Synopsis:
‘Barney Morgan is a reporter who works for a French journal. His editor-in-chief Rupert finds his lover Alice murdered. His boss is the main suspect but Barney doesn’t believe his boss could possibly be a murderer. Subsequently he tries to prove the man’s innocence.
Barney suspects Alice’s husband and gathers enough circumstantial evidence to make his point. But the widower’s lawyer can prove he didn’t do it either. Barney concedes he was wrong and commences a new investigation.’
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Eddie Constantine
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John Berry – Je suis un sentimental AKA Headlines of Destruction (1955)
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte AKA Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyRainer Werner FassbinderPLOT: Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.Read More »
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Jean-Luc Godard – Allemagne Annee 90 Neuf Zero AKA Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
1991-2000ArthouseFranceJean-Luc GodardLemmy Caution investigates a German ruins.
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Jean-Luc Godard’s Germany Year 90 Nine Zero – the title being a pun on Roberto Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero (1947) – was made for French television in 1991 and continued his reflexive cinema/video image/sound practice that reached its zenith with Histoire(s) du Cinéma (1989-97). Germany Year 90 Nine Zero can be considered a sort of loose sequel to Godard’s Alphaville (1965). The film follows the adventures of Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), “the last of the secret agents,” as he wanders through a post-Berlin-Wall Germany (from the East to the West) through a landscape littered with history. It is 26 years later, and Lemmy is looking exhausted, vulnerable, as befits the landscape of East Germany.Read More » -
Bernard Borderie – Ces dames préfèrent le mambo AKA Dishonorable Discharge (1957)
1951-1960AdventureBernard BorderieComedyFranceSea-farer Burt Brickford is engaged to captain the yacht of the wealthy Henery Legrand, ostensibly for a pleasure trip in the Gulf of Mexico. From the outset, Brickford suspects that something is amiss. Sure enough, he discovers several cases of dynamite in the ship’s hold and his paymasters are forced to admit that they are planning to recover the lost treasure of a sunken galleon. Yet this turns out to be just another smoke screen. Just what are Legrand and his entourage up to…?Read More »
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Ulli Lommel & Peter Moland – Haytabo (1971)
1971-1980GermanyPeter MolandRomanceSci-FiUlli LommelQuote:
A biochemist stumbles upon a well-preserved scientific manuscript from a past century. He and his girlfriend study the document and discover a formula to produce a drug that promises immortality. One vital component, however, is missing. But when an alien gets in touch with the scientist, the solution seems close at hand: The alien offers the biochemist and his girlfriend a trip into the past to meet the man who actually wrote the manuscript. Their first travel back in time fails, but on the second attempt the two indeed manage to meet the inventor…Read More » -
Marcel Ophüls – Faites vos jeux, mesdames AKA Make your Bets, Ladies (1965)
1961-1970ActionFranceMarcel OphülsThrillerSynopsis
Exciting Eddie Constantine outing finds Eddie playing a special agent searching for missing NATO weapons. When he encounters a scientist who has invented a ring that emits a paralysis spray, the hard-boiled spy saves the day with some very Bondian heroics…Read More » -
Alvin Rakoff – Passport to Shame AKA Room 43 (1958)
Drama1951-1960Alvin RakoffCrimeUnited KingdomSynopsis by Michael P. Rogers
Before Eddie Constantine became a French pop icon as the slapdash “Lemmy Caution,” he played Johnny, a straightforward London taxi driver. When his new taxi is smashed and he needs a big loan, he agrees to a five-minute marriage to Malou, a naive French girl, so she can become a British citizen. As planned, the two part after the nuptials, not realizing that this has all been rigged as a recruiting scheme by Nick (Herbert Lom), the boss of a Soho prostitution ring. Malou learns of Nick’s plans for her future and tries to escape but is drugged and locked up. With help from the head “girl,” Vicki (Diana Dors), Johnny learns of Malou’s peril, and hatches a plan to free her. This dark action thriller has a few clever twists, and Dors is gorgeous, but her fans may be disappointed at the smallness of her roleRead More » -
Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Warnung Vor Einer Heiligen Nutte AKA Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
1971-1980ComedyDramaGermanyRainer Werner FassbinderQuote:
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s brazen depiction of the alternating currents of lethargy and mayhem inherent in moviemaking, a film crew—played by, and not so loosely based on, his own frequent collaborators—deals with an aloof star (Eddie Constantine), an abusive director (Lou Castel), and a financially troubled production. Inspired by the hellish process of making Whity earlier the same year, this is a vicious look at behind-the-scenes dysfunction.Read More »