The Cape Town Affair | |
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Directed by | Robert D. Webb |
Written by | Dwight Taylor |
Screenplay by | Samuel Fuller Harold Medford |
Produced by | Robert D. Webb |
Starring | Claire Trevor James Brolin Jacqueline Bisset |
Cinematography | David Millin |
Edited by | Peter Grossett |
Music by | Bob Adams Joe Kentridge |
Production company | |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 100 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Cape Town Affair is director Robert D. Webb's 1967 glamorized spy film produced by 20th Century Fox at Killarney Film Studios in South Africa. The film stars Claire Trevor, James Brolin and Jacqueline Bisset. The film is a remake of the 1953 picture Pickup on South Street.[1]
It was Brolin's first starring role. Both he and Bisset were under contract to Fox. He later said "I didn't like it much but we [him and Bisset] weren't bad."[2]
South African secret agents try to save a confidential microfilm before the Communists get hold of it.
Some of the Cape Town locations include Long Street, apartments along Beach Road in Mouille Point and Green Point, the harbour docks now within the Waterfront, the town centre near the railway station and city hall.
Commentators describe the film as dull, slow-paced, poorly acted and tedious. The film does, however, paint an interesting picture of life in South Africa under apartheid as seen from the point of view of official government policy. All the leading characters are white and even street scenes contain few non-whites.[3]