Post by Zone Fighter on Dec 11, 2006 20:23:44 GMT -8
Death Merchants (1973) aka The Spy Who Never Was, The Execution, Death of a Stranger, Die Hinrichtung (The Execution)
original title: Tod eines Fremden (Death of a Stranger)
Hardy Krüger - Arthur Hersfeld
Jason Robards - Inspector Barkan
Gila Almagor - Amina
Haim Bashi - Youseff
Mike Burstyn - Uri
Peter Capell - Mahmoud
Eva Christian - Karin
Eli Cohen - Raz
Sabi Dor - Rauf
David El-Harrar - Halil
Youseff Farrah - Amir
Georg Hartmann - Taxi Driver
Michael Hinz - Martin
Efrat Lavie - Ronit
Peter Neusser - Inspector
Jörg Pleva - Zui Adam
Arieh Sachs - Naftali
Itzik Weiss - Arab Boy
Rolf Zacher - Student
Zadok Zarfati - Said
This film is similar to North by Northwest. An unamed inteligence agency in Israel plans to trap Arab terrorists by inventing a non-existant inteligence agent, named Herzog, and leaking information about him so the terrorists will follow "him" to a single location where they can be dealt with. The plan is going well until a lawyer named Hersfeld is mistaken for the non-existant agent and finds himself targeted by the terrorists. The woman of the piece is a reporter who is of course one the terrorists.
Unlike North by Northwest this film is entirely serious, no humor in it. The man mistaken for the non-existant spy suspects the woman of being a spy right from the beginning. He finds her attractive but has no sympthany for her cause, he equates the Arab terrorists with the Nazis who murdered his father, he's a German jew. Where as the romance in North by Northwest leads to marriage the romance in this film just leads to sex. And there are brief scenes of partial female nudity. I didn't realise I had a bunch of R rated films. They need to put the ratings on these cheap DVDs. This film has a more realistic but less satisfying ending.
This film could have been made today, thirty-three years later little has changed in Israel.
Jason Robards plays an inteligence officer from Israel who shows up in Germany after one of his men is murdered, across the street from Hersfeld's house.
Note: the character pronounce the non-exist spy's name as Hertzog alough its shown in print as Herzog. Although spelled on his office door as Hersfeld they pronounce the name as Hertsveld.
Not as good as North by Northwest but for $1 (50 cents if you consider there is a second movie on the DVD) its not bad.
The other film on the DVD is The Deadly Recruits.
original title: Tod eines Fremden (Death of a Stranger)
Hardy Krüger - Arthur Hersfeld
Jason Robards - Inspector Barkan
Gila Almagor - Amina
Haim Bashi - Youseff
Mike Burstyn - Uri
Peter Capell - Mahmoud
Eva Christian - Karin
Eli Cohen - Raz
Sabi Dor - Rauf
David El-Harrar - Halil
Youseff Farrah - Amir
Georg Hartmann - Taxi Driver
Michael Hinz - Martin
Efrat Lavie - Ronit
Peter Neusser - Inspector
Jörg Pleva - Zui Adam
Arieh Sachs - Naftali
Itzik Weiss - Arab Boy
Rolf Zacher - Student
Zadok Zarfati - Said
This film is similar to North by Northwest. An unamed inteligence agency in Israel plans to trap Arab terrorists by inventing a non-existant inteligence agent, named Herzog, and leaking information about him so the terrorists will follow "him" to a single location where they can be dealt with. The plan is going well until a lawyer named Hersfeld is mistaken for the non-existant agent and finds himself targeted by the terrorists. The woman of the piece is a reporter who is of course one the terrorists.
Unlike North by Northwest this film is entirely serious, no humor in it. The man mistaken for the non-existant spy suspects the woman of being a spy right from the beginning. He finds her attractive but has no sympthany for her cause, he equates the Arab terrorists with the Nazis who murdered his father, he's a German jew. Where as the romance in North by Northwest leads to marriage the romance in this film just leads to sex. And there are brief scenes of partial female nudity. I didn't realise I had a bunch of R rated films. They need to put the ratings on these cheap DVDs. This film has a more realistic but less satisfying ending.
This film could have been made today, thirty-three years later little has changed in Israel.
Jason Robards plays an inteligence officer from Israel who shows up in Germany after one of his men is murdered, across the street from Hersfeld's house.
Note: the character pronounce the non-exist spy's name as Hertzog alough its shown in print as Herzog. Although spelled on his office door as Hersfeld they pronounce the name as Hertsveld.
Not as good as North by Northwest but for $1 (50 cents if you consider there is a second movie on the DVD) its not bad.
The other film on the DVD is The Deadly Recruits.