Code Name: Jaguar

Code Name: Jaguar (French: Corrida pour un espion, Spanish: Persecución a un espía, German: Der Spion, der in die Hölle ging, also known as The Spy Who Went Into Hell is a 1965 French/Spanish/West German international co-production Eurospy film directed by Maurice Labro in his penultimate feature film. The film was co-written by French author Claude Rank (nom de plume of Gaston-Claude Petitjean-Darville, born November 22, 1925 died 2004) based on Rank's 1964 novel of the same name.[1] The film stars Ray Danton, Pascale Petit and Roger Hanin and was shot in Alicante with interior studio work filmed in West Berlin.[2]

Code Name: Jaguar
Original French film poster
Directed byMaurice Labro
Produced byMiguel de Echarri
Hans Oppenheimer
Screenplay by
  • Claude Rank (novel and screenplay)
  • Maurice Labro
  • Jean Meckert
  • Louis Velle
Based onCorrida pour un espion by Claude Rank
Starring
Music byMichel Legrand
CinematographyRoger Fellous
Edited byGeorges Arnstam
Production
companies
  • Hans Oppenheimer Film
  • Midega Film
  • Transatlantic Production
Distributed byGaumont Film Company
Constantin Films
Release date
13 August 1965 (W. Germany)
Running time
107 minutes
Country
  • France
  • West Germany
  • Spain

Plot

Prior to his discovery and death, an American intelligence officer working undercover at a Soviet Naval base sends proof of the Russians filming American submarines off a joint US-Spanish naval base in San Juan, on the coast of Spain. American intelligence "Super Agent" Jeff Larson (Ray Danton) is sent to San Juan to investigate where he meets up with his former colleague Bob Stuart (Roger Hanin), and his Spanish contact, Pilar Perez (Pascale Petit). Larson (code name "Jaguar"), helps the American military discover remote controlled video cameras being used by the Soviets. These cameras are boobytrapped using sophisticated landmines, killing two Spanish sailors who tried to disarm one. Larson skin dives to clandestinely board a Soviet spy ship to discover that not only are they monitoring American submarines, but they are intercepting radio transmissions from the US-Spanish naval base as well as having a mole on the base. Larson successfully disarms a landmine protecting another video camera, saves the camera for analysis and hatches a plan to convert the landmine into a limpet mine and "return [it] to sender." Throughout the escapade Larson survives several assassination attempts.

Cast

Soundtrack
  • A Lot of Livin' to Do

Music by Charles Strouse
Lyrics by Lee Adams
Sung by Ray Danton

References
  1. p. 301 Mavis, Paul The Espionage Filmography: United States Releases, 1898 through 1999 McFarland, 8 Jun 2015
  2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059059/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt
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