Modesty Blaise (1966) is a movie misfire that is still interesting enough to be worth seeing. Nowhere near as good as the novels or comics. All the movie's problems could have been avoided by sacking Joseph Losey as director.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2023/08/modesty-blaise-1966-revisited.html

#cultmovies #cultmovie #60smovie #60smovies #1960smovie #1960smovies #psychotroniccinema #psychotronicmovie #spies #spymovie #spymovies #PeterODonnell #JosephLosey #DirkBogarde #MonicaVitti #comicbookmovie #comicbookmovies

Just got done watching three films starring Dirk Bogarde: Victim, The Night Porter, and The Servant. In awe of his acting skill. I totally believed all three portrayals and I swear there’s no overlap in the body language or the facial expressions, it’s like the man had the power to rewrite his own DNA for a role. #cinema #DirkBogarde #acting

#FridayNightFilmsAndTV
#Victim 1961 Trailer #DirkBogarde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDCYOGj23v0

#LGBTQIAplus :anqueer_flag: :newpride: #QueerFilmHistory

46 years ago:
A Bridge Too Far (GB,US)
Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
1977-06-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5902
#ABridgeTooFar #RichardAttenborough #DirkBogarde #JamesCaan #MichaelCaine #UnitedArtists #ClassicMovies

65 years ago:
The Wind Cannot Read (UK)
Dirk Bogarde is an officer during World War II learning Japanese in India in order to do intelligence work on the Indian front. While there he gets a Japanese teacher, who is full of the inscrutable and mysterious East, like a Chinese motorcycle.
1958-06-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47706
#TheWindCannotRead #RalphThomas #DirkBogarde #JohnFraser #MichaelMedwin #Film

57 years ago:
Modesty Blaise (UK)
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. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a f...
1966-05-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36645
#ModestyBlaise #JosephLosey #MonicaVitti #TerenceStamp #DirkBogarde #20thCenturyFox #ClassicMovies

49 years ago:
The Night Porter (IT)
Original title: Il portiere di notte
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
1974-04-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/26648
#TheNightPorter #LilianaCavani #DirkBogarde #CharlotteRampling #PhilippeLeroy #WomenInFilm #Movies

From the #archives:

Directed by #JohnFrankeheimer from a #screenplay by #DaltonTrumbo, the real-life-based #TheFixer stars a badly miscast (& eventually #Oscar-nominated) #AlanBates as a #Jewish man jailed for a murder he didn't commit.

https://www.altfg.com/film/the-fixer-movie-1968/

THE FIXER is evidence that good intentions don't a good #movie make.

Also in the cast: #DirkBogarde, #GeorgiaBrown, #HughGriffith, #DavidWarner, #IanHolm.

#films #cinema #ClassicMovies #Bigotry #film #movies

73 years ago:
So Long at the Fair (UK)
Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out ...
1950-03-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/67411
#SoLongattheFair #JeanSimmons #DirkBogarde #DavidTomlinson #ClassicFilm

#DirkBogarde #BOTD
https://gifopolis.com/2303028-2/
from Darling, 1965

Watched Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms in Victim (1961) — not just an excellent British film noir, but one that helped change the law on homosexuality #DirkBogarde #SylviaSyms #Victim

71 years ago:
Penny Princess (UK)
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman...
1952-03-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/50755
#PennyPrincess #ValGuest #DirkBogarde #ClassicFilm

69 years ago:
Doctor in the House (UK)
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-...
1954-03-23
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68242
#DoctorintheHouse #RalphThomas #DirkBogarde #KennethMore #DonaldSinden #Movies

52 years ago:
Death in Venice (FR,IT)
Original title: Morte a Venezia
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
1971-03-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/6619
#DeathinVenice #LuchinoVisconti #DirkBogarde #MarisaBerenson #CaroleAndré #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

70 years ago:
Appointment in London (UK)
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the bas...
1953-02-17
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/54792
#AppointmentinLondon #DirkBogarde #BryanForbes #BillKerr #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

56 years ago:
Accident (UK)
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible c...
1967-02-09
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/74544
#Accident #JosephLosey #DirkBogarde #StanleyBaker #JacquelineSassard #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

65 years ago:
A Tale of Two Cities (UK)
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself j...
1958-02-07
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4701
#ATaleofTwoCities #DirkBogarde #IanBannen #CecilParker #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

74 years ago:
Once a Jolly Swagman (UK)
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
1949-02-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/79495
#OnceaJollySwagman #DirkBogarde #ThoraHird #SidJames #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

#RIP #SylviaSyms (1934–2023)

Alluring, capable #actress in show business for 65 years.

Notable #film roles include:

She's excellent as #DirkBogarde's initially unsuspecting wife in #BasilDearden's landmark 1961 drama VICTIM, the 1st major #British #movie centered on a modern-day #gay character.

She's just as good as The Queen Mother in #StephenFrears' #Oscar-nominated THE QUEEN (2006).

Her final big-screen role was as 1 of the leads in Paul Duddridge's 2018 #drama TOGETHER.

#cinema #movies

46 years ago:
Providence (GB,FR,CH)
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behav...
1977-01-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/54140
#Providence #LaNouvelleVague #DirkBogarde #DavidWarner #EllenBurstyn #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies