All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Cocky pickpocket Sky McCoy (an insipid performance by James Brolin, who looks mighty handsome, but projects all the charisma of a 200 pound block of wood) steals a microfilm from a purse on a bus that various government agents from different countries want for themselves.While the basic premise sounds pretty gripping and exciting, this movie alas fizzles more than sizzles due to Robert D. Webb's bland direction, a crippling paucity of tension, a plodding pace, and a blah script that gets bogged down in too much tedious talk. Fortunately, the solid acting from a capable cast just manages to keep this picture watchable: Jacqueline Bisset as the feisty Candy (Bisset looks positively ravishing in this film!), Claire Trevor as brassy old dame informant Sam Williams, Bob Courtney as the no-nonsense Captain Herrick, John Whiteley as slimy traitorous jerk Joey, and Gordon Mulholland as hard-nosed police chief Du Plessis. Moreover, the groovy jazz score by Bob Adams and Joe Kentridge does the right-on boppin' trick while David Millin's competent cinematography makes the most out of the gorgeous Cape Town scenery. This listless picture finally bursts to life towards the end with an fierce fist fight between Brolin and Whiteley, but it's a classic case of too little too late. A passable diversion at best.

This film is a remake of a film made in 1953 known as Pick Up On South Street Starred Richard Widmark Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter. The bad guy looked like Alan Arkin but cant see his names in any of the credits It was basically the same theme and even the music used was the same for the most part Man is it hard to get 10 lines when you just want to inform some people about a movie so now a bit of padding to get the 10 lines that's what cost me in University I could not regurgitate 1000 pages on nonsense to tell one simple story Hope this is of interest I think I made my 10 line requirement. Well I am back again to make sure I have the number of lines required to get submitted. Not sure why we have to go 10 lines when you can say it in 4 but anyway maybe now it will be OK for submission to the grammar captains

A waste of time. Not worth watching. No wonder the film played as a support on its original theatrical release. Filmed in murky color (but cleaned up for DVD) and directed in a thoroughly routine, flat-footed style — long shots bisected with endless pedestrian close-ups — Cape Town Affair is worse than routine. It's amazing how little tension, and how piffling the suspense, the present writers, director and players manage to extract from a scenario that was originally tautly exciting. How slowly paced, how tediously drawn out, how downright wearisome each scene now appears! How sparse the dramatic impact Webb is able to furnish from his real Cape Town (South Africa) locations! True, he is hampered by a script that even in its 82-minute version is unmercifully padded out, over-extended and over-weighted with extraneous dialogue. The players are no help whatever. Claire Trevor has a grand time chewing up the scenery in the Thelma Ritter role, but her performance is an utter bore. The same goes for Jacqueline Bisset (who is not very flatteringly photographed or costumed to boot) and James Brolin (who exhibits very little in the way of charisma).

There is one redeeming feature: the gorgeous Ms Bisset. The acting is dreadful. Even Bisset is terrible. Forget the fact that it is a remake and forget great views of Cape Town (because this is a very dark film, and I don't mean noir).My first attempt at this submission was rejected because it contains less than ten lines, but what else is there to say?OK, I can say that even the music is formulaic in the sense that all spy movies were in the 60s. This is the sort of movie where you want to say "What were they thinking?"OK? It is hard to imagine that IMDb encourages wasting cyber space.