Hot Line (film)

This article is about the 1967 European film. For other uses, see Hotline (disambiguation).

Hot Line
American theatrical poster
Directed by	Etienne Périer
Written by	Dominique Fabre Guerdon Trueblood Paul Jarrico
Produced by	Alexander Salkind
Starring	Charles Boyer Robert Taylor
Cinematography	Manuel Berenguer
Music by	Paul Misraki
Distributed by	American International Pictures (US)
Release date	1967 (1967)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	France
Language	English

Hot Line (US title: The Day the Hot Line Got Hot, French: Le Rouble à deux faces or Le Téléphone rouge) is a 1967 French/Spanish international co-production comedy spy thriller directed by Etienne Périer and starring Robert Taylor in his final feature film and Charles Boyer. It was released in the US by American International Pictures.

Plot

An American and Russian agent find themselves duped by a double agent who works for both of them. Also involved are a naive IBM computer operator and the telephone operator at the hot-line center in Stockholm.

Cast

• Charles Boyer as Vostov, KGB head
• Robert Taylor as Anderson, CIA chief
• George Chakiris as Eric Ericson, Computer Expert with IBM
• Marie Dubois as Natasha
• Gérard Tichy as Truman
• Marta Grau as Old Lady
• Irene D'Astrea as Old Lady
• Josefina Tapias as Old Lady
• Maurice de Canonge as Director of Hotel
• Gustavo Re as Police Chief
• Ilya Salkind as himself

Bibliography

• Blake, Matt; Deal, David (2004). The Eurospy Guide. Baltimore: Luminary Press. ISBN 1-887664-52-1.

External links

• The Day the Hot Line Got Hot at IMDb
• The Day the Hot Line Got Hot at AllMovie
• Le rouble à deux faces at the British Film Institute