Requiem for a Secret Agent

Requiem for a Secret Agent (also known as Requiem per un agente segreto) is an Italian international co-production Eurospy film. It was co-produced with Spain (where it was released as Consigna: Tánger 67) and West Germany (where it was released as Der Chef schickt seinen besten Mann).

Requiem for a Secret Agent
Directed bySergio Sollima
Produced byAlberto Grimaldi
Written bySergio Donati
Antonio del Amo
Sergio Sollima
StarringStewart Granger
Daniela Bianchi
Peter van Eyck
Music byAntonio Pérez Olea
Piero Umiliani (uncredited)
CinematographyCarlo Carlini
Release date
15 October 1966
Running time
102 minutes
CountryItaly
Spain
West Germany
Box office203,014 admissions (France)
1,129,042 admissions (Spain)[1]

The film was directed by Sergio Sollima, and was Sollima's third and last Eurospy film, and the first one he directed with his real name (in the two previous spy films he was credited as Simon Sterling).[2] It was shot in Morocco.[3][4]

Plot

After the murder of an American secret agent by an international ring of assassins, the US foregoes sending another government agent but hires an amoral mercenary named Merrill to shut the organisation down. The Americans arrange for Merrill, nicknamed Bingo, to work with a Norwegian secret agent named Erik as a Norwegian national named Edith identifies Rubeck, the head of the assassination ring. The Norwegians want Rubeck taken to Oslo to stand trial for killing all the passengers aboard an airliner when Rubeck planted a bomb to kill one passenger. The Americans initially agree but want Merrill to capture and interrogate Rubeck for the details of his organisation.

Cast

Soundtrack

The film's theme song was "Before it's Too Late", sung by Lydia MacDonald.

References
  1. Box office information for Stewart Granger films in France at Box Office Story
  2. Lino Miccichè. Storia del cinema italiano, Vol.11. Edizioni di Bianco & nero, 2002. p. 162. ISBN 88-317-7850-1.
  3. Jack G. Shaheen. Reel bad Arabs: how Hollywood vilifies a people. Olive Branch Press, 2009. p. 423. ISBN 1-56656-752-1.
  4. Marco Giusti. 007 all'italiana. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. pp. 211–212. ISBN 88-7638-187-2.


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