One is playing wrong
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | One is playing wrong |
| Original title | Trunk to Cairo |
| Country of production | Israel Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Menahem Golan |
| script |
Marc Behm Alexander Ramati |
| production | Menahem Golan Artur Brauner |
| music | Dov Seltzer |
| camera |
Itzhak Herbst Richard R. Rimmel |
| cut | Dani Schick |
| occupation | |
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One plays wrong is a 1965, Israeli-German feature film by Menahem Golan . Audie Murphy and Marianne Koch play the leading roles .
action
The American “super agent” Mike Merrick gets a tricky job. It is feared that Egypt, with the help of a German scientist , wants to construct a super weapon, a nuclear missile directed against Israel and the free world, with which “world domination” is sought. Merrick is then dressed with a new vita, and so he travels to North Africa as a German “Ludwig Baum”. He is smuggled into an Egyptian research center, where Prof. Schlieben is pushing ahead with building rockets. The German scientist has a daughter named Helga, who obviously doesn't know what her father is up to and what damage his development program could do. Before dark forces can carry out a planned overthrow with the almost operational Hyksos rockets, Mike and Helga begin to befriend each other personally. The fact that the young woman seems to fall in love with him can certainly be of use to Mike's destruction plans.
When Helga realizes the effects her father's work will have, she takes Mike's side. Mike kidnaps her and has to flee. Soon, however, the couple falls between all stools and is harassed by radical Muslims as well as by several secret services. They both manage to escape to Italy. There Mike is overwhelmed by his Egyptian captors and is to be packed in a suitcase and immediately shipped back to Cairo. However, Italian security forces overwhelm the Egyptians and secure the suitcase. When this is opened, the surprise is great: it is not Mike Merrick, but the corpse of an Egyptian. Merrick has meanwhile boarded a regular plane to Cairo in which Helga is also sitting. From now on he will take over the command to bring things to a happy end on site.
Production notes
One plays wrong was shot in the months of August and September 1965 in Israel, Rome and Berlin (studio recordings). The cinema release in Germany was on June 3, 1966.
The English title, translated: “Suitcase to Cairo”, alludes to an event in the previous year (1964), when a suitcase was discovered in the airport of Rome that the Egyptian embassy had declared as diplomatic luggage. In this suitcase was a man who was bound and drugged.
Reviews
The Hamburger Abendblatt called One plays wrong in its June 4, 1966 edition, a “political agent film”, but praised the film primarily as an icebreaker for the historically heavily burdened relations between the two nations of Israel and Germany at the time.
"... a pathetic little mistake called" Trunk to Cairo "(...) Audie Murphy, George Sanders and Marianne Koch are condemned to participate. Forget it, baby. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Adventurously untrustworthy spy film."
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the original: "... a dismal little clinker called" Trunk to Cairo, "(...) Audie Murphy, George Sanders and Marianne Koch are the doomed ones. Skip it, baby .. "
- ↑ One is playing wrong. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 17, 2015 .
Web links
- One plays incorrectly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- One is wrong at filmportal.de