Sigpress contre Scotland Yard

Little role for Klaus Kinski but funny, he's the right hand or secretary of an original James Bond, who's a kind of luxury thief, of impeccable morality, a real gentleman.

I saw the title and the list of big name stars and said this must good. Well it was just another crime caper that the Italians make many of. It was listed as a Euro-Spy but isn't even that. Although they blame everything on James bond. Dick Palmer and Ingrid Schoeller as the villains and George Martin as the hero/thief are all adequate but lack direction. Gloria Paul as a nightclub dancer/stripper is fun to watch. OK entertainment but too much like so many others.

As if being given the title, Psychopath, in UK and US were not silly enough, there is much more in store for the intrepid investigator of spoof Bond product. George Martin leads, perfectly adequately and there are some fine looking ladies but silliness tends to prevail, although as another has said, it never becomes completely tiresome as there is always something vaguely, amusing or intriguing cropping up. As a for instance, and this was neither amusing or intriguing, the prominently poster featured, Gloria Paul turns up and does a complete night club song ( and what passes as a striptease). Unfortunately Klaus Kinski in best bib and tucker is on best behaviour and causes barely a stir, unless whacking an English bobby counts. So, not boring, not great, but colourful and well paced.

Psychopath, as this video was titled, begins with thieves who steal the contents of a safe, then are attacked by James Bond as they are leaving. Well, actually a dummy head of Sean Connery. All the shots of him have his face away from the screen. Later, it's revealed it was a mask. The man with the mask is Siegpress, who charges the police or insurance companies a percentage of the value of the stolen items he steals in order to return them.

I thought this was a horror movie because of the title, the presence of Klaus Kinski, and the fact that it was labeled as a horror movie by the video store. It's more of a crime thriller with some comedy in it. As such, I really wasn't interested and kept nodding off and eventually forward scanned through the rest.

It does have some very colorful set design and some very 1960s soundtrack music. At the end there were trailers by the video distributor for this movie as well as Banana Monster AKA Schlock (1973), White Slave AKA Schiave bianche: violenza in Amazzonia (1985), and I think Primal Fear.