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Original American film poster
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Directed by | John Gilling |
Produced by | James Ward |
Screenplay by | Michael Pittock |
Starring |
Tom Adams Dawn Addams Michael Ripper |
Music by | Kenny Graham |
Cinematography | David Holmes |
Distributed by | Embassy Pictures |
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Running time
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88 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Where the Bullets Fly is a 1966 British comedy spy film directed by John Gilling and starring Tom Adams as Charles Vine and John Arnatt repeating their roles from Licensed to Kill (aka The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World). It also stars Dawn Addams, Tim Barrett and Michael Ripper.
Sid James (as a mortician), Wilfrid Brambell (as a train guard) and Joe Baker (as a new Labour Party Member of Parliament) have comedy cameo appearances.
The film begins with a pre-credit sequence in which a group of unnamed terrorists have parked a vehicle containing a guided missile pointed straight at the Palace of Westminster whilst politicians are heard on the film's soundtrack. They are thwarted by a group of older women in a tour group who turn out to be cross-dressing commandos who eliminate the terrorists with sub-machine guns and grenades. They are led by Agent Charles Vine with his second-in-command being Lt. Guy Fawkes who has saved the Parliament of England.
The film proper begins with the Royal Air Force testing a secret light-weight metal called "Spurium" that enables nuclear aircraft to fly. An unnamed sinister organisation led by a man named Angel hijacks the DC-3 aircraft by hypnotising the RAF Regiment guards and flying the plane to another location but they are shot down by the RAF.