1966. Unlike her male counterparts in other spy thrillers of the time such as James Bond, Modesty Blaise is an operator whose hair style (and colour) and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers. She always looks stylish in the movie, both when wearing classic clothes as here and more way-out costumes such as a yellow shantung coat with a matching horn-speaker-shaped rigid hood that opens up like a flower. Beatrice Dawson is the costume designer.
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