Saturday, May 31, 2014

TARGET FOR KILLING and RED DRAGON --- Two obscure Stewart Granger Eurospy films from the 60's!


BLOG ENTRY #23  ---- More Spies A Go-Go here at SUPERNATURAL THEATER!  
Dapper STEWART GRANGER starring in two hardly seen 1960's EuroSpy flicks --- 
TARGET FOR KILLING, and RED DRAGON. 
After Bond, James Bond hit worldwide movie screens with a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th saga, European producers cranked out hundreds & hundreds of 007 copycat spy thrillers to try to cash in on the huge Bond mania going on. In the 1960's, the cold war was in full swing, so Euro screen writers conjured up a ton of simple plots, to go along with simple, low budget productions filmed by lackluster directors.
What mostly identifies this genre was great location filming all over Europe and Asia, cool music soundtracks, a variety of unique character actors, 
and a bevy of beautiful ladies featured. 
Most of these movies have long since faded away, but many have passed the grade, 
the 5 decade test of time.
007 imitators like Harry Palmer, OSS-117, Matt Helm, Bulldog Drummond, and Derek Flint 
are still familiar names on cable TV or home video today.
Let me dust off the cobwebs of my memory cells and showcase 
two almost forgotten, almost lost spy dramas.
Suave, international British star Stewart Granger made a huge contribution to Eurofilms, 
not only with a series of German westerns about Karl May's frontier hero Old Surehand, 
but with several EuroSpy thrillers as well. 

UP FIRST ----- Special Agent James Vine must save a beautiful heiress from being murdered, 
and stop a crime syndicate hiding in a monastery in scenic Montenegro.

TARGET FOR KILLING
HOW TO KILL A LADY
SECRET OF THE YELLOW MONKS
MISSION IN TEHERAN  (Pick whichever title works for you)

Starring STEWART GRANGER,  KARIN DOR,  RUPERT DAVIES, 
 Scilla Gabel, Klaus Kinski, Molly Peters, Erica Remberg, Luis Induini,
with the participation of Adolfo Celi,
and with CURT JURGENS as The Giant
Directed by Manfred R. Kohler
Cool Music by Marcello Giombini
Italy, Austria, Germany --- 1966
Target For Killing was first shown on New York television in 1966 on Channel 9.  That channel was big at showing genre European films. All the Italian Muscleman films, Dr. Mabuse, Spaghetti westerns, crazy sci-fi, and spooky horrors were all over Channel 9.  They probably got them real cheap, because most were released to TV by small distributors around NYC.
I was hooked on this film at my all of 12 years.  What got me were the four actors from the Bond films, the cool jazzy music, and action with weird bad guys.  
Now let's fly right into the thrilling spy plot!
Mature, suave FBI Special Agent James Vine (you can call him Jimmy) is onboard a very cheesy looking plane bound for Montenegro. That country got more notice in 2005's Casino Royale, but at least TFK was filmed there for real.  The foxy stewardess (Erika Remberg) and the two pilots want to poison lovely passenger Sandra Perkins (the ever popular Karin Dor).
One pilot Caporetti, doesn't want to go through with the plan (lovable baddie Klaus Kinski) because they will have to ditch the plane. They warn him that The Giant, the crime organization's kingpin won't stand for any more foul ups. 
The poison cocktail is brought to Sandra. 
Klutzy Jim hits it with his foot, and then starts to flirt with Sandra. You go Jimmy!


The 3 baddies set the plane on autopilot, aim it to the sea, and walk through the cabin to escape by parachute. The wall of the flimsy set shakes when Kinski closes the cabin door.  Vine realizes that that all 3 of the crew walk by him, and looks out the window to see the tops of parachutes down below. The parachutes look like paper cutouts.
You know Miss Perkins, I thought I just saw three par.......he stops surprised.
He takes her to the the empty pilot's cabin.
A slightly nervous Jim climbs in the pilot's chair. 
Luckily he was in the Air Force a long time ago, so they brought the plane in for a 
shaky landing.

