John Philip Law is Doctor Justice, a karate-chopping research doctor who is a champion swimmer, a researcher and a Doctor Without Border for the World Health Organization. When the entire load of an oil tanker disappears, its crew gets arrested, all but ten men, including cook Gert Frobe. Convinced the police are on the wrong track, Law investigates on his own and discovers, with the help of Nathalie Delon, a criminal organization that is.... well, it's not clear why, except that Frobe shows up at a WHO conference in Bruges as a doctor arguing that the world is about to suffer a Malthusian catastrophe.
It's based on a comic strip created by Jean Ollivier and artist Carlo Marcello for Pif Gadget, a weekly kids' comic book magazine in France. It's a thoroughly pulpish story, with Law being frequently captured and escaping, eventually bringing everyone to, well, justice. It's co-written and directed by Christian-Jaque, a durable director of low-brow entertainment from 1932 through ten years before his death at the age of 89 in 1994.
It's based on a comic strip created by Jean Ollivier and artist Carlo Marcello for Pif Gadget, a weekly kids' comic book magazine in France. It's a thoroughly pulpish story, with Law being frequently captured and escaping, eventually bringing everyone to, well, justice. It's co-written and directed by Christian-Jaque, a durable director of low-brow entertainment from 1932 through ten years before his death at the age of 89 in 1994.