One for the fans of early Almodovar and outrageous costumes: a cautionary tale from the director of Zorba the Greek.

The plot for this 1967 film builds on an in-flight collision in 1966 in which four American nuclear bombs were briefly lost in coastal waters off Spain, causing so much hullabaloo that future flight crews faced with ditching their nuclear cargo were told to do so over isolated dry land whenever possible to facilitate secret recovery.

So when an Air Force plane has to ditch its cargo of two nuclear bombs and a mysterious armor-plated box called "Q" just before the plane plunges largely unseen into isolated Mediterranean waters; the two flight crewmen (navigator Tom Courtenay and pilot Colin Blakely in a hilarious, bickering odd-couple relationship) dump their nuclear cargo via parachutes over a fortuitously near-by dry, sun-drenched, treeless, rocky Greek isle inhabited by only a small coastal fishing village and several inland goat farmers. Though the crew are presumed killed in the crash by their superiors, they survive without injury and manage to swim ashore naked and starving.

Meanwhile with unlimited budget, a top secret government team led by 'Elias' (Sam Wanamaker) is assembled to find and secretly secure and remove the two bombs and that mysterious box. Wearing outrageous casual clothing to disguise their purpose, they arrive under-cover in a massive touring ship posing as a real estate speculator and investment firm.