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Licensed to Kill is an Eastmancolor 1965 superspy imitation James Bond film starring Tom Adams as British secret agent Charles Vine. It was directed and co-written by Lindsay Shonteff. Producer Joseph E. Levine picked it up for American and worldwide distribution and reedited it under the title The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World.
- James Ward, Alistair Films
- Herbert Chappell
- July 1965
The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World: Directed by Lindsay Shonteff. With Tom Adams, Karel Stepanek, Peter Bull, John Arnatt. Dauntless British agent Charles Vine is called upon to escort to London the famed Swedish scientist Henrik Jacobs to negotiate the sale of a secret formula.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Lindsay Shonteff
- 1965
The Second Best Secret Agent features a Swedish scientist who is in London trying to set his ‘reverse gravity’ technology when his partner is murdered by the pram-wielding psycho-mother. He goes to the British government to ask for protection, requesting that James Bond be put on the case. When Bond isn’t available he gets Charles Vine ...
The first part of a trilogy starring Tom Adams as British secret agent 'Charles Vine', a man equally adept with both girl and gun. For his first assignment, he is assigned to protect Swedish scientist 'Henrik Jakobsen' ( Karel Stepanek ) who claims to be on the verge of a great scientific breakthrough - a gravity control device known as 'Regrav'.
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Dec 1, 2016 · THE SECOND BEST SECRET AGENT IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (1965) Lindsay Shonteff, perhaps best known for MILLION EYES OF SUMURU, both wrote and directed this film, which originally sported the Fleming-derived title LICENSED TO KILL. Early in the film the bosses of the titular agent, "Charles Vine," make a few arch references to that other spy ...
- Gene Phillips
Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World ★★½ Licensed to Kill 1965. A klutzy agent attempts to prevent a Swedish antigravity formula from falling into Russian hands. Surprisingly good early spoof of the James Bond genre. 93m/C VHS . GB Tom Adams, Veronica Hurst, Peter Bull, Karel Stepanek, John Arnatt; D: Lindsay Shonteff.
Genre: Comedy, Action, Thriller. Rating: 4 (from 2 votes) Review: Plagued by numerous assassination attempts Swedish scientist Henrik Jacobsen ( Karel Stepanek ), ingenious inventor of a much-sought after anti-gravity device, seeks asylum in the United Kingdom. To keep Jacobsen safe from K.G.B. killers British Intelligence assign Charles Vine ...
