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The Beckett Affair (1966)

The Beckett Affair (1966)

Crime Thriller
Release Date: 1966, July 29
Directors: Osvaldo Civirani
Countries: France, Italy
Production: Compagnie Européenne de Cinematographie, Fono Roma, Wonder Films
Cast: Gianni Solaro, Ivan Desny, Carla Calò, Massimo Righi, Roberto Messina, Giorgio Cerioni, Lang Jeffries, Nathalie Nort, Andrea Scotti, Krista Nell, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Lilia Neyung

Overview:

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.