Lightning Bolt (film)

Lightning Bolt
Italian film poster
Directed byAnthony Dawson
Screenplay by
Produced by
  • Giuseppe De Blasio
  • Anacleto Fontini
Starring
CinematographyRiccardo Pallottini
Edited byJuan Oliver
Music byRiz Ortolani
Production
companies
  • Seven Film/BGA
  • P.C. Balcazar
Release dates
  • April 1966 (1966-04) (Rome)
  • 1966 (1966) (Spain)
Running time
94 minutes
Countries
  • Italy
  • Spain

Lightning Bolt (Italian: Operazione Goldman) is a 1966 spy-fi film shot in Techniscope in 1965 that was directed by Anthony Dawson in his first entry into the Eurospy genre. The film was co-financed and released in the US by the Woolner Brothers who re-titled it Lightning Bolt with the tagline "strikes like a ball of thunder". It was released as a double feature with Red Dragon in 1967 two years after the film had been shot. The film's star, Anthony Eisley, commented that the film was released too late to take advantage of the James Bond craze.