Carnet per un morto

This is the first "Judoka" movie in a serie which died on the vine ;quite righty so.

The second episode "casse -tête chinois pour le judoka" was more professional , more painstaking ,but all in all, was a (very) poor man's James Bond .Marilu Tolo is featured in both ,but she does not play the same character,if one may use such a term .

The first installment is a mess , extremely badly directed , with a cock and bull screenplay , absurd sequences :the long audition in the studio takes the biscuit, when innocent people who have done nothing wrong , can hear a long-haired secret agent masquerading as hippie pop singer strum his guitar ; "it's not strong enough musically" the artistic director (Perrette Pradier, often cast as the villainess in those sub-Bond flicks) says. A gentle euphemism !I bet you Assurancetourix is much better!

For the rest ,there's a fight every fifteen minutes because we deal with a judoka,just the same! A lot of scenes were filmed in Orly airport , which might have impress yesterday's audience that did not often take a plane (if they did).

The best actor of the lot, French-English Michael Lonsdale would show much more ambition afterwards and enjoy a brilliant career .