''À toi de faire... mignonne'' ( it, L'agente federale Lemmy Caution), released in the US as ''Your Turn, Darling'', is a French-Italian
thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...
based on the 1941 novel ''
Your Deal, My Lovely
''Your Deal, My Lovely'' is a 1941 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It is the seventh in his series of novels featuring the FBI agent Lemmy Caution. Much of the action takes place in wartime London. Caution is called in to inv ...
'' by
Peter Cheyney
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse-Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951) was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is perhaps best known for his short stories and novels about agent/detective Lemmy Ca ...
. It came out ten years after ''
La môme vert-de-gris
''La môme vert-de-gris'' ( French for "The Greyish-Green Dame"), released in the USA as ''Poison Ivy'', is a 1953 French crime film.
It was French director Bernard Borderie's first film, as well as American-born French actor Eddie Constantine's ...
'' which had been the first of film of this series.
It was shot at the
Billancourt Studios
Billancourt Studios was a film studio in Paris which operated between 1922 and 1992. Located in Boulogne-Billancourt, it was one of the leading French studios. It was founded in the silent era by Henri Diamant-Berger. During the Second World War ...
in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
and
on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
René Moulaert
René Moulaert (1901–1965) was a Belgian art director who worked on designing stage and film sets.Thys p.316
Selected filmography
* '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (1932)
* '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943)
* '' Night Shift'' (1944)
* ...
.
For the last time
Bernard Borderie Bernard Borderie (10 June 1924 in Paris – 28 May 1978 in Paris) was a French film director and screenwriter. His father, Raymond Borderie, was one of the producers of ''Children of Paradise, Les Enfants du Paradis'' (''Children of Paradise'', 1945 ...
directed the popular actor
Eddie Constantine
Eddie Constantine (born Edward Israël Constantinowsky; October 29, 1917 – February 25, 1993) was an American singer, actor and entertainer who spent most of his career in France. He became well-known to film audiences for his portrayal of se ...
in a
Lemmy Caution
Lemmy Caution is a fictional character created by British writer Peter Cheyney (1896–1951). Caution was first portrayed as a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, and in later stories as a private detective. Cheyney's first book with the ...
adventure.
Guy Delorme, who in 1961 had been the
Comte de Rochefort
The Comte de Rochefort is a secondary fictional character in Alexandre Dumas' ''d'Artagnan Romances''. He is described as approximately 40 to 45 years old in 1625 and "fair with a scar across his cheek".
In ''The Three Musketeers''
Known throug ...
in Borderie's classic film version of ''
The Three Musketeers
''The Three Musketeers'' (french: Les Trois Mousquetaires, links=no, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight f ...
'', acts another time as a scheming bad guy.
Synopsis
Dr. Whitaker has disappeared after working hard on an innovation which could give either the West or the East an edge in the
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...
. Lemmy Caution, although currently otherwise busy, is assigned to return the scientist.
He is advised to start searching for him by finding in the first place Dr. Whitaker's attractive young fiancée Geraldine.
Of course, Lemmy Caution finds the scientist, beats up the villains even while actually being hopelessly outnumbered, puts everything right and gets the girl.
Cast
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Eddie Constantine
Eddie Constantine (born Edward Israël Constantinowsky; October 29, 1917 – February 25, 1993) was an American singer, actor and entertainer who spent most of his career in France. He became well-known to film audiences for his portrayal of se ...
as
Lemmy Caution
Lemmy Caution is a fictional character created by British writer Peter Cheyney (1896–1951). Caution was first portrayed as a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, and in later stories as a private detective. Cheyney's first book with the ...
*
Gaia Germani
Gaia Germani (30 August 1934 - 20 February 2019) was an Italian film and television actress.
Biography
Born in Rome as Giovanna Giardina, she made her film debut in a French film, Georges Lautner's '' En plein cirage'' and later starred both in ...
as Geraldine
*
Guy Delorme
Guy Delorme (23 May 1929 – 26 December 2005) was a French actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1951 to 1984.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1929 births
2005 deaths
French male film actors
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as Dr. Whitaker
*
Christiane Minazzoli
Christiane Judith Yvette Minazzoli (11 July 1931 - 2 November 2014) was a French people, French actress. She appeared in more than seventy films from 1949 to 1997.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1931 births
2014 ...
as Carlotta
*
Philippe Lemaire
Philippe Lemaire (14 March 1927 – 15 March 2004) was a French actor. He appeared in more than ninety films between 1946 and 2004.
Lemaire was married three times; Nicole Pinton (1949–1951) (divorced); Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco (; ...
as Pranzetti
*
Noël Roquevert
Noël Roquevert (born Noël Louis Raymond Bénévent; 18 December 1892 – 6 November 1973) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1932 and 1972. Roquevert was born in Doué-la-Fontaine and was married ...
as Walker, Caution's superior
*
Elga Andersen
Elga Andersen (née Helga Hymen or Hymmen) (2 February 1935 – 7 December 1994) was a German actress and singer. She starred in more than one dozen French films in the 1950s and 1960s and also debuted as a recording artist in the 1950s. She per ...
as Montana
*
Henri Cogan Henri Cogan (13 September 1914 in Paris – 23 September 2003 in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French actor and stuntman.
Biography
Before Henri Cogan became a fight choreographer for European action films he proved his expertise in hand-to-hand comb ...
as Pierrot
*
Hubert Deschamps
Hubert Deschamps (13 September 1923 – 29 December 1998) was a French actor.
He was the son of the museum curator Paul Deschamps (1888–1974) and uncle of the French stage director Jérôme Deschamps.
Selected filmography
* ''The Stroll ...
as Henri Grant
*
Robert Berri
Robert Berri (16 December 1912 – 22 November 1989) was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1937 and 1979.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1912 births
1989 deaths
French male film actors
Male ...
as Kriss
* Colin Drakeas Colonel Willis
Reception
David Deal judges in "The Eurospy Guide" the film was "not an outright spoof", yet he objects director Bernard Borderie sporting
slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such a ...
moments ("silly") during the final showdown in a
dairy
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.
[Blake, Deal, p.266f]
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Films directed by Bernard Borderie
Films based on British novels
1960s French-language films
French thriller films
Italian thriller films
1960s thriller films
Films shot at Billancourt Studios
Pathé films
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