''Target for Killing'' (german: Das Geheimnis der gelben Mönche, it, Tiro a segno per uccidere) is a 1966 Austrian-German-Italian

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by

Manfred R. Köhler ''Manfred R. Köhler'' born March 8, 1927, in Freiberg, Germany died 1991 was a German Dubbing (filmmaking), dubbing director who graduated to being a screenwriter and film director specialising in action films and popular entertainment in the 1960 ...

and starring

Stewart Granger Stewart Granger (born James Lablache Stewart; 6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993) was a British film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s, rising to fame thr ...

. It was shot between

Maghreb The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...

, Yugoslavia and Rome.Marco Giusti. ''007 all'italiana''. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. . pp. 266-7.

Cast

as James Vine *

Karin Dor Karin Dor (, born Kätherose Derr; 22 February 1938 – 6 November 2017) was a German actress. She was famous to international audiences for her role as Bond girl Helga Brandt in the James Bond film '' You Only Live Twice'' (1967) and her appea ...

as Sandra Perkins *

Rupert Davies Rupert Davies FRSA (22 May 191622 November 1976) was a British actor. He is best remembered for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of ''Maigret'', based on Georges Simenon's novels. Life and career Military serv ...

as Kommissar Saadi *

Curd Jürgens Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 191518 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in ''Des Teufels Gener ...

as Gérard van Looch / Giant *

Adolfo Celi Adolfo Celi (; 27 July 1922 – 19 February 1986) was an Italian film actor and director. Born in Curcuraci, Messina, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 films, specialising in international villains. Although a prominent actor in Italian ...

as Henry Perkins *

Scilla Gabel Scilla Gabel (born Gianfranca Gabellini; 4 January 1938) is an Italian film, television and stage actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1954 and 1982. Career Born in Rimini, Italy, one of five children, Gabel entered the cinema industry as ...

as Tigra *

Klaus Kinski Klaus Kinski (, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor, equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality. He appeared in over 130 film roles in a c ...

as Caporetti *

Molly Peters Molly Peters (15 March 1939 – 30 May 2017), born Vivien Mollie Rudderham, was an English actress and model best known for her role as Bond girl Patricia Fearing in the James Bond film '' Thunderball''. Career Molly Peters started out as a mod ...

as Vera *

Erika Remberg Erika Remberg (15 February 1932 – 10 November 2017) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 31 films between 1950 and 1970. She was born in Medan, Indonesia. Selected filmography * '' Laila'' (1958) * ''The Violin Maker of Mittenwal ...

as Stewardess *

Luis Induni Luis Induni (5 March 1920, in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy – 31 December 1979, in Barcelona, Spain) was an Italian film actor of the 1950s 1960s and 1970s. He made his debut in the western film ''Billy the Kid'' (1962) along ...

as Dr. Yang * José Marco Rosello as Cloyd *

Demeter Bitenc Demeter Bitenc (21 July 1922 – 22 April 2018) was a Slovenian film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films and television shows from 1953 to 2018. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Selected filmography * ''Sinji galeb'' (1953) * ''Pu ...

as Killer * Allen Pinson as Co-Pilot *

Slobodan Dimitrijević Slobodan Dimitrijević (20 April 1941 – 4 December 1999) was a Serbian television and film actor. Partial filmography *''Igre na skelama'' (1961) - Stasa *''Treasure of the Silver Lake'' (1962) - Rollender Donner *''Prometheus of the Island'' ...

as Killer * Wilbert Gurley as Zonga

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* 1966 films 1966 crime films 1960s spy thriller films German crime films German spy thriller films Austrian crime films Italian crime films Italian spy thriller films West German films 1960s German-language films Films shot in Montenegro Films shot in Yugoslavia Films set in Lebanon 1960s German films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-crime-film-stub