• Modesty Blaise is a 1966 British spy-fi comedy film directed by Joseph Losey, produced by Joseph Janni, and loosely based on the popular comic strip Modesty...
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  • follows Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. It was adapted into films in...
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  • based on the original film script. The novel was released a year prior to the 1966 film version of Modesty Blaise; while the film was not a critical success...
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  • Modesty Blaise was a 1982 American-produced one-hour television pilot produced for the ABC Network and based upon the comic strip Modesty Blaise, created...
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  • by O'Donnell Modesty Blaise (1966 film), a 1966 film based upon the comic strip Modesty Blaise (1982 film), a 1982 made-for-television film based upon the...
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  • following the feature film Modesty Blaise with Monica Vitti in 1966 and the TV pilot Modesty Blaise with Ann Turkel in 1982. The film stars British actress...
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  • writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also an award-winning...
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  • Willie Garvin (category Modesty Blaise)
    series Modesty Blaise, as well as a series of novels based upon the strip. The character was created by Peter O'Donnell in 1963 and, alongside Modesty Blaise...
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  • collaborations; the others being The Servant (1963), Modesty Blaise (1966) and The Go-Between (1971). At the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, Accident won the Grand Prix Spécial...
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    Tina Aumont (category American film actresses)
    acting debut in the British film Modesty Blaise (1966), but later had a prominent career as a leading lady in Italian films. Aumont was billed as Tina...
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  • du Film went to the Signore & Signori by Pietro Germi, in tie with Un homme et une femme by Claude Lelouch. The festival opened with Modesty Blaise, directed...
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  • (Japan) Gamera vs. Barugon (Japan) May 1966 5 May Arabesque (U.K.) Our Man in Marrakesh (U.K.) Modesty Blaise (U.K.) 11 May The Fat Spy 14 May Destination...
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    Arabesque (1966) The Deadly Affair (1966) The Defector (1966) Derek Flint series Our Man Flint (1966) In Like Flint (1967) Modesty Blaise (1966) The Quiller...
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  • MODESTY BLAISE came out and it was a spectacular flop. So that cooled off the whole project, they were stuck with it." Filming started September 1966...
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    Alexander Knox (category Best Drama Actor Golden Globe (film) winners)
    Tailor Soldier Spy. He acted in such films as Europe '51, The Vikings, The Longest Day, The Damned, and Modesty Blaise. He often worked with director Joseph...
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    Terence Stamp (category Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor winners)
    considered for the title role of Alfie (1966), but turned it down in favour of Modesty Blaise (1966). His subsequent film credits included The Mind of Mr. Soames...
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  • job in a bank. In 1966, Robin Fox appeared in a cameo role in the film Modesty Blaise, as a man who rings a doorbell. In 1970, Fox and Oscar Lewenstein...
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  • Michael Craig (actor) (category British male film actors)
    Mysterious Island (1961), The Iron Maiden (1962), A Choice of Kings, Modesty Blaise (1966), Turkey Shoot (1982), Ride a Wild Pony (1975) and Appointment with...
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    Novelization (category Novels based on films)
    may force last-minute novelization rewrites. The script for the 1966 film Modesty Blaise was rewritten by five different authors. The writer or script doctor...
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  • supervillain Sabretooth (film), a 2002 made-for-TV movie Sabre-Tooth, a 1966 book by Peter O'Donnell featuring the character Modesty Blaise Captain Sabertooth...
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    Scilla Gabel (category Italian film actresses)
    parlando (1965) Modesty Blaise (1966) - Melina Djurado (1966) - Barbara Donovan Target for Killing (1966) - La Tigra How to Seduce a Playboy (1966) - Anita Bionda...
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    John Dankworth (category English film score composers)
    scores for the films Darling (1965) and Modesty Blaise and Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (both 1966). He appeared in the film All Night Long (1962)...
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    (composed by Johnny Dankworth), for the eponymously titled spy-spoof film, Modesty Blaise. After David and Jonathan had run its course, the duo formed The...
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    (1966; revoiced Ursula Andress) Funeral in Berlin (1966, revoiced Eva Renzi) Modesty Blaise (1966, revoiced Monica Vitti) One Million Years B.C. (1966...
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  • James Bolam (category English male film actors)
    Service radio adaptation of the Modesty Blaise book Last Day in Limbo. He provided the voice for The Tod in the animated film version of The Plague Dogs (1982)...
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  • list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1966 (see 1966 in film): 1966 in British music 1966 in British radio 1966 in British television 1966 in the...
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  • played the Ballad Singer. Revill had worked with Losey previously on Modesty Blaise (1966). Job Stewart played a Monk-Scholar. For the 1947 stage production...
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    Jones wrote the scripts for the feature films King and Country (1964), Modesty Blaise (1966), Funeral in Berlin (1966), Wake in Fright (1971), and several...
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  • Robin Hunter (category English male film actors)
    (1962-1963, TV Series) as Sir Gilbert Doctor in Clover (1966) as Sydney Modesty Blaise (1966) as Pilot All the Way Up (1970) as Malcolm Universal Soldier...
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    Monica Vitti (category Italian film actresses)
    anthology, The Dolls (1964). Vitti's first English-language film was Modesty Blaise (1966), a mod James Bond spy spoof that co-starred Terence Stamp and...
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