Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
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| Directed by | Henry Levin |
| Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis |
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Jack Pulman Dino Maiuri |
| Story by | Dino Maiuri |
| Starring |
Michael Connors Dorothy Provine Raf Vallone Margaret Lee Nicoletta Machiavelli Beverly Adams Terry-Thomas |
| Music by | Mario Nascimbene |
| Cinematography | Aldo Tonti |
| Edited by | Ralph Kemplen |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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106 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | English |
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (Italian title: Se tutte le donne del mondo) is a James Bond spoof film released in 1966 as an Italian-American co-production between Dino De Laurentiis' Cinematografica and Columbia Pictures. Directed by Henry Levin, with stars Michael Connors, Dorothy Provine and, as the villain, Raf Vallone, it was originally filmed from January to March 1966 under the title Operation Paradise and distributed in some parts of the English-speaking world as If All the Women in the World.
A Brazilian industrialist (Raf Vallone) plans to sterilize the human race through the use of his satellite and to personally repopulate the planet with beautiful women he has kidnapped and is holding in suspended animation. A down-to-earth CIA agent (Michael Connors), an aristocratic female MI-6 agent (Dorothy Provine), and her chauffeur (Terry-Thomas), driving a Rolls-Royce car filled with spy gadgets, team up to stop the madman.
An example of the mod Eurospy form, then at the height of its popularity, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die reflected that genre's formula of exaggerated semi-comic action filmed in colorful locales around the world (Rio de Janeiro in this case), frequently using average-reputation American directors (Henry Levin subsequently directed two Matt Helm films) and American leads best known for starring in television shows and appearing in occasional films. As far as the casting for this production was concerned, Michael Connors had earlier been the star of a 1959–60 crime series, Tightrope! and, the following year, after streamlining his stage name to "Mike Connors", starred as the long-running private eye, Mannix (1967–75), while Dorothy Provine was one of the stars in The Alaskans (1959–60) and The Roaring 20's (1960–62). Two years earlier, Provine and Connors played key supporting roles as second leads in the 1964 Jack Lemmon-Romy Schneider comedy vehicle Good Neighbor Sam. All the other Kiss the Girls cast members were primarily recognizable as regular players in European films, including co-stars Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee and comedy relief Terry-Thomas, who was given a special "and" billing at the end of the actors' credits.
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