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The Cape Town Affair movie storyline. Candy (Jacqueline Bisset), a courier for communist spies in Cape Town, is being tracked by intelligence officers on her way to an important rendezvous when her purse is looted by pickpocket Skip McCoy (James Brolin). McCoy’s simple act of greed hoses up everyone’s plans, complicating the lives of the communist agents looking to retrieve the microfilm, the South African spies trying to identify and stop them, and a scheming stool pigeon named Sam (Claire Trevor) who gets caught between them all.
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. 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 [he and Bisset] weren’t bad.”
The Cape Town Affair (1967)
Directed by: Robert D. Webb
Starring: Claire Trevor, James Brolin, Jacqueline Bisset, Bob Courtney, John Whiteley, Gordon Mulholland, Siegfried Mynhardt, James Gordon White, Gabriel Bayman, Patrick Mynhardt
Screenplay by: Samuel Fuller, Harold Medford
Production Design by: Roscoe C. Behrmann
Cinematography by: David Millin
Film Editing by: Peter Grossett
Costume Design by: Ruth St. Moritz
Art Direction by: Bert Aurik
Music by: Bob Adams, Joe Kentridge
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: September 19, 1967
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