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Mostly directed by Ronald Neame after original director Cliff Owen is fired early in the shoot, A Man Could Get Killed, a frivolous, semi-serious espionage caper served with a perfunctory dash of faux Hitchcockian intrigue, opens nationally. Scripted by Richard L. Brea and T.E.B. Clarke, from David E. Walker’s novel Diamonds For Danger, the Lisbon-set story stars James Garner as an American banker who gets involved with a nefarious diamond smuggling outfit that has mistaken him for a government agent. Anthony Franciosa, Melina Mercouri and Sandra Dee gamely prop up the shenanigans. Bert Kaempfert’s score includes the melody for Strangers In The Night which, with lyrics added by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder, becomes a global hit for Frank Sinatra.
