Lucky, the Inscrutable

1967 film

José Luis Martínez Mollá
Julio Buchs
Remigio Del Grosso
Jesús Franco

Produced byArtur Brauner
Luis Mendes
Jose Frade ^[1]Starring

Ray Danton
Dieter Eppler
Rosalba Neri

CinematographyFulvio TestiMusic byBruno Nicolai

Release dates

23 June 1967 (1967-06-23) (Italy)
1 September 1967 (1967-09-01) (West Germany)

LanguageItalian

Lucky, the Inscrutable (Italian: Agente speciale L.K.: Operazione Re Mida, Spanish: Lucky, el intrépido, German: Lucky M. füllt alle Särge) is a 1967 Spanish-Italian-German spy film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Ray Danton.^[2] It marked the first collaboration between Franco and the Italian composer Bruno Nicolai, who worked together many times in the following years. Franco said he and Nicolai were neighbors, which made working together convenient^[3] (Franco played not one, but three, small cameo roles in this film).

This film was Franco's first Spanish-Italian-German co-production, and was also his first film for German producer Artur Brauner. It was also Italian actress Rosalba Neri's first Franco film.^[3] Patty Shepard, 21 in this film, went on to become a famous cult star of Spanish horror cinema several years later. The film was not shown theatrically in the USA. The most complete print is the Italian print, running at 92 minutes.^[1]

Cast

Ray Danton as Lucky
Barbara Bold as Brunehilde
Dante Posani as Michele
Dieter Eppler as Hans
Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui as Gafas de Oro
María Luisa Ponte as Madame Linda
Rosalba Neri as Yaka
Beba Lončar as Beba
Teresa Gimpera as Cleopatra
Patty Shepard as telephonist
Jesús Franco 3 cameos (as Man on Train/ guitar player/ blind man)

References

^ ^a ^b Thrower, Stephen (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-907222-31-3.
^ Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto; Lancia, Enrico; Pecorari, Mario (1992). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Rome: Gremese Editore. ISBN 978-88-7605-593-5.
^ ^a ^b Giusti, Marco (2010). 007 all'italiana (in Italian). Milan: Isbn Edizioni. ISBN 978-88-7638-187-4.