''Operation Counterspy'' ( it, Asso di picche - Operazione controspionaggio, es, As de pic, operación Contraespionaje, french: As de pic) is a 1965 Italian-Spanish-French

Eurospy Eurospy film, or Spaghetti spy film (when referring to Italian-produced films in the genre), is a genre of spy films produced in Europe, especially in Italy, France, and Spain, that either sincerely imitated or else parodied the British James Bo ...

film written and directed by

Nick Nostro Nicola "Nick" Nostro (21 April 1931 – 15 June 2014) was an Italian film director who wrote many of his screenplays. Career Born in Gioia Tauro, Calabria, after his degree in literature Nostro studied direction at the Silvio d’Amico Academy ...

and starring

George Ardisson Giorgio Ardisson, best known as George Ardisson (31 December 1931 – 11 December 2014), was an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Turin, Ardisson debuted in a minor role in Mauro Bolognini's 1959 film ''Arrangiatevi!''. After several s ...

. It was shot in

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.Marco Giusti. ''007 all'italiana''. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. . A sequel film was initially planned, but the plans were abandoned due to schedule conflicts of the main actor George Ardisson.

Plot

Cast

as Lord George Moriston *

Hélène Chanel Hélène Chanel (born Hélène Stoliaroff; 12 June 1941 in Deauville, Calvados, France) is a French actress of Russian heritage. She was active in the 1960s in a variety of European international co-productions of sword and sandal, Eurospy and ...

as Pat * Lena von Martens as Alina * Joaquín Díaz as Oakes * Corinne Fontaine as Claudie *

Umberto Raho Umberto Raho (4 June 1922 – 9 January 2016) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. Life and career Born in Bari, the son of an Italian father and a Bulgarian mother, Raho graduated in philosophy and then, immediately after the war, ...

as Von Bliss * Emilio Messina as Franco * Ricardo Rodríguez as Gussiè *

Tom Felleghy Tom Felleghy (born Tamás Fellegi; 26 November 1921) is a Hungarian-born Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1958. Filmography References External links * 1921 births Possibly living people Hungarian ma ...

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* 1965 films 1960s spy thriller films 1960s Italian-language films Italian spy thriller films Spanish spy thriller films French spy thriller films Films directed by Nick Nostro Films with screenplays by Nick Nostro Films scored by Franco Pisano 1960s French films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-France-film-stub