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Title: OSS 117 - Double Agent (1968)
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Cast
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Margaret Lee | ... |
Aïcha Melik - la figlia di Melik
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| Curd Jürgens | ... |
Il Maggiore - il capo dei gangster
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| Luciana Paluzzi | ... |
Maud - la dottoressa
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Robert Hossein | ... |
Il dottor Saadi
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Rosalba Neri | ... |
Conchita Esteban
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George Eastman | ... |
Karas
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Guido Alberti | ... |
Faruk Melik - il braccio destro del Maggiore
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Piero Lulli | ... |
Heindrich Van Dyck - un rappresentante dell'ONU
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Renato Baldini | ... |
MacLeod - un diplomatico della CIA
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Luciano Bonanni | ... |
Un poliziotto
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Romano Moschini |
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Raf Baldassarre |
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Seyna Seyn |
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Giovanni Pallavicino |
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Storyline
The American Secret Service sends their best agent, OSS 117, to investigate a number of political murders that the police was not able to prevent. Desguised as a ruthless killer, 'William Chandler', OSS 117 will penetrate the terrorist organization just when it is preparing the murder of Heindrich Van Dyck, the UN delegate to the Middle-East peace process. OSS 117 will use a fake killing of Van Dyck, and substitute corpses, trying to dupe the criminal master mind, Dr. Saadi. Only, the Major is too clever, abducts Aicha, and OSS 117 must fight both for his life (as he must take a daily antidote for a drug he was injected with), Aicha's endangered life, and passing the information of the whereabouts of the terrorists headquarters to the Army before it's too late... Too much for OSS 117? Written by Artemis-9
....So OSS 117 has nothing to complain about.Director André Hunebelle ,who used to direct Jean Marais in watchable swashbucklers had become a spy thriller drudge. It's his fourth Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (OSS 's real name ,for those who care) .He used first Kevin Connors ,then Frederick Stafford .
The cast of "Pas de Roses..." is by far the most interesting: gathering one of his talented compatriots (Robert Hossein) earnest German thespian Jürgens,an ex-James Bond Girl (Luciana Paluzzi,remember Fiona Volpe?)and John Gavin ,the hero of Douglas Sirk's last great works ("Imitation of life" (1959) and " a time to love and a time to die") not to mention "psycho" where he was completely overshadowed by Perkins anyway.
The story is routine itself but there are some good ideas ,such as the poison .More somber than "furia à Bahia" but,unlike the precedent 0SS, humorless.
Like this?Try these (James Bond " A La Française")
"OSS 117 se déchaine" Hunebelle 1963
"Banco à Bangkok pour 0SS 117" Hunebelle 1965
"Furia à Bahia pour 0SS 117 " Hunebelle 1965
"Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117" Boisrond 1966