SAS a San Salvador
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Director Raoul Coutard Music director Michel Magne Duration | 3.8/10 IMDb Genre Action, Thriller Screenplay Gerard de Villiers Country France
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Language French
German
English Release date February 25, 1983 (1983-02-25) (Germany) Based on Gerard de Villiers Writer Gerard de Villiers (novel), Gerard de Villiers (screenplay) Initial release February 25, 1983 (West Germany) Cast Raimund Harmstorf (Enrique Chacon), Miles O'Keeffe (Malko Linge), Dagmar Lassander (Maria Luisa Delgado), Anton Diffring (Peter Reynolds), Alexander Kerst (David Wise), Sybil Danning (Gräfin Alexandra Vogel)Similar movies Dagmar Lassander appears in SAS a San Salvador and Werewolf Woman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
S.A.S. a San Salvador (German title: S.A.S. Malko, im Auftrag des Pentagon) is a French-German film adaptation of Gerard de Villiers novel of the same name. The film was directed by Raoul Coutard. It starred Miles OKeeffe as Son Altesse Serenissime Malko, the debonair polyglot hero of a long-lived (1965-2013) series of altogether 200 spy novels.
Contents
Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many encounters with sweet girls, and macho villains. (Written by Artemis-9, IMDb)
Plot
Like in the books Malko is a nobleman whose family bequeathed him a huge castle and an aristocratic appearance but no sufficient means to sustain the inherited premises or to keep up the appropriate life style. This time it is the castles roof that requires work and forces Malko to accept another CIA mission. The secret service is worried about rumours which endanger the US-American reputation. It was brought to the CIAs notice that a former collaborator named Enrique Chacon (Raimund Harmstorff) allegedly went rogue in San Salvador. Malko is supposed to investigate Chacon over the atrocities of death squads and then do whatever seems fit against the background of his findings. So he travels to San Salvador and goes about it. Soon he becomes a witness to the crimes of the death squads and eventually he has to realise how Chacon is indeed the driving force for all that. That leaves him no other choice than to render Chacon harmless for good before he can return to his castle and his fiancee, Countess Alexandra (Sybill Danning).
Background
In 1983 spy films were so popular that there were two James Bond films released the very same year – Never Say Never Again (starring Sean Connery) and Octopussy (starring Roger Moore) – while George Lazenby played "J.B." in The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E made for television movie. Neither Bond film was convincingly realistic or absolutely true to author Ian Fleming who had once created this hero. The lasting success of novels about Malko showed there was a market for adventures of a newer and younger gentleman spy who refrained from spectacular gadgets. Moreover Malkos creator Gerard de Villiers would ostentatiously write the script and be one of the producers for all to see that this film was in accordance with his novels. Despite all good intentions S.A.S. a San Salvador didnt establish a new series of spy films but the series of novels lived on all the same and one-time “Malko� Miles OKeeffe starred the very next year with Sean Connery in Sword of the Valiant.
Reception
The film failed at the box office. As a low-budget action film it was by nature not taken seriously by the critics.
DVD Release
Originally released on Betamax and VHS, the film came out on DVD in 2000.
Cast
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Discography
The CD soundtrack composed by Michel Magne is available on Music Box Records label (website).
References
S.A.S. a San Salvador WikipediaS.A.S. a San Salvador IMDb S.A.S. a San Salvador themoviedb.org