Agent secret FX 18 (1964)

Director:

Maurice Cloche

Writers:

Paul Kenny (novel)
Odette Cloche (scenario) ...

Release Date:

28 March 1964 (France)

Genre:

Action

Plot Keywords:

Spy | Based On Novel

Cast

Ken Clark	...	Coplan
Jany Clair	...	Patricia
Jacques Dacqmine	...	Le Vieux
Daniel Ceccaldi	...	Noreau
Claude Cerval	...	Barter
Margit Kocsis	...	Lila Sari
Ramón Centenero	...	Legay
Cristina Gaioni	...	Arlette (as Cristina Gaïoni)
Amédée Doménech	...	Fondane
Lucia Amram
André Cagnard	...	The killer
Roberto Camardiel	...	Mazekia (as Camardiel)
Anselmo Cid	...	Rodriguez
Guy Delorme	...	Lattina
Beni Deus	...	Gunsson

Also Known As:

Acción en Mallorca (Spain)
FX 18 (USA)
FX 18, Secret Agent (USA)
Orden: FX 18 debe morir (Spain)
Uccidete agente segreto 777 - stop (Italy)
Coplan, mystikos praktor FX-18 (Greece) [el]
FX 18 im Agentennetz (West Germany) (video title) [de]
Jack Clifton jagt Wostok III (West Germany) [de]
Salainen agentti FX-18 (Finland) [fi]

Runtime:

France:97 min | USA:95 min

Country:

France | Italy | Spain

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Norway:16 | Finland:K-16

Company:

Comptoir Français du Film Production (CFFP)

Movie Connections:

Followed by "Coplan" (1989)

Soundtrack:

Copain Coplan

The first is the worst

This was Ken Clark's first foray in the spy genre and it's easily the weakest of his half-dozen adventures. FX-18 is a juvenile take on one of Paul Kenny's Coplan novels although I suspect it's been `dumbed' down beyond recognition. Ken's name in the English-dubbed print is Francis Cabtry or something like that and he's given the voice usually reserved for thugs.

Second-billed Jany Clair is a pouty beauty who graced Mission to Caracas and FX-18 Superspy but here she's given little to do but get slapped around and tortured. Yes, this is a world where the men are brutes and the women like it.

Director Maurice Cloche also made Baraka X-77 and The Viscount but this time around it seems all the departments of film making are second rate; acting, editing, even the score by Eddie Barclay and Michel Colombier, which has its jazzy moments, is largely forgettable. There's some nice scenery off the coast of Spain to look at but that isn't enough to salvage this wreck.