A jungle kidnapping goes sideways when the wife shows up and alliances rot like the humidity.
Two gun runners, Le Doc and Rougier, save and tend the only survivor of a plane crash into the Vietnamese jungle. When they realize the man named Hamelin is a renowned electronics engineer, they decide to keep him hostage and to release him in exchange for a high ransom. Things get complicated with the coming of Sylvie, Hamelin's wife in search of her missing husband. To make matters worse, Wong,a Chinese gang leader and former ally of the traffickers, turns against them and attacks them with his men.
Acting
Barbara Laage's desperate wife cuts through the testosterone.
Production
Vietnam location shooting feels dangerously authentic for 1962.
Director
Maurice Labro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on location in Vietnam during the early American advisory period, making it a rare French colonial thriller filmed in a conflict zone before it escalated.
Maurice Labro was primarily a television director; this theatrical release captures that same tight, efficient storytelling style.
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