Elke SommerFilmography

Severed Ties

Actors: Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Garrett Morris, Billy Morrissette, Johnny Legend

Synopsis: In this darkly funny horror movie, gore and severed limbs abound. It is the story of a young medical genius doing genetic research into regrowing organs. His work is based upon that of his father, a renowned geneticist who was murdered. Before he can continue, he needs a fresher supply of cadavers Read More

Himmelsheim

Actors: Elke Sommer, Sigi Zimmerschied, Hanns Zischler, Elisabeth Welz

Synopsis: In this comedy, a little village which is so idyllic that, as one reviewer put it "even the cats and dogs are friends," is threatened with destruction, as plans are announced that it is slated to be demolished to make way for a new express train line. Internationally known star Elke Sommer is in Read More

Adventures Beyond Belief

Synopsis: In this unlikely adventure, a motorcyclist helps an all-girls' school "prisoner" escape her school and together they flee across Europe, chased by the headmistress. To complicate things, the escapee is a mobster's daughter and the motorcycle man, wrongfully accused of a murder, is also being Read More

Death Stone

Actors: Albert Fortell, Birte Berg, Brad Harris, Siegfried Rauch

Synopsis: Eurocentric arrogance prompts all the people who handle and acquire a strange Ceylonese curio to dismiss the legend surrounding it, which is that it is a death stone, and holding it presages an early demise. The first to discover it is Jane, who is the fiance of an architect. When she is killed in Read More

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Actors: Susan Lucci, Omar Sharif, Claire Bloom, Rex Harrison, Amy Irving

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie recounts the life of Anna Anderson, who until the day she died at age 82 insisted that she was really Anastasia Romanov, daughter of Czar Nicholas. Anna first makes her claim in 1920, when she is an inmate in a Berlin asylum. Her story of escape from the Bolsheviks who Read More

Jenny's War

Actors: Hugh Grant, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: Dyan Cannon stars in this 4-hour TV drama as Jenny Baines, an American woman of the pre-WW II era. Anxious to learn the fate of her son, a pilot who was shot down over Germany, Jenny travels to Berlin. Here she is reunited with her husband Hartmut Becker, who is now a high-ranking Nazi officer. Read More

Lily In Love

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Maggie Smith, Elke Sommer, Adolph Green

Synopsis: In this surprisingly amateurish production for noted Hungarian director Karoly Makk, Fitz (Christopher Plummer) is a well-known Broadway actor longing to get a leading role in a truly successful movie when his wife Lily (Maggie Smith) comes up with a sure-fire script. Too bad for Fitz, the male Read More

Niemand Weint für Immer

Synopsis: In this gripping Swedish drama, a South African girl is captured and forced to become a hooker. It is a horrible life, but eventually the girl escapes and finds sanctuary and love on a remote game preserve. Unfortunately, her former employer finds her and carves up the girl's face, causing her Read More

Inside the Third Reich

Actors: Blythe Danner, John Gielgud, Rutger Hauer, Ian Holm, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Inside the Third Reich was based on the extraordinary revelatory (if self-serving) autobiographical book by Albert Speer. Played herein by Rutger Hauer, Speer is a young man of privilege in pre-Hitler Germany who happens to be a brilliant architect. Becoming a member of Read More

Fantastic Seven

Synopsis: When a Hollywood sex symbol is kidnapped for ransom, the daredevil team, The Fantastic Seven, head to Miami where the filming occurred. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Der Mann Im Pyjama

Actors: Otto Sander, Peter Fitz, Hermann Lause, Erich Schwarz, Elke Sommer

Synopsis: The humor in this film centers around a man in his pajamas and bathrobe who goes out to buy some cigarettes on the corner and encounters a series of events that have him chased by some inept policemen, an angry husband, a taxi driver, and so forth. Things continue to deteriorate from there, and Read More

