• Warning: Spoilers
    You can't teach new tricks to an old dog especially if the oldie's name is Don Medford. Don was an excellent TV director, but as a director of feature films like "The Organization", he was unteachable. Mr. Medford didn't have the slightest idea what a reverse angle was, but he did know how to say, "No way, José!", if his cameraman suggested one. Mr. Medford's favorite shot was a close-up. To Medford, a really good movie was one composed almost entirely of close-ups. I'll admit that this suited the requirements of TV right down to the ground. On a big screen, however, it looks both ugly and ridiculous. Each scene in a Medford film is composed of a multiplicity of close-ups, haphazardly strung together in an extremely jerky and often bewildering manner. It's even hard to identify the baddies, due to Medford's erratic style. There is, however, one scene in this movie that Medford actually got right – or maybe he was away that day? I refer to the excitingly staged and handled shoot-out in the excavation tunnel. Alas, in keeping with the pedestrian and inappropriate direction, the music score is one of the most deliriously unsuitable and loudly obtrusive we have heard for some time.