Las garras del dragón rojo

At the beginning, Joe Walker aka Inspector X (Tony KENDALL) and his buddy Tom Rowland (Brad HARRIS) are still training young private detectives. They get support from the blonde actress Zorica GAJDAS, who, as the Serbian answer to Jayne MANSFIELD, knows how to impress with her curvaceous assets.

After that, the film heads towards Singapore, where an absent-minded professor (Ernst Fritz FÜRBRINGER) is worried about his newly developed laser weapon. But first, Brad HARRIS treats himself to a round of water skiing and poses the question to the audience as to how you can carry a revolver in your swimming trunks. When it comes to action, HARRIS (also as stunt coordinator) and KENDALL once again know how to inspire. In this way, Italian director Gianfranco PAROLINI (QUESTA VOLTA TI FACCIO RICCO, 1974) also circumvents some of the weaknesses in the script. Naturally, the local criminal gang of the Golden Dragon is soon after the laser weapon. This also puts the charming professor's daughter (Barbara FREY, who was once married to the actor Mark DAMON, who later produced films such as 9 1/2 WEEKS (1986) and MONSTER (2003) with ACADEMY AWARD winner Charlize THERON) in danger. The young Gisela HAHN is very impressive in this film, impressing as an ultra-nasty contract killer. Five years later, the actress from West Prussia was once again a guest star in the KOMMISSAR - X - franchise in KOMMISSAR X JAGT DIE ROTEN TIGER. And then there is her opaque sister Shabana (Luisa RIVELLI), who is somehow connected to everyone in Singapore.

Good action scenes, interesting female characters and the usual agent stuff make this EuroSPY representative an enjoyable film. The West German agent franchise, based on the British James Bond adventures, was not only successful in its own cinemas (1,494,000 visitors), but was also exported to France (almost 500,000 visitors) and Spain (almost 1,000,000 visitors).