The Fighting Wildcats
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The Fighting Wildcats

6 / 10 | 1h 14m | United Kingdom
1957 | Drama
American engineer Brett Manders, an expert in the use of explosives, quits his job in the Middle East after being paid $5,000 to extinguish an oil fire. Brett plans to fly from Baghdad to London to reunite with his girl friend, Pat Patterson, so Ismael, a truck driver who works for the oil firm, offers to give him a ride to Baghdad. They are accompanied by the alluring Men Hassa, who is attracted Brett. Unknown to Brett, both Ismael and Men Hassa are working for a secret political group to ensure that Brett boards the London-bound plane. Upon reaching Baghdad, however, Men Hassa defies orders by inviting Brett to her apartment and seducing him to convince him to stay. The next morning, the womanizing Brett leaves Men Hassa, but when he calls from the airport to say goodbye, she begs him to come back. Having overheard their conversation, Ismael kills Men Hassa. After a stop in Algiers, Brett reaches London, where a man named William Cross unexpectedly comes to his hotel room and offers him $100,000 to perform an unspecified task, then arranges to meet Brett later that night. While informing Pat about the meeting, the unprincipled Brett declares that his only interest is in the money, not in what he has to do to earn it. That evening, Cross brings his employer, Arnold Langford, to Brett's hotel room, where Langford explains that he wants Brett to kill Ibraham Sayed, an envoy sent by the United States to bring peace to the Middle East, a development that would curtail Langford's sales of armaments. Sayed, who is to arrive in London in three days, will be driving from the airport to his home in Mayville Square, and Langford proposes blowing up the envoy's car as it reaches his house. Langford suggests that Brett work with Tommy, a mechanic who can help assemble the bomb. Upon discovering that there is a vacant house for sale across from Sayed's property, Brett and Pat, posing as prospective buyers, gain access to the building and Brett makes a mold of the key. Meanwhile, Maj. Osborne and Lt. Jeff Collins of British Intelligence are notified of Men Hassa's murder and learn that she has a brother, Nuri, who works for Trans Desert Airways in London. As Brett meets with Tommy that night, Jeff slips into the Trans Desert office and photographs some papers documenting the airline's travel routes and ownership. At the house on Mayville Square, Tommy and Brett discover a tunnel leading under the road and decide to place the bomb there. When Brett relates his plan to L

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