Ring Around the World | |
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Directed by | Luigi Scattini Georges Combret |
Written by | Ernesto Gastaldi |
Produced by | Mino Loy Luciano Martino |
Starring | Richard Harrison Hélène Chanel |
Cinematography | Claudio Racca |
Music by | Piero Umiliani |
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Language | Italian |
Ring Around the World (Italian : Duello nel mondo, French : Duel dans le monde) is a 1966 Italian-French Eurospy film written and directed by Luigi Scattini (here credited as Arthur Scott) and starring Richard Harrison. [1]
The French director Georges Combret is credited as co-director but he only shot a few scenes of the film. [2] Several scenes were originally shot in Hong Kong but due to production issues they were unusable and had to be re-shot in Rome. [2]
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