The Cape Town Affair (1967)

Directed by

Robert D. Webb

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.1 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small-time crook gets caught up in Cold War espionage when he picks the wrong pocket. The film follows his struggle to survive as he is pressured by both the police and enemy agents.

suspensefultensedatedunderstatedgrittymysteriousdry

What happens

The Cape Town Affair is a 1967 South African spy film directed and produced by Robert D. Webb, written by Dwight Taylor, produced by the 20th Century Fox at Killarney Film Studios in South Africa. The film stars Claire Trevor, James Brolin, and Jacqueline Bisset. It is a remake of the 1953 picture Pickup on South Street. It was Brolin's first starring role. Both he and Bisset were under contract to Fox. He later said "I didn't like it much but we [he and Bisset] weren't bad." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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