United Nations narcotics agents attempt to trace heroin shipments from the Afghanistan-Iran border to the main European distributor.United Nations narcotics agents attempt to trace heroin shipments from the Afghanistan-Iran border to the main European distributor.United Nations narcotics agents attempt to trace heroin shipments from the Afghanistan-Iran border to the main European distributor.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win total
- Col. Salem
- (as Yul Brinner)
- Superintendent Roche
- (as Georges Geret)
- Trini Lopez
- (as Trini Lopez)
- Coley Jones
- (as E. G. Marshall)
- Directors
- Terence Young
- Henry Levin(Gilbert Roland & E.G. Marshall scenes) (uncredited)
- Writers
- Jo Eisinger
- Ian Fleming
- Jack Davies(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTerence Young and Euan Lloyd worked for free while all of the big-name cast members were paid one dollar for their work.
- Quotes
Coley Jones: [sitting down after she directs him] Is this place taken? Madame, would you mind if I smoked?
Coley Jones: [waving his pack of cigars at her] I noticed you took a pill. I thought perhaps...
Monique Marko: Huh? Nothing. Small headache.
Coley Jones: Are you sure the smoke won't distress you?
Monique Marko: I'm never distressed by smoke. Surely not. But thank you.
Coley Jones: Not at all. I have a headache myself. I wonder if it would be too much to ask if, eh...
Monique Marko: [giving him the pill packet] The aspirin?
Coley Jones: [purposefully knocking her handbag off the table as he takes the pill packet] Oh, I am sorry...
Monique Marko: Don't worry. It's not important.
Coley Jones: [picking up the handbag and detecting traces of the opium] Very clumsy of me. I'm terribly sorry. Would you allow me to buy you a drink?
Monique Marko: No thank you. Alcohol doesn't agree with me.
Coley Jones: Are you travelling alone?
Monique Marko: [picking up her poodle] Alone? Oh, no. I always have Toutou. Dit "bonsoir", Toutou.
Coley Jones: Bonsoir, Toutou. You're a fine looking fella.
Monique Marko: He loves being flattered.
Coley Jones: He seems to understand every word you say.
Monique Marko: Oh, yes. Toutou and I always have conversation. Toutou is most understanding.
Coley Jones: All my life I've wanted to meet a truly understanding dog. Perhaps we could write to each other. Where does Toutou live?
Monique Marko: In my mind.
Coley Jones: Then I'll write to Toutou, care of the mind of Madame, er...
Monique Marko: No. Because I also live in the mind of another...
Coley Jones: Who's mind is that?
[she gets up and leaves without replying]
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Last of the Gentleman Producers (2004)
- SoundtracksLemon Tree
(uncredited)
Written by Will Holt
Performed by Trini López
[The first song in Trini López's set]
I know this film was made by the UN to help bolster efforts to stop drug trafficking and abuse...I know the most of the stars worked for scale to cut down costs. But it looks like only Trevor Howard remembered that "working for scale" still means "working"...i.e., acting. Yul Brynner is, well, Yul Brynner. He doesn't have to act...he only has two characters in his repertoire anyway (enjoyable though those characters may be).
It was interesting to see E.G. Marshall as the hero of the piece though...one of the few interesting points to the film.
One major part of the premise was that the UN forces tagged a shipment of opium with radioactivity to track it. Now this radioactivity was measurable at a distance of several miles at times, so one has to wonder what would happen if it got away from them and got to the junkies...hoards of radioactive heroin addicts...ack.
- Vigilante-407
- Jul 13, 1999
Details
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1