Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution is a 1965 French New Wave tech noir film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Howard Vernon and Akim Tamiroff. The film won the Golden Bear award of the 15th Berlin International Film Festival in 1965.
Eddie Constantine was an American singer, actor and entertainer who spent most of his career in France. He became well-known to film audiences for his portrayal of secret agent Lemmy Caution and other, similar pulp heroes in French B-movies of the 1950s and 1960s.
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse-Cheyney was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is perhaps best known for his short stories and novels about agent/detective Lemmy Caution, which, starting in 1953, were adapted into a series of French movies, all starring Eddie Constantine. Another popular creation was the private detective Slim Callaghan who also appeared in a series of novels and subsequent film adaptations.
David Arugete, commonly known under his stage name Darío Moreno, was a Turkish-Jewish polyglot singer, an accomplished composer, lyricist, and guitarist. He attained fame and made a remarkable career centred in France which also included films, during the 1950s and the 1960s. He became famous with his 1961 song Brigitte Bardot.
Lemmy Caution is a fictional character created by British writer Peter Cheyney (1896–1951). Caution was first portrayed as a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, and in later stories as a private detective.
Nadia Gray was a Romanian film actress.
Jacques Castelot was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1938 and 1982. His brother was the writer André Castelot and their father was the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas. From 1940 to 1945 he was married to actress and theater director Héléna Bossis.
Ces dames s'en mêlent is a 1965 French-Italian international co-production spy film directed by Raoul André and starring Eddie Constantine in a sequel to Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent (1963).
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero is a French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Eddie Constantine in his signature role as detective Lemmy Caution. This is the second film in which Godard and Constantine collaborated with the Lemmy Caution character, although it is not officially a sequel to Alphaville. It was also the 15th and final time that Constantine would play his signature role in 40 years.
Bernard Borderie was a French film director and screenwriter. His father, Raymond Borderie, was one of the producers of Les Enfants du Paradis.
Dominique Wilms is a Belgian film actress.
La môme vert-de-gris, released in the USA as Poison Ivy, is a 1953 French crime film.
À toi de faire... mignonne, released in the US as Your Turn, Darling, is a French-Italian thriller film based on the 1941 novel Your Deal, My Lovely by Peter Cheyney. It came out ten years after La môme vert-de-gris which had been the first of film of this series.
This Man Is Dangerous is a 1953 French thriller film directed by Jean Sacha and starring Eddie Constantine, Colette Deréal and Grégoire Aslan. It is an adaptation of Peter Cheyney's 1936 novel This Man Is Dangerous. It followed the film La môme vert-de-gris which had been Eddie Constantine's debut as Lemmy Caution and it was also successful at the box office.
Lemmy pour les dames is a 1962 French eurospy film directed by Bernard Borderie.
This Man Is Dangerous is a 1936 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It is the first in his series of ten novels featuring the FBI agent Lemmy Caution. A bestseller, it enabled Cheyney to leave his job as a policeman and become a full-time novelist.
I'll Say She Does is a 1945 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It is the tenth in his series of novels featuring the FBI agent Lemmy Caution. Later editions of the book are generally titled I'll Say She Does!
Your Deal, My Lovely is a 1941 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It is the seventh in his series of novels featuring the FBI agent Lemmy Caution. Much of the action takes place in wartime London. Caution is called in to investigate the disappearance of a prominent scientist.
Women Are Like That is a 1960 French spy thriller film directed by Bernard Borderie and starring Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion and Alfred Adam. It is based on the 1945 novel I'll Say She Does by the British writer Peter Cheyney featuring hardboiled FBI agent Lemmy Caution. It was part of a series of films featuring Constantine as Caution, inspired by the books by Cheyney who had a large French following.
Folies-Bergère is a 1957 French musical comedy film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Eddie Constantine, Zizi Jeanmaire and Nadia Gray. It was shot in Technicolor with location shooting at the Folies-Bergère. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