Awaiting the plane is Police Commissioner Saadi (Rupert Davies) along with lots of police, 
and he wants to have a chat with crew. But we are the crew, Vine says.
Two killers nearby with a sharpshooter rifle want another attempt to murder Sandra. They are interrupted by two policemen, and they are killed by a large construction caterpillar, and promptly buried.  Jim tells her he can be reached at the Excelsior Hotel, and she will be working at a new job for Stilling & Stilling construction. 
Saadi takes Jim to the police station for questioning.
Caporetti lands and is met by fellow gang member Tiger (sexy Scilla Gabel). She gives him the bad news that the plane was saved, and Perkins is still alive. She gets a big kiss (who could blame him) and gets her cigarettes stolen by Kinski.  He now knows he still needs to bump Sandra off and make it look like a suicide or accident. Otherwise, the Giant will be after him.
Tiger loves her machine gun. She also loves live target practice in the grotto.

Commisioner Saadi wants to find out what Jimmy's up to, and why does he have a pistol in his suitcase. What kind of work do you do Mr. Vine? No, you wouldn't believe me. I'm a snake fancier. (WTF?) Turns out Saadi makes Jimmy break out in a frightened sweat. He collects snakes also! Jim gets out of there quick.  Now Saadi will soon find out about Jimmy.
Poster from the Italian release, and a German movie program cover.
Vine is a Special Agent of the FBI. I didn't know that the FBI could fight in other countries (?)
Vine's real mission is to go after the organization. He contact man is a sleazy photographer named Stone. He's bumped off by the gang. Vine searches Stone's apartment for clues, and finds out about a suspicious monastery nearby. 
The henchmen come in, and Vine fights them all off. 
Bam! Pow!  The  paint spray gun attack is a clever gag.
The Giant (played by Curt Jurgens) gives out more orders to have Sandra murdered. Several attempts are made. Poor Sandra. She thinks she's going bonkers. She is shot at unsuccessfully at a local gift shop waterside. She comes back with Jim, and it's a completely different place. 
The Giant's gang moves quick huh? They can do new set decorating too.
You know what you need Sandra, a drink --- says Jimmy.
Vine drops Sandra at her apartment, and Caporetti shows up. You would think he would be there to kill her, but luckily for Sandra, he is a bad guy with a conscience. Good going Kinski!!
But he just gets a knife in the back for his troubles. Sandra screams her lungs out and runs out to try to reach Vine. Then a runaway truck is after poor Sandra too. 
It goes down the hillside cliff.
Jimmy's car turns around in time, and he saves Sandra. We loved seeing Dor run around in her underthings. (Please note: The camera must have been located in the car's trunk, and they drove down the street to film her running. Hey, big budget huh?)
Jimmy still doesn't believe poor Sandra until Caporetti's body falls out of her closet.
(Kinski always plays death scene's real good)
It's time for another drink, huh Jim?
Saadi and his men find the two dead cops at the airport. Jim sees the tractor tracks, and asks Saadi what construction companies are in "these parts" (sounds like a line from Granger's Old Surehand westerns).  Saadi names a few including  Stilling & Stilling. Gee, right where Sandra's working. Off Jimmy goes to save Sandra from yet another murder attempt by her boss, Mr. Cloy (Demeter Bitenc), another member of the Giant's gang. They launch a large caterpillar to squash Sandra.  Jim jumps from a roof top and saves her again. And no broken bones from a high jump too.  Cloy and his cohort use the direct approach at gunpoint. Vine beats them up, and just when Cloy is ready to spill the beans about the organization, he gets a poison dart in the back.
I guess this crime group has no retirement plans in place.

Saadi's amazed how the body count is climbing. 
Jimmy tells him like a good Boy Scout. I did it, only in self defense.

