Modesty Blaise (Original title)
Dates: 1966 (Copyright), 29 May 1966 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Joseph Losey
Synopsis: Based on a comic strip. Thriller of a strip cartoon heroine and her Cockney henchman who foil the plans of a villain and his psychopathic female executioner.
Genre: Comedy
Subject: Espionage
Releases
Date: 1966Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 119 mins Length: 10748 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1966 (Copyright), 29 May 1966 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Joseph Losey
Synopsis: Based on a comic strip. Thriller of a strip cartoon heroine and her Cockney henchman who foil the plans of a villain and his psychopathic female executioner.
Genre: Comedy
Subject: Espionage
Releases
Date: 1966Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 119 mins Length: 10748 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: Modesty Blaise Ltd, Production in association with: Stanley Dubens, Opening Logo: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, a Joseph Janni production: Joseph Janni, Associate Producer: Norman Priggen, Associate Producer: Michael Birkett, Production Manager: Mara Blasetti, Production Manager: Ed Harper, [Assistant to Producer]: John Goldstone, [Production Secretary]: Barbara Allen, [Production Assistant]: Graham Fowler, Assistant Director: Gavrik Losey, Assistant Director: Claude Watson, Personal Assistant to Director in Italy: Carlo Lastricati, [2nd Assistant Director]: Stuart A. Black, [3rd Assistant Director]: Adrian Hughes, Continuity: Ann Skinner, [Casting]: Miriam Brickman, Screenplay: Evan Jones, From an original story by: Peter O'Donnell, Stanley Dubens, Based on the strip cartoon by: Peter O'Donnell, Jim Holdaway, Director of Photography: Jack Hildyard, Amsterdam Location Photography: Davis Boulton, Camera Operator: Gerry Fisher, [Focus Puller]: Wally Fairweather, [Clapper Loader]: Douglas Milsome, [Stills]: Norman Hargood, [Special Effects]: Les Bowie, Editor: Gordon Daniel, [Editor]: Reginald Beck, [Assistant Editor]: Mike Round, [Assistant Editor]: Alan Bell, Mike Le Mare, [2nd Assistant Editor]: Peter Dansie, [2nd Assistant Editor]: Jim Roddan, Malcolm Craddock, Production Design by: Richard Macdonald, Art Director: Jack Shampan, [Assistant Art Director]: Norman Dorme, [Draughtsman]: George Lack, [Draughtsman]: Bill Brodie, Roger Cain, [Scenic Artist]: Gilbert Wood, Wardrobe Mistress: Evelyn Gibbs, Terence Stamp's Costumes by: Douglas Hayward, Add Costumes for Monica Vitti Designd by: Marissa Martelli, Add Tattoos for Monica Vitti Designd by: Marissa Martelli, [Costume Supervisor]: Beatrice Dawson, Make-up: Neville Smallwood, Hairdresser: Pearl Tipaldi, Dirk Bogarde's Wigs: Simon, Colour by: DeLuxe, Music Composed and Conducted by: John Dankworth, Sound Recordist: Buster Ambler, John Cox, [Sound Camera Operator]: Ernie Webb, [Sound Maintenance]: David Allen, [Boom Operator]: Peter Dukelow, Sound Editor: John Aldred, [Unit Publicist]: Catherine O'Brien, Made at: Shepperton Studios
Cast
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Monica Vitti (Modesty Blaise), Terence Stamp (Willie Garvin), Dirk Bogarde (Gabriel), Harry Andrews (Sir Gerald Tarrant), Clive Revill (McWhirter/Sheik Abu Tahir), Alexander Knox (minister), Rossella Falk (Mrs Fothergill), Scilla Gabel (Melina), Michael Chow (Weng, Modesty's manservant), Joe Melia (Crevier), Saro Urzì (Basilio), Tina Marquand (Nicole), Oliver Macgreevy (tattooed man), Jon Bluming (Hans), Lex Schoorel (Walter), Marcello Turilli (Strauss), Giuseppe Paganelli (friar), Wolfgang Hillinger (handsome), Roberto Bisacco (Enrico), John Karlsen (Oleg), Silvan (The Great Pacco), Michael Craig (Paul Hagan), John Stacy (Tyboria captain), Robin Hunter (pilot), Denys Graham (co-pilot), Patrick Ludlow (permanent under-secretary), Giuseppe Castellano ([Scottish commando]), Robin Fox ([man who presses the door-bell]), Robert Rietti ([dubbed voice of Weng/Incredible Pacco])