Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Steve O'Rourke 'Avec-Avec'...aka "Duffy" is one of the lost films of the late 20th century ..for some reason this film has been shunned by the consumer worlds of VHS and DVD...and now Netflix.... but make no mistake it is a tight cool, heist flick with subtle twists that make it worth tracking down...take a trip back to the late '60s and enjoy the essence of what film making should be all about....escapism.....why was the film shunned?? my guess is because of the sexuality of it...the female lead is deep, evocative and sleeps with both the son....and the father... the jazzy soundtrack, the cinematography..and the classy style of all the actors will make you reach for that Bombay Gin...;-D

bkoganbing Duffy is one of those films that's a chicken/egg film. Is the fact that James Mason treats his two sons Edward Fox and James Alderton like dirt make them hate him. Or is it the fact that they apparently are worthless and he let's them know it. Whatever it is, these two have made up there mind to show dear old dad a thing or two. Businessman Mason is shipping a large lot of money from Tangier to Marseille on a ship and they plan to rob it. That'll show dad.So Alderton like the sons in House Of Strangers and Broken Lance works for wages and this film bears some resemblance to those two. Fox is just a worthless playboy starting to look a little too old for those Carnaby Street fashions that swinging London made popular in the Sixties. These two and Fox's girlfriend Susannah York do realize that they don't have the talent for this caper. So they call in an exiled American professional criminal, the guy who plays the title role in this film, James Coburn.Knowing a bit about Coburn I can see why he gravitated to this movie. Duffy is a whole lot like the real James Coburn, a rather free spirited hedonist who saw acting as a way to make sure he had his pleasures just like Duffy is into criminality. He knows his business and gives the trio proper guidance. But York has an agenda all her own.Duffy doesn't quite get off the ground, most of the time you're wishing he'd just smack these two Calvert twits, James Mason's idiot sons. And these two are truly not worthy of anyone's rooting interest.But Coburn and Mason cut a pair of interesting characters and the cinematography of the blue Mediterranean is nice. Fans of Mason and Coburn will like it.

Xaaralia When "Duffy" was released, I was working in one of my father's theatres as the projectionist. As a projectionist I saw a lot of movies...over and over again. I can tell you that when you screen the same movie six to eight times a day for two, three, four weeks or more, most films soon lose their lustre. Not so with "Duffy". Of course I was just a kid then, and the sixties "counter-culture" was my adolescent fantasy. James Coburn, already extremely cool from "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Great Escape" was riding a wave of popularity from the campy "Flint" movies, but "Duffy" was a very cool and fun movie that I never tired of watching. It never took off as a hit and I've often wondered why. It was just as effective as other caper movies of the era, such as "Topkapi" or "Gambit". I think the reason it never took off was because 1968 was an eventful, tumultuous year, and "straight" America was frowning hard upon hippies and counter-culture. Too bad. I think the owner of this film would be surprised and well rewarded by releasing it to DVD.

sawyer-1 This is a "feel good" movie. It has a fun plot, the actors all put in a good performance, and it was filmed in gorgeous Mediterranean locations. If you like vacationing in the Mediterranean area, this movie whets your appetite for another visit. Most of the movie was filmed in and around the city of Almeria, located on the south coast of Spain. This area has been used frequently for "spaghetti westerns" because of desert-like scenery. The scenes of "Tangiers" were filmed right in the city of Almeria. I visited here in 1984, and the city still had many winding alleys and whitewashed houses that looked like they could have been Tangiers. The lighthouse and rocky beach scenes were filmed at nearby Cabo de Gato. I revisited Almeria in 1999, and it was unrecognizable - all ugly hi-rise buildings. The Cabo de Gato area is still gorgeous, though. There are many beach houses near the lighthouse, but it is now a protected natural reserve area. I've never been able to find the beach club in the movie, although the scenery is very much like the area around the nearby town of San Jose.