rodrig58 Christian-Jaque had great success with the tulips, his two most successful films being "Fan-Fan the Tulip" with Gérard Philipe and "The Black Tulip" with Alain Delon, both in the same genre, swashbuckling adventures. Here, he's trying another kind of adventure, James Bond style, but the story is totally flat, uninteresting. In vain there is a real Bond actor, Gert Fröbe, in a double role and even very good. All the other actors, including the protagonists John Phillip Law and Nathalie Delon, they fail to make the film captivating.

dbdumonteil After portraying Diabolik ,a villain from a comic strip in the sixties,John Philip Law has a change of heart:here he is cast as Docteur Justice,another hero from a French comic strip,but on the right side of the law,no pun intended .This comic strip was very average,and is virtually forgotten today.So is the movie.This is veteran Christian-Jaque's penultimate movie,but the director was artistically dead for years,to be precise after his underrated "le repas des fauves" (1963).All his subsequent works are often sub -Janes Bond ,the likes of "Le Saint prend l'affût" (1966,long before Val Kilmer)or "deux billets pour Mexico" (1968),or dismal Brigitte Bardot's vehicle "les pétroleuses" (1971)or a remake of "that lady Hamilton" (1968)."Docteur Justice" is actually given some kind of a poor man's James Bond treatment:Gert "Goldfinger" Froebe ,-whose acting verges on tongue-in-cheek -,putting to sleep the whole crew of a tanker to grab the black gold is some kind of "attack of Fort Knox" in miniature.The plot is banal,the pictures nice and the whole thing harmless.