''Le tigre se parfume à la dynamite'' (''Our Agent Tiger'') is a 1965 secret agent spy film directed by
Claude Chabrol
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ...
and starring and written by
Roger Hanin as the Tiger. It is a sequel to the 1964 film ''
Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche
''Le Tigre aime la chair fraîche'' ("The Tiger loves fresh meat"), English title ''Code Name: Tiger'', is a 1964 French Eurospy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Roger Hanin as the spy Louis Rapière, code named "The Tiger". The screen ...
''.
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Plot
The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy retrieving the gold treasure inside the vessel, The Tiger is constantly thwarted by international enemies. Among them is an old
Nazi named Hans von Wunchendorf who dreams of world domination. He hides behind the codename "The Orchid" and needs the treasure to sustain a worldwide network of exiled former comrades. Once sanified by the gold his organisation plans to realise the
endsieg
''Endsieg'' () is German for "ultimate victory". It is generally used to denote a victory at the end of a war or conflict. Adolf Hitler used ''Endsieg'' in his book ''Mein Kampf'' ("My Struggle") in 1925 where he ironically asks if fate wanted th ...
after all.
Cast
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Roger Hanin as Louis Rapière, "le Tigre"
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Margaret Lee as Pamela Mitchum / Patricia Johnson
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Michel Bouquet
Michel Bouquet (6 November 1925 – 13 April 2022) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for '' Toto the Hero'' in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars fo ...
as Jacques Vermorel
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Micaela Pignatelli
Michaela (Hebrew מיכאלה) is a female given name. It is a female form of the Hebrew name Michael (מִיכָאֵל), which means "Who is like God".
As of 2008, it was 357th in rank for newborn girls in the United States, and 325th in England ...
as Sarita Sanchez
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Carlos Casaravilla
Carlos Casaravilla (12 October 1900 – 17 February 1981) was an Uruguayan actor. He appeared in 85 films between 1934 and 1978. He starred in the film '' El Lazarillo de Tormes'', which won the Golden Bear at the 10th Berlin International F ...
as Ricardo Sanchez
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José Nieto as Pepe Nieto
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José María Caffarel
José María Caffarel Fábregas (10 November 1919 – 6 November 1999) was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1957 and 1998. He was born in Barcelona and died in Madrid, Spain.
Selected filmography
* ''The L ...
as Colonel Pontarlier
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as Commander Damerec
Bibliography
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References
External links
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1965 films
1960s spy thriller films
Films directed by Claude Chabrol
French spy thriller films
French sequel films
Parody films based on James Bond films
1960s French films
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