Editing Our Man Flint (section)

==Release==
The film was premiered in St Ann's Bay in Jamaica in December 1965 but not officially released in the US until January 1966. Coburn and Mann did not attend the premiere but Cobb and David did.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner |date=19 December 1965 |page=36 |title=The Abandoned Logic of Jamaica Premiere}}</ref>
===Critical reception===
''Our Man Flint'' generally received positive reviews, having a "Fresh" score of 76% on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] from 33 critics.

''Variety'' called it "a dazzling, action-jammed swashbuckling spoof of Ian Fleming’s valiant counterspy" where "in a cycle which sees virtually every studio clambering aboard the espionage bandwagon, indications point to blockbusting biz if film is properly exploited."<ref>{{cite book |section=Our Man Flint |page=292 |url=https://archive.org/details/varietyfilmrevie0011unse/page/n292/mode/1up? |title=Variety Film Reviews |date=1983}}</ref>

''Filmink'' argued "a great deal of" the success of the film "(correctly) was attributed to Coburn. What other actor could have pulled it off? He had a laconic, suave, rugged look, not too pretty, a nice sense of humour. It helped that in real life Coburn was a pot smoker who’d served in the military but went his own way in life, a genuine counterculture figure who was into cars, karate, and poetry – all came through for Derek Flint."<ref name="coburn">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|date=14 February 2025|access-date=14 February 2025|title=Movie Star Cold Streaks: James Coburn|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/movie-star-cold-streaks-james-coburn/}}</ref>

===Box office===
It was the ninth highest grossing film in 1966 based on North American theater rentals of $6,500,000.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 4, 1967|page=8|title=Big Rental Pictures of 1966|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1967-01-04_245_7/page/8/mode/1up|access-date=February 23, 2025|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>

According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $7,700,000 to break even (after distribution and overhead costs were added) and made $12,950,000 at the box office.<ref name="last">{{cite book |page=325 |title=The Fox That Got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox |last=Silverman |first=Stephen M |year=1988 |publisher=L. Stuart}}</ref>