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Triple Cross is a British film of genre War directed by Terence Young released in USA on 9 december 1966 with Christopher Plummer
Triple Cross (1966)
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Add to a movie listTriple Cross (aka La Fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman and Terence Young's Triple Cross) is a 1966 Anglo-French co-produced film directed by Terence Young and produced by Jacques-Paul Bertrand. The film was released in Eastman Color, print by Technicolor.
Triple Cross was based loosely on the real-life story of Eddie Chapman, believed by the Nazis to be their top spy in Great Britain, although he was an MI5 double agent known as "Zigzag". The film was released in France in December 1966 as La Fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman but elsewhere in Europe and the United States in 1967 as Terence Young's Triple Cross.
The title of the film comes from Chapman's signature to mark he was freely transmitting by radio, a Morse code XXX. Another meaning of the title, "Triple Cross," becomes clear in the final scene of the film. Chapman, sitting at a bar, is asked who he was really working for. In reply, he raises his glass in salute to his reflection in the mirror.
Triple Cross is the second pairing of Terence Young and actress Claudine Auger. She was the leading James Bond girl in Thunderball (1965) which Young also directed.
Synopsis
Early in the Second World War, an explosion occurs when safecracker Eddie Chapman (Christopher Plummer) blows open a wall safe. Outside, a car is backfiring repeatedly and a marching band is passing by. Chapman casually removes some jewels from the safe and examines them for the choicest items. He leaves a card in the safe complimenting its owners for being victims of the Gelignite Gang. The gang pulls off a series of heists before they go on the lam. Chapman is caught in Jersey and imprisoned there. After eight months, he sees German soldiers landing outside the prison and demands to see their commandant.Actors
Christopher Plummer
(Freddie Chapman)
Romy Schneider
(Helga Lindstrom (The Countess))
Trevor Howard
(Freddie Young (Distinguished Civilian))
Gert Fröbe
(Colonel Steinhager)
Claudine Auger
(Paulette)
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