One Away

Synopsis: In this actioner, an ingenious gypsy breaks free from a South African correctional facility and despite a massive manhunt, manages to keep ahead of the cops. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Exit Sunset Boulevard

Actors: Elke Sommer

Synopsis: Elke Sommer stars in this experimental film from director Bastian Cleve. A citizen from Germany arrives in Hollywood, leading to an interview with Sommer. He tries unsuccessfully to pick up a black woman while roller-skating near the beach then calls home from Death Valley to explain that he will Read More

The Top of the Hill

Synopsis: The 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid provides the setting for this drama that centers on a man's mid-life crisis. While there, he gets involved with love, sex and other diversions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: The beloved novel by Anthony Hope is shown here in its sixth film adaptation. In this story, Peter Sellers is Rudolf IV, the reigning monarch of the tiny nation of Ruritania. One day, while flying in a hot air balloon, a champagne cork sends him plummeting to his death. The rightful heir, who is Read More

Stunt Seven

Actors: Elke Sommer

Synopsis: One of two 1979 TV pilot films concerning the exploits of crimefighting movie stuntmen (the other was Stunts Unlimited), Stunt Seven was telecast May 30, 1979. Christopher Connelly heads the cast as ace stunter Hill Singleton. His six-person "team" includes Skip (Christopher Lloyd), Elena (Morgan Read More

The Treasure Seekers

Synopsis: Four disparate scuba divers go to the Caribbean in search of lost treasure. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Muppet Show: Elke Sommer

Actors: Elke Sommer

Synopsis: Elke Summers sings "Animal Crackers in My Soup" to much fanfare, though the fate of the final number depends on Beaker and Beauregard getting it finished on time. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide Read More

Jamaican Gold

Synopsis: Star Rod Taylor co-wrote the screenplay for Jamaican Gold. For centuries, the treasure of Morgan the Pirate has been resting somewhere beneath the waters of Carribean. Diver Taylor goes after it, hoping to beat his rivals Stuart Whitman, Elke Sommer and Jeremy Kemp to the punch. All four Read More

The Big Scam

Actors: Gloria Grahame, David Niven, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square was the original title of this British caper film. David Niven does his suave 'n' blase bit as a criminal mastermind planning a giant bank heist. Richard Jordan co-stars as an American ex-con tapped to oversee the operation. Gloria Grahame, in one of her last Read More

The Double McGuffin

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy, Elke Sommer, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Lyle Alzado

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock fans need not be reminded that "The McGuffin" is Hitchcock's term for the gimmicks (missing papers, stolen gems, uranium deposits) that motivate the plots of his thrillers. This much is explained by narrator Orson Welles at the beginning of the family-oriented The Double McGuffin. Read More

Left for Dead

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

Actors: Elke Sommer, Donald Pilon, Chuck Shamata

Synopsis: In this crime drama, set in 1975 and based on a true story from Toronto, Canada, the different ways in which a prominent realtor may have had his wife brutally murdered are presented. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Swiss Conspiracy

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Zurich, Switzerland, The Swiss Conspiracy is concerned with a Swiss bank that discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president (Ray Milland) contacts David Christopher (played by David Janssen), a former agent with the Read More

Das Netz

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Klaus Kinski, Heinz Bennent, Elke Sommer, Andrea Rau

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, Morelli (Mel Ferrer) is a writer whose books no longer sell well, at least in part because of his slavish worship of "the classics." His response to this insult to his pride is to kill young women in a horrific manner; he calls it "revolutionary disgust." Bossi (Klaus Kinski Read More

Invisible Strangler

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Stefanie Powers, Elke Sommer, Sue Lyon, Leslie Parrish, Percy Rodrigues

Synopsis: Invisible Strangler tells the story of a boy who strangles his mother and while in a mental institution finds books which give him the key to making himself invisible. He then escapes from the hospital and goes on a murder spree, strangling his mother's friends in a series of unintentionally Read More

