Black Box Affair

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Black Box Affair
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Directed by Marcello Ciorciolini
Written byMarcello Ciorciolini
Nino Quevedo
Produced bySilvio Battistini
Francesco Campitelli
Starring Craig Hill
CinematographyAngelo Filippini
Edited byOtello Colangeli
Music by Gianni Ferrio
Release date
October 1966
LanguageItalian

Black Box Affair (Italian : Black Box Affair - Il mondo trema, Spanish : Amenaza black box) is a 1966 Italian-Spanish Eurospy film written and directed by Marcello Ciorciolini and starring Craig Hill (at his only spy film) and Teresa Gimpera. [1] Hill first met Gimpera in this film, and the couple got married shortly later. [1] It is one of the rare films of the time depicting an alliance between Soviets and Americans to face a higher menace. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Marco Giusti. 007 all'italiana. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. ISBN   9788876381874.
  2. Paul Mavis (8 June 2015). The Espionage Filmography. McFarland, 2011. ISBN   978-1476604275.