(A 008: Operazione Sterminio)
Written and directed by Umberto Lenzi, Italy, 1965
Ingrid Schoeller (German actress) as MacDonald, American Agent 008
Alberto Lupo as Frank Smith, British Secret Service Agent 606
"The British Secret Service sends agent 606 to Cairo to collaborate with
an American colleague in searching for a stolen anti-radar device.
Arriving in Egypt, he finds that agent A008 is actually an attractive
female...Ingrid
Schoeller plays what is quite possibly the first attempt of
international cinema to create a female James Bond-type character: she
is beautiful, curvaceous, sweet, intelligent, armed with gadgets, expert
with a gun, and can handle herself in a fight without needing a man to
rescue her (as she proves in a daring escape from an enemy-riddled
beauty saloon)." (IMBd).
Bonus
Black Tigress (Lola Colt)
Co-written and directed by Siro Marcellini, 1967
(A bit cheesy but rare to find a heroine among Spaghetti Westerns)
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