In between all the Sandra murder attempts, our hero couple fall in love. Awwww. How cute and predictable.
I can't blame him. I've been crazy about Karin Dor since the sixties.
Meanwhile, back to the spy biz.............


The Giant sends in a sexy female gang member to destroy Vine's image to Sandra.
Sexy Vera Stratten (Molly Peters. Remember her in Thunderball?)
She fails to rock Vine's boat, but he got quite an eye full when she slips out the tub for Jim's towel dry off. Lucky Jimmy.
But unlucky Vera. The Giant was upset with Vera's loyalty.
So she gets bumped off. Bang!


Italian and Spanish posters.


The Giant's lair is high a top a mountain monastery, and he has a small army of henchmen dressed up as monks in yellow robes. The organization deals with not only murder for hire, but gun smuggling and crime internationally. One evil cohort is Dr, Yang (Luis Induini), a hypnotist that uses Electro Psychic Massage to brainwash victims into submission. The Giant has a harem of beautiful women under Dr. Yang's spell. The co-pilot that failed his task got shot up by sexy Tiger, but the cute stewardess was brainwashed into a trance like state.
 Yang even tries telepathy to beat the Giant at chess. The Giant won't fall for that trick.

 Sandra's murder attempts were part of the only personal deal that the Giant made through the Organization. He was getting $500,000. as a fee from his agent in Italy, Henry Perkins (played by 007 Thunderball bad guy Adolfo Celi).  Henry is Sandra's Uncle and he must be one king size creep to want to bump off pretty Sandra.
The Giant wonders what is in it for Henry.  Big $$$!!!
So he has him drugged and sent over to the Monastery from Italy for questioning Giant style!
I'm one of your best men. I risked my life for you --- says Henry Perkins.
The Giant gets Henry in a position in which he can only tell the truth.
He is chained up in a cell, with very hungry rats nearby in a mesh cage. 
When they eat through the small rope holding the door, they will be released to munch on Henry.
So he better talk quick.

If you are offering us $500 thousand, what are you really getting? says the Giant as he 
watches Perkins on TV.
On Sandra's 25th birthday coming up in 2 days,  she thinks she will inherit $5 million dollars.
But the real amount is a whopping $70 million dollars.  And that's in way back 1966 money.
If she is dead, ever loving Uncle Henry will inherit.
Ah well, too late. The rats will have a hearty dinner. --- Bye Bye Uncle Henry.
The Giant thinks he should control the $70 million, so Sandra is kidnapped, and Dr. Yang shows her Uncle's dead body to weaken her, and begins his Electric Psychic Message on her.
The Giant thinks if she can be hypnotized, she can write out lots of checks. 
Payable to what name, the Giant? Does he have id. for that name?
Jimmy races to the monastery to rescue her!
And Saadi and his small police army are right behind him!
Vine makes like a corny tourist to get close to the place. The Giant peers out to see who's coming and recognizes him from the spy game some time ago. 
Gerard Van Low --- says Jim remembering him as a fellow agent gone bad.

Who are you working for? The Russians? asks Jim.
No, they pay so badly, answers Gerard.  Must be the Chinese, answers back Jimmy.

Gerard takes a handcuffed Jimmy down to the underground grotto for a little roughin' up.. 
The doctor is there zapping Sandra. 
Tiger is ready to do some damage to Jimmy. She apparently enjoys it.
Gerard checks to see what Jimmy has to identify his body. He leaves Jimmy the large hotel key. Jimmy threatens that it's a bomb, and drop their weapons or he will blow them all to hell!!!!
BOOOOM!!!!
What happens during the thrilling climax???
Does poor Sandra get rescued from the brain reducing Electro Message???
Does Tiger and the gang get what's coming to them??? Boom & Bang!!!
Does the Giant make a deal with his old comrade Jimmy???
And where the hell is Saadi when you need him? 
Don't worry, the cops come to shoot out the rescue!
What do you think will happen?  ----   C'mon this IS a very predictable 60's spy flick!!!!
Sandra and James celebrate her 25th birthday with a huge cake and champagne. 
When she blows out the candles, she saves one wish for them. 
Jim tells her that without the inheritance he would love to marry her. Sandra says yes, and that 
she would give up the $70 million. 
So now the 60's style marriage can take place.
Sandra, do you have to give up all the money?
She shakes her head. says no, with a smile.
Love & greed wins! ---  Happy EuroSpy!!!  The End!!!

