ASSIGNMENT K (1968) *1/2 I am satisfied that there is some filamentary gesture of a plot, but only because early in the film I could tell how it was going to end. The great secret agent, Stephen Boyd, couldn't and so arguably might not have really been so great after all. In fact he was lousy: lousy character, lousy actor, lousy detective, had to watch him all the time anyway. The females of the film are better, which in itself says very little. Camilla Sparv isn't entirely irritating as a poor man's conception of a blond Jackie Kennedy on skis, and Jane Merrow certainly could have done more if they'd given her anything much to work with. They don't, the flip of a vodka glass is about it. Then there's poor Michael Redgrave and I guess you're as happy to see him as just wish he could get the hell out of there. It's not terribly offensive: people on skis and drinking wine and riding horse-drawn sleds and such, but a far better.a better.as a travel brochure it would miss the mark by less.
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