Mitchum, Hayworth, and Lemmon make a fine cast for an enjoyable Caribbean adventure yarn

a_chinn

From producer Albert R. Broccoli, who'd go on to launch the James Bond franchise five years later with ""Dr. No", comes an enjoyable adventure film about low level smugglers Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon in the Caribbean. The two are hired by a wealthy American businessman to take his European lady friend, the lovely Rita Hayworth, to a nearby island while he flies back to Detroit on business. Things get complicated when Lemmon and Hayworth become an item, which ends with Mitchum and Lemmon parting ways. Bob Mitchum finds himself a new partner and the two take a shady smuggling offer that goes badly and the plot thickens from there. The adventure aspects are fun and the CinemaScope tropical setting are terrific, but a rather silly melodramatic love triangle nearly undoes an otherwise solid action/adventure film. FUN FACT: While filming in Trinidad and Tobago, Bob Mitchum was inspired to record his classic lounge album, "Calypso - Is Like So..."

score 7/10

a_chinn 7 July 2020

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