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Permission to Kill (1975)
PREVIOUSLY-VIEWED / FORMER RENTAL
VHS / NTSC
RARE JAPANESE IMPORT
LABEL: WARNER HOME VIDEO
YEAR: 1975
AKA: LA TRAHASE / THE EXECUTIONER
DIRECTOR: Cyril Frankel (Never Take Candy From A Stranger, Operation Snafu, The Trygon Factor, The Witches Aka: The Devil's Own)
CAST: Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Bekim Fehmiu, Timothy Dalton, Nicole Calfan, Frederic Forrest, Anthony Dutton, And Peggy Sinclair
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
RATED PG / SP MODE / NTSC / COLOR / 97m
Here is an espionage movie that was shot on location in Austria. When the exiled leader of a free party (BEKIM FEHMIU) decides to return to his own country and attempt to remove the dictator currently in place there, several western governments are determined to stop him. A group is assembled, consisting of old friends, former lovers and hired assassins in order to dissuade him from returning "before his time". This group is appalled at the lengths to which western intelligence will go to stop the man from returning, and they conspire together to allow him to leave. Their plans, however, are anticipated by western intelligence which will stop at nothing to stop him, no matter who gets in the way. Sound complicated? It is. Here, we have Alan Curtis (played by DIRK BOGARDE) heading the Western Intelligence Liaison and his specific task is to keep the head of a radical third-world organization from returning to his country. The opening scene features a young topless female spy Melissa Lascade (played by the lovely NICOLE CALFAN) being interrogated by Alan which makes me wonder if this is truly a PG rated film. This Z-Grade spy gem has lots of 70s style to spare and a young pre-Bond TIMOTHY DALTON, who is in a cool scene where he leaps out of a car at speed.
VHS FEATURES:
- English Language w/ Japanese Subtitles
- EXTREMELY RARE 97m JAPANESE VHS RELEASE
- NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD!
FACTORY ORIGINAL / PREVIOUSLY-VIEWED / FORMER RENTAL. Original sleeve is in good condition with some stickers and minimal wear. VHS tape has been previewed and plays great (with one small brief glitch during the opening studio credits). Plastic clamshell case. As per most vintage Japanese film releases on vhs or dvd, this film may contain some small optical pixelation or fogging to obscure any lower full frontal nudity.
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