kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Framed for a 40 million robbery of US currency Morgan, Christopher George, is given a chance to redeem himself and cut his sentence down from 25 to 5 years by FBI Agent Ames, Ted de Corsia, by being given the task to not only recover the cash but rescue this important US nuclear scientist Art Keefer, Ralph Taeger, who's held captive on the Caribbean island fortress of Nvevo Cudiz. With pretty FBI Agent Kim Stacy, Yvette Mimieux, acting as Morgan's wife he used their honeymoon as cover to rescue Keefer as well as recovering the stolen money. As it soon turned out Morgan found himself involved with a web of corruption on the island from the Governor General and Police Commissioner on down that made his task of rescuing Keefer and recovering the money far more difficult then he ever expected it to be. There's also the fact the the island is being used as a gulag like prison for political dissidents that are being kept in line and in a zombie like state by being shot up with drugs by the Commandant and his stooges running it.***SPOILERS*** Acting as a drug dealer to gain entrance in Nvevo Cudiz Morgan guns down those in charge and starts a major prison revolt with the hundreds of junkies imprisoned there crashing out. It's during the massive jailbreak that the man who framed Morgan his former army buddy Sal Dekker, Joseph Sirola, who had his face altered with massive plastic surgery pops up trying to retrieve the stolen cash, that Morgan recovered, that he framed Morgan for. Planning to used the airplane that the FBI/CIA provided for Morgan as well as Keefer together with Stacy to escape Dekker, badly injured in the car chase in trying to kill Morgan, in not being quite up to it in being able to hold his gun correctly ends up being blown away by Morgan instead. As Morgan is out of trouble and in the air he's given a chance to escape, from serving time for the 40 million dollar heist, by Kim, who's now in love with him, to make a clean getaway by her looking the other way. With Morgan and the 40 million exiting the plane by parachute and swimming to safety to a boat prearranged in the Caribbean Sea that was there to rescue him.

Leofwine_draca This routine thriller, based on a Mickey Spillane novel, sees action-man Christopher George paired up with a female CIA agent to help rescue a kidnapped scientist from a remote island jail. It sounds pretty exciting, but unfortunately it isn't, thanks to a sluggish script and by-the-numbers direction. The film's major fault is a limited budget which excludes any decent intrigue or action sequences up until the last twenty minutes, during which a prison break and a car chase are crammed into a breakneck climax. Up until then, it's a boring affair, with the actors struggling to make sense of senseless dialogue and dull attempts to be 'cool' and modern.Up until now, I'd only seen George in '80s-era exploitation fare, so seeing him as a handsome, slick super-agent in the Bond model was a bit of a surprise. I couldn't help but find the script beneath his talents, though. Mimieux, so well remembered as Weena in THE TIME MACHINE, doesn't get a great deal to work with either – other than some mild flirting in those excruciating drawn out scenes of hotel bed-hopping. I looked out for Yvonne De Carlo but sadly couldn't spot her without her MUNSTERS makeup. Director Tay Garnett, at the end of a long career in TV and film, displays a talent that can be best described as 'workmanlike'.

big_bellied_geezer I will not give away the plot of the film, but I will say that if you are a fan of any of the major stars in this film and/or Mickey Spillane stories, you will get a kick out of seeing it. After viewing a nice full screen print, I can say that all the ingredients are there for a fine circa 1970 action/adventure flick, and even though it appears to have been made on a limited budget, the director did just fine with what he had in my opinion.Christoper George and his co-stars including Diane McBain, Yvette Mimieux and Yvonne DeCarlo all put in fine work here, and the humor and sexual tension and pacing of the film make for a fun diversion.This is highly recommended if you can find a copy.

Sorsimus Tay Garnett was never a pantheon director in the true sense of the word, but at the height of canonisation his name was mentioned. He was a workmanlike director of entertaining pictures peaking in the forties.The Delta Factor underlines the collectiveness of Hollywood filmmaking: when Garnett was at his best he had a good script and the best crew the studios could offer. Also the help of charismatic stars must be remembered. Garnett then operated as a sort of "foreman" to keep everything in schedule and producers happy.In the fifties the auteur theorists (Truffaut, Sarris) tried to attribute the good things in cinema to the personal talents of the director, thus helping to create myth of a film director as an artists comparable to novelists or painters.The Delta Factor is a low budget effort made late in Garnett's career. He has also adapted the screenplay and produced the piece. The result is disappointing. Not much talent is evident in the finished product. The only redeeming feature is the car chase towards the end which is technically above the level of the rest of the film.Watch this and remember Truffaut!