The Big Game (1974)

The son (Brendon Boone) of a scientist (Ray Milland) is blackmailed into handing over his father's invention, a mind machine that controls armies, to a cartel of terrorists. At least, I think they're terrorists because the film is such an incoherent mess that you're never sure who the bad guys actually are and what they want the invention for since they're unable to operate it! The plot (if one is generous enough to use that term) is silly and nothing makes any sense. Directed by Robert Day, the film bounces from Italy to Hong Kong to South Africa and the locations are quite handsome but it's a dumb movie lacking even the most simplistic logic. It's the kind of movie where one of the major characters are mowed down by two machine guns yet when they carry the body away, there isn't a drop of blood much less any bullet holes. Despite his top billing, Stephen Boyd is barely in the film, the biggest role belongs to the nondescript Boone, and he doesn't look very well (he would be dead in 3 years). There's a melodic score by Francesco De Masi. With France Nuyen (looking great), Cameron Mitchell and John Van Dreelen.