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The Killer Likes Candy

The Killer Likes Candy (Un killer per sua maestà)

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Italy, France and West Germany co-produced the 1968 Eurospy film The Killer Likes Candy (Italian: Un killer per sua maestà). Shot in Italian, it runs about 85 minutes. Maurice Cloche and Federico Chentrens share the directing credit, and the screenplay is credited to Cloche and Giovanni Simonelli. It is loosely based on Adam Saint-Moore's novel À cœur ouvert pour face d'ange.

The American actor Kerwin Mathews plays the lead. Marilù Tolo, Ann Smyrner, Venantino Venantini, Gordon Mitchell, Bruno Cremer and Riccardo Garrone appear alongside him, and the cast list also names Werner Peters, Sieghardt Rupp, Elisa Cegani, Umberto Raho, Giuseppe Addobbati, Alain Saury and Fabienne Dali. The film is an example of the secret-agent adventures that multiplied in Europe in the wake of the James Bond series.

It opened in Italy on 12 April 1968, in Germany on 4 October 1968 and in France on 12 November 1968. It is known as Le tueur aime les bonbons in France, Zucker für den Mörder in Germany and Un asesino para Su Majestad in Spanish.

DirectorMaurice Cloche

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Venantino Venantini Venantino Venantini Actor · died at 88 Gordon Mitchell Gordon Mitchell Actor · died at 80 Kerwin Mathews Marilù Tolo Ann Smyrner Riccardo Garrone Werner Peters Bruno Cremer Lukas Ammann Sieghardt Rupp Elisa Cegani Umberto Raho Giuseppe Addobbati Alain Saury Fabienne Dali

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

The Killer Likes Candy is a textbook product of the Eurospy wave that followed the success of the Bond films, and that typicality is both its charm and its limit. In productions like this, with two directors and three countries, a formula usually does the work instead of a distinct directorial signature: an international cast, an American lead at the centre, a familiar secret-agent template. Its loose basis in a novel suggests the material might carry something of its own, but in my view the film has little interest in moving past the genre's habits. An interesting document for those curious about genre history; as a film in its own right, keep expectations modest.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

When I hear spy film, I want chases, tension and a cool agent. This is one of the European takes on the Bond wave, so expecting it to match the originals on budget and spectacle would be unfair. If you like the retro secret-agent vibe and that very sixties style, it is worth a try as one evening's fun.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The film opens an interesting window onto how the European film industry worked in the late 1960s. Co-produced by Italy, France and West Germany and aimed at the international market through an American star, productions like this were early examples of an entertainment economy that crossed borders. The secret-agent craze itself can be read as a fashion that turned Cold War anxieties about espionage into light entertainment. In that sense the film belongs less to any one national cinema than to a shared European popular culture.

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