The Yin and Yang of Mr. Go (1970)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2007
SYNOPSIS: Burgess Meredith wrote, directed, produced, and acted in this movie. That right there tells you all that you really need to know.
Mister Go (James Mason) is an international arms broker (among other things) whose office is in Hong Kong waters. He has acquired (via blackmail) a US scientist who is building a missile defense system that Mr. Go plans on selling to the highest bidder.
Nero Finnegan (Jeff Bridges) is a young writer who idolizes James Joyce. He helps to blackmail the scientist, but gets drunk with an undercover CIA agent, and puts the CIA on the trail of Mister Yin-Yang Go.
Luckily, right before Mr. Go can kill the frankly-detestable Nero Finnegan, Gautama Buddha opens his Third Eye, which essentially reverses the aspects of Mr. Go's personality (where he was avaricious, he is now generous, etc).
Did I mention that the filmmakers lured Buddha out of retirement to narrate this film? Well, they did.
Anyway, the rest of the movie consists of the CIA struggling to find and eliminate Mr. Go, while Mr. Go now intends to donate the missile defense system to mankind. But how will he pull it off? Only by faking his own death and throwing himself a magnificent funeral with the aid of his herbalist/acupuncturist The Dolphin (Burgess Meredith).
Mister Go (James Mason) is an international arms broker (among other things) whose office is in Hong Kong waters. He has acquired (via blackmail) a US scientist who is building a missile defense system that Mr. Go plans on selling to the highest bidder.
Nero Finnegan (Jeff Bridges) is a young writer who idolizes James Joyce. He helps to blackmail the scientist, but gets drunk with an undercover CIA agent, and puts the CIA on the trail of Mister Yin-Yang Go.
Luckily, right before Mr. Go can kill the frankly-detestable Nero Finnegan, Gautama Buddha opens his Third Eye, which essentially reverses the aspects of Mr. Go's personality (where he was avaricious, he is now generous, etc).
Did I mention that the filmmakers lured Buddha out of retirement to narrate this film? Well, they did.
Anyway, the rest of the movie consists of the CIA struggling to find and eliminate Mr. Go, while Mr. Go now intends to donate the missile defense system to mankind. But how will he pull it off? Only by faking his own death and throwing himself a magnificent funeral with the aid of his herbalist/acupuncturist The Dolphin (Burgess Meredith).
Kevin Hogan
Burgess Meredith
