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Death Trip (1967 film)

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Kommissar X Drei grüne Hunde
Directed byRudolf Zehetgruber
Gianfranco Parolini
Screenplay byRudolf Zehetgruber
Produced byTheo Maria Werner
Herb Bromberg
Rudolf Zehetgruber
StarringTony Kendall
Brad Harris
Olly Schoberova
Christa Linder
CinematographyAngelo Lotti
Edited byEdmondo Lozzi
Music byFrancesco de Masi
Release date
  • 1967 (1967)
LanguageGerman

Kommissar X Drei grüne Hunde , Template:Lang-it, also known as Death Trip and Kill Me Gently is a 1967 West German-Italian-French-Lebanese-Hungarian international co-production Eurospy film written, co-produced and co-directed by Rudolf Zehetgruber and Gianfranco Parolini. Filmed in Turkey, it stars Tony Kendall and Brad Harris. It is the fourth of seven films, loosely based on the Kommissar X detective novel series from the Pabel Moewig publishing house.[1] The film also features Dietmar Schonherr, director/screenwriter Rudolf Zehetgruber and Harris' wife of the time Olly Schoberova.

Plot

New York Police Department Captain Rowland travels to Istanbul to bring a shipment of LSD to be used by the American armed forces stationed in Turkey for undisclosed purposes. When the shipment is stolen by a local and ancient criminal organisation known as "the Green Hounds", Rowland teams up with private eye Joe Walker to recover the shipment.

Cast

Theme song in opening credits

"Angela Monti sings the Joe Walker's theme by Bobby Gutesha"

References

  1. ^ Marco Giusti. 007 all'italiana. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. ISBN 9788876381874.