Yul Brynner plays his "The King and I" persona in this preposterous and predictable spy vs spy semi-thriller from the cold war 1960's. The supposition is that the KGB can produce, with plastic surgery, a look-alike CIA agent who will supplant the real agent. He will have the same height, accent, appearance and rotten demeanor. Never mind the different finger prints. How many times have we seen that? Taking place in the Austrian Alps, there are way too many scenes of skiing and partying. The CIA agent (Brynner), rude and snarling at everyone, is lured to the area with the suspicious death of his son by an apparent skiing accident. Of course it's a trap! Britt Ekland plays a nice dupe with her contribution to the plot being somewhat fuzzy other than her good looks. Throughout the movie, the question is who can you trust, but by the end of the movie, I didn't care. Apparently, if you're a CIA agent, you can shoot people and then just fly back home without even worrying about even a local police investigation. And if the KGB knows that you are CIA, aren't you then already compromised?
Review of The Double Man
