Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is the French spy considered by his superiors to be the best in the business. The year is 1967 - he's been sent on a mission to Rio de Janeiro, to find a former high-ranking Nazi who went into exile in South America after the war. His eventful investigation takes him all across Brazil, from Rio to Brasilia and the Iguazu Falls, accompanied by a charming Mossad agent who is also looking for the Nazi. The man is charming, and so is the young woman. Set to the strains of bossa nova, their tale is by turns an adventure and a love story.
Written by The Film Catalogue
This is not the first spy spoof to be set in Rio, Brazil.
Se tutte le donne del mondo did this during the 1960s and both these movies have a fight sequence atop the Christ the Redeemer of the Andes statue. This 1960s spy spoof film is well known for having connections with the later James Bond movie,
Moonraker (See: http://jamesbond.ajb007.co.uk/mr66/).
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Goofs
Anachronisms:
During the beach scene with the hippies, Minnie Ripperton's "Lovin' You" is playing. The movie is set in 1967. "Lovin' You" was not recorded until 1974.
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Quotes
OSS 117:
[to the hippy touching his bare ass]
I like what's going on, but let's agree that it will be our secret, what happens here stays here...
[indistinct murmur of people agreeing]
OSS 117:
. Yes, because people don't need to know... out of context, a finger in the buttocks can be...
[again people murmuring a sort of "don't worry" in Portuguese]
OSS 117:
I want it clear, because the tendency sometimes... Hippie ''pomme d'amour'':
[in portuguese]
"Tudo bem, tudo bom"
[and keeps fondling him]
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