The Phynx

Markevitch, the dictator of Communist-run Albania, has been using his military led by Col. S. Rostinov, to kidnap leading American citizens such as George Jessel, Dorothy Lamour, Colonel Harland Sanders, Butterfly McQueen, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Xavier Cugat, and even Johnny Weissmuller. After Corrigan of the US Secret Service fails in his mission to extract these Americans from Albania, Corrigan's boss Bogey, on the advice of M.O.T.H.A. ("Mechanical Oracle That Helps Americans"), decides to recruit a four-person undercover team, posing as a rock band christened "The Phynx", to assume the mission. The four "volunteers" are out-of-work activist Dennis Larden, whitified Native American recent-college-graduate Ray Chippeway, athlete A. "Michael" Miller, and Black actor Lonny Stevens, who are placed under rigorous training, including learning how to be musicians and knowing all about what it means to be a melting-pot American, before they are sent to Albania under Corrigan's lead. Before they can complete their mission, they must first understand Markevitch's motivation, which they might not be able to learn until they meet him.