This is for Kate. I hope it cheers you up! I also hope you do not already have this picture. I looked over Silents and Talkies and could not find it. I have to apologise that in the picture Sir Dirk Bogarde is with Sylva Koscina, but I am sure he would rather be with you!
For those of you unfamiliar with the movie Hot Enough for June, it was a product of the spy craze that swept both the UK and the US is the early to mid Sixties. The movie featured Sir Dirk Bogarde as Nicholas Whistler, an unwitting writer who finds he is working for MI6. The movie was released on 10 March, 1964 (my birthday!) in the United Kingdom. It was retitled Agent 8 3/4 for its American release (why I don’t know—I rather like the original title myself) on 13 October, 1964. Not only is it one of the earliest spy spoofs (pre-dating both of the Flint films with James Coburn), but one of the best as well. Unlike many of the Sixties spy spoofs, it not only sends up James Bond, but Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thrillers as well!
Thank you so much!!! I actually don’t have this picture! (And this is quite something, considering I’ve spent countless hours scouring the internet for images of him!)
Every time I think about this movie, I almost get giddy — it was probably the most FUN I’ve had watching a movie in a long time!
ps. He might be holding Sylvia, but from the looks of it, he’s staring right at me!! ;-)
