Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell

Agente 3S3: Passaporto per l'inferno
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sergio Sollima
Written by	Jesús María de Arozamena, Alfonso Balcázar
Produced by	Cesáreo González
Cinematography	Carlo Carlini [it]
Edited by	Bruno Mattei[1]
Music by	Piero Umiliani
Production companies	Cineproduzioni Associate * Producciones Balcazar * Les Films Copernic[1]
Release date	1965 (1965)
Countries	Italy Spain France[1]

Agente 3S3: Passaporto per l'inferno or Agent 3S3:Passport to Hell is a 1965 Italian adventure-eurospy film directed by Sergio Sollima, here credited as Simon Sterling. This is the first chapter in the Sollima's spy film trilogy, and inaugurated the film series of the Agent 3S3 played by George Ardisson.[2][3] It is also the first Sollima's full-length film, after the episode he filmed in L'amore difficile three years before.

Location filming includes Spain, Rome, Beirut and Vienna.[4] This was followed by the sequel Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun (1966) also directed by Sollima that was shot back to back.

Cast

• George Ardisson ... Walter Ross, Agent 3S3
• Barbara Simon ... Irmgard von Wittstein
• José Marco ... Ahmed
• Georges Rivière ... Professor Steve Dickson
• Franco Andrei [it] ... Bellamy (as Frank Andrews)
• Liliane Fernani ... Karina (as Senta Heller)
• Seyna Seyn ... Jackye Vein
• Charles Kalinski ... Salkoff (as Karl Wirth)
• Francisco Sanz ... Nobell (as Paco Sanz / Paul Fabian)
• Henri Cogan ... Sanz (as Heinrich Rauch)
• Fernando Sancho ... Colonel Dolukin (as Ferdinand Bergmann)
• Béatrice Altariba ... Elisa von Sloot
• Sal Borgese ... Man in Vienna Bar
• Jeff Cameron

Reception

In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that ″attractive locations...are small compensation for the general stodginess of the latest cosmopolitan spy thriller. After a promising beginning, with the hero's car sandwiched between two huge lorries on a snow-bound country road, the plot resolves itself into the customary round of brawls and brawn.″[1]

References

1. "Agente 3.S.3, Passaporto per L'inferno". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 33, no. 384. British Film Institute. 1966. p. 140.
2. Francesco Adinolfi, Karen Pinkus. Mondo exotica. Duke University Press, 2008.
3. Marco Giusti. 007 all'italiana. Isbn Edizioni, 2010.
4. Fabio Zanello (4 August 2004). "La regia come match di boxe - Intervista a Sergio Sollima". Sentieri Selvaggi. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2012.

External links

• Agente 3S3: Passaporto per l'inferno at IMDb