Eurospy film
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Eurospy film, or Spaghetti spy film (when referring to
Christopher Frayling, who estimated the number of Eurospy films at 50, felt that they passed on such traits to the Spaghetti Western as an emphasis on the technology of death, such as special weapons, the anonymity of the protagonist, the "money = power" equation of the villains and humorous asides that released the audience's laughter after a violent sequence.[4]
For additional verisimilitude, these films often featured American and British stars in the lead roles.[5] The heroes of the films were secret agents who were often given a name similar to "James Bond" (including "Charles Bind", "Charles Vine" and "James Tont", where "Tont" is a pun on tonto which is Italian for "dumb", "stupid"), and/or a code name matching, or similar to, James Bond's "007". Unlike the Italian Eurospy films, most French, British and West German spy films made use of existing literary fictional spies, including Bulldog Drummond, Harry Palmer, Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, AKA OSS 117 (who was not based on James Bond but rather had helped to inspire James Bond), Francis Coplan and Rolf Torring.
Examples
Some European stars and their films were renamed and retitled to cash in on the
Continental Europe
So many French and Italian films used "007" that
Director
Other notable examples include
The French
British actor
Marilù Tolo was in seven Italian/French-Italian productions: Espionage in Lisbon (1965), Balearic Caper (1966), Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966), Perry Grant, agente di ferro, a.k.a. The Big Blackout (1966), To Skin a Spy (1966), Judoka-Secret Agent (1966), and Casse-tête chinois pour le judoka (1967). And Luciana Paluzzi from Thunderball (1965) also made the French-Italian OSS 117 – Double Agent (1968).
Canadian-American actor
A post 1960s pair of films based on French author
British films
Daliah Lavi, best known for her two American 007 spoofs The Silencers (1966) and Casino Royale (1967), was in Shots in Threequarter Time a.k.a. Spy Hunt in Vienna and Operation Solo (Germany, 1965) and British films The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) and Some Girls Do (1969), starring Richard Johnson. He starred in Danger Route (1967) and Deadlier Than the Male (1967), the latter with Sylva Koscina. She made two other British films, Hot Enough for June, a.k.a. Agent 8+3⁄4 (1964), that featured a mention of Agent 007 and Our Man in Marrakesh a.k.a. Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966) and two Italian productions, That Man in Istanbul (1965) and Agent X-77 Orders to Kill (1966).
Other British-made films include
In the 21st century,
genre.American films
Post-sixties parodies
Two French films starring Jean Dujardin, 2006's OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (set in 1955) and 2009's OSS 117: Lost in Rio (set in 1967) both recreate the style of the period and parody the spy genre for a new audience.
The American
The Spanish film
See also
Notes
- ISBN 9780231120487.
- ISBN 9780810806559.
- ^ "Films in Review". National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Vol. 25. 1974.
- ^ Frayling, Christopher (2006). Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone. I.B. Taurus. p. 92. See Karl May and Sergio Leone.
- ^ Blake & Deal 2004.
- IMDb
- ^ Chapman, James (2007). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. I. B. Tauris.
- ^ Biederman, Danny (2004). The Incredible World of Spy-Fi: Wild and Crazy Spy Gadgets, Props and Artifacts from TV and the Movies. Chronicle Books. p. 126.
References
- Blake, Matt; Deal, David (2004). The Eurospy Guide. Luminary Press. ISBN 1887664521.
- Giusti, Marco (2010). 007 all'italiana (in Italian). Isbn Edizioni. ISBN 978-8876381874.
- Magni, Daniele (2010). Segretissimi: guida agli spy-movie italiani anni '60 (in Italian). Bloodbuster. ISBN 978-88-902087-3-7.
- Rhys Davies, Richard (2016). The International Spy Film Guide 1945 - 1989. Picture and Sound Limited. ISBN 978-0-9569435-2-1.
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