After escaping post world war ii camp in kalyroc greece as a young girl with no memories of her former life modesty roamed the world learning to survive in a criminal world. A modesty blaise adventure 2003 a woman alexandra staden spins a tale about her past while she spins a roulette wheel in a game of chance with thugs holding her hostage. Read modesty blaise comic online free and high quality. This movie was one of four 20th century fox pictures featuring female spies that were released during 19661967, the movies were fathom 1967, caprice 1967 and come spy with me 1967 there is another version about this character titled. Alexander knox, clive revill, dirk bogarde, harry andrews, michael craig, monica vitti, terence stamp.
Modesty blaise is a british comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author peter odonnell and illustrator jim holdaway in 1963. See more ideas about comic art, comic artist and comics. This movie is the first of three modesty blaise movies. Modesty blaise photos view all photos 4 movie info. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our fandango. The album was released on cd by harkit hrkcd 8003 in 2001.
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Modesty blaise is a former refugee and survivor of the terrible disruptions caused by world war ii, and as a child drifted across eastern europe and the middle east in the company of an old professor. At that point, i had read about the modesty blaise strips, but hadnt seen any full stories and was aware of the campy 60s film. Abandoned by her parents, modesty blaise is raised by a casino owner who trains her to fight. Based on a comic book, the movie is strong on psychedelic art direction, long on camp especially dirk bogardes aristocratic, whitehaired villain, and thin on plotand what plot there is cannot possibly be deciphered. Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owners bodyguard. Monica vitti was born on november 3, 1931 in rome, lazio, italy as maria luisa ceciarelli. John dankworth and his orchestra movies n me discogs. Peter odonnells novels and comic strip was previously brought to film by actress monica vitti and director joseph losey in an eponymous. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies.
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