The Swiss Conspiracy ** (1976, David Janssen, Senta Berger, Elke Sommer, John Ireland, John Saxon, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 12,124

Director Jack Arnold’s 1976 West German/ US co-production action thriller film The Swiss Conspiracy is based on the novel by Michael Stanley, and stars David Janssen, Senta Berger, Elke Sommer, John Ireland, John Saxon and Ray Milland.

David Janssen brings his world-weary, hangdog charm to this typically complex Seventies conspiracy thriller, in which he plays David Christopher, a private eye and ex-US Treasury federal agent living in Geneva, hired to investigate the blackmailing of customers at a Swiss bank.

He soon stumbles across a plot that involves mafia hitmen and a host of shady characters.

The Swiss Conspiracy is far fetched but carefully plotted, and it is quite well made of its humble kind. Senta Berger and Elke Sommer don’t have much to do except look pretty, though they do that rather well. Old-timers John Ireland, John Saxon and Ray Milland help out characterfully. It looks pretty too, filmed entirely in and around Zürich.

Also in the cast are Anton Diffring, Arthur Brauss, Curt Lowens, David Hess, Inigo Gallo, Sheila Ruskin, and Irmgard Frost.

The Swiss Conspiracy is directed by Jack Arnold, runs 95 minutes, is made by S.J. International Pictures, is released by Warner Bros, is written by Norman Clenman, Philip Saltzman and Michael Stanley, based on the novel by Michael Stanley, is shot by W.P. Hassenstein, is produced by Maurice Silverstein, and is scored by Klaus Doldinger.

The cast are David Janssen as David Christopher, Senta Berger as Zürich resident Denise Abbott, John Ireland as Texas businessman Dwight McGowan, John Saxon as Chicago crook Robert Hayes, Ray Milland as Bank president Johann Hurtil, Anton Diffring as the bank’s vice-president Franz Benninger, Elke Sommer as his mistress Rita Jensen Arthur Brauss as Dutchman Andre Kosta, Inigo Gallo as Swiss Federal Police Captain Hans Frey, Curt Lowens as Korsak, David Hess, Sheila Ruskin, and Irmgard Frost.

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