| Triple Cross | |
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| Directed by | Terence Young |
| Screenplay by | René Hardy William Marchant (additional dialogue) |
| Based on | The Eddie Chapman Story (1953 autobiography) by Eddie Chapman and Frank Owen |
| Produced by | Jacques-Paul Bertrand |
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| Cinematography | Henri Alekan |
| Edited by | Roger Dwyre |
| Music by | Georges Garvarentz |
Production company | Cineurop Company |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
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Running time | 140 minutes (UK) 126 minutes (US) |
| Countries | United Kingdom France |
Triple Cross is a 1966 Anglo-French Second World War spy film directed by Terence Young and produced by Jacques-Paul Bertrand. It was released in France in December 1966 as La Fantastique Histoire Vraie d'Eddie Chapman but elsewhere in Europe and the United States in 1967 as Terence Young's Triple Cross. It was filmed in Eastman Color, print by Technicolor.
Triple Cross is based loosely on the story of Eddie Chapman, believed by the Germans to be their top spy in Great Britain, although he was an MI5 double agent known as "Zigzag". The title of the film comes from Chapman's signature to show the Germans that he was transmitting freely: a Morse code XXX (X = ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄). Another meaning of the title "Triple Cross" becomes clear in the final scene of the film. Chapman, sitting at a bar, is asked who he was really working for. In reply, he raises his glass in salute to his reflection in the mirror.
Triple Cross is the second pairing of Terence Young and French actress Claudine Auger. She was the leading James Bond girl in Thunderball (1965), which Young also directed.