with a cigarette lighter grappling hook gun. Flint exits the space capsule as easily as jumping out of an airplane and propels himself toward the space station using his sonic vibrator. Flint, using his all-in-one device, launches a grappling hook and manages to slide along his way across the tight ope from one roof top to another, and once again, retracting his grappling hook device, he escapes to safely via a rooftop air shaft. According to his "boss", Lloyd C. Cramden, Flint was the most undisciplined, insubordinate man he had ever had to deal with. During World War II, Cramden was Flint's senior officer and as such had the unfortunate task of trying to lead the versatile man. Now, many years later, when a crisis arises that demands someone of Flint's abilities, Cramden has to mend fences and get Derek to help save the world. The first movie, which came out in 1965, did quite well and turned star James Coburn into a leading man. From gruff, simmering ruffian-style characters he had played before, Coburn portrayed an extremely suave, sophisticated man-of-the-world and he did so with the same ease that he had played the coarser roles. This proved successfully that Coburn was a highly skilled actor. One year later, in 1967, Coburn reprised the role in In Like Flint. The second film was directed by Gordon Douglas. It posits an international feminist conspiracy to depose the ruling American patriarchy with a feminist matriarchy. To achieve and establish it, they kidnap and replace the U.S. president, discredit the head of the Z.O.W.I.E. intelligence agency, and commandeer a nuclear-armed space platform, all directed from Fabulous Face, a women's spa in the Virgin Islands. This movie did not perform as well and the franchise stopped at two. Books Our Man Flint, written by Jack Pearl, copyright 1965 A dastardly group of scientists have banded together, called their organization GALAXY, and created the technology to control the weather. Using it to drastically change the patterns around the world, they plan to extort from the governments of the world total disarmament to bring about peace and give GALAXY the chance to correctly rule the planet. In Like Flint, written by Bradford Street, copyright 1967 Feminists have decided enough is enough and they are taking back the world. The first step is to replace the male leaders of the major powers with identical replicas, dedicated to