Agent X-77 Orders to Kill
1966 film by Maurice Cloche
Agent X-77 Orders to Kill (French: Baraka sur X 13, Spanish: Operación Silencio, Italian: Agente X77 ordine di uccidere, also known as Baraka for Secret Service) is a 1966 French-Spanish-Italian spy film directed by Maurice Cloche and starring Gérard Barray and Sylva Koscina. Silvio Siano is credited as co-director in the Italian version of the film (credited as "Edgar Lawson") due to co-production obligations. It is loosely based on the novel Silence clinique by Eddy Ghilain.
Cast
Gérard Barray as Serge Vadile, Agent X-77 (Agent X 13 in France)
Sylva Koscina as Mania
Agnès Spaak as Ingrid
José Suárez as Franck
Yvette Lebon as Elvire
Renato Baldini as Dr. Lupescu
Gemma Cuervo as Solange
Gérard Tichy as Dr. Reichmann
Luis Induni as M. Klein
Aldo Bufi Landi
Giacomo Furia
Release
Agent X-77 Orders to Kill was released in France in 1966 as Baraka sur X 13.
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