Movies: The 007 Girls

Here come the Jane Bonds. Any student of movie mentality could have predicted the reasoning. There was James, devastatingly male, totally urbane, and knocking enemies and audiences dead. So why not his girl counterpart, devastatingly female, totally urbane, etc.

There are three conspicuous ones, and an uncounted number of minor imitations. Most unlikely is Italy's Monica Vitti, an intellectual type seen as a brooding nymph in The Red Desert. In a new British production, Vitti is Modesty Blaise of London comic-strip fame. Modesty has retired at 26 from the international smuggling racket...

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