Target: Harry (1969)

When a freelance pilot (Vic Morrow) working out of Monte Carlo flies a passenger (Stanley Holloway) to Istanbul and the passenger later turns up murdered, he becomes the focus of a mysterious femme fatale (Suzanne Pleshette) and a local mobster (Victor Buono) who both want what the passenger was carrying in his briefcase. Directed by Roger Corman under the pseudonym of Henry Neill. This was originally intended as a TV movie with the possibility of becoming a regular TV series with Morrow. That never happened. Instead, some gratuitous sex, nudity and violence were inserted into the film and it was released theatrically under the title HOW TO MAKE IT. It's an unexceptional film so one can see why Corman might have wanted his name taken off it. Vic Morrow is a good actor but he's not leading man material and this film shows why. It needed a Charles Bronson or Burt Reynolds type of actor whose screen presence could make it tolerable. Suzanne Pleshette is ideal casting for a femme fatale but the movie's trite dialog does her in and eventually renders her unappealing. But the film's ineptness is never more obvious when Charlotte Rampling's character is brutally murdered and it's obvious Ms. Rampling wasn't even in the room when the scene was shot. They don't even try to obscure the fact that it is not Rampling and even give her body double (who doesn't look like her) a close up! With Cesar Romero and Michael Ansara.