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| A selected list of Elke Sommer's films |

1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s

 

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Ragazzi del Juke-Box
1959, Italy
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Mario Carotenuto, Elke Sommer

Das Totenschiff
1959, West Germany
Director: Georg Tressler
Cast: Horst Buchholz, Mario Adorf, Elke Sommer

Am Tag, als der Regen kam
1959, West Germany
Director: Gerd Oswald
Cast: Mario Adorf, Christian Wolff, Gert Fröbe
Sommer played the part of Barbara.

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Don't Bother to Knock
1961, UK
Director: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey, Elke Sommer

The Victors
1962/1963, USA, Columbia, 148 min.
Director: Carl Foreman
Cast: George Hamilton, George Peppard, James Mitchum, Peter Fonda, Eli Wallach, Melina Mercouri, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Elke Sommer, Albert Finney, Senta Berger
Vignettes of love and war during World War II. Romy plays a Belgian violinist (Regine) who is forced into prostitution. Notable for a winter scene of two soldiers being shot for desertion while Frank Sinatra sings “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

The Prize
1963, USA
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Paul Newman, Elke Sommer, Edward G. Robinson
As Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.
 > Buy this movie on VHS

A Shot in the Dark
1964, UK
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer (as Maria Gambrelli), George Sanders, Herbert Lom
Amazon: "If you could choose only one Pink Panther movie, your best bet would be A Shot in the Dark—ironic, since it's the only entry in the series that doesn't mention the Pink Panther or even feature the cartoon cat in its opening credits."
 > Buy the DVD

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number
1966, USA
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller
 > Buy the VHS

Deadlier Than the Male
1966, UK
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer, Sylvia Koscina
Amazon: "Deadlier Than the Male is perhaps the best of the James Bond take-offs produced during the swinging 60s. Richard Johnson stars as Hugh Drummond, a suave insurance investigator trailing a pair of sexy assassins (Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina)"
 > Buy the DVD

The Venetian Affair
1967, UK
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Cast: Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr, Karlheinz Böhm
Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
1967, UK
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Elke Sommer, Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Leon Askin
A weak effort that features Sommer and most of the cast from the "Hogan's Heroes" TV series, set in East Germany.

The Wrecking Crew
1968, USA
Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Dean Martin, Sharon Tate, Elke Sommer
The fourth and some say best of Martin's "Matt Helm" series of James Bond spoofs.
 > Buy the VHS Video

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Zeppelin
1971, UK
Director: Etienne Périer
Cast: Michael York, Elke Sommer, Peter Carsten
Amazon.com: "Fans of lighter-than-air transport are able to experience what it must have been like to operate a "zepp" in wartime. The effects and attention to detail will please even the most jaded aficionado of dirigibles. Unfortunately, the rest of the audience will find Zeppelin wanting. Neither Michael York nor Elke Sommer manages to be very convincing. While Sommer's Frau Altschul is mere window dressing, York seems torn between playing British spy Richter-Douglas as either an inexperienced bumbler or a Bond-like man of action."
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More ELKE SOMMER Films:

The Swiss Conspiracy (1975)
Carry on Behind (1975)
Ten Little Indians (1975)
Tote pflastern seinen Weg (1976)
On a Dead Man's Chest (1976)
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (1978)
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979)
Inside the Third Reich (1981)
Peter the Great (1985)
Anastasia (1987)
Dangerous Cargo (1996)

L I N K S

Elke Sommer Artwork
Sommer's own site for her artwork.

Elke Sommer - IMDb
Sommer's films and other info from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

Cult Sirens: Elke Sommer
Photos and a filmography.

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