Mister Zehn Prozent - Miezen und Moneten (1968)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Guido Zurli

Writers:

Arpad DeRiso (screenplay)
Werner Hauff (screenplay)

Release Date:

15 April 1968 (Italy)

Genre:

Thriller | Action | Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

Don't Cross The Path Of The Psychopath Unless You're Tired Of It All!

Plot:

The hero steals the haul from the thieves, gives it back to the police but charges 10% for that. |

Plot Keywords:

Manservant | Master Thief | Master Of Disguise | Caper | Scotland Yard

Cast

George Martin	...	Sigpress
Ingrid Schoeller	...	Marielle
Karin Field	...	Priscilla, Niorkos Frau
Paolo Carlini	...	Inspektor Bennet
Andrea Aureli	...	Thamistokles Niorkos
Gloria Paul	...	Nachtclubtänzerin
Aldo Canti	...	Pedro (as Nick Jordan)
Klaus Kinski	...	Periwinkle
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Artemio Antonini
Giorgio Bixio
Tom Candela
Consalvo Dell'Arti	...	Sir Barkley
Orchidea de Santis	...	Manuela, Niorkos Tochter
Fedele Gentile
Emanuele Gonzales
Mario Guizzardi
Marianne Leibl
Valentino Macchi
Aldo Marianecci
Pamela Mell
Vicky Morandi
Mimmo Palmara		(as Dick Palmer)
Furio Pellerani
Piero Sartori

Also Known As:

Psychopath (USA) (video title)
Sigpress contra Scotland Yard (Italy)
The Psychopath

Country:

Italy | West Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Certification:

West Germany:16

Company:

Cine Teatri

This Psychopath is not for horror fans

Psychopath, as this video was titled, begins with thieves who steal the contents of a safe, then are attacked by James Bond as they are leaving. Well, actually a dummy head of Sean Connery. All the shots of him have his face away from the screen. Later, it's revealed it was a mask. The man with the mask is Siegpress, who charges the police or insurance companies a percentage of the value of the stolen items he steals in order to return them.

I thought this was a horror movie because of the title, the presence of Klaus Kinski, and the fact that it was labeled as a horror movie by the video store. It's more of a crime thriller with some comedy in it. As such, I really wasn't interested and kept nodding off and eventually forward scanned through the rest.

It does have some very colorful set design and some very 1960s soundtrack music. At the end there were trailers by the video distributor for this movie as well as Banana Monster AKA Schlock (1973), White Slave AKA Schiave bianche: violenza in Amazzonia (1985), and I think Primal Fear.