Don't trust a villain
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Don't trust a villain |
| Original title | Try this one for size |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Guy Hamilton |
| script |
Sergio Gobbi , Alec Medieff , James Hadley Chase |
| production | Sergio Gobbi |
| music | Claude Bolling |
| camera | Jean-Yves Le Mener |
| cut | Georges Klotz |
| occupation | |
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Don't trust a villain (Original title: Try this One for Size ) is a French crime comedy directed by Guy Hamilton from 1989.
action
At the instigation of his girlfriend Carroll, Tom Lepski quits his job as a police officer in Miami and moves with her to Nice . There he takes up a new job as an insurance detective, an industry that is supposedly quieter. The quiet does not last long, however, because when Lepski is overseeing an exhibition of Russian art, a valuable Madonna sculpture is stolen there in a meticulously planned coup despite great security precautions.
During the investigation, Lepski gets on the trail of his old friend, the brutal master thief Bradley. He succeeds in placing a transmitter on Bradley's car and thus following him through Europe to the delivery point of the stolen property to a wealthy art collector in Switzerland. He realizes just in time that it was Bradley's plan to let him pursue him and that he himself was used to transport the sculpture. Ultimately, he succeeds in securing the statue, whereupon he discovers that it is actually a fake.
production
Last film by Guy Hamilton , who appeared in the 1960s and 1970s through the James Bond films James Bond 007 - Goldfinger , James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die , James Bond 007 - Diamond Fever and James Bond 007 - The Man with the Golden Gun had become known. Like his penultimate feature film, Remo - Unarmed and Dangerous , it was an adaptation of a successful novel series. Ultimately, a total of four films with Michael Brandon as Tom Lepski were produced under different directors .
reception
"Listlessly played detective film built without inspiration and moments of surprise, the style of which is noticeably reminiscent of the dusty patterns of the 60s."
Web links
- Let no villains in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Don't trust a villain. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .