The golden key (1967)

Movie
German title	The golden key
Original title	L'homme qui valait des milliards
Country of production	France , Italy
original language	French
Publishing year	1967
length	86 minutes
Age rating	FSK 88
Rod
Director	Michel Boisrond
script	Michel Boisrond Michel Lebrun
music	Georges Garvarentz
camera	Marcel Grignon
cut	Claudine Bouché
occupation
Frederick Stafford : Jean Sarton Raymond Pellegrin : Novak Peter van Eyck : Müller (in the original "Muller") Anny Duperey : Barbara Novak Sarah Stephane : Monique Christian Barbier : Carl Bernadette Robert : Juliette Jean Franval : Larrieux Jess Hahn : Henry Jacques Dynam : Loulou Henry Czarniak : Mario Sylvain Levignac : Georges

The golden key (original title: L'homme qui valait des milliards ) is a Franco-Italian spy film by Michel Boisrond (1967) with Frederick Stafford . The alternate title is The Man Who Hid Millions .

action

Only he knows where the ten boxes full of dollar bills lie, which the French pilot Novak brought to safety for himself after an emergency landing at the end of the Second World War . But others know that they exist, for example the FBI agent Jean Sarton and the German Müller, who was Novak's superior during the war. How these men play off against each other in order to get hold of the money is the subject of the film.

Novak sits for life due to collaboration with the Germans. Sarton allows himself to be imprisoned in the same prison in order to gain Novak's trust; he organizes his and Novak's escape. Shortly before the agreed time, the two are freed, namely by Müller, who also imprisoned them again to blackmail them. Sarton and Novak are able to flee to Paris, and now a cunning mutual chase with mysterious telephone calls, brawls on the banks of the Seine, falls of death and mysterious appointments begins there.

Müller can finally get hold of Novaks and kidnap them to the Moroccan city ​​of Fez , where the dollars are hidden in the basement of a huge Moorish palace. However, the German dies before he sees the money. On the other hand, his accomplice ensures that Sarton, Novak and his daughter Barbara are in dire straits, until everything comes together in the end, until Novak is pardoned, the dollars that turn out to be blossoms burn and Sarton and Barbara a couple become.

criticism

The lexicon of international films succinctly notes that the work is a well-acted agent film. The Evangelische Film-Beobachter sums it up: "A film with all the typical ingredients of the average-quality standard, a film without any particular highs or lows, presented by sympathetic actors."

literature

• Maurice Bessy, Raymond Chirat, André Bernard: Histoire du cinéma français. Encyclopédie des Films 1966–1970. (with photos for each film) Éditions Pygmalion, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-85704-379-1 , p. 185.

Web links

• The golden key in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 164/1968, pp. 169–170
2. ↑ The golden key. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .