After an ambush by former teammate Kip Thompson (Alec Cord) results in multiple fatalities in the Congo, freelance soldier Major Harry Grigsby (Stanley Baker of Joseph Losey's ACCIDENT) is eager to take him out. He gets the chance when he is sent to Hong Kong where Thompson has been leading Chinese mercenaries in raids on the border. Kip and his army are always one step ahead of Grigsby and his men (whom he continues to pick off) and Grigsby soon finds himself falling in love with his commander's wife Katherine (Honor Blackman, GOLDFINGER). Grigsby and Kip go head to head when Kip targets Katherine. THE LAST GRENADE is a thoroughly British production of the sixties with second unit local color views of Hong Kong, spacious interior sets by Anthony Pratt (some of which would not look out of place in a Bond film), a lush John Dankworth score (quite a departure from his more minimalist work on Joseph Losey productions), and great scope photography (with some romantic filtration for the Baker/Blackman scenes) by Alan Hume. Given these attributes, one wishes the film were better. Baker is always an entertaining lead but Attenborough's slumming, Blackman doesn't have much to do, and Cord is unconvincing. That said, Grigsby's team is made up of some welcome British film faces such as Andrew Kier and Julian Glover (both from QUATERMASS AND THE PIT), John Thaw (TV's INSPECTOR MORSE), Ray Brooks (THE FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW) as well as American Rafer Jackson. There's some good action setpieces but the dramatics are tired but it may be interesting viewing as a sixties British action film not featuring James Bond.