Espionage in Lisbon

Espionage in Lisbon (1965)

Misión Lisboa

An international gang pretends to have the means to destroy a small country in 30 seconds. The authorities have reason to believe this may be true, and the spying battle is on.

Date of release
1965-10-30
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Action, Adventure
Director
Federico Aicardi, Tulio Demicheli

Casting

Interesting facts

Espionage in Lisbon is a 1965 spy film directed by Federico Aicardi and Tulio Demicheli. It starred Brett Halsey, Marilù Tolo, Fernando Rey, Jeanne Valérie, and Alfredo Mayo.

Production

After finishing Death Whistles the Blues (1964) which was filmed in 1962, director Jesús Franco worked on several projects, including one first announced in September 1962 as Sangre en mis zapatos transl. Blood on My Shoes. A notice of Sangre en mis zapatos announced again as a Spanish-French co-production in an issue of Cine en 7 días on May 30, 1964.

Franco left directing the project, to work for Orson Welles on Chimes at Midnight (1966), leaving the film still titled Sangre en mis zapatos to now be directed by Tulio Demicheli by the end of October 1964.

The script is officially credited to José Luis Bayonas and Juan Cobos while the technical script is credited to Demicheli Monica Felt (aka known as Monica Venturini).

Prints of the film do not cite Franco as the screenwriting, but he shares a credit for the score along with Danile White. The script retained at the Biblioteca Nactional de Espanana credits the story to David Khunne. David Khunne was one of Franco's many aliases he would use to credit the author of a story, and occasionally for music.

The film was shot between April and May 1965. It was a co-production among Spain, Italy and France.

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