Modesty Blaise

Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde (starring)
Joseph Losey (director)
Peter O'Donnell, Jim Holdaway (comic)
Evan Jones (screenwriter)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film, showing director Joseph Losey with Monica Vitti and a camera crew on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the verso.

Based on the British comic strip which originally appeared in 1963. Modesty Blaise, a former criminal mastermind occasionally employed by the Secret Service, must protect a shipment of diamonds en route to a small Middle Eastern kingdom from a crime syndicate. Monica Vitti's first English-speaking role. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.

Shot on location throughout Italy, the Netherlands, and England.

9.5 x 7.75 inches. About Fine.


[Book #169553]