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In an era when Sean Connery Michael Caine James Coburn Dean Martin Robert Vaughn and more brought varying styles of secret-agent cool to movie screens along came one of the most unusual spies ever to enter the Top Secret realm of hush-hush bang-bang and kiss-kiss. Rod Taylor plays Boysie Oakes Agent L who enjoys the swinging-London lifestyle perks that come with espionage but would rather not engage in the squeamish business of killing so he hires a professional hitman for that part of the job. Of course events soon plunge Oakes into situations that require him to be a hero in spite of himself. Jack Cardiff directs this offbeat caper based on the John Gardner novel reuniting with the star he guided previously in Young Cassidy. The cast includes two beauties who would soon return to sexy subterfuge: Gabrielle Licudi in 1967's spoof Casino Royale and Jill St. John who played Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever.
Original Release
11/01/1965
US Release
10/28/1966
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rod Taylor | Boysie Oakes / Brian Ian "Boysie" Oakes |
Trevor Howard | Colonel Mostyn / Mostyn |
Jill St. John | Iris MacIntosh |
Wilfrid Hyde-White | The Chief / Chief |
David Tomlinson | Quadrant |
Akim Tamiroff | Sheriek |
Eric Sykes | Griffen |
Gabriella Licudi | Corale |
John Le Mesurier | Chekhov |
Derek Nimmo | Fly |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rod Taylor | Boysie Oakes / Brian Ian "Boysie" Oakes |
Trevor Howard | Colonel Mostyn / Mostyn |
Jill St. John | Iris MacIntosh |
Wilfrid Hyde-White | The Chief / Chief |
David Tomlinson | Quadrant |
Akim Tamiroff | Sheriek |
Eric Sykes | Griffen |
Gabriella Licudi | Corale |
John Le Mesurier | Chekhov |
Derek Nimmo | Fly |
Jeremy Lloyd | Male Secretary |
Jennifer Jayne | Janice Benedict |
Heller Toren | Benedict's Assistant |
Betty McDowall | Frances Anne Chandler |
Jo Rowbottom | Betty |
Colin Gordon | Vicar |
Louise Dunn | Jessie |
Henri Cogan | Yakov |
Daniel Emilfork | Gregory |
Scot Finch | Operations Officer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Leslie Elliot | Executive Producer |
Harry Fine | Producer |
Jon Penington | Producer |