A Dandy in Aspic
Producer and Director Anthony Mann died during production and was replaced by Laurence Harvey.,When Gatiss comes to fetch Eberlin away from Caroline to go after the man in the photograph, a moving shadow of the boom microphone is visible on the wall above Eberlin and Caroline as he is putting on his suit coat.,Gatiss: [to Caroline about Eberlin] I do believe you two would have gone on well together. You haven't got a past, and he hasn't got a future. None at all.,Opening credits are shown over a scene of someone moving a marionette by pulling on the various strings.,Featured in Berlin - The Swinging City (1968),If You Want Love
Written by Ernie Sheldon & Quincy Jones
Sung by Shirley Horn,It is an amazing spy thriller film from the sixties, an era, a period where such topics were galore, besides the James Bond like features, more eccentric one than the other, and from all countries; not only American but also British, German, Italian.... The short series starring Michael Caine in Harry Palmer's role is among the best, or those inspired by John Le Carré. This Anthony Mann's film is absolutely complex, as many other movies of this kind, but riveting, tense, gloomy, and a Lawrence Harvey at his peak; he who finished the film after Anthony Mann's death. What a film, and so different from other Mann's masterpieces: westerns - among the best of Hollywood, besides John Ford's and Delmer Daves' ones - as well as his peplums made just before EL CID, FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, awesome films too. DANDY IN ASPIC is one of the best spy films of the decade, far from 007 also exciting stories.,