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Film's Storyline:
Madrid, Spain, 1967: Arthur Lang is a professional actor, specializing in the hot genre of the spaghetti western. While on location shooting an Italian western he is unexpectedly contacted by two mysterious persons who offer him a very peculiar proposition. One of the mystery men, Monsieur Bernard from Paris, wants Lang to impersonate a Mr Owen, a stuffy English gentleman who happens to be the only man on Earth who knows the combination of an otherwise impenetrable, space-age bank safe. The actor is promised a great deal of cash, and he is assured that it will be an easy assignment. Lang, against his better judgement, accepts the offer and flies to Paris in order to substitute Owen in his job as supervisor of a mammoth diamond collection, that of the elite London firm known as General Diamond.
Thanks to Langs dead-on impersonation of Owen, Bernard and his men are able to steal a quantity of diamonds. It is revealed that the operation, a fake robbery, had been executed in order to demonstrate that the General Diamond security system is not sufficient, and Monsieur Bernard turns out to actually be the chief of the British Secret Service! The President of General Diamond is obliged to admit the imperfection of the security system, and he reluctantly accepts the presence of some MI6 agents in his company. Soon the agents discover strange traces of radioactivity in the General Diamond vaults, which eventually leads to the conclusion that there is a high-tech conspiracy being planned against the jewel firm. Lang will succeed in solving the mystery and will ultimately discover that a high-ranking government official is the top conspirator!
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