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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are three conspicuous ones, and an uncounted number of minor imitations. Most unlikely is Italy's Monica Vitti, an intellectual type seen as a brooding nymph in The Red Desert. In a new British production, Vitti is Modesty Blaise of London comic-strip fame. Modesty has retired at 26 from the international smuggling racket to become a sort of freelance girl Friday for the British Secret Service. Armed with blouse-button bombs, cigarette lighters that turn out to be miniature flame throwers, and lipstick that untelescopes into a deadly arrow, Modesty outbombs and outshoots everybody, including that archcriminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The 007 Girls | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

HIGH INFIDELITY. The perils of extra-marital dalliance are polished off ever so lightly in a four-part Italian comedy dominated by a jealous but accessible wife (Monica Vitti), a discreet businessman (Nino Manfredi) and other stray mates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books, Best Sellers: Aug. 20, 1965 | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

HIGH INFIDELITY. In four zesty episodes, this Italian comedy draws and quarters the subjects of extramarital dalliance, assigning the choicer bits to a jealous wife (Monica Vitti) and a vacationing businessman (Nino Manfredi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Sellers: Jul. 30, 1965 | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...Scandal, Hero Nino Manfredi, whose face is a blah-relief of middle-class mores, skillfully portrays a vacationing businessman who imagines an intrigue between his voluptuous young wife (Fulvia Franco) and a handsome archaeologist-until he gets a bizarre surprise. Manfredi is nearly matched by Monica Vitti, using every tic of her tragicomic trade in The Victim, an offbeat ode to a jealous wife who harangues her husband out of the house. When his best friend (Jean-Pierre Cassel) stops by, she pours out her troubles while he paws out his sympathy. Result: an orgy of absent-minded surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shaking the Bedclothes | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...Monica Vitti, brooding about fate in The Soup, mocks her own sullen beauty with surprising verve as an impoverished young wife yearning to rid herself of a wretched husband who slurps and belches at mealtime. She is "lucky enough to be hit by a car," and invests her meager insurance money in a series of hired killers, some dishonest, some amorous, none very efficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four for Foolery | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

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