In Like Flint (1967)

Super-spy Flint takes on a cabal of women plotting to rule the world.

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Writer:

Hal Fimberg

Stars:

James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
James Coburn	...	Derek Flint
Lee J. Cobb	...	Lloyd C. Cramden
Jean Hale	...	Lisa
Andrew Duggan	...	President Trent
Anna Lee	...	Elisabeth
Hanna Landy	...	Helena
Totty Ames	...	Simone
Steve Ihnat	...	Carter
Thomas Hasson	...	Lt. Avery
Mary Michael	...	Terry
Diane Bond	...	Jan
Jacqueline Ray	...	Denise (as Jacki Ray)
Herb Edelman	...	Russian Premier
Yvonne Craig	...	Natasha, the Ballerina
Robert 'Buzz' Henry	...	Austin (as Buzz Henry)

Storyline

Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed three minutes while golfing with the president. Flint finds that the president has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.

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Plot Keywords:

doppelganger | spy adventure | reference to john c calhoun | reference to batman | espionage | 

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Taglines:

FLINT'S BACK In Action... In Danger... In the Virgin Islands... Where the Bad Guys... Are Girls!

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 March 1967 (USA)

Also Known As:

Flint misión insólita

Filming Locations:

Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios, St. Ann, Jamaica

Box Office

Budget:

$3,775,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$11,000,000

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox

Technical Specs

Runtime:

114 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (DeLuxe) Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

A comment is made "What the hell is this? Sadie Hawkins day?". Sadie Hawkins Day is an annual event that occurs in the fiction world of Li'l Abner (and which was a popular theme for school dances in the sixties and seventies), the comic character written by Al Capp. In the comics, it is the day on which a footrace is held in the hillbilly town of Dogpatch between the community's eligible women and all the eligible bachelors. If a woman catches a man, he has to marry her. In popular culture, a Sadie Hawkins dance is a "backward" dance where the girl does everything from asking the boy to the dance to picking him up and taking him home.

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Goofs

When Mr. Cramden visits Flint to ask him for help a crew members shadow is clearly visible on the wall behind him as he is being told to smile and lower his hand slowly so he doesn't get bitten by the dog.

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Quotes

[Flint prepares to board the plane to go to the desert]
Flint: Empty all the ashtrays?
Bill Lear: Nah, I got you a new plane.
Flint: Ah, beautiful! Let's go.

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Connections

Referenced in Three's Company: In Like Larry (1981)

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Soundtracks

Meadowland
(uncredited)
Music by Lev Knipper
Russian folk tune
[Played during the scenes in Moscow]

User Reviews

FLINT#2: Super Spy vs. Super Ladies

MASTER PLAN: take over an orbiting space platform, have the nukes ready and use mind control - again. In this sequel to "Our Man Flint," a further parody of the James Bond films, the threat is again a weird organization which plans to rule the world. In the previous Flinter, 3 scientists led the new way; here, it's 3 captains of industry who happen to be female. They also have an island base, somewhere in the Caribbean (the Virgin Islands?) - females, females everywhere! Flint is again played by Coburn as a super-smooth genius who seems to play the secret agent as a side job, called away from his Hugh Hefner-style existence into spy activity when something really unusual rears its nasty head. In this case, he doesn't show up until 15 minutes in, to save the bacon of his former boss (Cobb), who has been discredited and embarrassed in a scheme perpetrated by traitors within the U.S. government. All of this sounds kind of serious and some of it is, especially in the final act, where-in straightforward action goes against the grain of the overall satirical tone. A lot of it is still silly, of course, especially the scenes of Coburn imitating dolphin sounds (I can't believe Coburn was talked into these). The pace is a bit slower than the first film, mostly with all the stuff revolving around Cobb's character getting bamboozled in the early going. It takes awhile for the action to get going. The main femme fatale (Hale) lacks some spark, sort of playing the role as if this was a dull daytime soap opera. The actress Craig, known for her Batgirl role, pops up briefly as another femme fatale, Russian in her case. No sign of Adam West, who would've fit in well here.

The premise proposed by the villains, as in the first film, is that the world needs to be run better; in this case, they feel the planet needs a more feminine touch - a new matriarchy. Though there's the expected glitz and camp of sixties psychedelia, the femme fatales (and there are many of them) are not a total joke; they're pretty well organized and make some valid points, though even Flint appears to sneer at their goals. This is ironic since he, at one point, says he doesn't compete with women, the inferred downside of most men. This foreshadows the reveal of the actual threat, a rogue military - male, of course. The main traitor turns out to be a general (played by actor Ihnat, who would soon be seen as the crazed Garth in the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy" with actress Craig). None of this is a surprise - the general looked suspicious in his first scene. The President of the U.S., who kept calling on a red phone in the previous pic, is now revealed (Duggan), but is quickly replaced by a double early in the story. Some of this also recalls the "Seven Days in May" thriller done up as comedy. The film is a bit too long, having a padded feel at some points: Flint has an exciting running fight with the soldiers towards the end, but he's captured anyway, so the whole thing was just an excuse to show off his martial arts. The ending is awkward, unlike the explosive conclusion in the first one: the filmmakers had to figure out a way to get Flint into outer space and it's done clumsily. The outer space theme, reflecting the space race between the U.S. and the Soviets of that time, was also prevalent in that same year's Bonder "You Only Live Twice." Flint would return in another incarnation in a TV Movie in the seventies. Hero:7 Villains:6 Femme Fatales:6 Henchmen:5 Fights:7 Stunts/Chases:7 Gadgets:6 Auto:4 Locations:6 Pace:6 overall:6