Death Trip (1967 film)
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| Produced by | Theo Maria Werner |
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| Cinematography | Baldi Schwarze[1] |
| Edited by | Edmondo Lozzi[1] |
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Chinesecolo French Film Counter[1] |
| Distributed by | Constantin Film |
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Running time | 93 minutes[1] |
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Death Trip (German: Kommissar X: Drei grüne Hunde) is a 1967 Eurospy film written, co-produced and co-directed by Rudolf Zehetgruber and Gianfranco Parolini. It was a West German-Italian-French co-production with further co-producers in Lebanon and Hungary.[1] Filmed in Turkey, it stars Tony Kendall and Brad Harris. It is the fourth of seven films, loosely based on the Kommissar X detective novel series from the Pabel Moewig publishing house.[2][page needed]
Plot
[edit]New York Police Department Captain Rowland travels to Istanbul to deliver a shipment of LSD to be used by the American armed forces stationed in Turkey for undisclosed purposes. When the shipment is stolen by a local and ancient criminal organisation known as "the Green Hounds", Rowland teams up with private eye Joe Walker to recover the shipment.
Cast
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Production
[edit]It was a West German-Italian-French co-production with further co-producers in Lebanon and Hungary.[1] Filmed in Turkey, it stars Tony Kendall and Brad Harris. It is the fourth of seven films, loosely based on the Kommissar X novels from the Pabel Moewig publishing house.[2][page needed]
Release
[edit]Death Trip was released in Paris, France as Chasse à l'homme à Ceylan on March 15, 1967.[1] This was followed by screening in Germany on April 7, 1967.[1]
It was released on home video in the United States as Death Trip.[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Filmportal.de.
- 1 2 Giusti 2010, p. ?.
- ↑ Bergfelder 2005, p. 259.
Sources
[edit]- "Kommissar X: Drei grüne Hunde". Filmportal.de (in German). Archived from the original on February 19, 2025. Retrieved May 27, 2026.
- Bergfelder, Tim (2005). International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Production in the 1960s. Berghahn Books. ISBN 1-57181-538-4.
- Giusti, Marco (2010). 007 all'italiana. Isbn Edizioni. ISBN 978-88-7638-187-4.
External links
[edit]- Death Trip at IMDb
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