Africa Express
feature film, 1976.
DIRECTED BY: Michele Lupo
CAST:
Giuliano Gemma (John Baxter),
Ursula Andress (Madeleine Cooper),
Jack Palance (Robert Preston / William Hunter),
Giuseppe Maffioli (otac Gasparetto),
Luciana Turina (Lily)
SCRIPT:
Mario Amendola,
Bruno Corbucci,
Gabrielle Martin
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Roberto Gerardi
Synopsis:
This is an adventure comedy filmed in South Africa in which Giuliano Gemma plays the goodnatured John Baxter. He works as an independent trader, has a pet chimpanzee called Biba and all he wants is to save enough money to open a petrol station in Detroit, his home town. On one of his trips he meets a nun by the name of Madeleine Cooper. In reality, Madeleine is a secret agent who is running from a smuggler and war criminal, and she gets John in trouble.
35 mm, color, 98 min