The American Secret Service sends their best agent, OSS 117, to investigate a number of political murders that the police was not able to prevent. Disguised as a ruthless killer, 'William Chandler', OSS 117 will penetrate the terrorist organization just when it is preparing the murder of Heindrich Van Dyck, the UN delegate to the Middle-East peace process. OSS 117 will use a fake killing of Van Dyck, and substitute corpses, trying to dupe the criminal master mind, Dr. Saadi.
Only, the Major is too clever, abducts Aicha, and OSS 117 must fight both for his life (as he must take a daily antidote for a drug he was injected with), Aicha's endangered life, and passing the information of the whereabouts of the terrorists headquarters to the Army before it's too late... Too much for OSS 117?
To get Bond villain Stromberg and Bond bad girl Fiona Volpe (Curd Jorgensen and Lucianna Palluzzi) in one film is quite a feat, and the Bond connection doesn't stop there - John Gavin, who was James Bond for a short time and was meant to be in Diamonds are Forever, plays the hero, acquits himself quite well; he's athletic, thinks on his feet, has a smoothness, especially with the ladies, and has a sense of humour. There's some good one liners.
OSS 117: murder for Sale is a decent Eurospy film which moves quite leisurely, the plot has some sort of drive, the production values are good - it's not a spy spoof, though, but there's some gadgets like the canister linked to a helicopter spewing sleeping gas, a lie detector device, the rooms in the château which are inescapable ( well, not for our hero), and a lethal injection contain slow acting poison- the hero is injected with this and has to have an antidote at certain times. This is done so he would comply and do the assassination and not run off- nice idea, a neat hook. Nice looking girls, scenic Tunisian location. The music can be annoying, though. Remember seeing this on LWT in 1991 ( UK TV)
