Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (Columbia Pictures) (1966)

Michael Connors Michael Connors, starring as a CIA man in Dino de Laurentiis’ spy thriller, “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die,” at the ..... Theatre in Technicolor, is certain that it is more difficult to be a make-believe secret agent than to be the real thing. Co-starring with Connors in the Columbia Pictures release are Dorothy Provine and Terry-Thomas as British secret agents, Raf Vallone as the man who menaces the world, and Margaret Lee, Nicoletta Machiavelli and Beverly Adams as girls Vallone romances. Mike, a former basketball star at U.C. L. A., is thankful for his athletic background, for the physical demands made on him in “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die” were extremely strenuous. During one day’s shooting, for example, Connors ran the equivalent of five miles through almost impenetrable Brazilian jungle. It was a chase sequence that had to be filmed from all angles, over and over again in the soggy temperatures. In another chase sequence filmed inside the famed statue of Christ on the Corcovado, some 3,000 feet above Rio de Janeiro, Connors had to race up iron ladders for some 90 feet, a dozen or more times before director Henry Levin was satisfied. Then just to top this one, the actor was required to climb outside and onto the top of the head of the statue, with the wind whipping him off balance and a sheer drop of 3,000 to the bottom Dorothy Provine Judging by Dorothy Provine, the day of the beautiful, but dumb, movie blonde may be a thing of the past. Miss Provine not only is as beautiful as they come, she is brainy as well. The attractive blonde is a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington, one of the few girls in show business to boast this high scholastic honor. Currently, Miss Provine stars as a British secret agent in Dino de Laurentiis’ “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die,” the Columbia Pictures release at the Theatre in Technicolor. Also starred in the suspense thriller are Michael Connors, Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Beverly Adams and Terry-Thomas. Miss Provine arrived in Hollywood with a solid background of dramatic training. From kindergarten days on, Dorothy has studied voice and dancing. She studied dramatics in high school, and while still a teenager, conducted a quiz show on a Seattle TV station. With a young partner, she starred in and helped to write, stage and direct a revue during her high school career. In college, she enrolled in every drama class available and appeared in nearly all the university plays produced during her student career. Despite the burden of college work, which included maintaining a high scholastic average, she was a cheer leader for three years and held offices in both Arena, the national drama fraternity, and in Gadgets Galore! Dorothy Provine, playing a British secret agent in Rio de Janeiro, and her American counterpart, Michael Connors, need all the help they can get when they tangle with one of the world’s greatest villains in “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die,” Dino de Laurentiis’ comedy thriller at the ...... Theatre in color by Technicolor, Apart from such “normal” assistance as judo, karate, guns and knives, Dorothy has a cigarette holder that shoots slivers of razor-sharp steel, a ring with a poison-tipped needle, and a soap-bubble pipe which blows bubbles filled with lethal gas. Page 8 (Mat IA; Still No. 90) Michael Connors plays an American agent in Brazil, in the new Dino de Laurentiis’ suspense comedy, "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die." Also starred in the film are Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone and Terry-Thomas. Henry Levin directed the Columbia Pictures release in color by Technicolor. of the mountain, if he missed his footing. In another phase of the statue chase sequence, director Levin dreamed up a thriller in which Connors had to stage a fight with Oliver McGreevy on the statue’s parapet, a ledge only a few feet wide, with the same awesome 3,000 foot drop waiting for one misstep. No double was used. (Mat IB; Still No. 78) Dorothy Provine stars with Michael Connors, Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Beverly Adams and Terry-Thomas_ in Dino de Laurentiis’ new comedy thriller, "Kiss the Girls and Make them Die."' Henry Levin directed the Columbia Pictures release in color by Technicolor. Alpha Gamma Delta. During summer _ vacations, Dorothy appeared with various stock companies and was featured in dramatic shows on TV. After her graduation from the University of Washington, she appeared in two films, starred in the television series, “The Roaring ’20’s” and in the Jack Lemmon comedy, “Good Neighbor Sam.” She also has a truly fabulous Rolls Royce, all tricked-up, and Terry-Thomas as a chauffeur whose uniform cap, when it is squeezed, spurts a blinding fluid from its visor. Connors is “armed” with a flashlight that also shoots bullets, knives in the toes of his shoes, and a knife blade hidden in the buckle of his belt. And, in spite of the weapons against him, Raf Vallone, their co-star in the Columbia Pictures release, almost succeeds in ruling the world . . . he has, to help him, an underground space laboratory, a rocket satellite whose ultrasonic waves can render mankind sterile, and sundry other items—including a process of “hibernating” lovely young: women for the future. Review There’s all-out entertainment indeed at the Theatre where the aptly-titled “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die” opened yesterday. The seriocomic thriller, a Dino de Laurentiis production for Columbia Pictures release in Technicolor, is one of the most ingenious of the secret agent cycle, a never-flagging delight. Neatly balancing its suspense, thrills, romance and laughter, “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die” tells a fabulous fun-story with brilliant effect. Starred are Michael Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Beverly Adams and TerryThomas. Connors is an American agent in Rio de Janeiro, unaware that Miss Provine and TerryThomas, her gap-toothed chauffeur, are his British opposite numbers also determined to find out what industrialist Vallone is up to. Vallone is up to plenty. First, he is suspected of killing off some of his girl friends in various strange circumstances. Then, he is found to be a “collector” of other beautiful girls