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Le spie uccidono a Beirut

Secret Agent Fireball (USA)

1965 Italy | France Direction: Luciano Martino (as Martin Donan) Actors: Richard Harrison, Dominique Boschero, Wandisa Guida

When a series of scientists are killed, Bart Fleming Secret Agent X-177 travels to Hamburg and Beirut to discover that Soviet Agents are killing the scientists. Both sides want the information the scientists took with them when they escaped from the USSR; a roll of microfilm containing information about the Soviet H-Bomb. The only link left to the film is a daughter of one of the scientists.

Harrison repeated his Agent Fleming role in A 077, sfida ai killers/Killers are Challenged/Mission Casablanca.

Followed by Killers Are Challenged (1966) Followed by Fury in Marrakech (1966)

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Agent 077

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Agent 077

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Just watched:

"So Darling, So Deadly"

(aka "Kommissar X: In The Clutches of the Golden Dragon," 1966)

In the third installment of the "Kommissar X" Eurospy series, the "International Bureau" sends swingin' agents Walker and Rowland to Singapore to protect a scientist and his lovely daughter from a criminal gang called the Golden Dragon, who want to steal the professor's high tech laser weapon.

There's not much plot in this one, but there sure are lots of car chases, fistfights, and pretty girls. An entertaining time killer on a lazy summer afternoon

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Just (re)watched:

"Some Girls Do" (1969)

In the sequel to "Deadlier Than The Male," Richard Johnson returns as swinging investigator Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, assigned to find out who's sabotaging the test flights of Britain's latest supersonic aircraft. The trail leads to Drummond's zillionaire arch-enemy Carl Peterson, who's holed up on his own private island surrounded by an army of robotic scantily clad females. Shag-a-delic, baby!

This one is much more tongue in cheek than the first Drummond adventure and plays more like a spoof, but it's goofy, action packed fun with plenty of lovely female eye candy. (those Sixties chicks, man... homina homina...)

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Daniela Bianchi in the Eurospy film Requiem per un agente segreto (Requiem for a Secret Agent; Spain: Consigna: Tánger 67; Germany: Der Chef schickt seinen besten Mann, Italy/Spain/Germany, 1966, dir.  Sergio Sollima)

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Attack of the Robots (1966)

Happy Franco Friday!

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Just watched:

"The Liquidator" (1965)

British intelligence hires an dim-witted American ex-soldier to work for them as a top secret, off-the-books assassin, code named "L." However, the new agent (Rod Taylor) would rather schmooze with the ladies (especially his boss' secretary, the smokin' hot Jill St. John) than kill bad guys. Eventually, however, his ineptitude gets him mixed up in a plot to assassinate a member of Britain's royal family, and he has to save the day.

This was a fun James Bond knock off that straddled the line between spoof and legit action thriller. Taylor is clearly having fun and Trevor Howard is great as his increasingly exasperated handler. "Liquidator" was obviously intended to be the start of of a new film franchise, but by the time it hit theaters the mid Sixties "spy" craze was already past its peak.

"Liquidator" shares several traits with the Bond franchise: it was based on a novel by John Gardner, who later took over writing the 007 books in the 1980s; Shirley "Goldfinger" Bassey sings the film's theme song; and Jill St. John would later play a legit Bond girl in 1971's "Diamonds Are Forever."

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Affiche du film “Le Spie amano i fiori” d'Umberto Lenzi (1966) -  Source Facebook.

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Believe In Argoman

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Lightning Bolt (Operazione Goldman, 1966)

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‘From the Orient with Fury’ (1965), another 007 inspired EuroSpy film.

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– TS

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