Two very rare production shots for the shooting attempt scene at a lakeside shoppe.

MY RATING ---- C PLUS!
Yeah it's got a predictable plot, and low budget, but it also has some great character actors in it, a really cool loud fuzzy guitar music score, and some out of the ordinary film locations.
The organization's monastery and underground grotto crime lair were very original.
Hey, Bond finally used a mountain monastery 15 years later in For Your Eyes Only.
Granger was getting older for a spy at 51 in this film. But he holds his own. His sly quips hit the mark. Karin Dor always shines as the pretty heroine. The baddies were well represented by Klaus Kinski, Molly Peters, and hot bad girl Scilla Gabel.  Wow.
And don't forget Curt Jurgens! 
One great villain.
He finally got his big Bond villain role, 11 years later in The Spy Who Loved Me.
Overall, one viewing of TFK is an easy way to kill 90 minutes.

As I have mentioned in some of my other blog entries, I have been collecting film prints of movies since the 1970's. I got a 16mm TV print of this in 1979, when bulk TV film packages were getting sold from storage, or simply thrown out in dumpsters. 
Collectors grabbed up thousands of prints worldwide from other collectors and film dealers.
Remember this was years & decades before home video exploded around the planet.
There were even store front operations that sold film. I bought from a bunch of them in 
New York, New Jersey, London, and California.
Two video companies in the 80's & 90's used my film print to transfer from, to make VHS tapes, then later DVD's here in America. 
It's worth a viewing, to go back in time to check out an example of 60's EuroSpy action.
The ever beautiful Karin Dor.


Karin Dor's most famous role to date was Helga Brandt in 007's You Only Live Twice (1967).
She was not only a tasty treat for James Bond, but for a pool of hungry piranhas as well.









The sexy nurse fantasy was played out by Mollie Peters in 007's Thunderball  (1965).
She built up Bond's stamina and strength, when he was sent to Shrubland's Health Clinic.
Sexy pin-ups of Mollie Peters and Scilla Gabel below. Both lovely icons of the sixties.



 












I mentioned earlier, there were 3 cast members from the early Bond films in Target For Killing from 1966. They were Karin Dor, Molly Peters, and Adolfo Celi. He played bad guy Largo in Thunderball.

Eleven years later, Curt Jurgens became the fourth. He played Stromberg, a great bad guy against Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me. 
Barbara Bach and Caroline Munro still keep our hearts beating at a fast pace even today.















UP NEXT at SUPERNATURAL THEATER ----
Stewart Granger is FBI agent Mike Scott. 
He's after a murdering, smuggling syndicate in Hong Kong.
Behind the Bamboo Curtain, life is cheaper, love is easier, and the dolls are deadlier!!!
Only in the sixties, could you have a catchline like that!


RED DRAGON
SECRET OF THE THREE JUNKS
A09 MISSION HONG KONG
CODE NAME ALPHA
MISSION IN HONG KONG
Pick a title ---It's like a menu in a Chinese restaurant. Pick one from Column A, one from B.

Starring STEWART GRANGER, ROSANNA SCHIAFFINO,
Paul Klinger, Harald Juhnke, Chitra Ratana, Margit Saad, Paul Dahlke,
Helga Sommerfeld, Suzanne Roquette, Franco Fantasia,
and Sieghardt Rupp, and with Horst Frank
Directed by Ernst Hofbauer
Produced by Gero Wecker
Great Music by Riz Ortolani
Germany, Italy ---- 1965


This Granger almost forgotten spy classic was made before Target For Killing. 
Unlike TFK going right to American TV, with no US release theatrically, Red Dragon got a 
decent US theater release by Woolner Brothers. It was even part of a EuroSpy Double Feature 
with Lightning Bolt, starring Anthony Eisley, previously written about here at 
Supernatural Theater. 

