In Like Flint
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| In Like Flint | |
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| Directed by | Gordon Douglas |
| Produced by | Saul David |
| Written by | Hal Fimberg |
| Starring | James Coburn Lee J. Cobb Jean Hale Andrew Duggan |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | March 15, 1967 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 99 min |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Our Man Flint |
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In Like Flint is a 1967 sequel to the spy film, Our Man Flint (1966). James Coburn returns to the role of Derek Flint, a James Bond like spy. Lee J. Cobb reprises his role as Flint's boss Lloyd C. Cramden.
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[edit] Plot
The world is in trouble again, and Z.O.W.I.E. chief Lloyd Cramden once again turns to the brilliant, but non-conformist, Derek Flint to help him make things right.
The president has been kidnapped and replaced with an imposter. Turncoats have infiltrated the organization, and Cramden has been framed in a compromising position. The only people he can trust are his personal aide, and ex-Superspy Derek Flint. On top of all that, a group of women think they can run things better than the men have.
Lloyd approaches Flint when he "loses" three minutes on his stopwatch during a golf match with the President, and is shocked to find him attended by three new playmates. Flint explains that there were actually five at one time, but he is "trying to cut down." His former girlfriends are now all happily married, having been well "prepared" by the amazing Mr. Flint.
Flint agrees to examine the watch after he returns from a trip, but suggests Cramden go to his favorite restaurant for some extra special "grub". There Lloyd has an encounter he can't remember, but wakes up next to someone he wishes he could forget.
Thus begins an adventure that takes Flint to Moscow, yet another tropical island, and even into orbit.
[edit] Critical reaction
The film received mixed or negative reviews when released. A New York Times reviewer noticed that the film lacked the sex appeal of the first film. "Although the film crawls with dime-store beauties, there is a noticeable lack of sexiness in it. Women bent on being tyrants evidently haven't much time for anything else." [1]
Film critic Roger Ebert's review has similar criticisms. "The sexiest thing in the new Derek Flint misadventure, "In Like Flint," is Flint's cigarette lighter, which is supposed to know 82 tricks but actually delivers only five, of which one is the not extraordinary ability to clip Lee J. Cobb's moustache." [2]
[edit] Trivia
- This was the final film Twentieth Century Fox produced in CinemaScope process.
- William Powell Lear, the inventor of the Lear Jet, plays a part in the film as one of Flint's Lear Jet co-pilots.
- In addition to the James Bond series of films, Our Man Flint and In Like Flint inspired the Austin Powers series of films. In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Powers reveals that In Like Flint is his favorite movie.
- This movie accidentally foreshadowed a real event, when the President was replaced by the performer "Sebastian". Lloyd Cramden is shocked and dismayed at the concept of "an actor as President". Less than 15 years later, an actor, Ronald Reagan, is elected President of the United States of America.
- The title is a parody of the phrase "In like Flynn", referring to Errol Flynn's reputation as a womanizer (which he shares with Flint).
