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John Huston directs this 1963 "gimmick" thriller about a mysterious assassin who is killing off men and making it look like an accident.

George C. Scott plays a retired MI-5 officer who is asked by a friend to look into a series of seemingly unrelated deaths. Then his friend also dies in an airplane explosion. Could all of the deaths be related and why?

This is a very good murder mystery, a movie with a different feel to it for the times (like Seconds, for example). I really enjoyed it and the cast is outstanding. In addition to Scott, who's this for a cast...Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Frank Sinatra!

Wow! And there lies the "gimmick"...these huge actors appear in cameos behind mountains of makeup. Can you spot them within the movie?

It's a lot of fun, sort of a Where's Waldo of a movie, the murders are chilling and the mystery is quite good. Like all plot lines of this sort, some people will figure everything out right away and some won't until the end. I was one of the later.

Definitely a hidden gem and two thumbs up!