''Le spie uccidono a Beirut'' (literally, ''The Spies kill in Beirut'', also titled ''Da 077 : le spie uccidono a Beirut'', i.e. ''Message from 077 : the spies kill in Beirut'') is a 1965

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/ French

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pertaining to the Eurospy genre. In this film inspired by the

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, Richard Harrison stars as Secret Agent Fleming known as Bart Fleming Agent X-117 in some prints and as Bob Fleming Agent 077 in others. The film was directed by film producer

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, in one of his few forays into directing. It was released in the United States by

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as Secret Agent Fireball (to exploit the then current 007 film, '' Thunderball'') and double billed with '' Spy in Your Eye''. The film was shot in Paris, Hamburg and Beirut. Harrison repeated his Agent Fleming role in '' A 077, sfida ai killers''/''Killers are Challenged''/''Mission Casablanca''.

Plot

When a series of scientists are killed, Bart Fleming Secret Agent X-177 travels to Hamburg and Beirut to discover that Soviet Agents are killing the scientists. Both sides want the information the scientists took with them when they escaped from the USSR; a roll of

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containing information about the Soviet

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. The only link left to the film is a daughter of one of the scientists.

Cast

* Richard Harrison ... Agent Fleming * Dominique Boschero ... Liz *

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... Yuri (as Alan Collins) * Aldo Cecconi ... Ivan (as Jim Clay) *

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... Elena * Alcide Borik ... Lepetit the Taxi Driver * Danny Taborra ... Adolf Grune * Goffredo Unger ... Baalbek the Tribal Leader *

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... Jane Cartland * Jean Ozenne ... Fleming's Boss * Audry Fisher ... Heidi

References

External links

* 1965 films 1960s Italian-language films Italian spy thriller films 1960s action thriller films 1960s spy thriller films American International Pictures films Films set in Lebanon Films scored by Carlo Savina Parody films based on James Bond films 1960s Italian films {{action-thriller-film-stub