Mexican Slayride
Synopsis
When a bunch of paintings stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War start turning up in auctions around the world, the secret service are interested: just who is it who’s selling them? and why are they being sold right now? After the first agent dispatched to find out what’s going on is murdered, super-efficient spy Coplan (Lang Jeffries) is assigned the case and, given that he knows absolutely nothing about culture whatsoever, is ordered to take along a slightly more civilised, rookie agent, Fondane (Robert Party), with him.
After posing as a bidder for one of the stolen masterpieces, Coplan is approached by a certain Lady Francine Lagrange (Sabine Sun), who tells him she has some rare artworks for sale and then promptly drags him off to bed. After drugging her, he searches around her villa, where he finds some incriminating cheques and some even more incriminating goons. In order to find out more about what she’s up to he lets her escape, following her as she heads off to Mexico. After surviving a rapidfire assassination attempt as he leaves the airport, he meets up with wealthy businessman and ex-agent Langis (José María Caffarel), who has a passion for classical music and a collection of pet snakes, and Montez (Guido Lollobrigida), the secret service’s man in Mexico.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : Comptoir Francais du Film Production (CFFP)
- Foreign production companies : Fida Cinematografica, Balcázar Producciones Cinematográficas
- French distribution : Comptoir Français du Film (CFF)
Full credits (12)
- Adaptation : Bertrand Tavernier
- Screenwriter : Bertrand Tavernier
- Dialogue Writers : Christian Plume, Bertrand Tavernier
- Director of Photography : Juan Gelpi
- Music Composer : Jacques Lacome
- Assistant Director : Yves Boisset
- Editors : Claude Gros, Vincenzo Tomassi
- Foreign producers : Alfonso Balcázar, Edmondo Amati, Maurizio Amati
- Author of original work : Paul Kenny
- Co-producer : Robert De Nesle
- Production Manager : Jean Maumy
- Production Designer : Jacques Mawart
Media Gallery
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Espionage
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy, Spain
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1966
- French release : 15/02/1967
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 32006
- Visa issue date : 10/02/1967
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Mono
Box-office & releases
TV broadcasting
This content is for registered users only.
Are you a member? Please login to view content.
