The Beckett Affair

The Beckett Affair

1966 · 84 min · ★ 7.5 · Crime, Thriller

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.

Directed by Osvaldo Civirani · Written by Roberto Gianviti

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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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