Missile X - secret mission neutron bomb

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Movie
Original title Missile X - secret mission neutron bomb
Country of production Germany , Spain , United States , Italy , Iran
original language English
Publishing year 1978
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Leslie H. Martinson
realiter: Cesare Canevari
script Elio Romano
production Elio Romano
A. SN Ashtiany
music Alberto Baldan Bembo
camera Claudio Catozzo
Paco Joan
cut Bärbel Kölbl
occupation

Missile X - Neutron Bomb Secret Mission is an internationally produced agent film that swam in the wake of the James Bond films. Peter Graves plays the main role of a CIA agent who tries to thwart the plans for world power of a megalomaniac villain. Graves' opponent is Curd Juergens , who shortly before had caused a sensation as the Bond opponent Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me . According to the opening credits, it was directed by American film and television routinist Leslie H. Martinson , but actually by Italian co-producer and screenwriter Cesare Canevari .

action

A neutron bomb was stolen from a Soviet military base and is about to be demonstrated by its developer, a high-ranking Soviet general. The transport takes place from the air, with a helicopter. Behind this bold coup is an internationally operating terrorist organization headed by a man named Marchant, who is only known as "the Baron". Actually a casino owner by nature, the madman plans nothing less than to put the world powers under a lot of pressure with the bomb and teach them to fear, in order to finally achieve world domination. His goal is an upcoming international peace conference, which will take place on a small island in the middle of the Persian Gulf . In order not to let the peace efforts fail, the CIA and the KGB decide for once to cooperate. On the US side, the experienced special agent Alec Franklin is supposed to direct it, while the Russians send the pretty agent Galina.

Things threatened to get out of hand when the American consul in Iran is killed by the baron's hired killers. Now Franklin, who was set in motion from Washington, has to hurry up. As soon as they arrive in Tehran, the rascals try to get rid of him too, but Franklin struggles to escape them. Meanwhile, the Soviet agent Konstantin Semjonow is investigating traces of the lost neutron bomb on site. Together with the blond Galina and the beautiful Iranian policewoman Leila, Franklin and Semjonow try to prevent the worst in the oil town of Abadan . You are getting closer and closer to the top villain who threatens to start World War III. There is a wild shooting, hand to hand. The two women are also involved. When the baron gave his scientist Prof. Nikolajeff the signal to launch the rocket, Franklin shot him. Finally, at the last minute, the baron himself can be stopped by blowing up his yacht, on which the bomb and launcher have been stored all the time.

Production notes

Missile X - Neutron Bomb Secret Mission was shot around the globe from November 1977 to January 1978. Filming locations were Tehran, Isfahan, Abadan, Khoramshar, Vienna, Baden, Barcelona and Los Angeles. When and where exactly the film premiered is unclear. In Germany, the first presentation of this B-strip is only guaranteed on February 26, 1979 at the IFF fair in Berlin. Despite the cast, Missile X - Neutron Bomb Secret Order never ran in German cinemas, but was apparently only released on video in 1982. The Archivio del Cinema Italiano specifies October 12, 1980 as the day of the Italian censorship clearance.

A total of seven companies from five countries were involved in this production. The involvement of Iran, not known as film country, results from the fact that most of the filming locations were there. This film is likely to be one of the last international films made by Shah Reza Pahlevi in Iran before the Ayatollah revolution at the beginning of 1979 made it impossible for international film teams to work on location.

RW Fassbinder's long-time colleague Kurt Raab designed the film structures, Heidi Wujek was responsible for the costumes. Rainer Blum and Wolfgang Birk were the German production managers.

Reviews

“Even the 'Norman wardrobe' Curd Jürgens gives the stale crime thriller no substance. Conclusion: Cold War as a stale infusion. "

- Cinema online

“Low-tension film that strings together stale agent clichés; played implausibly and weakly. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Dal 1970 al 1979, vol. 4. Rome, Gremese Editore, 1996, pp. 30/31
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ^ German Institute for Film Studies (Ed.): German Films 1979, compiled by Rüdiger Koschnitzki. P. 181
  4. ↑ Short review on cinema.de
  5. ↑ Missile X - Neutron Bomb Secret Mission in the Lexicon of International Films Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used