The Beckett Affair (1966)
L'affare Beckett
Rod Cooper, an American agent of the CIA, is sent to Paris to discover if colonel Segura, head of a clandestine organization which proclaims itself anti-Castroist, is playing a double game at the expense of the United States. He first tries to make contact with Ms Beckett, who should tell him. Segura's intentíons, but the woman is found killed. Subsequently, Rogerson, another American, presents Cooper to Segura himself and so Rod can enter his organization. Here he discovers that the colonel tries to attract a certain number of Americans to use them in an attack against the president of a state of southern America and thus promote communist expansion. Segura soon discovers Rod's real identity and tries to get rid of him; but the agent manages to reverse the situation and kills Segura in a shoot-out.
- Date of release
- 1966-07-29
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller
- Director
- Osvaldo Civirani
Casting
- Lang Jeffries — Rod Cooper
- Krista Nell — Paulette
- Andrea Scotti — Steve (as Andrew Scott)
- Gianni Solaro — Col. Segura (as John Writting)
- Ivan Desny — Frederick
- Nathalie Nort — Helen
- Massimo Righi — Green (as Max Dean)
- Carla Calò — Nadia (as Carol Brown)
- Lilia Neyung — (as Lilla Nejung)
- Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia — (as G. Ivan Scratuglia)
- Giorgio Cerioni — (as George Greenwood)
- Roberto Messina — Aumont (as Bob Messenger)
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