First adventure in the Commissioner X film series with Brad HARRIS and Tony KENDALL
After the success of James Bond, West Germany also tried a series of agents. Producer Theo Maria WERNER (1925-1989) from PARNASS Film secured the rights to a series of magazine novels from Erich Pabel Verlag and hired Gianfranco Parolini as director.
Private detective Joe Walker (Tony KENDALL) and his friend/rival Captain Tom Rowland (Brad HARRIS) are drawn into a complicated gang war involving a nuclear scientist and a lot of gold. The main villain (Nikola POPOVIC) also has a bodyguard of twelve gilded blondes around him who willlessly protect him.
The main star of the film is the Austrian actress Maria PERSCHY (1938-2004), who was already able to get a taste of Hollywood air in "Squadron 633" and "MANs FAVORITE SPORT". Christa LINDER from Berchtesgaden, born in 1943, took on a smaller role.
The film was shot in Dubrovnik, which is particularly highlighted by HARRIS's stunts (on the wire above the harbor). The story is overloaded, but the chemistry between womanizer KENDALL and muscle man HARRIS is funny and wonderfully sleazy.
Ilse KUBASCHEWSKI's GLORIA film distributor was able to welcome 1,045,000 visitors to West German cinemas, so nothing stood in the way of a continuation of the series.
After the success of James Bond, West Germany also tried a series of agents. Producer Theo Maria WERNER (1925-1989) from PARNASS Film secured the rights to a series of magazine novels from Erich Pabel Verlag and hired Gianfranco Parolini as director.
Private detective Joe Walker (Tony KENDALL) and his friend/rival Captain Tom Rowland (Brad HARRIS) are drawn into a complicated gang war involving a nuclear scientist and a lot of gold. The main villain (Nikola POPOVIC) also has a bodyguard of twelve gilded blondes around him who willlessly protect him.
The main star of the film is the Austrian actress Maria PERSCHY (1938-2004), who was already able to get a taste of Hollywood air in "Squadron 633" and "MANs FAVORITE SPORT". Christa LINDER from Berchtesgaden, born in 1943, took on a smaller role.
The film was shot in Dubrovnik, which is particularly highlighted by HARRIS's stunts (on the wire above the harbor). The story is overloaded, but the chemistry between womanizer KENDALL and muscle man HARRIS is funny and wonderfully sleazy.
Ilse KUBASCHEWSKI's GLORIA film distributor was able to welcome 1,045,000 visitors to West German cinemas, so nothing stood in the way of a continuation of the series.