For the record: “My Name Is Modesty” is the third filmed adaptation of O’Donnell’s books and comics, following the 1966 Joseph Losey-directed “Modesty Blaise” and an unsold 1982 ABC pilot.

Modesty Blaise was merely a cartoon character turned into a bit of pulp fiction, but in the midst of my unhappy adolescence, she changed the way I thought about myself and my future.

She's glamorous, intelligent, rich and very, very cool. Modesty Blaise has been called the female James Bond but she's much more interesting than that. With her expertise in martial arts and ...

Resourceful young croupier Modesty Blaise (Alexandra Staden) goes head to head with a ruthless rogue out to rob the casino, but at the cost of recounting her troubling life story. Show more ...

The newspaper comic strip has never lost its popularity and Modesty Blaise, created by Peter O'Donnell, was one of the most famous and long running of its kind.Together with her sidekick, the faithful ...

“Modesty Blaise” is something of a 007 takeoff, but what Joseph Losey does with it outleaps the spoof with his surprising ambitions.

She made two English-language films, including a spy spoof, Modesty Blaise, with Terence Stamp and Dirk Bogarde in 1966. Born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in Rome in 1931, Vitti starred in a series of ...

The Modesty Blaise comic, published yesterday, shows a characters discussing an Indigenous tracker who is trying to find them.. One character says they are being chased by “four men, all armed ...