Yvonne Monlaur: Cult horror movie actress & Bond Girl contender was featured in the 1960 British classics 'Circus of Horrors' & 'The Brides of Dracula.' Actress Yvonne Monlaur dead at 77: Best remembered for cult horror classics 'Circus of Horrors' & 'The Brides of Dracula' Actress Yvonne Monlaur, best known for her roles in the 1960 British cult horror classics Circus of Horrors and The Brides of Dracula, died of cardiac arrest on April 18 in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Monlaur was 77. According to various online sources, she was born Yvonne Thérèse Marie Camille Bédat de Monlaur in the southwestern town of Pau, in France's Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, on Dec. 15, 1939. Her father was poet and librettist Pierre Bédat de Monlaur; her mother was a Russian ballet dancer. The young Yvonne was trained in ballet and while still a teenager became a model for Elle magazine. She was “discovered” by newspaper publisher-turned-director André Hunebelle,...
- 4/27/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Set at the end of of the sixties The Kremlin Letter tells the story of the highly skilled Naval officer Charles Rone (Patrick O’Neal), who is recruited by the CIA to track down a rather embarrassing letter that’s possibly fallen into the wrong hands.
The letter is, unsurprisingly perhaps, something of a macguffin and directer John Huston, who was also instrumental in penning the adaptation from the Noel Behn novel on which it is based, uses this somewhat fruitless quest as a way of spinning an elaborate and sordid spy tale that can absorb an audience, possibly confuse them and even occasionally disgust them.
It seems almost trite to point out but The Kremlin Letter is the antithesis of the bulk of the Bond series up to the point of the film’s release, with the exception perhaps of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service released shortly before it,...
The letter is, unsurprisingly perhaps, something of a macguffin and directer John Huston, who was also instrumental in penning the adaptation from the Noel Behn novel on which it is based, uses this somewhat fruitless quest as a way of spinning an elaborate and sordid spy tale that can absorb an audience, possibly confuse them and even occasionally disgust them.
It seems almost trite to point out but The Kremlin Letter is the antithesis of the bulk of the Bond series up to the point of the film’s release, with the exception perhaps of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service released shortly before it,...
- 7/14/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The subject of a whopping eight features produced over a span of just four years in the mid-sixties, Germany's spoof on the stereotypical CIA agent, Jerry Cotton, is coming back. Perhaps emboldened by the success of the Get Smart and Oss 117 revivals Germany is getting back into the spy-comedy game in 2010 with their first Jerry Cotton film in forty years. We ran the first teaser for this a while back and now the full trailer has arrived. The slapstick element is very much in effect but balancing that out is some remarkably slick production value and tightly choreographed action. Very fun. Check the trailer below.
- 12/28/2009
- Screen Anarchy
Cologne, Germany -- A hard-boiled G-Man, a pink fairy and big lizards got the go-ahead in the latest round of funding from German federal film board, the Ffa which on Thursday doled out $4.4 million in production subsidies to 15 projects.
“Jerry Cotton,” an adaptation of the German pulp fiction novels about a New York FBI agent, received $646,000, the largest single payout. Other projects receiving funding include “Dinosaurs,” the latest from comedy pro Leander Haussmann, Thomas Bodenstein’s children’s film “Princess Lillifee and the Unicorn,” about a magical pink fairy and “Bon Appetit,” a cosmopolitan cooking comedy from David Pinillos.
“Jerry Cotton,” an adaptation of the German pulp fiction novels about a New York FBI agent, received $646,000, the largest single payout. Other projects receiving funding include “Dinosaurs,” the latest from comedy pro Leander Haussmann, Thomas Bodenstein’s children’s film “Princess Lillifee and the Unicorn,” about a magical pink fairy and “Bon Appetit,” a cosmopolitan cooking comedy from David Pinillos.
- 11/28/2008
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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