Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

bkoganbing Dana Andrews was one of those second rank movie stars who was finding roles becoming scarce in the USA and went to Europe for work. He's top billed and the title character in Spy In Your Eye, but the action and possible romance are left to Brett Halsey and Pier Angeli.Halsey is given the assignment to bring out from behind the Iron Curtain Pier Angeli who is the son of a scientist who's been doing all kinds of work before he died in lasers developing that death ray gun the tool of so many futuristic space heroes like Flash Gordon and Rocky Jones. In the meantime Andrews has sacrificed for God and country one of his eyes. But not to worry Dana has had a bionic eye installed which not only makes him see better, but it transmits video when needed. When the Reds start pirating his eye broadcasts things go wildly wrong for our intelligence before they're set right. Lee Majors never had these problems.This is James Bond type stuff on the cheap. The film is also badly edited and you have to read between the lines a lot to figure out what's going on.One thing though a lot of European and Mid Eastern cities were used for location shooting. On travel the budget did not stint.James Bond this is not.

Uriah43 "Colonel Lancaster" (Dana Andrews) is the director for a team of American spies during the Cold War who just happens to be scheduled to receive an eye implant so that he can regain his sight in one eye. What he doesn't know is that the Russians have invented an ingenious device which will not only give eyesight back to Colonel Lancaster--but will also transmit everything he says or does back to them which gives them invaluable information. One specific case involves a scientist who has invented a new weapon which the Russians, Americans and Chinese all want to get their hands on. Unfortunately, the scientist is killed trying to escape to the West and as a result his daughter, "Paula Krauss" (Pier Angeli) now becomes their main target because they think she has the vital information they all want. Now, rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it I will just say that this was a decent spy movie for the most part. One noticeable flaw, however, was the lack of character development which caused some confusion here and there. But other than that I suppose it was okay for the time spent and I rate it as about average.

John Seal Ever wondered what Dana Andrews would look like in a keffiyeh? Never seen kidnapping victims transported in giant size toothpaste tubes? Amused by hunchbacks with retractable knives in their hunches? Got a hankering for animatronic statues of Napoleon that can kill? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, Spy In Your Eye is the film you've been waiting for all your life. Andrews plays a spy boss with a video camera installed in his left eye socket, but his character is actually peripheral to that of secret agent Brett Halsey, who's assigned to rescue the daughter (Pier Angeli) of an East German scientist. The commies (Soviet and Chinese) are also on her tail, as she possesses a valuable formula discovered by her late, Nobel-prize winning father. The action is plentiful, there's lots of impressive location photography (Berlin, Paris,Beirut), and you get the feeling everything would look a whole lot better if not for the faded, pan and scan TV print that currently provides us with our sole opportunity to watch Spy In Your Eye. Side note about the score: it's credited to Riz Ortolani, but there are some 'futuristic' cues in the early going that I swear must have been composed by Alberto Lavagnino.

steve_wenzel Saw film at a double-feature second run house in the '60s. The spy-in-your-eye alternate title refers to an implanted micro television camera in a spy's eye. I can't remember if it was Dana Andrews. There's a tunnel under the Berlin Wall for the west to spy on the east that figures in the plot. Of course, the tunnel is discovered. There's a gimmick character who's hunchback deformity conceals a radio transmitter. Never understood why, if they could get the camera that small, why not the radio? I remember it fondly, but then I was 12 years old. Representative of '60's spy cycle, but at least they referenced real cold war players instead of made-up spy organizations. Don't know if its available.