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The Road to Corinth
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Wikipedia article
'The Road to Corinth' ( , , also released as 'Who's Got the Black Box?') is a 1967 French-Italian Eurospy film directed by Claude Chabrol.Marco Giusti. '007 all'italiana'. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. . It was based on the 1966 novel by , pseudonym of Gaston-Claude Petitjean-Darville (1925-2004).
Plot
During the Cold War in Greece, NATO radar and missile systems experience mysterious problems caused by small breakdowns electronic black boxes. Robert Ford is murdered as he is on the verge of elucidating the problem.
His wife, Shanny, takes over the investigation despite the opposition of the head of the secret service, Mr. Sharps. The latter orders the intelligence agent Dex, a friend of Robert and Shanny, to monitor Shanny's whereabouts. Out of love for her, Dex finally agrees to help Shanny in her mission.
Dex and Shanny unmask the culprit Khalids by discovering the black boxes, which he has hidden in the statue replicas which he produces and sells. However, a police raid comes up empty-handed. Through his henchmen, Khalids has Shanny kidnapped and brought on a mule to an ancient temple on top of a mountain. When he ties her to a cart and is about to throw her off the cliff, she accepts his marriage proposal. Just as he has finished untying her, he is shot by the approaching Dex and falls off the cliff himself. Dex leaves his job behind and joins Shanny on her flight home.
Cast
*Jean Seberg as Shanny
*Maurice Ronet as Dex
*Christian Marquand as Robert Ford
*Michel Bouquet as Sharps
*Saro Urz as Khalids
*Antonio Passalia as the killer
*Paolo Giusti as Josio
*Max Roman
*Artemis Matsas
*Zannino
*Stve Eckhardt
*Vassili Diamantopoulos
*Claude Chabrol as Alkibiades, traitor
Production
'La route de Corinthe' was shot in Greece during 7 weeks in May and June 1967.
Release
The film premiered on 27 October 1967 in Paris, and on April 5 1968 in Germany. It was released in the U.S. on April 17, 1970 in a cut and dubbed version retitled 'Who's Got the Black Box?'.
Reception
'TV Guide' called it "a spoofy spy-lark" and said "Chabrol delights in turning cliches inside out" while "demonstrating how much fun can be had from subverting the wildly improbable plot twists and unlikely events which are typical of spy capers."
References
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