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Modesty Blaise (1966) More at IMDbPro »

• Peter O'Donnell complains that of his original screenplay, only one line remains: "What do you know about Wilberforce?"
  
  
• When Willie Garvin is introduced, there is a close-up of a painting of the comic strip version of Modesty Blaise.
  
  
• At one point Modesty Blaise is shown looking at copies of the real-life Modesty Blaise comic strip, which originally appeared in the London Evening Standard.
  
  
• Peter O'Donnell was invited to write a novelization of this film. The book, based upon O'Donnell's original screenplay rather than this film, was a huge success and spawned a series of best-selling novels that O'Donnell wrote until 1996.
  
  
• Clive Revill was fourth choice and the part was not cast until shooting had begun.
  
  
• The theme tune is performed by an uncredited David & Jonathan.
  
  
• When the shorter red haired assassin puts out a cigarette in an ashtray, the "Dutch" logo on the ashtray spells: Fokking.
  
  
• When Modesty rings the doorbell an an apartment building, the second name down on the address sign next to the door bell says in mock "Dutch": Van Dijk.
  
  

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