who have disappeared from sight. In time, when the American and British team up, they find their target also operates an underground space laboratory, which has a process for “hibernating” the lost lovelies, so that they may be revived in future when Vallone achieves mastery of the world. The gadgets and gimmickry of “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die” are only slightly indicated in this brief resume of the film; let it just be said that there seems to be more wonderfully different weapons in the arsenals of both the secret agents and their enemies than has appeared in any three of its predecessors. Let it also be said that the stars of “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die” are delightful in their performances, combining sheer comedy with enthusiastic combat, and breathless romance with breathtaking suspense. Henry Levin directed the film. General Advance “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die,” a comedy thriller at Re as kaa ee Theatre in Technieolor*starting |). oc. oc: » reportedly is replete with girls and gadgets, spies and counter-spies, international villainy and jet-set excitement. There also is a romantic entente between an American secret agent and a British society girl, a considerable amount of comedy and a plot to dominate the world. The new film, a Dino de Laurentiis production for Columbia Pictures release, stars Michael Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Beverly Adams and Terry-Thomas and it was filmed in Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian jungles by Henry Levin. Vallone is the villain of the piece, a mysterious industrialist whose interests and behavior attract the attention of the CIA. Vallone’s girl friends die in various ingenious ways, those of them who don’t disappear entirely. Connors, in the course of his investigating, discovers Vallone has an underground space laboratory where he has evolved a process of “hibernating” the missing lovelies, for future revival. He learns, too, that the blonde British girl in the Rolls Royce also is a British agent, as is her gap-toothed chauffeur; they too are keeping an eye on Vallone, whose activities include a space rocket ready to launch which, when it goes into orbit, will emanate waves capable of sterilizing all mankind. Foiling the arch-villain § requires a considerable ingenuity, of course, and Hollywood reports a satisfactory assortment of new “weapons,” as well as a considerable amount of fisticuffs and combat. It all adds up, says advance report, to breathless entertainment. (Mat 2B; Still No. 70) British secret agents Dorothy Provine and Terry-Thomas find much to talk about in this scene from Dino de Laurentiis’ comedy thriller in color by Technicolor, "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die." Michael Connors, Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee, Nicoletta Machiavelli and Beverly Adams also star in the Columbia Pictures release. High Style! Seyna Seyn, beautiful AngloBurmese girl appearing as a Chinese spy in “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die,” Dino de Laurentiis’ comedy spy-thriller BEvene 3... Theatre in Technicolor, wears thigh-high Chinese-style dresses, with the slit on the side of skirt reaching almost to her waist. Miss Seyn, whose real name is Sylvia Short, prefers the more exotic Seyna Seyn, a name meaning “two diamonds” given her by her Burmese grandmother when she was a baby. Michael Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Beverly Adams and Terry-Thomas star in “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die,” which was directed in Brazilian jungles and in the city of Rio de Janeiro by Henry Levin. New Auto Aids! The Rolls Royce Terry-Thomas uses to chauffeur Dorothy Provine around, in “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die,” new comedy thriller at the ........ Theatre, possesses a considerably number of “optional” accessories. In the Dino de Laurentiis production at the ..... Theatre, in Technicolor, Miss Provine and Terry-Thomas play British secret agents. Their car can be converted into a roadside billboard on stilts, behind which it hides from pursuers; it can encase itself in armor from which protrude strategically located machine guns; it can emit smoke screens, oil slicks and other devices to slow down following cars. And, of course, the interior is a delightful setting for the lovely Miss Provine. Terry-Thomas In his native England, they call him “the man with the hyphenated teeth.” He also has a hyphenated name, Terry-Thomas, but he concocted this himself, for his real name is an impossible burden and definitely out of character for a comedian. It is Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens. “You can see why I changed it,” he grins, through his gapped teeth. Terry-Thomas is starring in a dual role in Dino de Laurentiis’ “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die,” the Columbia Pictures release at the ...... Theatre in color by Technicolor. The suspense thriller also stars Michael Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee, Nicoletta Machiavelli and Beverly Adams. Scion of a well-to-do family, Terry-Thomas attended the right schools and had all the right connections, but never concentrated on a serious career because, by his own admission, he was a compulsive clown. “Besides” he says, “no one ever took me seriously.” He thinks this may have been because of his gapped teeth. At the insistence of a friend, Terry-Thomas began his career inauspiciously as an extra. Another friend thought he might do better if he fixed his front teeth to eliminate the wide gap. But he resisted this suggestion and instead hyphenated his name. In “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die,” Terry-Thomas has two roles. He plays his usual self, posing as a uniformed chauffeur as “cover” for his real job of British undercover man in Rio de Janeiro, and a second role, as an explorer who mysteriously disappears in the Brazilian jungle. In both, Terry-Thomas is just about perfect. (Mat 2A; Still No. 14) Michael Connors, as an American agent in Brazil, fights for his life atop the famed statue of Christ overlooking the harbor at Rio de Janeiro. It's a scene from Dino de Laurentiis’ "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die," which also stars Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Beverly Adams and Terry-Thomas in color by Technicolor. The Columbia Pictures release was directed by Henry Levin.