Everything about Our Man Flint totally explained
Our Man Flint is a 1966
action film which stars
James Coburn as Derek Flint. Directed by
Daniel Mann, the premise of the film is that a trio of
mad scientists attempt to
blackmail the world with a weather-control machine.
Derek Flint is a
parody of
James Bond, which franchise had gained momentum in the 1960s with
Sean Connery representing the British super-agent on the silver screen.
Plot summary
Super-cool spy Derek Flint, ex-agent of
Z.O.W.I.E., is lured out of retirement to deal with the threat of
Galaxy (a parody of
SPECTRE), a world-wide organization led by a trio of Utopian
mad scientists: Doctor Krupov, Doctor Wu, and Doctor Schneider. Despairing of the world's governments ever getting their acts together, they demand that the governments all capitulate to Galaxy. To enforce their demands, they initiate earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, and other natural disasters with their climate-control apparatus.
Flint is motivated to take them on, not by the pleas of his former boss Lloyd Cramden, but due to a preëmptive assassination attempt by Galaxy's section head Gila, who covertly replaces a restaurant's harpist while Flint is dining with his four live-in "
playmates": Leslie, Anna, Gina, and Sakito. Gila uses a harp string as a bow to fire a poisoned dart, which misses Flint, but hits Cramden. Flint uses field rescue techniques to suck the poison out of the wound, saving Cramden's life.
The discovery of a chemical trace on the dart takes Flint to
Marseilles for
bouillabaisse. In one of Marseilles' raunchiest strip clubs he stages a brawl to gain some useful information from "famous" Agent 0008, who is investigating the narcotics trade that's keeping Galaxy in business. Galaxy agent Hans Gruber is in the club enjoying his favorite soup while waiting to rendezvous with Gila. Gila sends Gruber to ambush Flint in the lavatory. Flint fights and ultimately kills Gruber in a toilet stall, while Gila exits the scene - leaving behind a
cold cream jar she's
booby-trapped with explosives. Flint detects the trap and chases all the (relatively) innocent bystanders from the club before he detonates the bomb.
The remains of the jar lead Flint to
Rome. After checking out several cosmetic companies, Flint investigates Exotica, where he formally meets Gila for the first time. He seduces Gila, getting her to take him to her apartment for an exchange of information and "bodily fluids". Following their encounter, he steals the keys to Exotica and breaks into the company's safe, learning of Galaxy's location before being trapped inside by Gila's snide assistant, Malcolm Rodney. He and Gila assume the safe will serve as a suffocation-deathtrap as they transport it to a waiting submarine. During the journey, Flint learns that his playmates have been kidnapped and taken to Galaxy's island headquarters, then uses his power of self-induced
suspended animation to fool his captors into thinking they've successfully killed him. Gila and Rodney take an evidence photograph of the "body", which they send to Cramden, then carry Flint back to headquarters on the submarine.
Flint covertly revives and sneaks into the Galaxy complex, but his infiltration attempt is thwarted and he's taken before Galaxy's trio of leaders. Offered a chance to join their new order, he declares that Galaxy's vision of the world doesn't sound all that Utopian to him, and is sentenced to death by disintegration. Gila's failure to eliminate Flint results in her being stripped of her leadership role and reassigned to a position where she "can best serve Galaxy": becoming a
Pleasure Unit - a fate which has already befallen Flint's playmates. Between this horror, and the fact that she's (naturally) fallen in love with Flint, Gila changes sides, slipping Flint his gadget-filled cigarette lighter before she's hauled away. With the help of the lighter, Flint again escapes, rescues his playmates and Gila, kills Rodney and destroys Galaxy headquarters.
Cast
The uncredited actor playing the overseer of the Pleasure Unit process is
Dick Wilson, who later gained fame as "Mr. Wipple" in a long string of commercials for
Charmin toilet paper.
Further Information
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