic. '70s films like this are a delight to find even though they haven't become cult classics.