James Coburn found elusive stardom and top billing with Our Man Flint and its sequel film In Like Flint. He becomes the American version of James Bond and has to reluctantly save the world.He only gets his heart into the assignment after someone tries to kill him. Up to that point he's been ducking the assignment until a poison dart is shot at him and strikes Lee J. Cobb, nearly doing Cobb in.Science has run amuck with a group of scientists getting together and creating a climate control device. Their demands on the governments of the world, lay down your arms and submit to our benevolent rule as we know best. They've even created an island paradise and on first glance it looks like a place Coburn could love. The only problem is he likes pleasures unregulated, no one will tell him when and how much.Flint is an American James Bond, unlike Bond who leaves his indulgences when duty calls, Flint has to be coaxed. Lee J. Cobb dislikes the coaxing and Flint's undisciplined ways. Cobb overacts outrageously with tongue firmly in cheek as Derek Flint's harassed superior.Coburn too shows a wry sense of humor in his portrayal. In fact joining in the furniture chewing is Edward Mulhare, the head bad guy who just doesn't like sharing his black book, his "pleasure giving female units" with Flint.Not as stylish as the James Bond series, but still lots of fun.

Super smooth freelance agent and dapper playboy millionaire Derek Flint (the always amiable and engaging James Coburn on top of his game) has to stop the nefarious criminal organization Galaxy from taking over the Earth through manipulating the weather. Director Daniel Mann, working from a hip and witty script by Hal Fimberg and Ben Starr, relates the eventful and hugely entertaining story at a snappy pace, maintains a winningly sly tongue-in-cheek tone throughout, and stages the fight scenes with genuine aplomb. Coburn's supremely cool, assured, and charismatic presence really keeps the picture humming throughout; he receives sturdy support from Lee J. Cobb as Flint's huffy boss Cramden, the gorgeous Gila Golan as lovely, yet lethal femme fatale Gila, Edward Mulhare as suave killer Malcom Rodney, and Benson Fong as evil scientist Dr. Schneider. The bevy of beautiful gals (Shelby Grant, Sigrid Valdis, Gianna Serra, and Helen Funai are all quite foxy and sexy as Flint's live-in distaff companions), Jerry Goldsmith's wonderfully lush and groovy swinging score, a neat array of funky gadgets (Flint's watch and lighter are both amazing), Daniel L. Fapp's vibrant widescreen cinematography, the sharp dialogue (favorite line: "An anti-American eagle; it's diabolical"), and the lively and exciting climax all further enhance the gloriously kitschy fun. A total blast.

James Coburn is "Our Man Flint" in this 1966 spy film. Flint is called in by our government to find and destroy the enemy's capability to control the weather. Given our current situation with global warming, it was actually quite interesting.The cool, perfect Flint is a derivative of James Bond, a gadget-ridden spy, unflappable in the face of certain death, totally brilliant, and a sex machine surrounded by gorgeous, buxom women. Played by the resonant-voiced, angular-faced James Coburn, Flint sails through his assignment, not only escaping death but faking death when it suits him.It's a fun movie, but it's amazing how many of this type of film and spy films in general were made in the '60s - not only the Bond films, but caper films like Topkapi, Gambit, the Harry Palmer films, Casino Royale (where James bond was a character) - these films and takeoffs of them, like The Glass-Bottomed Boat - abounded.It's always nice to reminisce about the '60s, and "Our Man Flint" has the music, the dancing, the gowns, the gadgets and the bustlines that will take you right back. A good time.

Wow, here's another example of how times change...at least with me and films of the 1960s. What was fresh, new, exciting and funny back then now looks ludicrous, stupid and anything but funny. The women back then wore so much eye makeup they look grotesque, not beautiful.Anyway, this "Flint" series was another one that wanted to ride the popularity of the James Bond movies, so here we get a "spy spoof." The film is full of gadgets, humor, action and pretty women. Despite all that, looking at this 30-some years later, I found all of it too outdated and just plain stupid. It was fun then, but it's dumb now.