NO SECRETS (A TOUCH OF THE SUN)

UK, 1979, 95 minutes, Colour.
Oliver Reed, Sylvaine Charlet, Keenan Wynn, Peter Cushing, Wilfrid Hyde White.
Directed by Peter Curran.

No Secrets would have to be one of the main claimants to one of the worst popular feature films ever made. Made by Peter and Elizabeth Curran in Zambia, it is meant to be a satire on spy adventures as well as American military styles.

The star of the film is Oliver Reed who hams his way around the action as a romantic lead, an American aide to Keenan Wynn, a leader in an expedition to pay money to an African leader who holds servicemen who came down in a spacecraft in the middle of Africa. Keenan Wynn shouts a lot as a manic American General. Peter Cushing appears as a very dapper missionary in Africa who helps lead the expedition and Wilfrid Hyde- White is there in a send-up of M from the Bond films (and his assistant is Miss Halfpenny).

There is attractive African location scenery, basic plot outline reminiscent of so many adventure films - but the mind behind the film is exploitive and juvenile in its attempts at humour and action.

A strange film experience.