The House of Exorcism

Synopsis: This Italian horror outing is made even more horrible by the fact that the first two thirds were originally a complete feature, Lisa and the Devil by Mario Bava and the last third was tacked on later to capitalize on the continued popularity of The Exorcist by producer Alfredo Leone thereby nearly Read More

Carry on Behind

Actors: Elke Sommer, Kenny Williams, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor, Jack Douglas, Joan Sims, Windsor Davies, Peter Butterworth, Liz Fraser, Patsy Rowlands, Ian Lavender, Adrienne Posta, Patricia Franklin, Donald Hewlett, Carol Hawkins

Synopsis: The British comedy group chalks up another few laughs as some folks attempt to camp out on the location of an archaeological dig. Unfortunately, the dig in question happens amid the busyness of the holiday season; matters grow more complicated when a sexy female Russian woman (Elke Sommer) joins Read More

And Then There Were None

Actors: Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Gert Fröbe, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: An Italian-French-Spanish version of the much-filmed Agatha Christie story, this film is strangely set in Iran, not Great Britain. Ten guests are invited to a remote desert inn and informed that the mysterious host has described in a nursery rhyme how they will all die during the gathering. One by Read More

It's Not the Size That Counts

Actors: Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliott, Judy Geeson, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: The 1972 British farce Percy was about the world's first penis transplant; Percy's Progress constitutes the sequel, with Leigh Lawson taking over for Hywel Bennett in the leading role. The plot concerns a chemical that contaminates the world's water supply; as a result, every man is rendered Read More

Einer Von Uns Beiden

Actors: Elke Sommer, Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Otto Sander

Baron Blood

Actors: Antonio Cantafora, Massimo Girotti, Umberto Raho, Elke Sommer, Nicoletta Elmi

Synopsis: This above-average horror film concerns a young couple (Antonio Cantafora, Elke Sommer) who manage to revive a cruel sorceror-Baron (Joseph Cotten) from the 1500s. Posing as a cripple, the Baron assimilates back into society and buys back his old castle, where he begins torturing and murdering Read More

Probe

Synopsis: This pilot for the TV adventure series Search stars Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lockwood, a secret agent implanted with a electronic transmitter which allows everything he sees and hears to be beamed back to police headquarters. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Lisa and the Devil

Synopsis: In this chiller from Italian director Mario Bava, Elke Sommer stars as Lisa, a young tourist who keeps running into a strange bald man who carries around a mannequin. The bald man is Leandre (Telly Savalas), the butler at the estate of a blind Countess (Alida Valli) and her slightly off-kilter son Read More

Percy

Actors: Charles Hodgson

Synopsis: Low-brow British humor abounds in this farcical account of Edwin Anthony, the first man to receive a successful penis transplant. Anthony becomes quite attached to his new appendage and even gives it the title name. The alleged humor comes in when Anthony and Percy set out to investigate the life Read More

Zeppelin

Actors: Michael York, Elke Sommer, Peter Carsten, Marius Goring, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: Set during World War I, Zeppelin stars Michael York as Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, a British defector who goes to work in the fledgling German airship industry. In truth, Richter-Douglas is a spy, who has feigned defection in order to steal the plans for the revolutionary new Zeppelin. Our hero goes Read More

Las Vegas 500 Milliones

Actors: Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance, Jean Servais

Synopsis: Gino (Jean Servais) breaks out of jail and visits his friend Tony (Gary Lockwood) with a plan to rob an armored car. Although both men are motivated by greed, Tony says no to the risky proposition. When Gino is killed by some trigger-happy cops, Tony decides to avenge his death by going ahead with Read More

Sei Dannati in Cerca di Gloria

Actors: Elke Sommer, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: There must be some significance to the fact that neither Jean Negulesco nor chroniclers of his career are eager to include The Invincible Six in the director's credits. This US/Iran coproduction (obviously filmed before 1977) stars Stuart Whitman as the top dog of a group of criminals. Failing to Read More

