Aka - Les femmes s'en balancent
Aka - Dames Get Along
Aka - The Women Couldn't Care Less
FBI agent Lemmy Caution is back in Europe to track down some counterfeiters
of US dollars. This is the fourth in the series of nine if you include Alphaville.
Tough as ever, he enjoys some roughhousing almost as much as his drinks and
women. Maybe more. He is played of course by Eddie Constantine (all but the
first film, Full House) who came to France by way of Los Angeles and was
picked by producer/director Bernard Borderie because "He looked like a gangster".
Constantine became a star in France - they had a way of adopting certain
American actors - and went on to many roles but it is as Lemmy Caution that
he is best remembered - that and being the lover of Edith Piaf. On YouTube
there is a collection of his singing in French - some with Piaf. Not bad
at all.
He introduces himself by showing up drunk at a nightclub and being an ugly
American. All for show as he is making contact with another FBI agent - who
ends up dead in the freezer before the night is over. Pretending he is an
ugly American comes easy and the French assume that of us anyways. His suspicions
fall on Henetta (Nadia Gray) who tried passing a few thousand dollar bills.
She says her husband gave them to her. But that is hard to prove since he
is dead, taking a car off a bridge can do that. Called a suicide.
Another lead takes Lemmy to Paulette who is played by Belgian actress
Dominique Wilms who is like the swivel stick in a fashionable cocktail. When
Lemmy first sees her from behind, his tongue does a somersault. It turns
into a complicated case with both women under suspicion for murder and for
illegal curves. But he bulldozes his way through the case beating up people
every few minutes. He has an uppercut that you can see coming from Milwaukee.
Like a softball pitch. Shot in black and white and 109-minutes.
