A mercenary (Stanley Baker, looking a little ragged around the edges) in the Congo and his group of men are betrayed by another mercenary (Alex Cord) who has been bought off and changed sides which results in the wholesale slaughter of the group except for Baker and a couple of others. Recovering in a hospital, Baker wants revenge and to that end accepts a mission in Hong Kong. Based on the novel
THE ORDEAL OF MAJOR GRIMSBY by John Sherlock and directed by Gordon Flemyng. It's a passable actioner as long as you don't think too hard about it. The film spends almost as much time on the illicit relationship between Baker and the married wife (Honor Blackman) of a British general (Richard Attenborough) and it’s actually this portion of the film that is more engrossing then the vengeance aspect though eventually the two storylines merge. Cord is particularly lousy here, his idea of an out of control killer being to laugh maniacally as if he saw Richard Widmark in
KISS OF DEATH one too many times. With Andrew Keir, Julian Glover and Rafer Johnson.
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