The Poppy Is Also a Flower
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Cast & Crew
Terence Young
E. G. Marshall
Trevor Howard
Gilbert Roland
Rita Hayworth
Anthony Quayle
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Synopsis
When Benson, a U. S. narcotics investigator, is killed in the Iranian desert after offering to buy opium from a nomadic tribal chief, the United Nations sends agents Lincoln and Jones to smash the dope ring. Their trail leads first to Tehran, where they meet Linda, who, after claiming to be Benson's widow, disappears. The agents plot with U. N. scientists to intercept a cargo of opium, mark it with radioactive tracers, and use Geiger counters to follow it through underworld channels to the drug traffic center. For a while the agents maintain contact with the cargo but then lose it. Eventually the Naples police report having seized the cargo, which is traced to Marco, a wealthy playboy in Monte Carlo. Lincoln finds Marco aboard his yacht, hosting a party attended by Linda, and he questions Marco's wife, Monique, who is a drug addict. The following morning Lincoln's dead body is found, and Jones continues the pursuit alone. He tracks Marco to a Paris-bound train, where he again meets Linda, and she reveals herself to be a U. N. agent. After escaping an attack by Marco's henchmen, they return to Marco's yacht and succeed in implicating him in both the murder and the narcotics ring.
Director
Terence Young
Cast
E. G. Marshall
Trevor Howard
Gilbert Roland
Rita Hayworth
Anthony Quayle
Angie Dickinson
Yul Brynner
Eli Wallach
Harold Sakata
Senta Berger
Hugh Griffith
Marcello Mastroianni
Georges Géret
Howard Vernon
Stephen Boyd
Jocelyn Lane
Amedeo Nazzari
Jean-claude Pascal
Omar Sharif
Nadja Tiller
Barry Sullivan
Jack Hawkins
Trini Lopez
Gilda Dahlberg
Luisa Rivelli
Laya Raki
Sylvia Sorente
Marilù Tolo
Violette Marceau
Morteza Kazerouni
Bob Cunningham
Ali Oveisi
Crew
Henri Alekan
Georges Auric
Monique Bonnot
Tony Braun
Maurice Colasson
Clo D'alban
Mickey Delamar
Jo Eisinger
Ian Fleming
Dennis Hall
Georges Lampin
Euan Lloyd
Jean Monchablon
Freda Pearson
Paul Pollard
Henry Richardson
Tony Roman
Edgar Rosenberg
Simon Schiffrin
Hushang Shafti
Peter Thornton
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Location scenes filmed in Iran, Nice, Naples, Rome, Monte Carlo, and Switzerland. First shown on ABC-TV on April 22, 1966.
