Your Turn, Darling

Your Turn, Darling
Your Turn, Darling
Directed by	Bernard Borderie
Written by	Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon Screenplay; Bernard Borderie Screenplay
Based on	Your Deal, My Lovely by Peter Cheyney
Produced by	Henri Jaquillard
Starring	Eddie Constantine ; Gaia Germani ; Guy Delorme
Cinematography	Henri Persin
Edited by	Christian Gaudin
Music by	Paul Misraki
Production; company	Borderie/Euro International
Distributed by	Pathé Consortium Cinéma (France) ; Euro International Film (Italy) ; Constantin Film (W.Germany)
Release date	25 September 1963;
Running time	93 minutes
Countries	France ; Italy
Language	French

À toi de faire... mignonne (Italian: L'agente federale Lemmy Caution), released in the US as Your Turn, Darling,^[3] is a French-Italian thriller film based on the 1941 novel Your Deal, My Lovely by Peter Cheyney.^[4] It came out ten years after La môme vert-de-gris which had been the first of film of this series.

It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert.

For the last time Bernard Borderie directed the popular actor Eddie Constantine in a Lemmy Caution adventure.

Guy Delorme, who in 1961 had been the Comte de Rochefort in Borderie's classic film version of The Three Musketeers, 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. 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 fiancée Geraldine. Caution finds the scientist, beats up the villains while outnumbered, puts everything right and ends up with the female "love interest."

Cast

Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution
Gaia Germani as Geraldine
Guy Delorme as Dr. Whitaker
Christiane Minazzoli as Carlotta
Philippe Lemaire as Pranzetti
Noël Roquevert as Walker, Caution's superior
Elga Andersen as Montana
Henri Cogan as Pierrot
Hubert Deschamps as Henri Grant
Robert Berri 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 moments ("silly") during the final showdown in a dairy.^[5]

Bibliography

Blake, Matt; Deal, David (2004). The Eurospy Guide. Baltimore: Luminary Press. ISBN 1-887664-52-1.

References

^ "Screenplay by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon & Bernard Borderie". Retrieved 2011-09-18.
^ "Produktionsfirma: Borderie/Euro International". Retrieved 2011-09-18.
^ "Your Turn Darling sure is one boozy adventure for Lemmy Caution". Retrieved 2012-07-13.
^ "Your Turn, Darling". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-05-13.
^ Blake, Deal, p.266f

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[1] "Screenplay by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon & Bernard Borderie". Retrieved 2011-09-18.

[2] "Produktionsfirma: Borderie/Euro International". Retrieved 2011-09-18.

[3] "Your Turn Darling sure is one boozy adventure for Lemmy Caution". Retrieved 2012-07-13.

[4] "Your Turn, Darling". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-05-13.

[5] Blake, Deal, p.266f

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