KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM
DIE-1966-Mike Connors is Kelly, an international James Bond like CIA
agent in this tongue in cheek spy drama with comedy overtones, a co-production between Columbia Pictures and Dino De Laurentiis..
Kelly is in Brazil tailing a rich industrialist named Ardonian (Raf Vallone)
and his connection with some missing women. Ardonian is in league
with Red China in a plot to sterilize the US but in actuality he
wants to sterilize the whole world except for himself! The missing
women are kept in suspended animation until he needs them. Dorothy
Provine (THE 30 FOOT BRIDE OF CANDY ROCK) is Susan Fleming,
Ardonian's bimbo girlfriend who wears some really weird outfits and
has a Rolls Royce with Aston Martin like features. Terry Thomas is
her chauffeur who beats up 5 guys. Later, after it's revealed she is
with British Intelligence, she and Kelly team up. They wind up in an
underground lab where Provine ends up on a rocket. There's some dumb
humor (including a slip on a banana peel) but the real highlight of
this movie is Ardonian's massive desk and multi-screen TV monitoring
system in a couple of scenes. There's great shots of Rio though.
Beverly Adams (HOW TO STUFF A WILD BIKINI, TORTURE GARDEN) is one of
the victims. Connors would star in the long running TV series MANNIX
the next year. Co-director Henry Levin made a similar secret agent
satire the same year, MURDERER'S ROW with Dean Martin as Matt Helm (which according to Mike Connors he almost played).
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