The Wrecking Crew

Actors: Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan, Nigel Green

Synopsis: Cahiers du Cinema favorite Phil Karlson may have directed the "Matt Helm" extravaganza The Wrecking Crew, but the only "auteur" around these parts is star Dean Martin, coasting through yet another sexy spy romp. This time, secret agent Helm must prevent a billion-dollar gold hijacking Read More

Les Hommes De Las Vegas

Actors: Jack Palance, Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb

The Venetian Affair

Actors: Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr, Karl Heinz Böhm, Ed Asner, Boris Karloff

Synopsis: In this spy thriller, Robert Vaughn, who then starring on TV's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., plays Bill Fenner, an ex-CIA agent who is called upon by his former boss, Frank Rosenfeld (Ed Asner), to investigate an apparent murder-suicide in Vienna. An American diplomat exploded a bomb at a peace Read More

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

Actors: Maureen Arthur, Leon Askin, John Banner, Robert Carricart, Bob Crane

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a rebellious East German athlete forgoes her dowdy uniforms in favor of daring miniskirts. Soon the leggy track star attracts a lustful villain. To escape, she pole vaults over the Berlin Wall. There she is befriended by a broke black marketeer who has secretly agreed to Read More

Deadlier Than the Male

Actors: Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Nigel Green, Suzanna Leigh

Synopsis: In this 1967 drama, resourceful British agent Bulldog Drummond, who appeared onscreen in a series of spy stories between 1929 and 1951, returned to duty in the wake of James Bond. Here, Drummond (Richard Johnson) is on the trail of Carl Petersen (Nigel Green), a corrupt industrialist who has a bad Read More

Seduction by the Sea

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a harried man abandons his wife in favor of the quiet life on a remote island in the Adriatic Sea. His mother is devastated and hires a beautiful private detective to track him down and bring him back. Later the son and the investigator fall in love and, against the wishes Read More

Il Sigillo di Pechino

Actors: Robert Stack, Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Christian Marquand, Werner Peters

Synopsis: When he's given an ancient Chinese medallion, a photographer (Robert Stack) has no idea that it contains a map which leads to a former emperor's treasure horde. Unfortunately, several nefarious elements are aware of the fact. The film was originally titled Hell to Macao. ~ John Bush, All Movie Read More

Les Corrompus

Actors: Robert Stack, Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Christian Marquand

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

Actors: Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova, Marjorie Lord

Synopsis: Usually cited as the absolute nadir of Bob Hope's film career, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is by no means a classic, but it isn't nearly as bad as some of his other sixties efforts (take a look a Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell sometime). The plot is set in motion by movie sex bomb Elke Sommer Read More

The Oscar

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a Hollywood leading man who is desperate to boost his career by winning an Academy Award, and he doesn't care who he has to betray to achieve his goals -- including his former best Read More

The Money Trap

Actors: Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: In this well-regarded film noir thriller, Joe Barron (Glenn Ford) is a police detective whose wife Lisa (Elke Sommer) has inherited a stock portfolio from her father. Joe and Lisa go on a spending spree, but when their new holdings fail to pay dividends, Joe finds himself deep in debt. Dr. Read More

Unter Geiern

Actors: Stewart Granger, Pierre Brice, Elke Sommer, Götz George, Walter Barnes

Synopsis: Frontier Hellcat was the fourth in a series of 1960s European westerns based on Karl May's "Winnetou" character. Stewart Granger takes over from Lex Barker in the leading "Anglo"-role of the mysterious maverick who wanders from town to town doing the "Lone Ranger" bit. The hellcat of the title is Elke Sommer Read More

Bambole!

