Death Trip (1967 film)


Kommissar X: Drei grüne Hunde,, also known as Death Trip and Kill Me Gently is a 1967 Eurospy film written, co-produced and co-directed by Rudolf Zehetgruber and Gianfranco Parolini. It was a West German-Italian production with further co-producers in France, Lebanon and Hungary. 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. The film also features Dietmar Schonherr, director/screenwriter Rudolf Zehetgruber and Harris' then wife Olly Schoberova.

Plot

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

  • Tony Kendall... Joe Louis Walker, aka Kommissar X
  • Brad Harris as Captain Rowland
  • Olly Schoberova ... Leyla Kessler
  • Christa Linder ... Gisela
  • Dietmar Schonherr ... Allan Hood / George Hood
  • Herbert Fux ... Eddie Shapiro
  • Sabine Sun ... Joyce Sellers
  • Rossela Bergamonti... Jenny Carter
  • Emilio Carrer ... Inspector Rebat
  • Carlo Tamberlani ... Konsul Snyder
  • Rolf Zehett... Almann
  • Andrea Aureli ... Sergeant Özkan
  • and Samson Burke ... Khemal

    Theme song in opening credits

"Angela Monti sings the Joe Walker's theme by Bobby Gutesha"