''The One Eyed Soldiers'' is a 1966 United Kingdom/Yugoslavian/Italian/United States

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crime film shot in Yugoslavia that was directed and co-written by

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under the name of Jean Christophe. The film, shot in Ultrascope starred and was co-produced by

Dale Robertson Dayle Lymoine Robertson (July 14, 1923February 27, 2013) was an American actor best known for his starring roles on television. He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the television series ''Tales of Wells Fargo'' and railroad owner Ben ...

for his United Screen Arts company that released the film in the USA as a double feature with ''

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''.

Plot

A United Nations diplomat is murdered by being thrown off a building in a European nation. His dying words are "the one eyed soldiers." The murder and cryptic message lead to the police, to the diplomat's daughter and American reporter. A criminal syndicate led by a sadistic dwarf and a

Sydney Greenstreet Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (December 27, 1879 – January 18, 1954) was a British-American actor. While he did not begin his career in films until the age of 61, he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting throu ...

type smuggler and his mute assistant battle each other.

Cast

... Richard Owen *

Luciana Paluzzi Luciana Paluzzi (born 10 June 1937) is an Italian actress. She is perhaps best known for playing SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe in the fourth James Bond film, '' Thunderball'', but she had important roles in notable films of the 1960s and 1970s in ...

... Gava Berens *

Guy Deghy Guy Deghy (born Gedeon Aladar Istvan Deghy; 11 October 1912 – 25 February 1992), was a Hungarian-born actor who appeared largely in British films and television, as in the 5th episode of the first season of '' The Saint'' depicting Inspector ...

... Harold Schmidt / Zavo * Andrew Faulds ... Colonel Ferrer *Mile Avramovic ... Antonio Caporelli *

Mirko Boman Mirko Boman (11 December 1926 – 30 August 2013) was a Croatian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1959 to 2002. Selected filmography References External links * 1926 births 2013 deaths Male actors from Zagreb C ...

... The Mute *Bozidar Drnic ... Dr. Charles Berens *

Dragan Nikolić Dragoslav "Dragan" Nikolić ( sr-cyr, Драгослав Драган Николић, ; 20 August 1943 – 11 March 2016) was a Yugoslav and later, Serbian actor. Nikolić studied at Dramatic Arts Academy in Belgrade. In 1967 he starred in the ...

... Officer *Dusan Tadic ... Bandit * Milan Bosiljcic ... Waiter

Production

In 1965 actor

formed his own production company United Screen Arts (USA). On 27 August of that year it was announced that USA announced a three way production deal between their company Yugoslavia's Avala Film and Switzerland to film ''The One Eyed Soldiers'' with Robertson and originally

Rosanna Schiaffino Rosanna Schiaffino (25 November 1939 – 17 October 2009) was an Italian film actress. She appeared on the covers of Italian, German, French, British and American magazines. Early life She was born in Genoa, Liguria to a well-off family. Her mot ...

. The film was budgeted at US$1,700,000p.37 + p.125 ''Avala's Soldiers on the Yugo Move'' ''Film Daily'' 17 Aug 1965

Soundtrack

The film featured music from several different European films including ''Before It's Too Late'' from '' Agent 077: From the Orient with Fury''.

References

External links

* 1966 films Yugoslav crime films 1960s crime thriller films British crime thriller films Italian crime thriller films English-language Italian films English-language Yugoslav films Films shot in Yugoslavia Films set in Europe 1960s English-language films 1960s British films 1960s Italian films {{crime-thriller-film-stub