Crossplot

(UK)

United Artists/Tribune. Director Alvin Rakoff; Producer Robert S. Blake; Screenplay Leigh Vance, John Kruse; Camera Brendan J. Stafford; Editor Bert Rule; Music Stanley Black;; Art Director Ivan King

Roger Moore
Martha Hyer
Claudie Lange
Alexis Kanner
Francis Matthews
Bernard Lee

A thriller with a few good jokes, red herrings, a few quick genuine thrills, chases, and some mystery. It doesn't jell because the mystery is too cloudy. Motivation of most characters is indecisive and some are badly undeveloped.

Roger Moore plays a debonair ad exec with a flair for his job and a roving eye for the chicks. When a flash, swinging campaign is okayed by a client, he has little time to find the girl around whom it will centre. His only clue is a portrait with her name on it.

His problem sparks off a search for the girl, a mysterious Hungarian, which lands him up to his neck in a bewildering political ploy involving Marchers of Peace members and some anarchists.

Some bright thesps keep the often puzzling events moving deftly and breezily. Moore is not wholly convincing as a man of action.

(Color) Extract of a review from 1969. Running time: 97 MIN.

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