An Orchid for the Tiger
Directed by Claude ChabrolLouis Rapiere, aka Tiger, is sent to Port-a-Pitre (French Guiana), to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship. A group of revolutionaries pirates the ship and steals the treasure, intending to sell it to an international terrorist organization called Orchid. When Tiger arrives there, he demands that the French authorities arrest the revolutionaries, but the police, trying to prevent a general strike, do nothing. Tiger finds himself acting alone in a paralyzed territory--as the revolutionaries incite the people to the general strike anyway--and competing against American, Russian, and German spies. Everybody is very interested in the treasure, a rare mineral with tremendous impact on arms development, now about to fall into the Orchid's clutches.
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An Orchid for the Tiger was released on 5 November 1965.
An Orchid for the Tiger was directed by Claude Chabrol.
An Orchid for the Tiger has a runtime of 85m.
An Orchid for the Tiger was produced by Christine Gouze-Rénal.
Louis Rapiere, aka Tiger, is sent to Port-a-Pitre (French Guiana), to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship. A group of revolutionaries pirates the ship and steals the treasure, intending to sell it to an international terrorist organization called Orchid. When Tiger arrives there, he demands that the French authorities arrest the revolutionaries, but the police, trying to prevent a general strike, do nothing. Tiger finds himself acting alone in a paralyzed territory--as the revolutionaries incite the people to the general strike anyway--and competing against American, Russian, and German spies. Everybody is very interested in the treasure, a rare mineral with tremendous impact on arms development, now about to fall into the Orchid's clutches.
The key characters in An Orchid for the Tiger are Louis Rapière (Roger Hanin), Pamela Mitchum / Patricia Johnson (Margaret Lee), Jacques Vermorel (Michel Bouquet).
An Orchid for the Tiger is a Mystery, Comedy, Adventure film.
An Orchid for the Tiger has an audience rating of 4.4 out of 10.