Despite great cast - Jameses Coburn, Fox and Mason, and Suzannah York - an unendurable and endless feat of rubbish, killed by its maddeningly tiresome score, unredeemed even by great Otto Heller photography of Tangiers. First half hour seemed fine, then it went stone cold. Started to go into double speed around the time of the robbery... that wasn't fast enough... in triple speed, I still understood that apparently it's possible to sink a helicopter by shooting it a few times with a hand gun. The ending looks to be one of those double crosses...
Of main interest as an early screenplay by Donald Cammell - surprised he got another gig after this.
The best thing to happen was while (not) watching it I came across The Big Gundown, which Maltin describes as the best non-Leone spaghetti western (Donati, Morricone). I added it to my wishlist - and found it was already there...
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