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Such a frustrating disappointment

Best movie of this year hands down!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This attempts to combine something of the cool swinging style of "Blow Up" with a James Coburn comedy-heist movie which are anything but cool and stylish. Providing undeserved gravitas is the inimitable James Mason. Its a combination that just doesnt gel, The lovely Susanna York had an innate dignity and class as an actress such as had no place here. It is at least attractively shot in colourful sunny locations. Perhaps the cast regarded it as a holiday rather than something that would advance their reputations

We thought it would be cool to see this vintage 60's film. It wasn't. It was instead, painful to watch. The dialog is dull, it is clichéd, silly, poorly executed, unintelligent. It was almost like watching a skit on Love American Style. Suzannah York's character was possibly supposed to be a love able 60's perky blond perhaps like Goldie Hawn. Instead she seems dumb, selfish and a sad case. On the bright side the sets and props are cool. There are some beautiful shots but aside from that, I can't imagine how this could be anyones favorite film.

Duffy is one of those films that's a chicken/egg film. Is the fact that James Mason treats his two sons Edward Fox and James Alderton like dirt make them hate him. Or is it the fact that they apparently are worthless and he let's them know it. Whatever it is, these two have made up there mind to show dear old dad a thing or two. Businessman Mason is shipping a large lot of money from Tangier to Marseille on a ship and they plan to rob it. That'll show dad.So Alderton like the sons in House Of Strangers and Broken Lance works for wages and this film bears some resemblance to those two. Fox is just a worthless playboy starting to look a little too old for those Carnaby Street fashions that swinging London made popular in the Sixties. These two and Fox's girlfriend Susannah York do realize that they don't have the talent for this caper. So they call in an exiled American professional criminal, the guy who plays the title role in this film, James Coburn.Knowing a bit about Coburn I can see why he gravitated to this movie. Duffy is a whole lot like the real James Coburn, a rather free spirited hedonist who saw acting as a way to make sure he had his pleasures just like Duffy is into criminality. He knows his business and gives the trio proper guidance. But York has an agenda all her own.Duffy doesn't quite get off the ground, most of the time you're wishing he'd just smack these two Calvert twits, James Mason's idiot sons. And these two are truly not worthy of anyone's rooting interest.But Coburn and Mason cut a pair of interesting characters and the cinematography of the blue Mediterranean is nice. Fans of Mason and Coburn will like it.

This was a very hip, very funny movie. The plot zig-zags around in completely unexpected turns, and the dialog is full of off-beat humor that you really have to pay attention to get. The photography is gorgeous as are the locales. It recreates the breezy easy-going style of the Sixties and the overall effect is like having a vacation on the Mediterranean. Susannah York never looked better. James Mason is laying down his elder statesman's foundation. James Coburn and James Fox are forsaking pretenses of movie idol-hood and are really acting. The under-rated John Alderton shines.