''The Blonde from Peking'' (french: La blonde de Pékin, it, La bionda di Pechino, german: Die Blonde von Peking, also known as ''Peking Blonde'') is a 1967 French-Italian-German
adventure film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, an ...
written and directed by
Nicolas Gessner
Nicolas Gessner (born 17 August 1931, in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born filmmaker who mostly worked in France.
His movies are often characterized by strange, quirky atmospheres and unusual cast mixing French and international actors. Sta ...
. It is loosely based on the 1966 novel ''You Have Yourself a Deal'' by
James Hadley Chase
James Hadley Chase (24 December 1906 – 6 February 1985) was an English writer. While his birth name was René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, he was well known by his various pseudonyms, including James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Raymond ...
.
Cast
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Mireille Darc
Mireille Darc (; 15 May 1938 – 28 August 2017) was a French model and actress. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film '' Weekend''. Darc was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the National Order of Me ...
as Erika Olsen / Christine
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Claudio Brook
Claudio Brook (born Claude Sydney Brook Marnat, 28 August 1927 – 18 October 1995) was a Mexican actor.
Life
Born in Mexico City, Brook had a prolific career, making around 100 film and television appearances in his 38 years as an actor. He ...
as Garland / Gandler
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Giorgia Moll
Giorgia Moll (born 14 January 1938) is an Italian film actress. She was sometimes credited as Georgia Moll and Georgia Mool.
Background
Moll was born in Prata di Pordenone to a German father and an Italian mother. At a young age, she began a br ...
as Jinny / Nurse Peggy
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Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-American actor of stage and screen, who was popular during the Hollywood's Golden Age. He appeared in 30 Broadway plays and more than 100 films duri ...
as Douglas
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Pascale Roberts
Pascale is a common Francophone given name, the feminine of the name Pascal. The same spelling is also an Italian form of the masculine name ''Pascal'', and an Italian surname derived from the given name.
Pascale derives from the Latin ''pasc ...
as Monica Davis
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Jean-Jacques Delbo
Jean-Jacques Delbo (10 January 1909 – 20 May 1996) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1936 to 1990.
Filmography
References
External links
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1909 births
1996 deaths
French male film actors
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as Olsen
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Valéry Inkijinoff
Valery Ivanovich Inkizhinov (russian: Валерий Иванович Инкижинов; 25 March 1895 – 26 September 1973), known as Valéry Inkijinoff, was a Russian actor, director and acting teacher. Born to a Buryat family in Irkutsk, h ...
as Fang O Kung
* as Jackson
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Tony Young as Yen Hay Sun
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Guido Celano
Guido Celano (19 April 1904 – 7 March 1988) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He appeared in 120 films between 1931 and 1988. He also directed two Spaghetti Westerns: '' Cold Killer'' and '' Gun Shy Piluk''. He was born ...
as De Luca
* Joe Warfield as Doctor
* as Bijoutier
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Françoise Brion
Françoise Brion (; born 29 January 1933) is a French film actress. She has appeared in 75 films since 1957. She starred in the 1963 film ''L'Immortelle'', which was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. She was married to Ja ...
as Erika Olsen #2
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Hellmut Lange
Hellmut Lange (19 January 1923 - 13 January 2011) was an actor and journalist who became famous as an action hero on TV and eventually succeeded as presenter on popular TV show ''Kennen Sie Kino?'' or ''Do You Know Film?''
Acting career
Hellmut ...
as Malik
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Werner Schwier
Werner Schwier (born 28 May 1921 in Stadthagen; died 3 May 1982 in Munich) was a German actor, voice actor, and television presenter.
Career
Werner Schwier made a name for himself in silent films on German television. On 14 May 1961 to September ...
as Smernoff
References
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1967 films
1967 adventure films
1960s crime films
1960s spy comedy films
French adventure films
French crime comedy films
French spy comedy films
Italian crime comedy films
West German films
Films directed by Nicolas Gessner
Films based on works by James Hadley Chase
Films based on British novels
Films about amnesia
Films scored by François de Roubaix
1960s French-language films
1960s French films
1960s Italian films
French-language German films
French-language Italian films
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