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Director:
Peter Curran
Writers:
Peter Curran (writer)
George Fowler (writer)
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
A bumbling US marine Captain is assigned to retrieve a space capsule from a despotic African ruler. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Oliver Reed ... Captain Daniel Nelson
Sylvaine Charlet ... Natasha
Keenan Wynn ... General Spellman

Peter Cushing ... Commissioner Potts
Wilfrid Hyde-White ... M-1
Hilary Pritchard ... Miss Funnypenny
Bruce Boa ... Jim Coburn
Melvyn Hayes ... Ginger Rogers
Edwin Manda ... Emperor Sumumba
Ted Spain ... Boatman
Fred Carter ... President P. Nuts
Mike Cross ... Fred Astaire
Kristi Anne Farrow ... Nurse
Benjamin Shawa ... Emperor's aide
Bruce Kenny ... Mewsreader
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
No Secrets
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:AA
Filming Locations:
Zambia

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Peter Cushing replaced an actor who dropped out. more
Movie Connections:
Features King Kong (1933) more

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A very weird comedy!, 13 June 2000
3/10
Author: Henrik Larsen (mycroft@get2net.dk) from Copenhagen, Denmark

A very weird spy/adventure comedy starring Oliver Reed who looks like he's in trance (or more likely drunk) all through the proceedings. Peter Cushing co-stars and tries desperately to be funny. The beautiful Sylvaine Charlet plays a modern-day Mata Hari and has an out-of-the-blue fullfrontal nude scene every fifteen minute or so to keep the audience awake. Wilfred Hyde-White does a sort of cameo (but why??). There's even a brief scene from the b/w "KING KONG"! However the main attraction must be local actor Edwin Mamba (the film was shot in Zambia of all places) who delivers such an outrageously hammy performance that it almost saves the film. Almost.

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