This was legendary British cinematographer Cardiff's official directorial debut after his involvement in Errol Flynn's aborted pet project, THE STORY OF WILLIAM TELL in 1953. Although I have had to make do with a barely serviceable copy culled from a VHS-sourced transmission off of US TV channel "American Movie Classics", this is quite a good thriller that deserves rediscovery.
I don't want to go into the plot at all because it's the generic "tough cop, but with feelings getting a hard time from the commissioner, shooting and driving like crazy with a lot of broken glass and explosions" kind of a movie. But I like the aesthetics.
The parallels with the MGM film Crisis that starred Cary Grant and Jose Ferrer about a South American dictator having an operation are too obvious to ignore in reviewing Intent To Kill.The big difference is that while Jose Ferrer had the operation done by a visiting Dr.
Intent to Kill is one incredibly hot movie! Traci Lords does her best as a really tough female cop.
Intent To Kill is another entertaining B action film from producers Richard Pepin and Joseph Merhi of PM Entertainment. I'll simply describe a scene and let you decide if the film is worth viewing based on the following.
INTENT TO KILL is a hospital-set thriller with a plot way ahead of its time. It's a lean and economic little film which sees Richard Todd's surgeon performing brain surgery on Herbert Lom, the latter playing the leader of a South American country.
Richard Todd plays a surgeon called on to operate on President Lom whilst trying to keep a grip on his domestic affairs.His wife being played by Euro vision hostess Katie Boyle who shows why she retired from acting.
For lack of better things to watch, we stumbled on this movie the other night on cable. Wow!
This is a 1993 straight-to-video stereotypical female-cop-has-to-show-her-stuff-to make-it-to-the-top movie. The action is written into the script AND it is executed...
