It takes a goof

Danger: Diabolik

(1968)

Oh, my god, what a deliciously awful film! Produced by Dino De Laurentiis, with music by Ennio Morricone (including his fantasy of an acid rock song), this is a French-Italian production that is exclusively in English, with British cops and every currency amount rendered in dollars. In short, they don't care where you come from, as long as you can't act. The only familiar name in the cast is that of Terry-Thomas, which makes my point.

Imagine James Bond as the outlaw, with an Adam West-Batman sensibility.

Marisa Mell is uniformly gorgeous, her naughty bits covered up just enough so that hormonal teenages can get into the theater. The titular thief is played by one John Phillip Law, who appears masked often enough to get a clear look at his face for a while. Once I did, though, I was certain that he must be the father of a more famous acting Law. But no, apparently not.