Modesty blaise is loosely based on a comicbook superheroine and played by monica vitti. The legendary modesty blaise first appeared in a bestselling series of novels in may 1965, and we are now celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. Modesty blaise 1966 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Publishing history this is a chart to show the publishing history of editions of works about this subject. Very loosely based on the comic strip modesty blaise, the sixties spyspoof sees the british government enlist the services of modesty blaise to protect a shipment of diamonds. Arktisen banaanin julkaiseman kolmiosaisen sarjan harvinainen ykkososa. Modesty blaise a beginners guide to modesty blaise. Sep, 2016 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. The complete series list for modesty blaise titan graphic novels peter odonnell.
Find movie and film cast and crew information for modesty blaise 1966 joseph losey on allmovie. Blaise of no glory modesty blaise and my name is modesty. A popular british comic strip series served as inspiration for this lighthearted espionage adventure, which if nothing else certainly shows the marks of its origins in the mid1960s. Modesty blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the british government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. Along the x axis is time, and on the y axis is the count of editions published. Modesty blaise 14 works search for books with subject modesty blaise.
Punchlike features often saw him cast as comic eccentrics in a number of british films of the 1960s and 1970s such as kaleidoscope 1966, modesty blaise 1966, the double man 1967, fathom 1967, the assassination bureau 1969, a severed head 1970, the black windmill 1974 and one of our dinosaurs is. Stamp and vitti modesty blaise, 1966 modesty blaise. Modesty blaise cover of agent nr by australian illustrator loopydave. Modesty blaise bluray disc, 2016 for sale online ebay. Modesty blaise titan graphic novels series in order. A spy spoof in the 1960s tradition, featuring the comic book heroine modesty blaise monica vitti set in the italian mediterranean. Richard brody on joseph loseys modesty blaise 1966. It would be almost forty years later that anyone would try again. British group the direct hits released their 4track ep the modesty blaise sessions on the forbidden label in 1986. Modesty blaise was my secret self the year i was 15, the subject of ardent daydreams and the first female character i encountered who was truly in. Modesty blaise soundtrack cd details and availability. The bravados classic western, full movie, gregory peck, english free full western films duration.
Catherine grant notes on mirror visions in modesty blaise. Modesty blaise is a comedic spyfi deluxe color film produced in the united kingdom and released worldwide in. The strip follows modesty blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick willie garvin. Watch the front row modesty blaise the new yorker video. 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. This movie was one of four 20th century fox pictures featuring female spies that were released during 1966 1967, the movies were fathom 1967, caprice 1967 and come spy with me 1967 there is another version about this character titled. The humor is very droll, yet needlesharp in its mockery of the amorality of empire and espionage, and in its parody of the conventions of the actionhero movie, its. Not the newspaper strips, comics, or graphic novels. Modesty blaise joseph losey, 1966 travels the cinematic distance between. Modesty blaise soundtrack details home explore movies explore composers resource directory forums contact us about us search on.
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. The first track, modesty blaise, alludes to the character, especially in her comicstrip form. There is some continuity between the books and they are best read in the order below. Modesty blaise is a heroine for our time the atlantic. Modesty blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the british government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond. Modesty blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the british government as a. It was interesting and it was meant to be a prequel for the real modesty blaise adventures to come.
When the british government has to pay an arab sheikh a fortune in diamonds in return for an oil concession, modesty blaise, a retired queen of international crime, is called in. He was also an awardwinning gothic historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym madeleine brent, in 1978, his novel merlins keep won the romantic novel of the. Newest your spot for viewing some of the best pieces on deviantart. Modesty blaise in the beginning peter odonnel youtube. This comic strip follows the life of modesty blaise, whos a remarkable young woman whos very talented but has a criminal history. Modesty blaise is a 1966 british comic spyfi film directed by joseph losey, produced by. See more ideas about modesty, comic art, o donnell.
She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick willie garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Modesty blaise monica vitti, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers, is being used by the british government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. Monica vitti, terence stamp, dirk bogarde, harry andrews, clive revill, alexander knox. A popular british comic strip series served as inspiration for this lighthearted espionage adventure, which if. This also damages the films attempt to be a modesty blaise filmwhatever its many failures, the 1966 film looked like a big, bold blaise adventure. Peter odonnell 11 april 1920 3 may 2010 was a british writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of modesty blaise, an action heroineundercover troubleshooter. Omnibus editions of adventures of modesty blaise, an exceptional young woman originally created in a comic strip by peter odonnell in 1963. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, gabriel, the diamond. The humor is very droll, yet needlesharp in its mockery of the amorality of empire and espionage, and in its parody of the conventions of the actionhero movie, its madcamp villain, its tools, its blue waters. Thrilling, humorous and timeless adventures, the modesty blaise series are seminal british crime novels by peter odonnell. In the quentin tarantino film pulp fiction, hitman vincent vega is twice seen reading a modesty blaise book while seated on the toilet. A modesty blaise adventure, modesty blaise, humanoids from the deep, 99 and 44100% dead, ravagers, come spy with me, humanoids from the deep, portrait of a hitman, the cassandra crossing, golden rendezvous, freedoms fury, game for vultures. Modesty blaise is a 1966 british comic spyfi film directed by joseph losey, produced by joseph janni, and loosely based on the popular comic strip modesty blaise by peter odonnell, who cowrote the original story upon which evan jones and harold pinter based their screenplay.
Modesty blaise artwork for an upcoming issue of the swedish comic book magazine agent who were generous enough to let me post this early as a tri. But it never got the chance to survive the nonmodesty blaise that the 1966 film delivered. Modesty blaise is introduced with a closeup of her legs in fishnet stockings, sitting on a couch by two magazines, one showing a color photo of actress monica vitti, and on top a full page copy of the modesty blaise comic strip where she is depicted as a huntress with a bowandarrow and a revolver. The modesty blaise collection the movie database tmdb. See more ideas about pulp fiction, pulp art and pulp fiction art. Modesty is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and decides to sacrifice herself to save a train full of innocents from a group of rebels. A popular british comic strip series served as inspiration for this lighthearted espionage adventure, which if nothing else certainly shows the marks. Itself not meant to be taken entirely seriously its based on a comic strip of the same name, made at a time when it wasnt common to make liveaction adaptations of them. Monica vitti, terence stamp, dirk bogarde, harry andrews en michael craig. Modesty blaise is a newspaper strip character created in 1962 by british writer peter odonnell. It was written by the characters creator but unfortunately it was rewritten by studio people until only 1 line of original dialogue was left. We are left with an endlessly reverberating series of mirror images where we ultimately lose track of what is virtual and what is actual.