"Residence For Spies" is one of the dullest spy films of the 1960s I've seen so far. Lots of (meaningless) talk and wandering around Istanbul, but very little action. What action there is, has to accommodate the fact that leading man Eddie Constantine is at least a decade too old for the kind of two-fisted lady-killer he plays here (women half his age can't keep their hands off him). Diana Lorys, who has a magically exotic face and a thick, curvy body, encapsulates the female glamour and beauty of the 1960s, but her role is largely irrelevant to the plot. Much tamer than you'd expect from a Jess Franco movie, even an early one, it does at least display colorful cinematography, scenic Istanbul locations and some pretty female legs. But it's just SO boring. * out of 4.
Review of Residencia para espías
