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Matchless

Matchless

1967Movie⏱️ 1h 44mApproved
ComedySci-FiThriller
5.2
IMDB Rating
358 votes

A secret agent possesses a ring that makes him invisible for a short time, once every 10 hours. He is in pursuit of an evil criminal mastermind but, at the same time, must evade an enemy agent who also wants the ring.

Director
Alberto Lattuada
Writers
Ermanno Donati, Piero Regnoli, Jack Pulman
Stars
Patrick O'Neal, Ira von Fürstenberg, Donald Pleasence
Release Date
August 13, 1967
Language
English, Italian
Country
Italy
💬 11
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Patrick O'Neal
Patrick O'Neal
as Perry 'Matchless' Liston
Ira von Fürstenberg
Ira von Fürstenberg
as Arabella
Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence
as Gregori Andreanu
Henry Silva
Henry Silva
as Hank Norris
Nicoletta Machiavelli
Nicoletta Machiavelli
as Tipsy
Howard St. John
Howard St. John
as General Shapiro
Sorrell Booke
Sorrell Booke
as Colonel Coolpepper
Tiziano Cortini
Tiziano Cortini
as Hogdon
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Elisabetta Wu
as O-Lan
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Giulio Donnini

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Color
Filming Location
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington, London, England, UK
Production
Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica

🏷️ Keywords

espionagepsychotronic filmspy parodycampcampy

🎯 Categories

ParodyComedySci-FiThriller

⭐ Featured Review

Not great film art, but fun to watch
by jd-gudmundson2006-02-22
7/10

"Wonderful mindless fun entertainment. Goofy plot, passable acting, clumsy dialog, but it is the kind of movie that doesn't ask much of the viewer, and viewers shouldn't ask much of it except for a bit of fun. I had fun. There is a wonderful bad guy, there are beautiful women like in the James Bond films, and there is a rather hapless quasi-Bond type who gets caught up in the intrigue. This is a film in the 1960s spoof genre, with its chase scenes, cars, planes, helicopters, parachutes, kites, boats, and on and on. It pokes fun at the James Bond type of movie, while at the same time h..."

💡 Did You Know?

The title, "Matchless", is a play on "Flint" from "Our Man Flint". The Flint films were spoofs of the Bond films, which many argue were spoofs of the Bond novels, which themselves were spoofs of the prevailing spy thrillers of their day. So this film is essentially a spoof of a spoof of a spoof of a spoof.

📖 Synopsis

A secret agent possesses a ring that makes him invisible for a short time, once every 10 hours. He is in pursuit of an evil criminal mastermind but, at the same time, must evade an enemy agent who also wants the ring.