i saw this film when it be first release . the memory of how bad it be have stay with me almost forty year . i do not want to trust my own sentiment about the movie when i saw it and so i consult a movie review publish in a major metropolitan newspaper the next day sentiment confirm and the reviewer write that the movie be incoherent and indecipherable and and uninspiring . a little research reveals that the producer be star leslie caron husband and thus the whiff of nepotism suggest the beginning for this awful film . the film roster of many capable actor caron and warren oates and scatman crothers and gloria grahame and and james sikking among others suggest that it hold some promise . but the death of this film be attributable to it terrible screenplay . the mystery implicate be so obscure and so little reveal throughout the film that the viewer be leave perplexed from scene to scene . the movie seem torn between be a detective mystery and an espionage thriller and but never settle upon one or the other . the sense of suspense be entirely absent . the main character settle on play dry and emotionless type in a fashion that inspire no empathy whatsoever . the cinematography be pedestrian . the result be that the hapless viewer lose interest in the character and the plot and and and in the end and the film itself . i be little surprised that there be no version of this pathetic film available to purchase . i hope that if tcm find a print of this film and feel compel to air it that it be safely relegate to the 4 represent00 be slot .