Une ravissante idiote

1964 French film

March 13, 1964 (1964-03-13) (France)

Running time

105 minCountriesFrance
ItalyLanguageFrenchBox office2,186,603 admissions (France)^[1]

Une ravissante idiote (transl. The Ravishing Idiot) is a 1964 French-Italian Cold War comedy film directed by Édouard Molinaro. François Billetdoux and André Tabet wrote a screenplay based on Charles Exbrayat 1962 novel of the same name. Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins star as the protagonists in the Franco-Italian production.

The film was also released as Agent 38-24-36 in the United States.

Plot

A Soviet spy (Perkins) is on an official mission to obtain sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. The klutzy intelligence operative has to rely on the instinct of his new partner and love-interest Penelope Lightfeather (Bardot) as they traipse across the countryside, avoiding counterintelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.^[2]

Cast

Brigitte Bardot as Penelope Lightfeather
Anthony Perkins as Harry Compton / Nicholas Maukouline
Grégoire Aslan as Bagda
Jean-Marc Tennberg as Cartwright
Hans Verner as Farington
Jacques Monod as Surgeon

Production

The film was shot in London^[2] and the French countryside. Production was affected for three days after Perkins suffered a sprained ankle while filming chase scenes through the woods with Bardot.^[3]

As he was fluent in French, this is one of several French-language roles that Perkins took on.^[4]

Bibliography

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

References

^ Box office information for film at Box Office Story
^ ^a ^b Singer, Barnett (2006). Brigitte Bardot: A Biography. McFarland.
^ TIME. Volume 82, part 2. 1964. p. 164.
^ Winecoff, Charles (2006). Anthony Perkins: Split Image. Advocate Books.

External links

Une ravissante idiot at IMDb

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Films directed by Édouard Molinaro

Back to the Wall (1958)
The Road to Shame (1959)
Witness in the City (1959)
A Mistress for the Summer (1960)
The Passion of Slow Fire (1961)
A Touch of Treason (1962)
The Seven Deadly Sins (segment) (1962)
Arsene Lupin vs. Arsene Lupin (1962)
Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
Male Hunt (1964)
When the Peasants Pass (1965)
To Commit a Murder (1967)
Oscar (1967)
Hibernatus (1969)
My Uncle Benjamin (1969)
La liberté en croupe (1970)
The Most Gentle Confessions (1971)
Sweet Deception (1972)
The Hostage Gang (1973)
A Pain in the Ass (1973)
The Irony of Chance (1974)
The Pink Telephone (1975)
Dracula and Son (1976)
The Hurried Man (1977)
La Cage aux Folles (1978)
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses! (1979)
Sunday Lovers (segment) (1980)
La Cage aux Folles II (1980)
For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now (1982)
Just the Way You Are (1984)
Palace (1985)
Love on the Quiet (1985)
Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator (1988)
The Supper (1992)
Beaumarchais (1996)

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