Year:  1976
Rating: 6.0

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Though he wasn't to die until nine years afterwards, this is Yul Brynner's final film. He plays a retired mechanic i.e. hitman in this Euro Crime film that has the 70's splashed all over it.  Here he is brought back into the game when he has the opportunity to kill a Mafia head in Naples who was responsible for murdering his brother years before. Of course, nothing is quite what it seems. But for a Mechanic he does nearly everything wrong. Maybe a bit rusty. Killing is a fine-tuned skill. He lets the target know he is in town leading to them trying to kill him, he falls for a much younger stunning blonde (Barbara Bouchet) who more than a little unbelievably returns his affection, the police (Martin Balsam) also know he is in town and keep an eye on him and he keeps walking around in plain sight without being armed. Still this is decent enough with a car chase through Naples perhaps being the highlight. And it has the requisite kills. It is directed by Antonio Margheriti under the name Anthony Dawson as he often did. He was one of the better know genre directors in Italy during the 1960's and 70's taking on pretty much anything from horror to crime to Peplum to sci-fi to exploitation.