The Cobra
Cast & Crew
Mario Sequi
Dana Andrews
Peter Martell
Anita Ekberg
Elisa Montés
Jesús Puente
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In Istanbul, U. S. Secret Service Chief Kelly recruits former agent Mike Rand to discover the identity of The Cobra, the head of a criminal organization that has been smuggling pure opium into the United States. To avenge the death of a girl friend recently killed by the syndicate, Rand gives up his easy life and accepts the mission. Through interrogation of one of The Cobra's agents, Rand obtains a code providing details of the gang's operations. Continuing his search across the Middle East, Rand learns that the opium arrives from China and then is parachuted into the desert, packed into plastic tubes, and shipped through a petroleum pipeline to The Cobra's secret warehouse before being smuggled into the United States. With the assistance of Lou, a woman The Cobra has introduced to drugs, Rand discovers that The Cobra is the well-known financier and shipowner, Stiarkos. In a final gunfight between Stiarkos' men and Secret Service agents, Lou is killed while saving Rand's life, but the consignment of drugs is destroyed. After capturing Stiarkos, Rand decides not to risk the possibility of Stiarkos' evading trial, and so he shoots him. Then, after rejecting Kelly's offer of a high position, Rand exchanges his gun for a few bottles of whiskey and returns to his former aimless existence in Istanbul.
Director
Mario Sequi
Cast
Dana Andrews
Peter Martell
Anita Ekberg
Elisa Montés
Jesús Puente
Peter Dane
Luciana Vincenzi
George Histman
Omar Zoulfikar
Giovanni Petrucci
Chang'e
Ehshane Sadek
Lidia Biondi
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Copyright length: 97 min. Filmed on location in the Near and Middle East. Released in Italy in 1967 as Il cobra; in Spain as El cobra; running time: 89 min. U. S. sources credit Roman Dollar Films as the Italian production company.
