''Kommissar X – Drei gelbe Katzen'' is a 1966

Eurospy Eurospy film, or Spaghetti spy film (when referring to Cinema of Italy, 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 ...

film written and co-directed by

Rudolf Zehetgruber Rudolf Zehetgruber (16 September 1926 – 2 July 2023) was an Austrian film director and producer, screenwriter and actor who directed 17 films between 1960 and 1985. He was most known for writing and directing the yellow Volkswagen beetle Sup ...

and

Gianfranco Parolini Gianfranco Parolini (20 February 1925 in Rome, Italy – 26 April 2018 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian people, Italian film director. He is often credited as Frank Kramer. Among his films are ''The Sabata Trilogy'', several sword and sandal films, m ...

. Filmed in

Ceylon Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

, it stars Tony Kendall, Brad Harris and

Dan Vadis Dan Vadis (born Constantine Daniel Vafiadis, January 3, 1938 – June 11, 1987) was a Chinese-born American actor, of Greek descent, famous for his lead roles in many Italian films made in the 1960s. Biography Vadis was of Greek descent, wit ...

with Harris and Vadis doing their own stuntwork. It is the second of seven

films A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of Visual arts, visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are gen ...

, loosely based on the 1961

Kommissar X Kommissar X or Commissioner X is a German crime fiction series of books from the Pabel Moewig publishing house. "Kommissar X" is a private detective named Joe Louis Walker who was a counterpart of the German crime fiction FBI Special Agent Jerry ...

#73 detective novel from the Pabel Moewig publishing house, though the original novel was set in

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.Marco Giusti. ''007 all'italiana''. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. . In the film, an American police officer and a private investigator arrive in

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to protect a family of landowners from mysterious enemies. They are informed that the actual enemy is a cat-themed

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Plot

Tom Rowland from the

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is sent to

to investigate the murder of a US embassy official killed protecting the daughter of a wealthy expatriate American landowner. At the same time New York

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Joe Walker has been hired by the landowner's daughter to protect her father from being extorted for one million dollars. Through the

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they discover a terrorist organisation known as the Three Golden Cats are responsible for both activities and a string of murders with the victims killed by karate blows or by biological chemicals.

Cast

* Tony Kendall ... Joe Louis Walker, aka Kommissar X * Brad Harris ... Captain Tom Rowland *

Ann Smyrner Ann Smyrner (3 November 1934 – 29 August 2016) was a Danish actress who was active in the 1960s in Italy, the United States, Austria and West Germany. She played in adventure, comedy, science fiction, crime, and horror movies, among which are ...

... Babs Lincoln * Michèle Mahaut... Michèle *

... King *

Siegfried Rauch Siegfried Rauch (2 April 1932 – 11 March 2018) was a German film and television actor. In a career spanning over 60 years, he appeared in several international film productions and had leading roles in numerous German television productions. ...

... Nitro * H.D. Kulatunga ... Sunny *

Philippe Lemaire Philippe Lemaire (14 March 1927 – 15 March 2004) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 90 films from 1946 to 2004. Lemaire was married three times; Nicole Pinton (1949–1951) (divorced); Juliette Gréco from 1953 to 1956, had one da ...

... Philip Dawson *

Erno Crisa Erno Crisa (10 March 1914 – 4 April 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1944 and 1968. His last film was the spaghetti western '' Sugar Colt''. Partial filmography * '' Sideral Cruises'' (1942) - L'h ...

... Baker *

(as Rolf Zehett) ... Barrett * A. Jayaratii ... Insp. DaSilva * Theo Maria Werner (as Werner Hauff) ... Geldbote * Paul Beckmann ... Rogers * Chandrika 'Champa' Liyanage ... Photographer * Ananda Jayaratne ... Police Chief inspector *

Joe Abeywickrama Deshabandu Gammana Patabendige Don John Abeywickrama ( Sinhala:ජෝ අබේවික්‍රම) (22 June 1927 – 21 September 2011), popularly as Joe Abeywickrama, was an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theater and television. Initially famed ...

... Police constable

Release

''Kommissar X – Drei gelbe Katzen'' was released in Austria on 17 May 1966.

References

External links

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