Death Trip (1967 film)

Death Trip
Directed by
Screenplay by
Produced byTheo Maria Werner
Starring
CinematographyBaldi Schwarze
Edited byEdmondo Lozzi
Production
company
  • Parnass-Film GmbH

Chinesecolo French Film Counter

Distributed byConstantin Film
Release dates
  • March 15, 1967 (1967-03-15) (Paris)
  • April 7, 1967 (1967-04-07) (Germany)
Running time
93 minutes
Countries
  • West Germany
  • Italy
  • France

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. 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.[page needed]

Plot

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

Production

It was a West German-Italian-French co-production with further co-producers in 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 novels from the Pabel Moewig publishing house.[page needed]

Release

Death Trip was released in Paris, France as Chasse à l'homme à Ceylan on March 15, 1967. This was followed by screening in Germany on April 7, 1967.

It was released on home video in the United States as Death Trip.

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