Triple Cross (1966 film)

Triple Cross is a 1966 Anglo-French co-produced film directed by Terence Young and produced by Jacques-Paul Bertrand. It was based loosely on the real life story of Eddie Chapman, believed by the Nazis to be their top spy in Great Britain whilst in fact 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 US in 1967 as Terence Young's Triple Cross. The title comes from Chapman's signature to mark he was freely transmitting by radio, a Morse code XXX.

This 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.

The screenplay was written by William Marchant and René Hardy.

In his autobiography, Christopher Plummer said that Chapman was to have been a technical adviser on the film but the French authorities would not allow him in the country because he was still wanted over an alleged plot to kidnap the Sultan of Morocco.^[1]

Cast

• Christopher Plummer as Eddie Chapman
• Romy Schneider as Countess
• Trevor Howard as British Intelligence Officer
• Gert Fröbe as Col. Steinhager
• Claudine Auger as Paulette
• Yul Brynner as Col. Baron von Grunen
• Harry Meyen as Lt. Keller

Notes

External links

• Triple Cross at the Internet Movie Database
• Triple Cross at the TCM Movie Database
• Britmovie