 I saw this at the Army theater at Fort Monmouth, NJ. in 1966. It was really cool to go to movies at military base because they had a different movie play every day, and admission was a whopping 35 cents back then. Normal movie theaters usually ran movies at least a week, some up to 8 weeks for big hit titles. You could see tons of films that never got a big release in America at the military theaters. Red Dragon then jumped to NYC television in 1967 
on my favorite channel for Eurofilms, WOR Channel 9.



This is another title I acquired as a 16mm film print from a film dealer in Florida in the 
early 1970's. Still have both of these Granger flicks today. It was a well used theater print previously used by the US Army-Navy Exchange Service, that provided film prints to show at military bases, ships, and camps around the world, even in war zones in the Vietnam war.


a 16mm film print of Red Dragon on three 1600 ft. reels in a shipping case.
An American FBI agent in Hong Kong, Robert Grant (Franco Fantasia) goes to meet up with his girlfriend Linda Wells (Suzanne Roquette) at a local park. and finds her dead on a park bench. He rushes to his office to send an urgent dispatch by wire (remember this is 1966, no cell phones, emails, or faxes) to warn the FBI back in San Francisco.  He gets shot up by 
bad guy Pereira (played by great bad boy Horst Frank).
Meanwhile in America, fellow FBI agent Mike Scott (Stewart Granger) is enjoying his vacation alone by boozing it up. He has his man toy train set that delivers his booze to him 
by miniature rail.
His boss, Mr. Joe Harris (Paul Dahlke) calls up needing him quick.
The sad dilemma for Scott, the whiskey train works, but the train for the ice doesn't.
How pathetic. Just get up off your butt Mike, and go to the freezer!
Anyhow, Harris summons him to headquarters.

 007 Copycat --- Get your mission scene.
Harris (Paul Dahlke) is a bargain basement version of Bond's boss M.  He informs Scott of the double murder of their agents in Hong Kong, and how they were after a big smuggling crime group.  Linda Wells infiltrated the gang as a teletype girl, relaying coded messages. 
He wants Scott to grab young, pretty Danni Davis, that the FBI found out was recruited by 
the gang to replace Wells.

Mike surprises Danni  (sexy Helga Sommerfeld) as she comes out from her bath looking for her missing bra. Mike found it. After fooling her is to giving info on her meeting with the gang upon arrival in Hong Kong, he has her put on ice with the FBI.  
He tells her, never to trust a man!
Scott then has a rendevous to meet the agent to take over as Danni. She judo flips a drunk that punched Mike. It's Carol, an absolutely beautiful agent stunner that knocks Mike over 
(played by the gorgeous Rosanna Schiaffino).
Once she's with the gang, she wonders how she will communicate with Mike. It's easy.
The writer's stole an idea from Dick Tracy cartoons. A watch two way radio! Mike tests it out.
Off to Hong Kong they go! 
One thing that is very confusing in this film is Rosanna Schiaffino's name, at least in the English dubbed version. We hear Danni Davis or Dennis multiple times. We see Dennis on this airport receptionist sign. I wished they made up their mind.
Carol gets picked up at the airport by Pereira (played by a favorite bad guy Horst Frank) and
gets a ride across the harbor by ferry. Great location shots.
He tells Carol, that the boss, Pierre Milot will like her, because she's so pretty.
Mike listens with the help of that Dick Tracy wrist watch radio of his.
He finds out that Milot lives up in the hills on the other side of the city.
Now we have seen many spies drive away in fast Aston Martins or Jaquars.
But our Mike Scott zooms off like a speed demon in a fast........ rickshaw.

