

Gordon Douglas coats the whole thing in a nutty sixties veneers of primary colours and horrible modernist designs of the Batman television series, it is vile and garish but fits with its winning sub sci-fi book exuberance. However, many people say 'in like flint. Which, interestingly, give the film a genial grace, with so little tension it just seems to waft pleasantly past. It is my understanding that the phrase, 'in like Flynn' originates from reference to Errol Flynn and his 'clout' in Hollywood - addressing his ability to get in whatever soiree he desired. Life at the Quick Stop store seems quiet and uneventful until store clerk. Released by Varese Sarabande in 1998 (VSD 5935) containing music from In. Written and directed by Kevin Smith, this third film completes the Clerks trilogy of movies that appeared in 19. While Bond delivered the gags, Flint much of the time seems to be the butt of them. In Like Flint / Our Man Flint soundtrack from 1998, composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Not exactly played for laughs, rather than accepting no one is going to take you seriously, especially when you have Derek Flint (James Coburn, so taciturn he might as well be walled in) joining the Russian ballet or dressing up like Fidel Castro or having lessons to speak dolphin. If 007 pretended not to notice how unrealistic his universe was, Flint revels in his own absurdity. If it comes right down it, and it does, this is a film about a gang of imperious female spa owners plotting to put a puppet regime in the White House eventually to take over the world. This was his second case (following 1965’s Our Man Flint) which manages the not-inconsiderable achievement of being camper, hammier and more fantastically ludicrous than its predecessor. Suave secret agent Derek Flint (James Coburn) returns in the ultimate spy spoof, this time pitted against a group of female tycoons who plot to.
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Long before Austin Powers parodied the 60s spy formula with all its Bondian pomp and glamour, James Coburn took the helm in a series of silly and splendid espionage romps based around the bone dry spy Derek Flint.
