Daggers in the kasbah
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Daggers in the kasbah |
| Original title | Where the Spies Are |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Val Guest |
| script | Val Guest Wolf Mankowitz |
| production |
F. Sherwin Green Val Guest Steven Pallos |
| music | Mario Nascimbene |
| camera | Arthur Grant |
| cut | Bill Lenny |
| occupation | |
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Daggers in the Kasbah (original title: Where the Spies Are ) is a British feature film by the director Val Guest from 1965. The screenplay was written by the director together with Wolf Mankowitz . It is based on the novel "Passport to Oblivion" by James Leasor (German Freifahrt ins Jenseits, 1966). The main roles are cast with David Niven , Françoise Dorléac and John Le Mesurier . The film was first released in the cinemas in its country of production in May 1965, and in the Federal Republic of Germany on March 3 the following year.
action
Dr. Jason Love, an English country doctor with a penchant for fast cars, is baited by the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service with a corduroy car , model Baron, built in 1937. He is supposed to research the missing agent "K" in Beirut . A congress of malaria doctors should be the official cover. Before that, Dr. Love but know his lovely contact person in Rome, the photo model Vikki. Due to this fact, he missed his connecting machine, which exploded shortly after take-off with 60 passengers in the air.
A very thoughtful Dr. In Beirut, Love first meets a British agent, then the Soviet opposing side and finally Vikki again. He not only succeeds in fulfilling his mission, but also in preventing an attack on an oil sheikh. On the run, however, he falls into the hands of the Soviet section chief, who, upset by the failure he has suffered, embarrassingly interrogates him in a Tupolev Tu-134 , which is a “dove of peace” on a goodwill tour around the world. In the event of a forced stopover in Canada, Dr. Love escaped with the help of Vikki, who lost her life in the process. His car is waiting for him in Rio; all he has to do is deliver a little report to the boss there.
criticism
The Protestant film observer judges: “A good entertainment film with a semi-documentary and political element. Friends of the genre get their money's worth with this slightly undercooled, but thanks to David Niven also humorous film. ”The lexicon of the international film , on the other hand, does not have such a good opinion of the film :“ Long-winded espionage adventure with tendentiously distributed hardships: on the western side, pure reigns Humanity before, the eastern one appears crude satanized. "
Web links
- Daggers in the Kasbah in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A few pictures from the film at cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 127/1966, pp. 251 to 252
- ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 693