....So OSS 117 has nothing to complain about.Director André Hunebelle ,who used to direct Jean Marais in watchable swashbucklers had become a spy thriller drudge. It's his fourth Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (OSS 's real name ,for those who care) .He used first Kerwin Matthews ,then Frederick Stafford .
The cast of "Pas de Roses..." is by far the most interesting: gathering one of his talented compatriots (Robert Hossein) earnest German thespian Jürgens,an ex-James Bond Girl (Luciana Paluzzi,remember Fiona Volpe?)and John Gavin ,the hero of Douglas Sirk's last great works ("Imitation of life" (1959) and " a time to love and a time to die") not to mention "psycho" where he was completely overshadowed by Perkins anyway.
The story is routine itself but there are some good ideas ,such as the poison .More somber than "furia à Bahia" but,unlike the precedent 0SS, humorless.
Like this?Try these (James Bond " A La Française")
"OSS 117 se déchaine" Hunebelle 1963
"Banco à Bangkok pour 0SS 117" Hunebelle 1965
"Furia à Bahia pour 0SS 117 " Hunebelle 1965
"Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117" Boisrond 1966
The cast of "Pas de Roses..." is by far the most interesting: gathering one of his talented compatriots (Robert Hossein) earnest German thespian Jürgens,an ex-James Bond Girl (Luciana Paluzzi,remember Fiona Volpe?)and John Gavin ,the hero of Douglas Sirk's last great works ("Imitation of life" (1959) and " a time to love and a time to die") not to mention "psycho" where he was completely overshadowed by Perkins anyway.
The story is routine itself but there are some good ideas ,such as the poison .More somber than "furia à Bahia" but,unlike the precedent 0SS, humorless.
Like this?Try these (James Bond " A La Française")
"OSS 117 se déchaine" Hunebelle 1963
"Banco à Bangkok pour 0SS 117" Hunebelle 1965
"Furia à Bahia pour 0SS 117 " Hunebelle 1965
"Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117" Boisrond 1966