The smugglers use three junks to ship there illegal cargo of drugs, arms, electronic weapon components, or what evers. 
The payload is cleverly hidden in hollowed out logs. Ah ha!!!

Scott's contact there is Norman (Paul Klinger). He knows everything that's going on around Hong Kong. He tells Scott about two members that he is aware of, Pierre Milot, 
and his gun moll, Blanche Coty.
He knows there must be a big boss, but he has no clue to his identity.
To help Scott get around the city, and dig up clues, he enlists the aid of his helper Smokey (Harald Juhnke).  Smokey becomes the comedy relief character in the film. His Chinese can't be understood by the locals, he gets lost, and makes dumb mistakes.  
But he tries hard, and he's loyal, like a puppy.

Smokey takes Scott to a local informant that guided Wells & Grant around the city.
His Chinese was atrocious. You speak English... I understand, says the informant.
The local clams up when he's threatened by knife point by a member of the gang.



Sieghardt Rupp plays Pierre Milot, number 2 in the gang. 
He phones to get orders from the unknown boss. 

In this very predictable plot, your first guess turns out to be the leader of the gang.
Carol works as a teletype girl to decode messages for the gang. Another way how communications have changed over the years. 
Good and bad guys are spoiled now with cell phones.


Blanche is one bitchy mama (Margit Saad). She's suspicious of Carol, after finding her with 
their secret code book for the teletype machine.
Plus she's probably jealous too. Carol is a hottie. Blanche wants Milot to stay away from her.

May Lin (pretty Thai star Chitra Ratana) is the housekeeper for Pierre and Blanche.
She helps Smokey later in the movie.






Scott and Smokey pose as insurance reps to pay a visit to Milot's home. Mike explains that he represents the company that had a policy on Linda Wells. It's a flimsy ruse, but Mike sees Carol, and provokes Milot. The boss is informed of their visit and Milot is told that Scott is with the FBI, and he needs to be eliminated.  Scott makes an appointment to see Milot at his dockside office, but Pereira and his cohort machine guns Scott and Smokey in their car 
on a mountain road.  The spy music with guitars is cool.
The boys barely escape as the car crashes off a cliff.  Pereira thinks he succeeded.
He reports to Milot that they are dead, and Carol hears the conversation. Obviously she is saddened by this news and turns off her Dick Tracy radio watch.
Later that night Scott sneaks into Carol's bedroom, and the loving sparks fly. Love is in the air.
She's smiling in the morning.
Scott sends Smokey to snoop around Milot's warehouse to see if he can dig up anything.
Pereira spots him, and signals a crane operator to drop a load of cargo on him. Smokey dives into the drink in the nick of time. He sees pretty Mai Lin, Milot's housekeeper walking by, and wonders if she had anything to do with it.

Creepy Pereira captures Scott after he discovers the smuggling operation at the dockside warehouse. The gang is about to sail out with the goods.
Horst Frank is a great character actor, best known for always playing weird bad guys.
Blanche, that evil bitch,  gets the drop on Carol. 
She can't wait to get Carol strung up.

Pereira hands Scott over to Milot for safekeeping. Milot is worried, and decides to escape from the gang with some loot in a briefcase. He wants out. Blanche rats him out to the unknown boss on the phone. Do we finally recognize the boss's voice? An easy clue.
Blanche and Pereira take a drugged, sleeping Carol to the junk as a hostage. 

