Agent Charles Vine tagged posts

Posted in EUROSPY

SOMEBODY’S STOLEN OUR RUSSIAN SPY (1968)

O.K. Yevtushenko (original title)

1965 Italy | France | Spain
Direction: José Luis Madrid
Actors: Tom Adams, Tim Barrett, Barta Barri

Agent Charles Vine finds himself on the trail of a missing Russian spy and soon finds himself involved in a bonkers plot involving Albanians and the Chinese.

Shot in Spain instead of the usual UK location. Never saw a theatrical release as it languished in a film laboratory until 1976 until finally shown on TV.

Follows Licensed To Kill (1965)
Follows Where the Bullets Fly (1966)

SOMEBODY’S STOLEN OUR RUSSIAN SPY (1968) PREVIEW SCENE

SOMEBODY’S STOLEN OUR RUSSIAN SPY (1968) MUSIC FROM SOUNDTRACK

SOMEBODY’S STOLEN OUR RUSSIAN SPY (1968) POSTERS

Music: Bruno Nicolai, Giovanni Simonelli (as Simonelli)
Cinematography: Federico G. Larraya, Alejandro Ulloa
Edited by: Otello Colangeli
Art Direction: Nedo Azzini
Set Decoration: Ramiro Gómez
Costume Design: Federico Forquet, Gaia Romanini
Production companies: Sincronía, Fida Cinematografica, Les Productions Jacques Roitfeld
Running time: 99 minutes (Italy) 101 minutes (Spain)

Posted in USA | UK SPY MOVIES

WHERE THE BULLETS FLY (1966)

Cuando las balas vuelan (Spain)

1966 UK
Direction: John Gilling
Actors: Tom Adams, Dawn Addams, Tim Barrett

The film begins with a pre-credit sequence in which a group of unnamed terrorists have parked a vehicle containing a guided missile pointed straight at the Palace of Westminster whilst politicians are heard on the film’s soundtrack. They are thwarted by a group of older women in a tour group who turn out to be cross-dressing commandos who eliminate the terrorists with sub-machine guns and grenades. They are led by Agent Charles Vine with his second-in-command being Lt. Guy Fawkes who has saved the Parliament of England.

The film proper begins with the Royal Air Force testing a secret light-weight metal called “Spurium” that enables nuclear aircraft to fly. An unnamed sinister organisation led by a man named Angel hijacks the DC-3 aircraft by hypnotising the RAF Regiment guards and flying the plane to another location but they are shot down by the RAF.

Afraid the incident may happen again, Vine is assigned as security to the project. However Angel’s organisation kidnap Vine and replace him with one of their own men named Seraph. Obtaining information before he escapes allows Seraph to steal a sample of Spurium to be sold to the Soviet Union; however the Russians believe he is double-crossing them and kill him.

Vine escapes and reports to the RAF airbase, where he meets his RAF counterpart, Flight Lieutenant Felicity “Fiz” Moonlight. Angel’s men try an all-out assault on the airfield to capture the next nuclear aircraft set to fly. Vine and Angel end up in the nuclear aircraft that takes flight but Vine is rescued by F/L Moonlight.

Second of three films in the Charles Vine Series.

Follows Licensed To Kill (1965)
Followed by O.K. Yevtushenko (1968)

WHERE THE BULLETS FLY (1966) PREVIEW SCENE

WHERE THE BULLETS FLY (1966) POSTERS

Music: Kenny Graham
Cinematography: David Holmes
Edited by: David Holmes
Art Direction: George Lack
Costume Design: Jan Wright
Production companies: Alastair Films, Puck Films
Running time: 88 minutes

Posted in EUROSPY / USA | UK SPY MOVIES

THE 2ND BEST SECRET AGENT IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (1965)

Licensed to Kill (original title)

Secret service (Italy)
Licencia para matar (Spain)
Unser Mann vom Secret Service (West Germany)

1965 UK
Direction: Lindsay Shonteff
Actors: Tom Adams, Karel Stepanek, Peter Bull

Dauntless British agent Charles Vine is called upon to escort to London the famed Swedish scientist Henrik Jacobs to negotiate the sale of a secret formula. However, sinister forces gambling for enormous stakes are already at work. With the aid of the most fantastic gadgets, Vine manages to extricate his charges from the most diabolical traps until the final battle in a mile-a-second showdown fought along the Thames dockside and culminating to a wild and unexpected climax.

First of three films in the Charles Vine Series.

Followed by Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
Followed by O.K. Yevtushenko (1968)

THE 2ND BEST SECRET AGENT IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (1965) FULL MOVIE

THE 2ND BEST SECRET AGENT IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (1965) POSTERS

Music: Herbert Chappell (as Bertram Chappell)
Cinematography: Terry Maher
Edited by: Ron Pope
Production companies: Alistair
Running time: 96 minutes