• Trending
    • Certified Fresh & Verified Hot
    • TV Premier dates
    • New horror Movies
    • Best Movies of All Time
  • Movies
    • Movies In Theaters
    • Movies at Home
  • TV Shows
    • New TV
    • Most Popular TV
  • News
    • What to Watch
    • Guides
    • RT News
    • Awards
  • Games
    • Find Your Next Horror Watch
  • Video
  • Showtimes
  • Fanstore
  • About Rotten Tomatoes
  • Critics
  • Download the App Now
  • Logout
Rotten Tomatoes
Suggestions will appear as you start typing. Submit search Movies Tv shows RT App New News Showtimes

Modesty Blaise

Play trailer Poster for Modesty Blaise 1966,  1h 59m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 50% 10 Reviews Tomatometer 34% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
50% Tomatometer 10 Reviews 34% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
A beautiful former criminal named Modesty (Monica Vitti) decides to go straight and so begins working for the Secret Service, which sends her to infiltrate a ring of jewel thieves. But soon after she joins the gang, dangerous head crook Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde) grows suspicious of his new recruit, and Modesty realizes that British Intelligence gave her a mission she wasn't meant to survive. She then enlists her former partner in crime, Willie (Terence Stamp), to help her outwit both sides.

Critics Reviews

View More
Richard Brody The New Yorker Jan 16, 2017
Losey captures with comedy the same chill of modernity beneath the Mediterranean sun that Antonioni captures with melodrama. Go to Full Review
Variety Mar 26, 2009
Not merely a spy spoof, based on a book and a comic strip about a femme James Bond type, the colorful production gives the horse laugh to many different film plots and styles. Go to Full Review
Derek Adams Time Out Feb 9, 2006
under the non-stop stream of jokes lies a bitter edge of malice, directed not only against the genre itself but against a society which trusts its politicians and its generals. Go to Full Review
David Ehrenstein The Advocate Jul 27, 2021
The whole film -- redolent with pop-and op-art imagery -- suggests nothing less than an Arthur Freed musical on acid. Go to Full Review
Philip Kemp Total Film Oct 18, 2011
1/5
Joseph Losey didn't really do frivolous. Which is probably why his attempt at spoofy pseudo-Bondery is so direly unfunny. Go to Full Review
Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS) Jul 29, 2005
1/5
Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View More
Hermione L Oct 25, 2018 American critics don't know the swinging 60's scene and don't understand the humour, Absolutely superb. It is a camp piss take of the trendy and cliche ridden. This review will never be seen but who cares, it is a good film. See more
Read all reviews
Modesty Blaise

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING

Cast & Crew

View All

Joseph Losey

Director

Monica Vitti

Modesty Blaise

Terence Stamp

Willie Garvin

Dirk Bogarde

Gabriel

Harry Andrews

Sir Gerald Tarrant

Michael Craig

Paul Hagan

More Like This

View All
The Long Ships 54% 39% The Long Ships Watchlist The Vikings 78% 72% The Vikings Watchlist Wichita 100% 65% Wichita Watchlist Reap the Wild Wind 80% 57% Reap the Wild Wind Watchlist Hooper 57% 61% Hooper Watchlist Discover more movies and TV shows. View More
View All

Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise (1966) Modesty Blaise (1966) Modesty Blaise (1966) View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis A beautiful former criminal named Modesty (Monica Vitti) decides to go straight and so begins working for the Secret Service, which sends her to infiltrate a ring of jewel thieves. But soon after she joins the gang, dangerous head crook Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde) grows suspicious of his new recruit, and Modesty realizes that British Intelligence gave her a mission she wasn't meant to survive. She then enlists her former partner in crime, Willie (Terence Stamp), to help her outwit both sides.
Director
Joseph Losey
Producer
Joseph Janni
Screenwriter
Evan Jones, Peter O'Donnell, Harold Pinter
Production Co
Modesty Blaise Ltd., Twentieth Century-Fox Productions
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Aug 23, 2016
Runtime
1h 59m
Join The Newsletter Join The Newsletter Cookie Settings