Year:  1968
Rating: 7.0

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Though this has a title that sounds like a Steven Seagal film, it is in fact a slow moving thoughtful cat and mouse chess game with enough dead bodies to keep your interest. A solid cast of Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, Herbert Lom, Oscar Homolka and John Gielgud helps it along its way. It all takes place in a beautifully filmed Switzerland. A steely yet cooley placid O'Neal is hired by an insurance company to see if he can find anything regarding a few ships that have been sunk. Some in the insurance company were hesitant because wherever he goes people begin to die. But O'Neal is no tough gunslinger type but uses smarts and his wits to get to the bottom of the case. Lom plays his main adversary and is nearly as cool as O'Neal and thus we have a nearly equal game of being one move ahead of the other. It is slowly paced crime film like films used to be patiently setting up the finale with no big action set pieces at all and throws in a bit of moral philosophy just for the heck of it.