Richard Baseheart is always an enjoyable experience on the screen for his intelligence and wit and wonderful diction - you never miss a word he says, and he is always intriguing. Here he is just an ordinary travel agent in Hongkong but very professional and reliable as such, who gets mixed up with the last thing he wants to get mixed up with - politics, as a plane from Taiwan is lost with a few very important passengers, one of them stuffed with vital information for certain political actors in Moscow, and the pilot happens to be an extremely close friend of Baseheart's, like a brother, so he has every reason to do all he can to get his foster brother out of the political clutches - and finds himself down to his neck with political red hot burning issues, in the shape of a beautiful woman. This is actually better than James Bond, and it is a pre-Bond thriller with the stage all set for the coming Bond chronicles. It is all here - the music, the style, the intrigues, the murders, the plots, the red hot spying business, and all you miss is the Bond crooks, who never were convincing anyway. Baseheart is fully convincing, so are all the others, the Chinese, the Russian boss, the Portuguese, all the lovely young women and his wonderful Chinese foster family, with the adorable grandmother crowning the clan - it is actually a wonderful movie, especially if you remember the good old days of China with a free Hongkong and Macao.