Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

drystyx This movie is a very different movie than almost anything you'll ever see. It begins with the young protagonist, played by Robert Wagner, involved with a young woman who is actually a non-entity in the movie. The only entities become the hero and two others, both of whom are ominous characters. The first, played by Peter Lawford, seems ominous at first, only to become a "moderate" sort who keeps the third man from murdering the young hero.The third man (makes one think of the movie by that title, ironically), eventually sets his evil hooks out to kill the hero.The movie becomes a fight from a very little guy against incredible odds, against a demonic presence.There are drawbacks. The hero doesn't really have the affability and "Everyman" attributes that a character in his position would have, and we neither pull for or against him. His struggle for survival isn't convincing, nor are his solutions. But then, the demonic third character also isn't convincing, being too much a myth, but one which the mob needs to confirm its power among the public.Still, it isn't a bad flick, and it doesn't plod as much as one would think.

Rickee A mediocre and somewhat tame thriller. Jack Washington a lower class dropout, just out of the army, is working as a bartender in Paris. He runs into an old flame. Five years before, he spend 4 days with her and her rich parents. Her father, Ned Pine, systematically humiliated him because he thought Jack was not socially prominent enough for his daughter. She has married and divorced and invites Jack to spend 10 days with her family on their yacht. Jack agrees in hopes of beating her father at some sport, any sport will do. But her father beats him at everything all over again. Jack notices that Pine sometimes gets notes and phone calls from someone he is obviously afraid of. Intrigued, Jack begins compiling a dossier on Pine and his associates. None of them seem to notice this, which is one of the unbelievable parts of this movie, since he walks around the yacht writing in his notebook in plain sight. Near the end, Pine arranges to have Jack killed, but Jack escapes. At the end, he is telling his story to a man that he comes to realize is the very man that Pine was afraid of and who is an even bigger and meaner criminal than Pine. I won't say how it ends, but the ending is ridiculous and makes no sense. Nor does it tie into the main plot involving Pine. Nearly everyone in this is miscast. The handsome and aristocratic Wagner is cast as a loser bartender and he cannot play the character believably. Moreover, the Jill St John character is so vapid and mercenary, its a mystery what he sees in her. But the movie is really ruined by the ending which makes no sense and is entirely unconnected with the rest of the plot.

GeoData This story was well produced, well cast, well directed, shot on location (good locations), with a solid script, story, direction and a strong memorability quotient. The story is a well conceived plot that builds, from the perspective of a young man (Robert Wagner) who starts off just being along for the ride, following a beautiful girl (Jill St John), onto the yacht of her rich father (Peter Lawford), who turns out to be very competitive, extremely mysterious and involved in something that becomes fascinating to Wagner's character to understand. As curiosity heightens, it becomes obvious what that what kills the cat could also kill a young man. And from there it keeps getting better. Just when you think it will end exactly as you'd thought, it doesn't. Despite all these years, I have never seen this played on cable or Saturday afternoon matinées, yet I still remember the story. It would be nice if someone, somewhere, would pick up this title before it is completely forgotten by those few of us alive long enough to remember having seen it. I seem to remember reading somewhere that even Robert Wagner was distressed that this title is not available on video. True or not, this title is worth consideration. It should be found and remastered for DVD.

clclemmer I saw this movie as a teenager and have always hoped it would be released on VHS or DVD. I remembered it however as a movie, not as a made for TV movie. Robert Wagner and Jill St. John were quite young and this movie I believe was quite close to the beginning of their careers. Peter Lawford and Walter Pigeon were also in their prime. One of the other strengths of this movie was that the plot always left you guessing right to the very end, which was very different from most of the plots of the time, or now for that matter! Of all the movies I've seen over the years, this is one of the few of which I've always wanted a copy. I still hope that one of these days it will be released, there certainly have been enough other movies released that couldn't hold a candle to this one!