An out-of-work and penniless American pilot is offered work in Mozambique and promptly becomes an unwitting pawn in a world of drug smuggling, kidnap and murder.An out-of-work and penniless American pilot is offered work in Mozambique and promptly becomes an unwitting pawn in a world of drug smuggling, kidnap and murder.An out-of-work and penniless American pilot is offered work in Mozambique and promptly becomes an unwitting pawn in a world of drug smuggling, kidnap and murder.
Hildegard Knef
- Ilona Valdez
- (as Hildegarde Neff)
Dietmar Schönherr
- David Henderson
- (as Dietmar Schonherr)
Gert van den Bergh
- The Arab
- (as Gert Van Den Bergh)
Sophia Kammara
- Nightclub Employee
- (as Sophia Spentos)
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- TriviaFinal film of Steve Cochran, except for Tell Me in the Sunlight (1965).
- GoofsIn the opening scenes, a man climbs a wide expanse of steps, with a large rubbish bin situated at the commencement of the steps. As he reaches the concrete bollards across the top of the steps he turns to face somebody and is stabbed. In the next shot he is rolling down the steps, but someway from the bollards where he stopped and clatters into the rubbish bin which is no longer at the base of the steps. Whilst the man is rolling over, there is no evidence of his having being stabbed, but when a policeman reaches him, there is a long bladed knife protruding from his chest.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Home and Away: Episode #1.1810 (1995)
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Takes A Short Feature And Slows It Down
Steve Cochran is a pilot stranded in Lisbon without a job. He crashed a plane, and although he was held blameless, no one wants to hire him. Then a one-way ticket to Lourenço Marques, (now Maputo) in Mozambique shows up, so he takes a Lufthansa(?) flight. His prospective employer is dead, but the organization is still active, and its current head, Martin Benson, takes him on, while he fights with widow Hildegarde Neff for control. Cochran soon discovers that a pilot is needed for flying illegal drugs around, and for smuggling. After an hour, there's a corpse to deal with.
Martin Curtis' camerawork is excellent, but the movie is wrecked by the editor, Peter Boita. The pacing is glacial, with Cochran needing twenty minutes to get out of Portugal. The movie times in at a hundred minutes, but it might have been a zippy seventy except that director Robert Lynn likes to show people strolling about, taking them from a car to a hotel's door, or shoot a chase scene with as few cuts as possible, and Boita indulges him in this.
Johnny Douglas' score makes this pace even more evident by the music he uses during what should be exciting scenes: he uses scales on a guitar, single notes taking about a second each.
Martin Curtis' camerawork is excellent, but the movie is wrecked by the editor, Peter Boita. The pacing is glacial, with Cochran needing twenty minutes to get out of Portugal. The movie times in at a hundred minutes, but it might have been a zippy seventy except that director Robert Lynn likes to show people strolling about, taking them from a car to a hotel's door, or shoot a chase scene with as few cuts as possible, and Boita indulges him in this.
Johnny Douglas' score makes this pace even more evident by the music he uses during what should be exciting scenes: he uses scales on a guitar, single notes taking about a second each.
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- boblipton
- Aug 27, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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