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The Dictator's Guns
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Wikipedia article
'The Dictator's Guns' is a 1965 French, Spanish and Italian international co-production crime film directed by Claude Sautet and shot in France and Spain. It was based on the 1960 novel 'Aground' by Charles Williams.
Plot
In Santo Domingo, a Mr Hendrix asks the experienced skipper Cournot to look over the Dragoon, a ketch being sold by a widow in New York called Mrs Osborne. The Dominican police then arrest Cournot because Hendrix and the Dragoon have both disappeared, leaving several corpses on the shore. When Mrs Osborne flies in and corroborates his story, he is freed.
She wants to find her stolen vessel and Cournot suggests a seaplane pilot in Kingston, Jamaica, who flies the two in search of where the Dragoon was last reported. They find it aground, close to an exposed sandbank. On going aboard, Cournot and Mrs Osborne are taken captive by a vicious gun runner called Morrison who with his gang is already holding Hendrix and has overloaded the Dragoon with weapons and ammunition for delivery to Central America.
Morrison makes Cournot do the exhausting work of ferrying the heavy cases one by one to the sandbank, aiming to refloat the vessel and then reload it. Disputes among the crooks lead to Morrison being left alone on the sandbank with all the hardware while Cournot, Mrs Osborne and a wounded Hendrix are on the boat. Morrison keeps the Dragoon under constant rifle fire, hoping to hit the humans and disable the craft. He succeeds in holing the petrol tank, flooding the vessel with fuel which could go up at any moment. While Cournot is trying to pump it out by hand, Morrison swims aboard and in a final confrontation is killed.
A rising tide floats the Dragoon so, hoisting the sails, Cournot sets course for Panama, a place where no questions will be asked.
Cast
*Lino Ventura ... Jacques Cournot
*Sylva Koscina ... Rae Osborne
*Alberto de Mendoza ... Hendrix
*Leo Gordon ... Morrison
*Antonio Casas
*Antonio Martn ... Ruiz
*ngel del Pozo
*Jos Jaspe
*ngel Menndez
*Jean-Claude Bercq... Avery
*Jack E. Leonard ... Keefer
References
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