Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill

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Kommissar X: Jagd auf Unkbekannt
Directed byGianfranco Parolini
Screenplay by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyFrancesco Izzrelli[1]
Edited byEdmond Lozzi[1]
Music byMladen Gutesha[1]
Production
companies
  • Parnass-Film GmbH
  • Metheus Film[1]
Release date
  • 11 March 1966 (1966-03-11)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
Countries
  • West Germany
  • Italy[1]
LanguagesItalian
German

Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill (German: Kommissar X – Jagd auf Unbekannt, Italian: 12 donne d'oro, also known as Hunting The Unknown and Kiss Kiss... Kill Kill) is a Eurospy film written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini who also wrote lyrics for the Joe Walker Theme. The film stars Tony Kendall and Brad Harris.[2] It is the first of seven films, loosely based on the 1960 Kommissar X #73 detective novel from the Pabel Moewig publishing house.[3]

Plot[edit]

Private detective Joe Walker and New York police captain Tom Rowland engage in a training exercise. Walker is on vacation in Europe, while Rowland has been assigned to locate a missing nuclear physicist, Bob Caroll.

The mysterious Oberon orders his secretary Joan to hire Walker - she chooses the assignment and asks him to look for Carroll, then hands over a photograph and the contact details of Nancy Wright, a woman who claims to have relevant information. At his flat, Walker finds another woman - Bobo - who also wants to hire him, in this case to protect her from a jealous boyfriend. Walker leaves Bobo in his flat to go and meet Nancy, who dies before he can speak to her. Walker catches Nancy's killer but the man is shot and killed by Oberon's henchman Kan before Walker can extract any information.

Rowland is called in to investigate Nancy's murder, and he and Walker discover that she had been threatened by Oberon, who wanted her to return to 'the island'. At Walker's flat, they find that Bobo has also been killed by Kan. As they decide what to do, Oberon calls Walker and asks him for help. Walker and Rowland go to Oberon's villa, where he speaks about a seemingly deadly business partnership - two of the partners have already been murdered, leaving him at the mercy of the fourth partner Henry Mail. The last surviving partner will acquire all the partnership's assets.

Still unaware of Oberon's involvement in the previous murders, Walker and Rowland listen to his story, but are distracted by intruders and can only watch Oberon's apparent murder, which later turns out to have been staged by his own henchmen. The next stage of Oberon's plan is to bequeath Mail his yacht; when Mail is lured aboard, Oberon reveals that he is still alive, orders the killing of Mail and his wife, and leaves the yacht before Walker and Rowland arrive. However, Walker finds one of Oberon's distinctive cigar bands on the yacht, which suggests he is still alive.

Walker and Rowland argue over how to proceed, and Rowland ends their cooperation, but then Walker meets and charms Pamela, borrows her car and returns to Oberon's villa. Oberon observes him on CCTV, and allows him access to the control room beneath the villa, where Walker encounters armed blonde women who escort him to Oberon's secret base beneath a nearby island.

Two of Oberon's henchmen kidnap Pamela, but Rowland boards their boat, overpowers them, and rescues her. Pamela was due to be taken to Oberon's island, and Rowland deduces that his base is there. On the island, Oberon tells Walker the full story. He and his partners raised huge amounts of money through various criminal activities, and hid gold in the vault under the island. Oberon argued with his partners over their wish to contaminate the gold store with radioactivity, and hired Carroll, the missing scientist, to help. Carroll developed a chemical bath to wash the radioactivity from the gold, but became terminally ill as a result of his work.

Joan, who is actually Carroll's sister, shoots Oberon in revenge for his treatment of her brother. Having replaced her bullets with blanks, Oberon has Joan taken away - to the dismay of Kan, who has feelings for her. Oberon leaves Walker to die, and orders a doctor to inject Joan with a substance that removes her free will. However, Kan sends the doctor away and only pretends to give the injection, so Joan is able to Walker.

Furious, Oberon taunts Kan with the knowledge that Joan loves Walker and not him, so Kan promises to kill Walker. Rowland and Pamela reach the island, but she is abducted and taken underground. Joan is captured by Oberon's henchmen but Walker escapes disguised as a technician and uses his charm on the doctor, who agrees to help him by using an antidote to give the blonde women back their free will.

Rowland accesses the base and links up with Walker, in time to witness the women, including Joan and Pamela, defeat Oberon's henchmen. Rowland helps the women escape from the island, but Walker remains behind to deal with Oberon. Initially Walker has Oberon at gunpoint, but Kan disarms him. Refusing to shoot him in cold blood, Kan tries to batter Walker to death. However, Walker retrieves the gun and shoots Kan dead.

Rowland returns to help, as Oberon tries to shut himself in the gold vault, but Walker joins him there. Realising that his master plan has failed, Oberon sets off the self destruct mechanism, meaning that the base will explode in five minutes. Rowland rescues Walker from the vault, and Oberon falls to his death in the chemical bath. As the base explodes around them, Walker and Rowland escape from the base, and dive into the sea.

Walker later tries to resolve the results of his various romantic conquests. He is rejected by Joan, so he pairs off with Pamela, but the doctor is unhappy with this arrangement and throws Walker in a swimming pool, to the amusement of Rowland and the other women.

Cast[edit]

Release[edit]

Komissar X: Jagd auf Unbekannt was released on 11 March 1966.[1] In Italy, it is known as 12 donne d'oro.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Komissar X: Jagd auf Unbekannt". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 978-88-7605-593-5.
  3. ^ Marco Giusti. 007 all'italiana. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. ISBN 978-88-7638-187-4.

External links[edit]

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