Death Trip (1967 film)

{{short description|1967 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Kommissar X: Drei grüne Hunde

| image =

| producer = {{ubl|Theo Maria Werner|Herb Bromberg|Rudolf Zehetgruber}}

| director = {{ubl|Rudolf Zehetgruber|Gianfranco Parolini}}

| screenplay = Rudolf Zehetgruber

| starring ={{ubl|Tony Kendall|Brad Harris|Olly Schoberova|Christa Linder}}

| music = Francesco de Masi

| cinematography = Angelo Lotti

| editing = Edmondo Lozzi

| released = {{Film date|1967}}

| language = Italian
German

| budget =

}}

Kommissar X: Drei grüne Hunde, {{langx|it|Strategic command chiama Jo Walker}}, also known as Death Trip and Kill Me Gently is a 1967 Eurospy film written, co-produced and co-directed by Rudolf Zehetgruber and Gianfranco Parolini. It was a West German-Italian production with further co-producers in France, Lebanon and Hungary. Filmed in Turkey, it stars Tony Kendall and Brad Harris. It is the fourth of seven films, loosely based on the Kommissar X detective novel series from the Pabel Moewig publishing house.Marco Giusti. 007 all'italiana. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. {{ISBN|978-88-7638-187-4}}. The film also features Dietmar Schonherr, director/screenwriter Rudolf Zehetgruber and Harris' then wife Olly Schoberova.

Plot

New York Police Department Captain Rowland travels to Istanbul to deliver a shipment of LSD to be used by the American armed forces stationed in Turkey for undisclosed purposes. When the shipment is stolen by a local and ancient criminal organisation known as "the Green Hounds", Rowland teams up with private eye Joe Walker to recover the shipment.

Cast

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Theme song in opening credits

"Angela Monti sings the Joe Walker's theme by Bobby Gutesha"

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