As a gimmick he chooses the last picture that the cinema featured, "Samson and His Mighty Challenge" (an Italian film, originally released in 1964 as "Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus: gli invincibili"). When the print arrives at the grand gala opening they discover that it is in unsubtitled Italian, and Brad suspects that his old boss, Sir Michael Kent (Carman), has in some way sabotaged the delivery so that McBain can fail at his achievement and keep Kent's business running successfully.