Review of OSS 117 Murder for Sale

John Gavin plays the eponymous spy O.S.S. 117 on an assignment in the Middle East to expose an assassination ring run by Curd Jurgens. "OSS 117: Murder for Sale" qualifies as another James Bond wannabe movie. The debonair hero likes to make jokes and he seduces beautiful women. At the outset, our hero has had plastic surgery so that he resembles a killer. The police capture him after an amusing fight where he uses a bed sheet like a matador. Later,the resourceful villains break him out of custody in one of the few scenes that stand out in this thoroughly ordinary thriller. They swoop down on his police escort with a helicopter and dangle a UFO type object that dispenses knock-out gas. Our hero is taken to Curd Jurgens whose bodyguard is none other than George Eastman. The villains dispatch him on a mission that will take three days to finish. A doctor injects him with poison and informs the protagonist that he must administer a hypodermic injection every day at 5 PM or the hero will die. O.S.S. 117 gets into just bland fights, including one of a tiled rooftop with Eastman. The people who made this derivate 007 adventure even imitate the fast cutting in the hand-to-hand combat scenes. Our hero doesn't have any gadgets, but he has the amazing ability to imitate other voices.