In Like Flint

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In Like Flint
original film poster by Bob Peak
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 minutes
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.

1 Plot
2 Critical reaction
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

[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. The women of Fabulas Face, are kidnapping astronauts-and replacing them with female cosmonauts (the only women in space at the time of the film) on a space platform, orbiting the earth. From an island spa called Fabulous Face, they dispatch a lookalike to replace the President (Andrew Duggan) and quickly discredit security chief Lloyd Cramden (Lee J. Cobb) with compromising photographs. Derek Flint (James Coburn) is busy talking to dolphins, fighting guards at the Z.O.W.I.E. Headquarters, where he is thought have fallen into an incinerator. Actually, it was one of the Z.O.W.I.E. Guards, working for General Carter. Cramden,thinking Flint dead decides to act on his own. Flint manages to make his way to the Soviet Union, performing ballet in Russia with the duplicitous ballerina Natasha (Yvonne Craig), fights upon the roof of the Russian ballet, using tricks and his cigarette lighter, which provides a grappling line to escape by sliding down to an antenna pole. Flint, overhears a conversation with the Soviet Chairman and makes his way the Virgin Islands aboard a plane to Cuba. Cramden's already a prisoner there, having foolishly tried to crash the place while disguised as a woman, when everyone thought Fling was dead. Flint disguised as a Castro lookalike, and singing, jumps out of the plane, after tying up the pilots. He makes his way there, by using his technique to talk to dolphins ("blop bloop blop-lop-liddl-iddl-oop") and rides under the island defenses. Flint encounters Lisa (Jean Hale)and tries question her about the missing lady cosmonauts but is confronted by the traitorous General Carter, who is secretly working the women. It becomes known that Carter has no intention of letting the women rule, and plans on taking over the entire plan. Flint attempts to fight Carter's army, in some pretty fun action sequences, but is captured and frozen with Lisa and rest of the women, plus Lyodd Cranden and the President. He manmaged to break out of the freezing chamber by way of his sonic belt unit, attached his cigarette light. Derek Flint eventually goes to the Fabulous Face control area to straighten things out. Flint, learns of Carter's plan to arm the space platform with a nuclear warhead. Flint manages to gain alliance with woman and they help Flint subdue Carter's soldiers. Flint and the women, take over the control center, have the fake President arrested and Flint makes his way aboard the rocket. Flint and General Carter, have a zero gravity fight in space as the rocket tumbles out of control. Flint,managed to tie Carter and escape the capsole, to make way, via his sonic device-one of the movies great flaws here,since sound doesn't travel in space—to the space platform. where the lady cosmonauts are.

[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

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James Coburn appears, in character, on the cover of the Wings album Band on the Run. Paul McCartney was a fan.
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.
Along with 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.
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).
The movie poster was illustrated by the famous Bob Peak.