''Super Seven Calling Cairo'' (Italian: ''Superseven chiama Cairo'') is a

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film directed by

Umberto Lenzi Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist. A fan of film since young age, Lenzi studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and made his first film in 1958 which went unr ...

and adapted from his own novel of the same name written under the pseudonym "H. Humbert". It stars

Roger Browne Roger Browne is an American actor known best for his work in the peplum and Eurospy films popular in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. Career Roger Browne enrolled in pilot training while serving in the U.S. Air Force, flying the AT-6 trainer ...

as the titular secret agent opposite Fabienne Dali,

Massimo Serato Massimo Serato, born Giuseppe Segato, (31 May 1916 – 22 December 1989) was an Italian film actor with a career spanning over 40 years. Serato was born in Oderzo, Veneto, Italy and started appearing in films in 1938. He played leading roles in ...

, and

Rosalba Neri Rosalba Neri (born 19 June 1939) is a retired Italian actress. Early life Born in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Neri was regarded for her beauty even in youth, winning a beauty pageant when she was still young. Eventually pursuing an acting ...

. Shot mostly in Egypt, the film is heavily inspired by the early

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films starring

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. It is followed by ''

The Spy Who Loved Flowers ''The Spy Who Loved Flowers'' ( it, Le spie amano i fiori, also known as ''Hell Cats'') is a List of Italian films of 1966, 1966 Italian/Spanish international co-production, co-production Science fiction film, science fiction-Eurospy film written ...

'' in which Browne reprises his role as Martin Stevens, and Lenzi returns to write and direct the film.

Premise

Martin Stevens - a British agent known by his codename "Superseven" - is sent to recover a modified radioactive metal disguised as a camera lens, stolen and sold to an unaware civilian by mistake. The trail leads him to Cairo in pursuit of the camera where he learns that Russian spies are also after the same device in the hopes of putting the western powers at a disadvantage while per business as usual, Stevens comes across several people in the field who are not who they seem to claim.

Cast

as Martin Stevens / Superseven * Fabienne Dali as Denise *

as Alex * Andrea Aureli as Il Levantino (as Andrew Ray) * Dina De Santis as Tania *

as Faddja *Antonio Gradoli as Yussef (as Anthony Gradwell) *Stella Monclar as Nietta *

Mino Doro Mino Doro (6 May 1903 – 13 April 1992) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred films between 1932 and 1970. Doro generally played supporting and character roles. He appeared as a blackshirt in the 1934 Fascist propaganda fi ...

as Il Professore *Franco Castellani as L'Ispettore Stugel *Claudio Biava as Hans *Emilio Messina as Nickols *Francesco De Leone as Prof. Gabin *

as Faddja *

Paolo Bonacelli Paolo Bonacelli (born 28 February 1937) is an Italian actor. He is best known for his performance as the Duke de Blangis in Pier Paolo Pasolini's final film, '' Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom'' (1975). He was in '' Midnight Express'' (1978) as ...

as Captain Hume

External links

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