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In the 1960s, nearly every country in the world tried, some of them often and some rarely, to produce their own film versions of James Bond. "Assignment Skybolt" is the Greek attempt, one of the very few ones. It's a rather primitive Bond imitation, but far from the worst of its type. Nikos Kourkoulos plays an American agent who is sent to Athens (because he "knows the country and speaks the language" - he should, since Kourkoulos IS Greek!) to locate a stolen hydrogen bomb, with the address of a nightclub as his only initial clue. It also seems that his long-thought-dead brother is somehow involved in the case. Kourkoulos has the right look for the part, and so does Vera Krouska as the femme fatale. In fact, the film does tick most of the right boxes of the genre, but it's hurt by a low budget (and the fact that the night action scenes are virtually unwatchable). *1/2 out of 4.

Welcome to the Greek James Bond. Written and directed by Gregg Tallas, who was also the man behind Espionage in Tangiers and the Cataclysm part of Night Train to Terror.

Agent Dan Holland is in Greece looking for the hydrogen bomb stolen from a NATO base in Turkey. It turns out that they want to start a Third World War. And Dan's brother Jack may be behind it all.

I really liked The Mermaid, the club in the movie. There's even a dancer covered in balloons that need to be popped by the patrons. Well, get used to the bar. That's where the majority of the film takes place.

This is one of the oldest films I've seen with an implied oral sex scene, much less priests being distracted by breasts and a sexually suggestive whipping scene. Ah, those wild Greeks...

This is a lot darker than most spy films of this era. But maybe you'll enjoy that.