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A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
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91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Energetic and inventive, it's a satirical, smart, grown-up thriller.
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Chicago Sun-Times
A real movie, rich and atmospheric, savoring its disreputable characters and their human weaknesses.
80
The first really good spy movie about the impossibility, under present historical circumstances, of making a really good spy movie.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Forget the end and there is much to enjoy here.
70
A cut above the preposterous action spectacles that now pass for espionage films.
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