Sunday, January 01, 2012

Naive Avengersthon - 4. Mission to Montreal

Such an interesting supporting cast in this one that it distracted me from the plot, which is a fairly simple one about smuggling microfilm of defence installations. John 'Chang' Bennett is prominent as minder Guido Marson, and Alan 'Major Green' Curtis is sinister eyepatched assassin Brand. (I also spotted Mark Eden from It's Your Funeral).

Dr Keel has disappeared since the previous surviving episode, and been replaced by the mostly interchangeable Dr Martin King. Steed has grown still more Steed-like - he's undercover as a ship's steward and there's a running gag where he's constantly being called on to serve passengers, capped at the end when, having discarded the disguise, he also has to suppress the instinct to carry on with the job.

Also catching my eye - the opening sequence where some rather stylised acting is revealed to be part of a film being made. It's a familiar device but I always enjoy seeing it.

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