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Danger: Diabolik
Why this pick
A gleefully stylised European pop-crime caper, pairing comic-book design, playful sexual chemistry and audacious heists with the same knowingly unreal, swinging-sixties spirit.
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MOVIE1966 1h 59m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
British Intelligence chief Sir Gerald Tarrant (Harry Andrews) recruits former criminal mastermind Modesty Blaise (Monica Vitti) to protect a shipment of diamonds en route to a Middle Eastern sheik, Abu Tahir (Clive Revill). The shipment has also attracted Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde), the head of a criminal organization that includes his henchman McWhirter (Clive Revill) and Mrs. Fothergill (Rossella Falk). Modesty believes that Gabriel, who maintains a compound in the Mediterranean, is dead, but he reveals himself to her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Monica Vitti
Modesty Blaise
Dirk Bogarde
Gabriel
Harry Andrews
Sir Gerald Tarrant
Michael Craig
Paul Hagan
Clive Revill
McWhirter / Sheik Abu Tahir
Alexander Knox
Minister
Rossella Falk
Mrs. Fothergill
Scilla Gabel
Melina