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The Blonde from Peking (1968)

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Original title
La Blonde de Pékin
Directed by
Nicolas Gessner
Genre
adventure film, crime film
Country
Germany, France, Italy
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
12
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 20 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A beautiful blonde woman becomes entangled in a web of espionage and crime. A secret agent tries to untangle a plot involving a missing man and a mysterious cache of money.

suspensefulfast-pacedglamorousintriguingstylishdarkly comictenseescapist

What happens

The Blonde from Peking (French: La Blonde de Pékin, Italian: La bionda di Pechino, German: Die Blonde von Peking, also known as Peking Blonde) is a 1967 French-Italian-German adventure film written and directed by Nicolas Gessner. It is loosely based on the 1966 novel You Have Yourself a Deal by James Hadley Chase. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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