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High Season For Spies
''High Season for Spies'' (german: Sechs Pistolen jagen Professor Z, translation=''Six Pistols to Hunt Professor Z'') is a 1966 Eurospy film directed by Julio Coll and starring Antonio Vilar, Letícia Román and Peter van Eyck. It was made as a co-production between Portugal, Spain and West Germany. The film's action takes place around Lisbon, and concerns attempts by various secret agents to steal a formula.Cowie & Elley p.154 Plot In Lisbon, Professor Zandor developed a groundbreaking formula on behalf of the industrialist Bardot: He succeeded in producing a steel mixture that is completely bulletproof and, as a result, makes conventional weapons ineffective. In doing so, he gets all kinds of agents from different countries on their toes, but also crooks who are not only after the formula for the fantastic alloy, but also after Professor Z himself. One day, the brilliant scientist is kidnapped straight from his laboratory, and those present, Ellen Green, Zandor's assistant, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Coll
Julio Coll (7 April 1919 – 17 January 1993) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. He wrote for more than 30 films between 1947 and 1971. In 1972, he was a member of the jury at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''The Drummer of Bruch'' (1948) * ''In a Corner of Spain'' (1949) * ''Apartado de correos 1001'' (1950) * ''Facing the Sea'' (1951) * ''Doubt (1951 film), Doubt'' (1951) * ''Forbidden Trade'' (1952) * ''Afternoon of the Bulls'' (1956) * ''Pyro... The Thing Without a Face'' (1964) * ''Aragonese Nobility'' (1965) * ''High Season for Spies'' (1966) References External links * 1919 births 1993 deaths Spanish film directors Spanish male screenwriters People from Ripollès 20th-century Spanish screenwriters 20th-century Spanish male writers {{Spain-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |