Modesty Blaise is working as right-hand-woman for a casino owner in Tangiers, Morocco, being his eyes and ears at the tables, supervising staff, and working as a croupier if needed. When an armed gang ...

Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's bodyguard. When she's unable to prevent the ...

British comic strip character Modesty Blaise comes to life in this spy spoof, where she and her sidekick must stop a diamond heist by a mastermind thief.

The comely comic-strip goddess is drawn into adventures galore in this slick action yarn. Alexandra Staden plays the title character, a heroine who runs a casino. Modesty faces off against a ruthless ...

First, it’s important to get the name straight, as they do in Joseph Losey’s 1966 movie: it’s not “blezz” (as in “Blaise Pascal”), it’s “blaze” (as in beware). “Modesty Blaise” is based on a comic ...

Everybody raise the roof — Gal Gadot and “Wonder Woman” proved that a comic book blockbuster can feature a female superhero as its central character. Except that had already been proved in the late ...

Peter O’Donnell, the British writer who created Modesty Blaise, the sexy, resourceful action hero who was a distaff answer to James Bond, first as a comic strip character and later as the heroine of ...

She's glamorous, intelligent, rich and very, very cool. Modesty Blaise has been called the female James Bond but she's much more interesting than that. With her expertise in martial arts and unusual ...

Modesty Blaise was my secret self the year I was 15, the subject of ardent daydreams and the first female character I encountered who was truly in charge of something other than a hospital ward, or a ...

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