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P Permission to Kill (1975)
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Permission to Kill (1975)

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Country: US/ÖST
Technical: col/scope 97m
Director: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Bekim Fehmiu, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton

Synopsis:

A Communist defector takes it into his head to lead an uprising in his own country, and Western agencies fall over themselves to try and stop him.

Review:

An unconvincing premise (why would the governments not already have got what they needed from a defector?) soon degenerates into farce as the original team of troubleshooters conspires to help him leave after all. Cold War thrillers had become 'stale buns' by this time, and film-makers were trying everything they could think of.

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Country: US/ÖST
Technical: col/scope 97m
Director: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Bekim Fehmiu, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton

Synopsis:

A Communist defector takes it into his head to lead an uprising in his own country, and Western agencies fall over themselves to try and stop him.

Review:

An unconvincing premise (why would the governments not already have got what they needed from a defector?) soon degenerates into farce as the original team of troubleshooters conspires to help him leave after all. Cold War thrillers had become 'stale buns' by this time, and film-makers were trying everything they could think of.


Country: US/ÖST
Technical: col/scope 97m
Director: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Bekim Fehmiu, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton

Synopsis:

A Communist defector takes it into his head to lead an uprising in his own country, and Western agencies fall over themselves to try and stop him.

Review:

An unconvincing premise (why would the governments not already have got what they needed from a defector?) soon degenerates into farce as the original team of troubleshooters conspires to help him leave after all. Cold War thrillers had become 'stale buns' by this time, and film-makers were trying everything they could think of.

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