Roll Command (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Roll command |
| Original title | The wrecking crew |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Phil Karlson |
| script | William P. McGivern |
| production | Irving Allen |
| music | Hugo Montenegro |
| camera | Sam Leavitt |
| cut | Maury Winetrobe |
| occupation | |
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Rollkommando (original title The Wrecking Crew ) is a 1968 film with Dean Martin , Elke Sommer and Sharon Tate . It is the fourth and final in a series of American comedy spy films starring Martin as Matt Helm's secret agent . As with the last three films ( The guns whisper softly , The murderers stand in line and When killers lie in wait ) the film is only loosely based on Donald Hamilton 's 1960 novel of the same name and takes great liberties with the plot and the characters which emerged as a parody of the James Bond films. Rollkommando was the second helmet novel to be published and adapted from the earlier books.
action
The secret agent Matt Helm is assigned to hunt down the villain Contini. He has stolen gold worth a billion dollars and wants to use the money to plunge the world economy into a crisis. On a trip to Denmark he meets the clumsy Freya Carlson, who assists him.
In Denmark, the two Continis accomplices Linka Karensky and Yu-Rang switch off. Then they go to Contini's castle to overpower him. Contini manages to escape first and to flee on a train to Luxembourg; but he is overwhelmed by Freya and Matt on the run.
Reviews
"Elaborate agent film that cannot quite fulfill its parodic intentions."
“Confused American crime comedy [...] about a trillion-dollar gold theft that one man clears up almost single-handedly. Nonsensical and a bad James Bond copy. To be dispensed with. "
Others
- Bruce Lee was the fight choreographer for the film and was responsible for the fight scene between Sharon Tate and Nancy Kwan.
- Rollkommando was Chuck Norris ' film debut , who appears in a small supporting role as a bodyguard and has a line of dialogue. Norris was hired for the film by Bruce Lee, with whom he was friends.
- The sequel "The Ravagers" announced at the end was never shot.
- In the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino two clips from the film are shown.
Web links
- Rollkommando in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roll command. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 160/1969
- ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, Hille 2013, p. 25.
- ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 25ff.