Trailer
Plot summary
Eddie Chapman cracks safes in London as the Gelignite Gang until he is caught and convicted while on holiday on Jersey. Months later the war begins and German forces occupy the island, where he is serving his sentence. Chapman offers the occupiers his skills, and because those skills are unusual they accept, though they do not trust him fully. They fake his execution and smuggle him into occupied France, where Baron von Grunen becomes his handler and he is trained as a spy. He also becomes involved with a fellow agent known as the Countess. On his first mission into England he goes to the British with an offer of his own: intelligence on the Germans in return for a pardon.
Cast
- Gil Barberas Bergman
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Triple Cross (1966)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The real Eddie Chapman, the safecracker turned double agent the film is about, was meant to advise the production, but French authorities barred him from the country because he was still wanted over an alleged plot to kidnap Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco, as Christopher Plummer recalled in his memoir In Spite of Myself.
- The title comes from a real signal: Chapman told his German handlers he was transmitting freely by signing off with a Morse code XXX.
- Director Terence Young first wanted Ursula Andress, his Dr. No leading lady, for a role, but she turned him down; the film instead paired him again with Claudine Auger, the Bond girl of his Thunderball.
