Die 7 Masken den Judoka

It was long ago.It was a time when,in the wake of James Bond and his phenomenal (and deserved) success ,France was searching for its spy:they tried "OSS 117" (Kervin Matthews,then Frederick Stafford)-and that OSS might come back to work pretty soon,played by Jean Dujardin-,"Coplan" -who ,to be honest had begun his career in the movies before Bond,and many many others whose names I forgot.

Marc Sinclair was one of them .Marc Briand ,who portrays him was not an actor but a judoka -the title is no misnomer- whose career was short-lived.Marilu Tolo plays the love interest and she has a ridiculous scene where she is supposed to be drunk but fails totally to convince.

I met one of my pals soon after seeing it: "completely silly" he said.

A movie which is not to be taken seriously, but some fun along the way.

A French judoka is embroiled into a World domination scheme involving a pilot friend, his annoying lover and journalist, a young chinese girl who knows everything about her sinister organization, and members of this organization who have eyes everywhere in Hong Kong to stop them, and some former Nazis who are all behind this scheme...

And watch for the late former wrestler André the Giant in a small role.

Not the greatest of the movies, but some variation of a French James Bond with all the martial arts fight, some campy acting... And mostly French over-dubbing on the way...

Watch it for its sillyness, the 1960s movies had at least this quality of not being taken seriously (otherwise, we could consider this as a "dog" of a movie...)