Whilst on a scuba diving holiday on the island of Corsica, an American
secret agent mysteriously disappears. The French Secret
Service send their best agent, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code name
OSS 117, to investigate. Within no time, Hubert has uncovered a
cave in which a notorious gang of spies is setting up a highly advanced
submarine detection system. In an attempt to find out more, the
agent allows himself to be captured but, with the help of the gorgeous
Brigitta, he manages to escape. Will Hubert be in time to destroy
the secret installation before it is put to deadly use...?
Script: Raymond Borel,
Pierre Foucaud,
André Hunebelle,
Jean Bruce (novel)
Cinematographer: Raymond Pierre Lemoigne
Music: Michel Magne
Cast: Kerwin Mathews (Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117),
Nadia Sanders (Brigitta), Irina Demick (Lucia),
Henri-Jacques Huet (Renotte), Jacques Harden (Roos),
Roger Dutoit (Mayan), Albert Dagnant (Forestier),
Daniel Emilfork (Sacha), Henri Attal (Manuel, un homme de main),
Yvan Chiffre (Agent Thibaud), Marc Mazza (Un homme de main)
Country: France / Italy
Language: French
Support: Black and White
Runtime: 90 min
Aka:OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.