An entertaining tongue-in-cheek thriller, with the bonus of seeing 'Duke' John Wayne do his cowboy act in 1970s London. He's come here to extradite John Vernon, who's promptly kidnapped. Duke joins forces with Dickie Attenborough and Judy Geeson to find him.
Highlights include a money drop filmed in Piccadilly using long lenses so the crowd don't know they're being filmed. Plus a superbly done high speed car chase, climaxing on Tower Bridge as it's opening, and a saloon bar fight in a pub.
With Mel Ferrer, James Booth, Daniel Pilon (assassin), John Stride (Juggernaut, A Bridge Too Far), Lesley-Anne Down, Brian Glover, Tony Robinson.
I saw it at the cinema on 3rd June 1977.
The music is amusing - it's sort The Persuaders mixed with a TV sitcom.
Photographed by Gerry Fisher with much judicious use of the zoom.
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