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Director: Philippe de Broca
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From Time Out Film Guide
Nine years earlier, with L'Homme de Rio, de Broca and Belmondo came up with a delightful parody of James Bondery. They try again here, much less successfully, with Belmondo as a writer of pulp spy thrillers, pressured by deadline fever, who slips out of his seedy garret into the fantasy world of his novels. Imagining himself as his secret agent hero Bob Saint-Clair, he gets involved in the usual sub-Bond spy-jinks, and lures the girl across the courtyard, Christina/Tatiana (Bisset), between the covers. Routine shoot 'em up stuff is laced with casual sexism and marred by atrocious dubbing.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Philippe de Broca
Producer: Alexandre Mnouchkine, Georges Danciger
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Monique Tarbès, Raymond Gérome full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 94 mins
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