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It is rather strange that TPTV has given this film a 18 rating but when it was shown in cinemas it was given an A certificate which meant that children under 16 could view it if accompanied by an adult. It has been reclassified as a 15 by the BBFC.

Films such as this would often be shown at the Cinephone Cinema, opposite Selfridges. It would be supporting a Bridgette Bardot X certificate film.

This film is so mildly inoffensive and rather amateur and about as erotic as cold rice pudding.

One suspects that this film got made for two reasons. Firstly to use up Fox's frozen funds. Secondly to try to repeat the success of Exodus. This it fails to do.

The film is reasonably exciting until it leaves Holland. Leo Mckern and the dog steal the scenes. After the film moves to Tangiers the development of the plot all but crawls to a halt. Two additional, unlikely, characters are added,played by Hugh Griffiths and Robert Stephen.

Stephen Boyd plays an Irish Dutch detective and Dolores Hart is a singularity unlikely concentration camp survivor.

The trouble is the film wanted to be an epic but ends up as just a routine adventure yarn.