Lucky, the Inscrutable
- José Luis Martínez Mollá
- Julio Buchs
- Remigio Del Grosso
- Jesús Franco[1]
- José Luis Martínez Mollá
- Julio Buchs[1]
- Ray Danton
- Dieter Eppler
- Rosalba Neri
companies
- Atlántida Films
- Dauro Film
- Fono Roma
- Explorer Films 58
- CCC Filmkunst
- Telecine Film - und Fernsehproduktion GmbH[1]
- Iberica Films (Spain)
- Rank Film (Italy)
- Eckelkamp Verleihgesellschaft (Dusseldorf)[1]
- 23 June 1967 (1967-06-23) (Italy)
- 1 September 1967 (1967-09-01) (West Germany)
- 18 December 1967 (1967-12-18) (Seville)
- Italy
- Spain
- West Germany[1]
Lucky, the Inscrutable (Italian: Agente speciale L.K.: Operazione Re Mida) is a 1967 spy film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Ray Danton.[2][page needed]
Cast
- Ray Danton as Lucky
- Barbara Bold as Brunehilde
- Dante Posani as Michele
- Dieter Eppler as Hans
- Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui as Gafas de Oro
- María Luisa Ponte as Madame Linda
- Rosalba Neri as Yaka
- Beba Lončar as Beba
- Teresa Gimpera as Cleopatra
- Patty Shepard as telephonist
- Jesús Franco 3 cameos (as Man on Train/ guitar player/ blind man)
Production
During the 1960s, the Spanish film industry was regularly making co-production with Italy. For Lucky, the Inscrutable, the film was primarily funded by Italy.[3] Franco biographer Stephen Thrower stated that between 1964, and 1967 film studios from Rome would release a cavalcade of James Bond parodies. Lucky, the Inscrutable was among them.[4]
It was also Italian actress Rosalba Neri's first Franco film.[5][page needed]
The film was shot on location in Rome and Spain, with studio filming done in Rome between October and November 1966.[3]
Release
Lucky, the Inscrutable was released in Italy on June 23, 1967 with a 92 minute running time as Agente Speciale L.K. (Operazione Re Mida). It was later released in West Germany on September 1, 1967 as Lucky M. fiillt alle Sarge (transl. Lucky M. FIlls All the Coffins) at 88 minutes. It was later shown in Seville in Spain on December 18, 1967 as Lucky el intrépido transl. Lucky the Intrepid with a 91 minute running time.[1]
Reception
Spanish newspaper ABC Andalucia wrote that the humorous and serious scenes lacked proper coordination, but that "In the absence of more singular technical and artistic values, perhaps the best aspects of the film are the splendid photography and the catchy background music by Bruno Nicolai"[4]
Legacy
The film was the first collaboration between Jesús Franco and film composer Bruno Nicolai. They would collaborate on several of Franco's films in the future, such as Count Dracula (1970), Nightmares Come at Night (1973), and A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) among several others.[4]
This film was Franco's first Spanish-Italian-German co-production, and was also his first film for German producer Artur Brauner[5][page needed] Franco would continue work with Brauner and German company CCC Filmkunst, creating six films a two year-period.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Thrower 2015, p. 117.
- ^ Chiti et al. 1992.
- ^ a b Thrower 2015, p. 118.
- ^ a b c Thrower 2015, p. 122.
- ^ a b Giusti 2010.
- ^ Thrower 2015, p. 21.
Sources
- Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto; Lancia, Enrico; Pecorari, Mario (1992). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film (in Italian). Rome: Gremese Editore. ISBN 978-88-7605-593-5.
- Giusti, Marco (2010). 007 all'italiana (in Italian). Milan: Isbn Edizioni. ISBN 978-88-7638-187-4.
- Thrower, Stephen (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco: Volume 1:1959-1974. Strange Attractor Press. ISBN 978-1-907222-31-3.
External links
- Lucky, the Inscrutable at IMDb
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