Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18739 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-07-16
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 108 minutes

Amazon.com
There's really been only one rival to James Bond: Derek Flint. That's because of James Coburn's special brand of American cool. He's so cool, in fact, that he doesn't care to save the world. That is, until he's personally threatened. He's a true libertarian, with more gadgets and girls than Bond, but with none of his stress or responsibility. Here he's totally unflappable as he thwarts mad scientists who control the weather--and an island of pleasure drones. Lee J. Cobb costars as Flint's flustered superior, and Edward Mulhare plays a British nemesis with snob appeal. For fans of Austin Powers, incidentally, the funny-sounding phone comes from the Flint films. However, Our Man Flint's best gadget remains the watch that enables Flint to feign death. There's a great Jerry Goldsmith score, too. --Bill Desowitz

Customer Reviews

I hate to rain on the parade, but...
When it first came out in the sixties, I thought Flint was really cool. I watched it in 2008, and it turns out that my memory of how cool the film was just shows how little I knew in the sixties, either about cool or about movies. The special effects are primative, the plot tedious, and the acting over. All that remains is James Coburn, who really is cool. But Coburn has been in much better films than this. Watch The Magnificent Seven instead.

Intelligent, well-crafted spoof
I don't know how any fanatical follower of James Bond or the Man or Girl from U.N.C.L.E. could look at said icons in the same way after watching this exceptional movie. Loaded with brilliant gadgetry, special effects, costuming, acrobatic heroics, imaginative sets, and more importantly, pointed, even progressive dialogue, this one might be the best of the genre.
James Coburn is one cool cat, Gila Golan is shockingly sensual, Lee J. Cobb at his most hilarious - a great actor who can move a scene with a simple incredulous expression, and these players get the benefit of tight direction and expert editing. Small criticism: picture gets a bit frantic near the end and runs about eight minutes too long.
Edward Mulhare plays the gentleman nemesis in the perfect part for Michael Caine, and you won't miss Michael Caine.
Flint's omnipresence of mind and resourcefulness is powerfully projected: he's a Master in Eastern Meditatation, a Ballet Instructor, willing to cross continents to give a dance company a leg up, a champion of Feminism. And never breaks a sweat. Even his love scene with G.A.L.A.X.Y. agent Galon is more *suggested* than framed as an all-important plot element.
The script, by Hal Fimberg and Ben Starr, can only be considered decades ahead.

Clint on Flint
James Bond might be 007, BUT!!!!!

Derek Flint is 10-1/2

And with 3 female housmates he needed it.

When will the Britts learn ( Jeeeez )