Following the deadly trail | An all-star international espionage mission.
United Nations narcotics agents attempt to trace heroin shipments from the Afghanistan-Iran border to the main European distributor.
Original title: The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Alternative title: The Opium Connection
🇦🇷 La amapola también es una flor
🇦🇺 Danger Grows Wild / Poppies Are Also Flowers / Opium: Code Name Poppy
🇦🇹 Mohn ist auch eine Blume
🇧🇪 Operatie opium / Le pavot est aussi une fleur / Opération opium
🇧🇷 O Ópio também é Uma Flor / Papoulas também são flores
🇨🇴 La amapola también es una flor
🇨🇿 Máky jsou také květy
🇩🇰 Operation opium
🇫🇮 Operaatio Opium / Unikko tietää kuolemaa
🇫🇷 Opération Opium
🇩🇪 Mohn ist auch eine Blume
🇬🇷 Απόρρητος φάκελλος ‘Κόκκινη παπαρούνα’ / Η κόκκινη παπαρούνα
🇭🇺 A mák virága is virág
🇮🇹 Il papavero è anche un fiore
🇯🇵 悪のシンフォニー
🇲🇽 Operación opio
🇳🇴 Djevleblomsten
🇵🇱 Mak również jest kwiatem
🇵🇹 A papoila também é uma flor
🇷🇴 Macul este şi el o floare
🇷🇺 Маки – это тоже цветы
🇪🇸 Las flores del diablo
🇸🇪 Djävulens blomma / Operation Opium
🇹🇷 Parola – Zehir
🇻🇪 La amapola no es una flor
🇷🇸 Operacija Opijum
🎬 CREW
Directed by Terence Young
Written by Jo Eisinger (Story by Ian Fleming)
Musical Score by Georges Auric
Cinematography by Henri Alekan
Release date: September 21, 1966
Filming location: Iran, France, and Italy
⭐️ CASTLIST
Senta Berger – Maxine
Stephen Boyd – Agent Benson
Yul Brynner – Colonel Salem
Angie Dickinson – Linda Benson
Trevor Howard – Sam Lincoln (UN agent)
Rita Hayworth – Monique Marko (addictive performance!)
Eli Wallach – Locarno (suspected smuggler)
Omar Sharif – Dr. Rad (Iranian official)
Jack Hawkins – General Bahar
Gilbert Roland – Serge Marko (crime boss)
E.G. Marshall – Coley Jones (UN agent)
Marcello Mastroianni – Inspector Mosca
Anthony Quayle – Captain Vanderbilt
Trini López – Himself (musical cameo)
Hugh Griffith – Salah Rahman Khan (opium supplier)
🎯 WHY WATCH?
Spy • Action • Crime • Drama • Mystery • Classic Cinema
🌍 Globetrotting Espionage – 🕵️♂️ Ian Fleming Story – ⭐ Massive All-Star Cast
Based on a story by James Bond creator Ian Fleming and directed by 007 veteran Terence Young, this globe-trotting spy thriller is packed with tension. Featuring an unbelievable ensemble cast that reads like a who’s who of 1960s Hollywood royalty, it’s a stylish and sweeping adventure from start to finish.
