A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| David Niven | ... | 'Major' Bradbury | |
| Toshirô Mifune | ... | The Ambassador (as Toshiro Mifune) | |
| Hardy Krüger | ... | Muller (as Hardy Kruger) | |
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Ando | ... | Koichi |
| Irene Tsu | ... | Talah | |
| Ivan Desny | ... | Foreign Minister | |
| Miiko Taka | ... | Madame Kagoyama | |
| Jeff Corey | ... | Mr. King | |
| Patricia Donahue | ... | Mrs. King | |
| Ronald Fraser | ... | Sergeant Forster | |
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Jeannine Siniscal | ... | Foreign Minister's Girl |
| Kurt Christian | ... | Harok | |
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Mika Kitagawa | ... | Ambassador's Secretary |
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Eric Soh | ... | Pathet |
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Salleh Ben Joned | ... | Sokono (as Salleh Joned) |
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A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
5 November 1975 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Tigre de papel See more »Company Credits
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MacLean and Company, Euan Lloyd Productions, National Philharmonic Orchestra See more »
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Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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The events in which they become involved are, unhappily, happening almost daily in some part of the world.
It must therefore be emphasised that all the characters are fictitious, as is the country in which the story takes place.
KULAGONG is somewhere in South East Asia. See more »
(uncredited)
Music by Roy Budd and Jack Fishman (uncredited)
Sung by the Ray Conniff Singers
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When the Bedford 4-Ton truck is tipped over the cliff, the model that's initially pushed with a digger is the mid 1970's model previously driven into the scene, but the one that tumbles down the hill is a much older (late 1950's/early 1960's) model with different style of cab. See more »Crazy Credits
Opening credits prologue: This is the story of a man and a boy.The events in which they become involved are, unhappily, happening almost daily in some part of the world.
It must therefore be emphasised that all the characters are fictitious, as is the country in which the story takes place.
KULAGONG is somewhere in South East Asia. See more »
Soundtracks
Main Theme(uncredited)
Music by Roy Budd and Jack Fishman (uncredited)
Sung by the Ray Conniff Singers
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You would be forgiven at first into thinking that this was an old Walt Disney children's film. The humour is family orientated and typically weak - this type of film always has an annoying American character in holiday mode who pops up every so often. However the story is quite clever, albeit moralistic - the moral is don't pretend to be something you ain't.
The main problem with this film is that you are unsure what kind of viewers it is actually aimed at. In between the "sweet" scenes of David Niven and his young cheeky Asian charge there are shootings,terrorist bombings and assassination attempts - hardly Walt Disney.
However, the story is quite good with nice appearances from familiar faces and, apart from the rather insipid and soppy vocal version of the theme tune, is wrapped up fairly well. A good Saturday-afternoon-with-nothing-to-do sort-of-film