Kerwin Mathews stars as dashing
secret agent in "Shadow of Evil"
Kerwin Mathews stars as the newest and one of most appealing of the popular secret-agent hero-lovers in "Shadow of Evil," a Seven Arts presentation opening .......... at the .......... Theatre, which also stars Pier Angeli and Robert Hossein.
Tall, dark and handsome, Mathews is ideally cast as the dashing and extremely clever C.I.A. agent, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath -- also known as O.S.S. 117 -- whose devastating appeal to women is surpassed only by his equally formidable ability to escape destruction against all odds.
In the exciting color production, he is sent to exotic Bangkok to investigate the mystery surrounding a vaccine manufactured by a local laboratory, which created a plague in the country to which it was sent. Almost immediately upon arrival, O.S.S. 117 is followed and pursued by unknown attackers, drugged by a beautiful lady, kidnapped, rescued and escapes death in a flaming car by sixty seconds. He eventually unlocks the mystery of the sinister vaccine plot, master-minded by a diabolically evil Dr. Sinn, and ends up miraculously with his life and the beautiful girl he loves.
The young actor who is up to his ears in all the thrilling action comes from the quiet little town of Janesville, Wisconsin. He grew up there, and attended college at Beloit College, which has a thriving theatre, and where Mathews first caught the acting bug when he began appearing in its productions.
He was approached by Hollywood talent scouts while still at school, but waited until he graduated to do anything about an acting career. Then, he journeyed to California, enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse, and before long had an agent and a contract with Columbia Pictures.
Mathews made his film debut in Five Against the House, and this was soon followed by the romantic lead in "Garment Jungle," and swashbuckling roles in "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" and "Tarawa Beachhead." He then added to his credits "Man on a String," in which he co-starred with Ernest Borgnine, the young priests' role in "The Devil at 4 O'Clock," with Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra, "The Last Blitzkrieg," "The Three Worlds of Gulliver," and "The Warrior Empress."
The talented actor, of Engish, Swiss and French descent, is over six-feet tall, has brown eyes and dark brown hair. He is a constant reader, and his second love, next to film-making, is farming.
"Shadow of Evil" was directed by Andre Hunebelle.
(Seven Arts pressbook , 1966)