**SPOILERS** It seems that the film-makers of the movie "Cold Sweat" didn't happen to see the rushes in that one very huge and obvious plot-hole in the movie has two of the heavies Fausto & Katanga, Luigi Pistilli & Jean Topart, reappear in the flick after the hero John Martin aka Moran,Charles Bronson, unceremoniously dispatched them just moments before! It was never even explained how they came back to life or to the hideout of the head of their Keystone Kops-like drug smuggling ring lead by ex-US army Captain Ross, James Mason, who's southern accent was about as phony as a three dollar bill and just as cheap.
Living the good life as a fisherman in the south of France John Martin is married to beautiful Fabienne, Liv Ullmann, as well as spending his free time drinking partying and gambling, where he never seems to lose, until his past catches up with him. Some seven years ago John together with a number of GI's broke out of a US military stockade in Germany and got involved in smuggling stolen military equipment. Being the wheel man of the operation John checked out and left his fellow GI's and one French Foreign Legionnaire out in the cold when the ex-Legionnaire, Katanga, murdered a German policeman who stopped to question them. Now seven years later these same gangsters, who were captured and sent back to prison, are out looking for revenge and plan to make John's life,as well as that of his wife's Fabienne and 12 year old step-daughter Michele(Yannick Dululle), hell.
Instead of killing John the Ross gang seem to want to have him suffer as well as use his boat to smuggle heroin into France but their so inept that they end up all dead by the time the movie is over, most of them by their own hand! With the big boss Capt.Ross painfully bleeding to death, from a gunshot wound he got by accident from one of his gang members.
Before he kicked off Capt. Ross had his hair-brained girlfriend Molra (Jill Ireland) go with John, who was being held captive after he had kidnapped her, back to town to get help before he bleeds to death. This sets up the movies exciting and dangerous car chase sequence with Molra and especially the doctor(Paul Bowifas),in the back seat, having trouble keeping awake.Back at the hideout both Fabienne & Michele make a run for it with Katanga hot on their tail after Capt. Ross finally checked out, with a little help from his friend, of the movie due to loss of blood.
There's a silly scene with both John's wife and daughter setting the entire brush and woods on fire to stop Katanga from killing them only to be captured by him together with John who tried to come to their rescue. There's also the mystery of what happened to Molra who just disappeared from sight, and the movie, as if she just had enough of this BS and walked off the set! The last we saw of Molra and the doctor was at the hideout trying to save or bring back to life the already dead Captain Ross.
The movie "Cold Sweat" ends with a bang with the still alive and active Katanga, all his fellow hoodlums were long gone by then, getting John to take him out to sea at night in order to still pull off the switch, with the cover of darkness, in a heroin deal with a Turkish freighter. Katanga ends up as one of the many fireworks in and around the Southern French harbor town! that evening just happened to be July 14, France's National Bastille Day!
Living the good life as a fisherman in the south of France John Martin is married to beautiful Fabienne, Liv Ullmann, as well as spending his free time drinking partying and gambling, where he never seems to lose, until his past catches up with him. Some seven years ago John together with a number of GI's broke out of a US military stockade in Germany and got involved in smuggling stolen military equipment. Being the wheel man of the operation John checked out and left his fellow GI's and one French Foreign Legionnaire out in the cold when the ex-Legionnaire, Katanga, murdered a German policeman who stopped to question them. Now seven years later these same gangsters, who were captured and sent back to prison, are out looking for revenge and plan to make John's life,as well as that of his wife's Fabienne and 12 year old step-daughter Michele(Yannick Dululle), hell.
Instead of killing John the Ross gang seem to want to have him suffer as well as use his boat to smuggle heroin into France but their so inept that they end up all dead by the time the movie is over, most of them by their own hand! With the big boss Capt.Ross painfully bleeding to death, from a gunshot wound he got by accident from one of his gang members.
Before he kicked off Capt. Ross had his hair-brained girlfriend Molra (Jill Ireland) go with John, who was being held captive after he had kidnapped her, back to town to get help before he bleeds to death. This sets up the movies exciting and dangerous car chase sequence with Molra and especially the doctor(Paul Bowifas),in the back seat, having trouble keeping awake.Back at the hideout both Fabienne & Michele make a run for it with Katanga hot on their tail after Capt. Ross finally checked out, with a little help from his friend, of the movie due to loss of blood.
There's a silly scene with both John's wife and daughter setting the entire brush and woods on fire to stop Katanga from killing them only to be captured by him together with John who tried to come to their rescue. There's also the mystery of what happened to Molra who just disappeared from sight, and the movie, as if she just had enough of this BS and walked off the set! The last we saw of Molra and the doctor was at the hideout trying to save or bring back to life the already dead Captain Ross.
The movie "Cold Sweat" ends with a bang with the still alive and active Katanga, all his fellow hoodlums were long gone by then, getting John to take him out to sea at night in order to still pull off the switch, with the cover of darkness, in a heroin deal with a Turkish freighter. Katanga ends up as one of the many fireworks in and around the Southern French harbor town! that evening just happened to be July 14, France's National Bastille Day!