The Cape Town Affair

Opening with a birds-eye view of Cape Town, we follow the path of a city bus winding its way through the bustling downtown. A cool jazzy main theme provides a nice background as we are taken within the very crowded bus where we are introduced to our heroine of the story, Candy (Bisset) who is about to become the victim of a slick pick pocket played by Brolin. Skip(Brolin)discovers a mysterious piece of film inside Candys' wallet and Candy's connection to whom this piece of film was intended for delivery is not at all happy that she arrives without it! The film is coveted by some nasty communists but Candy thought she was delivering something far less ominous. Without expanding on the details I will summarize by complimenting the cast who all do fine jobs and a script making for a taut piece of adventure. Special mention to Claire Trevor who plays Sam who would rather die than turn over their precious piece of film to those rotten commies! The Cape Town locations are interesting, always bathed in unusually bright daylight and the entire film has the unmistakeable look and feel of 1967 B-movie atmosphere. I've watched this about 3 times now and it keeps getting better with every viewing. A remake of the 1950's "Pickup on South Street". They should package this with that for I think the remake makes a nice companion to the original movie.                                    10/5/07