Dick Smart 2.007 is a 1967 Italian film directed by Franco Prosperi and starring Richard Stapley and Margaret Lee.
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Plot
Secret agent Dick Smart has been assigned by the CIA to investigate the disappearance of five world-renowned nuclear scientists. Lady Lorraine Lister is the head of a criminal organization who hides the five scientists in her secret underground lair located inside the Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro, and finances their experiments. Dick Smart discovers that Lady Lorraine Lister and Dutch banker Black Diamond have built a nuclear reactor to obtain diamonds from carbon by exploding an atomic bomb.
Cast
Richard Stapley as Dick Smart (as Richard Wyler)
Margaret Lee as Lady Lorraine Lister
Rosana Tapajos as Jeanine Stafford
Ambrosio Fregolente as Black Diamond
Flavia Balbi as Patricia
Elio Guerriero as Scioloff
Alfredo Leuti
Valentino Macchi
Tullio Altamura
Bernadette Kell
Assunta De Paoli
Paolo Ginori Conti
Guido Lauzi
Giuseppe Schettino
Max Turilli
Production
The film was noted for featuring a Vespa 180 SS scooter, which in the film was able to fly and dive underwater.
Release
Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973 reports that the film was relegated to late-night viewings on Italian television, and there is no record of a U.S. or British theatrical release, even in the sixties.
Reception
Tom Lisanti and Louis Paul in Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973 criticized "the listless direction of Franco Prosperi" (which the book confuses with Franco E. Prosperi, one of the co-directors of Mondo Cane) and "the obvious low budget (spare sets, monotonous camera set-ups)".