Lemmy Caution - Ladies Man

                  
                
Director:  Bernard Borderie
Year:  1962
Rating: 5.5

Country: France

Eddie Constantine is back again as the FBI agent Lemmy Caution. For an FBI agent he spends a lot of time in France. This time he is on vacation but trouble follows Caution like a hungry dog who smells food in his pockets. For some reason Caution is now a celebrity with people chasing him down the streets for his autograph - he enjoys it but admits that for a secret agent it isn't the best thing to have happened. He notices that one woman in particular has been following him. She ( Yvonne Monlaur - Brides of Dracula and Terror of the Tongs) needs his help but as is usually the case with Lemmie, she is killed before she can tell him why.



Lemmy investigates with his fists and strong glasses of whiskey as he avoids being killed or seduced by three women - all friends of the victim - but one is likely to have killed her as well. It is actually a decent enough plot that gets more complex as we go along and the women are lovely but Lemmy's perpetual wide grin in the face of danger is a bit much at times and clues you in that this is not to be taken seriously. He keeps throwing his gun down in a fight because he would rather punch someone in the face. Unfortunately, the version I saw was a badly dubbed, badly synched poor transfer and that was fairly distracting. These dvds were put out by some not quite legitimate budget operation. Seeing these in the original French with a nice clean black and white video would make a difference for sure.