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Modesty Blaise (1966 film)

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film progresses, Willie and Modesty fall in love and decide to get married, proclaiming the same during a sudden musical production number that pops up during a lull in the action. Even though the comic strip was only a few years old at this time and no novels had yet been published, this plot point nonetheless breaks a cardinal rule set out by O'Donnell when he created the characters: They would never have a romantic relationship in the traditional sense; the writer stayed true to this right up to the end of the comic strip in 2001.
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The character of Sheikh Abu Tahir fills the function of Lob, Modesty's adoptee father and mentor, who gives her the name "Modesty Blaise". The Sheikh is otherwise an original character with no equivalent character in the source material. Other original characters include Paul Hagen, Mrs. Fothergill,
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Some are cosmetic — Vitti appears as a blonde for most of the film, except for one sequence in which, as noted above, she actually dresses up like a real-life version of the comic strip character. The film also prominently focuses on a large leg tattoo the film version of the character sports;
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Willie reluctantly agrees to the arrangement, successfully stealing the diamonds from under Tarrant and Hagen's noses. He and Modesty are subsequently taken to Gabriel's island fortress, where they are promptly thrown into prison cells. Gabriel offers Modesty to join forces, but she refuses. Willie
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In exchange for an exclusive discount on the kingdom's oil exports, the British government delivers periodic diamond shipments to the Sheikh. Blaise, who enjoys an ongoing love-hate relationship with law enforcement, is recruited not only for her competence, but because she is the Sheikh's adopted
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Likewise, Stamp initially appears in a blond wig (giving him a similar appearance to the comic strip character) and subsequently reverts to his natural dark hair; in the film Modesty and Willie acknowledge the hair color change with each other. Other changes are more profound. For example, as the
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to protect a shipment of diamonds en route to Abu Tahir, the Sheikh of a small Middle Eastern kingdom. The shipment has also attracted Gabriel, the head of a criminal organization that includes his accountant McWhirter and bodyguard Mrs. Fothergill. Modesty believes that Gabriel, who maintains a
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When Gabriel learns that Nicole is working with Modesty and Willie, he orders her assassinated. The illusionist sends thugs to have her killed, and they succeed when Modesty and Willie fail to intervene in time. Modesty and Willie set themselves up as live bait to draw Gabriel out, but find
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O'Donnell's original screenplay went through a large number of rewrites by other people, and he often later complained that the finished movie retained only one line of his original dialogue. O'Donnell states this in some of his introductions to reprints of his comic strip by
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associated with him. Modesty narrowly survives several attempts on her life by Gabriel's assassins, whose failure leads to their swift execution by the ruthless Mrs. Fothergill. Modesty continually toys with Hagen, first seducing him before stealing his gun and disappearing.
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and Modesty manage to escape and kill Mrs. Fothergill, and signal their location to the Sheikh's forces. The Sheikh leads his army to the island, leading to an all-out battle with Gabriel's forces and ending in his capture and the diamonds reaching their intended owner.
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When Modesty attempts to identify and infiltrate the boat being used by Gabriel for the planned diamond theft, she is lured into a trap and captured. Gabriel reveals his true plan, to use Modesty as leverage to force Willie to steal the diamonds for him.
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no such tattoo is ever referenced in the comic strip or later novels. Also, while the comic strip established early on that Modesty considered herself to be English, her actual ethnic background was left ambiguous beyond her being vaguely from the
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craze prevalent at the time, in contrast to the relatively serious and grounded tone of the source material. As a result, the film heavily diverged from O'Donnell's comics and story outline in many ways, and includes a number of
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to free his employer, though no one seems to notice or care. When the Sheikh asks Modesty what he can do for her, she asks for the diamonds. He responds by laughing boisterously and she seems to go along with it, but suddenly
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daughter and thus trusted by him implicitly. Modesty agrees to the arrangement, on the condition that she is given total immunity by the British government and complete freedom to deliver the diamonds how she sees fit.
