Kiss Kiss - Bang Bang (1966)
"Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang" (original title)

Kirk Warren, a former spy, is to be executed because he tried to steal a million dollars. But he is saved by Colonel Smithson because Sir Wilcox has prepared a mission for him. Warren has ... See full summary »

Director:

Duccio Tessari

Writers:

Alfonso Balcázar (screenplay), Bruno Corbucci (screenplay),

Stars:

Giuliano Gemma, George Martin, Lorella De Luca

Cast

Cast overview:
Giuliano Gemma	...	Kirk Warren
George Martin	...	Chico Pérez
Lorella De Luca	...	Frida Kadar
Nieves Navarro	...	Alina Shakespeare
Daniele Vargas	...	Tol Lim
Cesarina Riccarda Guazzelli	...	Zia di Frida
Antonio Casas	...	Prof. Padereski
George Rigaud	...	Sir Sebastian Wilcox
Manuel Muñiz	...	Dupont (as Pajarito)
Carlo Gentili	...	(as Carlo Gentili Del Carrasco)
Amparo Díaz
Franco Morici
Nazzareno Zamperla	...	(as Nick Anderson)
Juan Torres

Storyline

Kirk Warren, a former spy, is to be executed because he tried to steal a million dollars. But he is saved by Colonel Smithson because Sir Wilcox has prepared a mission for him. Warren has to steal a secret formula in Switzerland and try to expose the real identity of Mr. X. Kirk leaves London and Alina, his girl, together with three clumsy friends to accomplish his not so secret mission. But Kirk's great love is always a million dollars and not a secret formula.

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Plot Keywords:

spy | james bond spoof | spying | repetition in title

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Genres:

Adventure

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Details

Country:

Italy Spain

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

16 May 1966 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Kiss Kiss - Bang Bang

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 6,649,985 (Spain)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Balcázar Producciones Cinematográficas, Mediterranee P.C., Méditerranée Cinéma

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The critic Pauline Kael named her second book after this film. She called the title "perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies".

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Crazy Credits

Socrates, the smartest bird brain in the business! (a parrot)

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Connections

Edited into Operation: Secret Agents, Spies & Thighs (2007)

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Soundtracks

"Love Love ... Bang Bang"
By Cassia and Bruno Nicolai
Performed by Nancy Cuomo

User Reviews

A Disneyland attraction...

Duccio Tessari's "Kiss kiss, bang bang", one of the funniest Italian parody of the late '60s(Tessari and Corbucci will be linked to this genre forever..),is a sort of spy-movie in which Giuliano Gemma(or Montgomery Wood?;))plays the role of an intellectual (and extremely simple..)version of Connery's James Bond ("thunderball" was made in 1965). The movie reminds me a Disneyland attraction:the "world" the director (and the writers:Tessari/Corbucci/Di Leo)offer us is mad,senseless,confused,but it seems to be based on a series of strong, basic rules that give it coherence and truth. That's why it seems to anticipate,of about 30 years,the best Wes Anderson's inventions and collaborate to the birth of the so-called post-modern cinema.