DANA ANDREWS IN 'SPY IN YOUR EYE' WITH GASTON MOSCHIN

Dana Andrews in Spy in your Eye Year: 1965 Rates: ***

Of eight movies DANA ANDREWS appeared in from 1965, the unknown SPY IN YOUR EYE aka BANG YOU'RE DEAD has the lowest budget, seeming as if filmed on 16MM as Dana's an eye-patched operative provided a glass eye in its place and, unbeknownst to him there's a camera inside care-of villainous surgeon Gastone Moschin, who'd later become the most formidable, deserving-to-die baddie The Black Hand in THE GODFATHER 2...

But like most situations when veteran actors get star treatment, there's a young buried lead here in Brett Halsey, whose mission, including taking a train aided by an intrepid cohort with a hunchback that's actually a knife, is to... well... 

Dana Andrews in the movie trailer for SPY IN YOUR EYE

He travels around a lot and winds up in Arabic countries (supposedly) with intriguing blonde ingenue Pier Angeli, holding back a few mysteries and countered by a brunette femme fatale in Tania Béryl, whose actually more vulnerable than wicked since Gastone, her boss, is as bad as they get...

Meanwhile, an expository Andrews merely bookends the adventure, leaving the action sequences... which actually flow pretty well... to Halsey in a curio too obscure for a cult following but that's, overall, surprisingly satisfying, fitting neatly into Dana's other 1965 low-budgets BRAINSTORM, TOWN TAMER and CRACK IN THE WORLD. 

Dana Andrews in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Dana Andrews in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Dana Andrews in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Brett Halsey and Tania Beryl in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Dana Andrews in SPY IN YOUR EYE with Brett Halsey

Brett Halsey in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Gaston Hoschin in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Dana Andrews in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Tania Béryl in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Gastone Moschin in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Gastone Moschin in SPY IN YOUR EYE

BRETT HALSEY in SPY IN YOUR EYE

PIER ANGELI in SPY IN YOUR EYE

DANA ANDREWS in SPY IN YOUR EYE

The tractor blasting scene in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Brett Halsey in SPY IN YOUR EYE

Gastone Moschin in SPY IN YOUR EYE with Brett Halsey