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A beautiful girl may be able to set a trap for a man's
heart - but it takes more than beauty to bemuse the
wits of a man like Jason King! Crooks who seek to use
him as a dupe provide him with a glamorous companion.
Jason
King (PETER WYNGARDE) may be the author of a
steady flow of best selling novels, but even the most
prolific writers need inspiration. This is why he is
in Greece and the much-needed inspiration, it seems,may
come from a very beautiful girl named Nadine (INGRID
PITT)
He
first sees her on the cover of a magazine left in his
hotel room, and is intrigued when he spots the fact
that this is a phony cover as he confirms when he sends
out for another copy of the same issues and finds that
it has quite a different cover girl.
Obviously,
someone is making sure that he will recognise her when
she does turn up, as she inevitably does as a guest
in the hotel room next to his, As he anticipates, she
makes a point of letting him meet her. She allows him
to diagnose that she is suffering from a broken love
affair and it's not difficult for him to realise that
she is engineering him into recommending that she should
get away for a while. She agrees to his suggestion that
they should tour Europe together.
The
game they play amuses him. They are drinking champagne,
and he allows her to think he has passed out through
drinking too much. He is well aware that she is stealing
his key ring, equally well aware that she is using his
key to drive away his car, and also aware of the fact
that when she returns she puts the keys back again in
his pocket.
But
why? A man named Renzo (ALFRED MARKS) could have
explained and so could his colleagues Achille (PATRICK
MOWER) and Placide (AL MANCINI). All are
in on the plot, though there is some disagreement over
whether or not Nadine is the right agent for them.
Nadine's
"love cure" begins when she and Jason go to Italy. They
drive from Brindisi to Rome; from Rome to Pisa. And
there Jason decides that they will remain for a while,
despite Nadine's efforts to persuade him to continue
the journey to France.
What
would Mark Caine do now? Jason considers the matter,
then goes to the garage to examine his car very, very
carefully. What he finds confirms his suspicions.
The
real moment of danger is now approaching. The crooks
must be getting very frustrated and impatient. That
this is so can be detected by Nadine's increasing efforts
to persuade him to move on. Her failure to do so brings
Renzo to his apartment, who is not in the least pleased
when Jason tells him that the novel he is writing concerns
a femme fatale who takes internationally known figures
on pleasurable trips..... trips across boarders where
the customs men wouldn't be over-inquisitive about such
popular and well-known personages as a prominent novelist.
Unfortuately
for Renzo, Mark Caine is always one step ahead, as is
Jason King. But Jason has some unpleasant moments ahead
of him before he can convince Renzo that his latest
smuggling exploit has been foiled.........
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