BA_Harrison My first Kommissar X experience was the fourth film in the series, Kill Me Gently, which was something of a mess. Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill, the first in the series, is much more fun, a cheesy Bond-style espionage caper with not one, but two heroes trying to thwart a power-hungry villain out to own the world's largest gold reserve.Private detective Jo Walker (Tony Kendall) and police captain Tom Rowland (Brad Harris) investigate the disappearance of a nuclear physicist and the murder of several shady businessmen. The trail eventually leads to O'Brien (Nikola Popovic), who has been killing off his business partners in order to gain complete control of the gold that they have amassed on their island fortress.With suave protagonists, sexy women (including an army of curvaceous mind-controlled blondes), and a ruthless megalomaniac, plus lots of fisticuffs, shootouts, and an explosive finale in the baddie's lair, this is entertaining nonsense for fans of '60s spy flicks - the type of films so mercilessly spoofed by Austin Powers.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Kommissar X - Jagd auf Unbekannt" or "Kiss Kiss... Kill Kill" is a co-production between Germany and some other countries from Europe that resulted in this 90-minute German-language film from 1966, so this film had its 50th anniversary last year already. right now it seems more difficult to find a German-language version than an English dub. The director and one of the writers who adapted the highly prolific Paul Alfred Müller's novel here was Gianfranco Parolini, still alive today, but long retired. This is actually the very first of several Kommissar X films from back then starring Tony Kendall. During that time Germany was mostly known for Edgar Wallace and Winnetou, but these films add another long-running series. Those obviously were linked closely to James Bond with the Fort Know reference in here even , that was a major component in the film Goldfinger from briefly before. But I was never sure what this film we have here was trying to be: an authentic spy movie, or just basically a spoof of one of the biggest film franchises from all times. Maybe a mix of both. And as such, it was not necessarily working. At least not as much as I hoped it would. There are moments that feel as if they could really be taken from a Bond film, like the bantering or these powerful women soldiers, but it just wasn't enough. and honestly, besides that, the comedy (very common back then in German films, also serious ones actually like the two franchises I mentioned) was working even less. A truly underwhelming film as a whole and I genuinely hope they managed to step things up for the sequels. Otherwise, I believe they should not have been made. Watch something else instead.

kevin olzak "Kiss Kiss...Kill Kill" (1966) was only the beginning of a popular Eurospy series teaming Tony Kendall and Brad Harris, but remained the only one to air on Pittsburgh's Chiller Theater, on November 11 1967, paired with second feature "Panic in Year Zero." Accurately described as a knockoff of "Goldfinger," with the female lead in the more than capable hands of Austrian-born beauty Maria Perschy, whose vast genre credits include "The Mad Executioners," "No Survivors, Please," "A Witch Without a Broom," "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Ghost Galleon," plus one film with Peter Cushing ("Battleflag"), two with Christopher Lee ("Five Golden Dragons" and "The Castle of Fu Manchu"), plus four with Paul Naschy ("The Hunchback of the Morgue," "House of Psychotic Women," "Exorcismo," and "The People Who Own the Dark"). German-born blonde knockout Christa Linder (Miss Austria 1962) did one of the sequels, but worked a great deal in Mexico, with the distinction of appearing in Boris Karloff's final feature film, 1968's "Incredible Invasion." Tony Kendall started out in Mario Bava's "The Whip and the Body" (1963), and later appeared in a pair of horrors from Amando De Ossorio, "Return of the Evil Dead" and "When the Screaming Stops," while Idaho-born Brad Harris, a veteran of Italy's peplum films, went on to do titles such as "King of Kong Island," "The Mad Butcher," "The Mutations," and "Lady Dracula."

Skragg As the previous poster says, if this is a "Bond rip-off," it's a completely entertaining one. Like the other installments in this series, it has Kendall as the frivolous spy and Harris as his (almost) humorless partner. The running joke is that Kendall keeps getting brushed off - often with physical violence - by the women he tries something with. Could this have helped inspire "Johhny Bravo"? Also, this installment has - and to me there's no better thing in a spy movie - a criminal genius with a female army. (My only complaint with him is that the actor looks a little too much like Billy Sands from McHale's Navy for a spy movie villain!) And of course none of this film takes itself too seriously. I only have one complaint - it has not one but TWO "Pussy Galore"-type characters ; in other words, female helpers of the villain who turn on him and help the heroes. Having two of those is kind of redundant. In fact, the whole female army turns against him too. It should have had one genuine villainess!