All that really counts is the grooviness, whether the oddball 60's outfits, hard as stone sprayed women's hair, gorgeous location footage, hip music, overly sexed men and amorous women, some using that with deadly intentions. The basic plot involves the determination to find and stop the title character, an evil one with their eyes on nuclear weapons. I found that there were far too many characters popping in and out, and after a while too much work to remember who is who.
The weirdness is apparent when two characters are trapped in a casket covered in gold, being driven by a gold crested van. Vince Edwards is an American "soldier of fortune" whom British intelligence asks for help in unmasking and stopping Hammerhead. I guess James Bond was busy, and Matt Helm not available, or some of the others turning in the many spy/international crime thrillers of the time.
Diana Dors, Beverly Adams, Judy Geeson, Tracy Reed and veteran actress Kathleen Byron are the bevy of beauties who pop up in this film, with Peter Vaughan a dapper heavy. The Portuguese location shooting is marvelously photogenic, and producer Irwin Allen and director David Miller give it a gloriously energetic pacing. Chase sequences with shootouts on narrow ancient roads, glamorous cabaret segments and sardonic comedy makes the confusion more tolerable.
The weirdness is apparent when two characters are trapped in a casket covered in gold, being driven by a gold crested van. Vince Edwards is an American "soldier of fortune" whom British intelligence asks for help in unmasking and stopping Hammerhead. I guess James Bond was busy, and Matt Helm not available, or some of the others turning in the many spy/international crime thrillers of the time.
Diana Dors, Beverly Adams, Judy Geeson, Tracy Reed and veteran actress Kathleen Byron are the bevy of beauties who pop up in this film, with Peter Vaughan a dapper heavy. The Portuguese location shooting is marvelously photogenic, and producer Irwin Allen and director David Miller give it a gloriously energetic pacing. Chase sequences with shootouts on narrow ancient roads, glamorous cabaret segments and sardonic comedy makes the confusion more tolerable.