Baraka sur X 13 (1966)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Directors:

Maurice Cloche
Silvio Siano

Writers:

Maurice Cloche (writer)
Odette Cloche (writer)

Release Date:

1 January 1966 (Italy)

Genre:

Adventure

Plot:

A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a solid-rocket-fuel. |

Plot Keywords:

Spy | Bare Chested Male | Whipping | Bare Chested Male Bondage | Hung By Wrists

Cast

Gérard Barray	...	Serge Vadile
Sylva Koscina	...	Mania
Agnès Spaak	...	Ingrid
José Suárez	...	Franck
Renato Baldini
José Luis Chinchilla
Yvette Lebon	...	Elvire
Gemma Cuervo	...	Solange
Osvaldo Genazzani
Luis Induni
Gérard Tichy
Nadia Brivio
Aldo Bufi Landi
Giacomo Furia
Alberto Cevenini

Also Known As:

Agent X-77 Orders to Kill (UK)
Agente X-77 - ordine di uccidere (Italy)
Baraka X-77
Baraka for Secret Service
Operación Silencio (Spain)

Runtime:

100 min | France:92 min | Italy:97 min

Country:

France | Italy | Spain

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:16 | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15

Company:

Balcázar Producciones Cinematográficas

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The French cinema is capable of many things, but the James Bond-type spy thriller is apparently not one of them. This particular effort lacks an intriguing plot, has no flair for action, and can't provide sparkling give-and-take dialog for its leading man and leading lady.

Sylva Koscina, always better than her material, looks good but has little of substance to do. Gerard Barray displays moments of charm but his prowess in fist-fights is never very persuasive. He does, however, get de-shirted and flogged in what may be the screen's third best example of a man being suspended by his wrists so that his feet don't touch the ground during the course of his punishment. (Okay, the two better examples are Charles Bronson in "Chino" and Charles Starrett in "The Mask of Fu Manchu.")