Kommissar X – Drei gelbe Katzen is a 1966 Eurospy film written and co-directed by Rudolf Zehetgruber and Gianfranco Parolini. Filmed in Ceylon, it stars Tony Kendall, Brad Harris and Dan Vadis with Harris and Vadis doing their own stuntwork. It is the second of seven films, loosely based on the 1961 Kommissar X #73 detective novel from the Pabel Moewig publishing house, though the original novel was set in Burma.
In the film, an American police officer and a private investigator arrive in Colombo to protect a family of landowners from mysterious enemies. They are informed that the actual enemy is a cat-themed terrorist organization.
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Plot
Tom Rowland from the New York Police Department is sent to Colombo to investigate the murder of a US embassy official killed protecting the daughter of a wealthy expatriate American landowner. At the same time New York Private Investigator Joe Walker has been hired by the landowner's daughter to protect her father from being extorted for one million dollars. Through the Ceylon Police they discover a terrorist organisation known as the Three Golden Cats are responsible for both activities and a string of murders with the victims killed by karate blows or by biological chemicals.
Cast
Tony Kendall ... Joe Louis Walker, aka Kommissar X
Brad Harris ... Captain Tom Rowland
Ann Smyrner ... Babs Lincoln
Michèle Mahaut... Michèle
Dan Vadis ... King
Siegfried Rauch ... Nitro
H.D. Kulatunga ... Sunny
Philippe Lemaire ... Philip Dawson
Erno Crisa ... Baker
Rudolf Zehetgruber (as Rolf Zehett) ... Barrett
A. Jayaratii ... Insp. DaSilva
Theo Maria Werner (as Werner Hauff) ... Geldbote
Paul Beckmann ... Rogers
Chandrika 'Champa' Liyanage ... Photographer
Ananda Jayaratne ... Police Chief inspector
Joe Abeywickrama ... Police constable
Release
Kommissar X – Drei gelbe Katzen was released in Austria on 17 May 1966.