Actors: Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena

Synopsis: Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a woman so busy talking on the phone that she fails to notice that her husband is having sex with a neighbor; "Treatise on Eugenics," the chronicle of a Swedish girl's search Read More

Wenn Man Baden Geht Auf Teneriffa

The Art of Love

Actors: James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson, Ethel Merman

Synopsis: Two bohemians come up with a get-rich-quick scheme that goes awray in this comedy scripted by Carl Reiner. Paul (Dick Van Dyke and Casey (James Garner) are two American expatriates living in Paris; Paul is an artist and Casey a writer. Both have been trying to make a career, but with little Read More

A Shot in the Dark

Actors: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom, George Sanders, Tracy Reed, Graham Stark

Synopsis: A murder has been committed at the palatial Parisian residence of Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders). All the evidence points to sexy, wide-eyed housemaid Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer). Police inspector Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) is prepared to make an arrest -- and then the gloriously, monumentally Read More

Jack Benny Visits Walt Disney

The Prize

Actors: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Irving Wallace, The Prize takes place in Stockholm, where several laureates gather to accept their Nobel Prizes. At first, the film concentrates on iconoclastic novelist Paul Newman, but he is temporarily shunted to the background when physics expert Edward G. Robinson is Read More

The Victors

Actors: George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, Vince Edwards, James Mitchum, Rosanna Schiaffino, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the novel The Human Kind by Alexander Baron. It follows the adventures of an American infantry platoon based in Sicily that participates in the invasion of France, marches into Read More

The Phone Rings Every Night

Les Bricoleurs

Actors: Darry Cowl, Francis Blanche, Valerie Lagrange

Bahia de Palma

La Douce

Actors: Pierre Brice, Vittoria Prada, Christian Pezy, Elke Sommer

Un Chien dans un Jeu de Quilles

Actors: Christian Marquand, Elke Sommer, Sophie Daumier, Jean Tissier

Sweet Ecstasy

Actors: Elke Sommer, Pierre Brice, Christian Pezy, Vittoria Prada, Claire Maurier

Synopsis: Prolific French director Max Pecas guides this wooden sexual drama through its slow paces. The story is set during summer vacation when a group of morally vague students are out for fun and games -- and also taking advantage of the money of a wealthy woman. One of these young men is beguiled by Read More

Who Stole the Body

Synopsis: This comedy pokes fun at horror movies as it chronicles the exploits of two clumsy real estate salesmen who try to sell a piece of land that has a corpse upon its premises. Eventually they manage to solve the crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Daniella by Night

Actors: Ivan Desny, Elke Sommer, Helmut Schmidt, Danik Patisson

Synopsis: In this espionage drama a French model is shooting a layout in Rome when she finds herself entangled with spies who have hidden microfilm in her lipstick case. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Auf Wiedersehen

Why Bother to Knock?

Actors: Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey, Elke Sommer, June Thorburn, Judith Anderson, Rik Battaglia

Synopsis: In this British bedroom farce, Bill Ferguson (Richard Todd), a Scottish travel agent, has a major row with his fiancée Stella (June Thorburn) shortly before leaving for a jaunt through Europe. Considering himself free to do as he pleases, Bill gives keys to his Edinburgh apartment to a number of Read More

Geliebte Hochstaplerin

Cafe Oriental

Femmine Di Lusso

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a ship load of the rich and horny embark on a cruise aboard a millionaire's yacht. Included in the guest roster are a French businessman, his singing wife, his mistress, his wife's lover, a count whom the businessman hired to sleep with his wife so he can get a divorce Read More

Lampenfieber

Himmel, Amor und Zwirn

L'Amico Del Giaguaro

Geliebte Hoechstaplerin

Synopsis: A romantic comedy about boys chasing girls and girls chasing boys without quite knowing who is best for whom. German language only. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Am Tag, Als Der Regen Kam

Das Totenschiff

Barrage Contre le Pacifique

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano, Richard Conte, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: An overbearing woman is determined to force her two kids to turn her struggling rice plantation into a success. Unfortunately, it is located on the Indochinese coast and is being threatened by rough seas; all that stands between the paddies and the ocean is a small seawall. More trouble comes in Read More