Von Sydow joins an all-star cast that includes George Sanders (in drag) and Orson Welles for this complex espionage thriller about an American naval officer (O’Neal) on a dangerous mission to recover a top-secret document from Moscow. A nihilistic inversion of the James Bond formula, Huston’s fascinating riff on the spy film is populated by sleazy secret agents driven by sadism, sex, drugs, and despair.