Wednesday, October 9, 2013

MAROC 7



Great Crime Drama!!!
This is a great crime drama about a top lady in the fashion industry doubling as a jewel thief.It's a must see and should be on DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Excellent movie
This is one of my favorite movies from the sixties and I had not seen it for many years until ordering this DVD. It's a nifty little cat and mouse movie and features an incredibly beautiful Alexandra Stewart. Gene Barry gives another very good performance. While the listing says it's a Region 2 DVD, mine was a Region 0, playable on all machines. The label says "Region Alle" (all regions). Very stylish and recommended.

Nothing to write a postcard home about, but a diverting enough excursion
Maroc 7 is a decent crime caper from 1967 that sees Gene Barry's insurance investigator masquerading as a thief conning his way into accompany Cyd Charisse and photographer Leslie Phillips on their latest photo-shoot in Morocco, which they in turn are using as cover for their latest theft. Along the way he gets to romance Elsa Martinelli, brush off Denholm Elliott's suspicious local policeman (not one of Denholm's better days) and dodge death in some gorgeously photographed locations where Kenneth Talbot's vividly colourful Scope photography goes a long way to hiding the low budget. Phillips co-produced the film as a stepladder to a directorial career that never materialised, and while the film is pretty typical 60s British production fare - imported but affordable American stars who've seen better days, exotic but not-too-expensive locations, plenty of pretty girls to get some tabloid coverage and the kind of standard-issue plot that a major studio could have polished into a...

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