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kingdom and the informal foster father of Modesty, whom he calls his 'son'. The latter character takes the role of Modesty's mentor "Lob" from the original comics, and is otherwise an original character.
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paperback edition of O'Donnell's novelization). Supporters of the film suggest this indicates that the film is not intended to take place in the same "universe" as the comic strip.
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who enjoys killing people to cure her boredom. She is loosely based on the more tough, muscular and thuggish character of the same name in O'Donnell's source novel.
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in Amsterdam. She becomes embroiled in her former lover's schemes due to her employer's connections to Gabriel. She is an original character created for the film.
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had spawned a number of similarly themed films. Some were intended as serious spy adventures, others as parodies or pastiches of Bond and his genre. Director
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as The Minister, an anxious government bureaucrat tasked with protecting the Sheikh's diamonds, a task is largely unsuited to and leaves to his subordinates.
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likewise disliked working with her, saying in a radio interview years later that she was the only one of his leading ladies whom he had actively disliked.
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According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $ 5,800,000 in rentals to break even and made $ 4,825,000, meaning it lost money.
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element during one sequence where Blaise, while visiting a friend's apartment, comes across several newspapers with the
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themselves pursued by Tarrant and a jilted Hagen, being briefly arrested before quickly escaping with the help of some
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McWhirter, and Nicole, though O'Donnell would later incorporate several of these into later original novels.
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found it difficult to work with Monica Vitti, as she would invariably be accompanied on the set by director
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In his desert camp, the Sheikh leaves Gabriel tied up outside to dehydrate. McWhirter suddenly appears in
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Prior to the release of the film, O'Donnell novelised his version of the screenplay as a novel titled
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saw O'Donnell's strip and acquired the film rights to the character. Scala had the idea of casting
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Two more serious attempts at adapting the comic strip for the screen occurred in 1982 with a
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The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox
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who has a begrudging respect for Modesty and acts as her liaison to the government.
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and former lover of Modesty's. He is an original character created for the film.
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creator O'Donnell over the vision of the final film, Losey wanting to create a "
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as McWhirter & Sheik Abu Tahir, the former is Gabriel's loyal and dogged
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as Nicole (credited as Tina Marquand), Willie's old flame now working as a
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as Gabriel, another criminal mastermind and Modesty's equal, defined by
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compound in the Mediterranean, is dead, but he reveals himself to her.
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accent, making it apparent that her version of Blaise was from Italy.
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mannerisms and a sensitivity to violence in spite of his ruthlessness.
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The film's production saw creative clashes between director Losey and
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and the screenwriters chose to follow the latter approach, by making
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as an apparently American version of Blaise, and again in 2003 with
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Interview with Terence Stamp, Monica Vitti and director Joseph Losey
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accountant, and the latter is the once-deposed ruler of a small
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as Mrs. Clara Fothergill (credited as Rosella Falk), Gabriel's
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a campy, sometimes surrealistic comedy-adventure. Playwright
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With Sir Gerald monitoring her from afar, Modesty travels to
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chief Sir Gerald Tarrant recruits former criminal mastermind
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was a moderate success at the time of its original release,
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directing, but he sold the rights to produce the film to
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by looking directly at the camera as the film ends in a
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region; no attempt was made to disguise Vitti's strong
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relationship that ends in mutual (possibly sarcastic)
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film poster
Bob Peak
Joseph Losey
Evan Jones
Harold Pinter
Peter O'Donnell
Modesty Blaise
Jim Holdaway
Joseph Janni
Monica Vitti
Terence Stamp
Dirk Bogarde
Harry Andrews
Clive Revill
Jack Hildyard
Reginald Beck
Johnny Dankworth
20th Century Fox
Cannes
spy-fi
comedy film
Joseph Losey
Joseph Janni
comic strip
Modesty Blaise
Peter O'Donnell
Evan Jones
Harold Pinter
Monica Vitti

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