Milot takes Scott with him in a speeding car. They are being tailed by another car.
As they round a curve, machine gun blasts Milot's car, and Scott jumps out, and rolls away. 
The car explodes.
The attacking car stops, and the boss leans out his window, and he is finally revealed. 
It is Norman ..... to nobody's surprise. 
He yells to his underling, to get the briefcase. It's grabbed from Milot's bullet filled corpse.
Mai Lin discovers Smokey unconscious at Milot's home. Someone knocked him out earlier.
They go to the police for help, and she takes control and easily explains the situation to police officers.  Hey, who does she really work for?
Norman is at his office preparing to leave with the briefcase of money, and his pistol. 
Mike appears to tell him of what he has found, that Carol is a prisoner, 
and they will escape on the junk. Really......escaping on a junk?
Guess Norman never heard the "slow boat to China" line.
Scott sees the briefcase, and Norman's pistol in a desk drawer. He asks Norman if he has an extra gun. While he's out of the room, Mike apparently empties Norman's gun. 
Mike makes sure to see if the gun Norman's gives him is loaded. 
Smart FBI man.
Heading to the junk in a speedboat, Norman reveals his position to Mike at gunpoint.
Scott outsmarted him, since he has the only loaded gun.
Mike has Norman make believe he has Mike captured so they can get on board.
Carol is found drugged, and Pereira gets the draw on Scott. Only temporary!




The rousing climax of Red Dragon ensues!
Does Pereira turn Carol into a human pin cushion?
Does Blanche outgun the boss with an unloaded gun? Bang bang!
Can Norman fool Mike just one more time?
Can Carol & Mike escape from the junk with a ticking time bomb aboard?
Boom! The fiery climax with an exploding junk.  
How come most spy movies always have explosions at the end?
Mike gets pulled out of the drink by Carol. A police boat is on the way with both Smokey 
and Mai Lin aboard. And she is in a police uniform too.
Carol & Mike embrace for a big kiss The End.
Another Euro Spy flick with a happy ending.
MY RATING ----- C MINUS 
Most of these EuroSpy films must have been written in a week. It has a simple story with lots of flaws, and is very predictable.  The strengths --- great Hong Kong filming, a good music score by Riz Ortolani (best known for his song More, from Mondo Cane), sexy beauty Rosanna Schiaffino, loveably creepy Horst Frank, and of course, our hero Stewart Granger.
He's gray in the temples, but he's still got it.

After all these years I discovered that there are a few different versions of this, running between 75 and 88 minutes, depending on which title you are watching. My original US theater version has May Lin in a pretty Chinese dress on the police boat at the end. But a German version I saw, has a different shot with her in a police uniform. Plus Scott represents the FBI or CIA.
The German version also has some dialogue scenes a bit longer. Who would have thought. 

One thing I have always loved about the EuroSpy genre are their exotic locations the films were filmed at.  It's like going on a faraway trip, without leaving your local theater or your TV set.
The original James Bonds from the sixties were certainly Grade A films. 
Red Dragon is definitely a Grade C film, but it is enjoyable for at least one viewing. 
Give it a shot, if you want to see an example of the EuroSpy genre of the 1960's.
Rosanna's knock out dress. Wow! She can knock me over with a feather.
I still think she would have been a great addition to the group of Bond ladies.
Lovely publicity shots of Rosanna Schiaffino through the years below.





One of my favorite films --- Rosanna starred with Richard Widmark and Sidney Pointier in the Viking era adventure --- The Long Ships from 1964.  
Pretty Thai actress below, Chitra Ratana in a rare production location shot. Her real name is 
Metta Rungrat or Roongrat. She acted in this film and in another Eurospy flick, 13 Days to Die, that I also wrote about here at SUPERNATURAL THEATER. Poster below also.
The beautiful Helga Sommerfeld. A German actress featured in many Eurofilms.

 
Besides the 2 spy films here, Stewart Granger made 3 others too. The Krimi film, The Trygon Factor, and Eurospy films, Requiem for a Secret Agent, and Killer's Carnival.
Granger also had success with the Karl May, German westerns of Old Surehand & Winnetou, 
like Rampage at Apache Wells.


US one-sheet poster from the Woolner Brothers release.
Two poster versions from the Italian release and Lobby Card from the release in Mexico 
& South America. Spanish newspaper ad also.



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