An Orchid for the Tiger

Original title: Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite

1965
1h 25m

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Louis Rapiere, aka Tiger, is sent to Port-a-Pitre (French Guiana), to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship. A group of revolutionaries pirates the ship and steals the trea... Read allLouis Rapiere, aka Tiger, is sent to Port-a-Pitre (French Guiana), to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship. A group of revolutionaries pirates the ship and steals the treasure, intending to sell it to an international terrorist organization called Orchid. When ... Read allLouis Rapiere, aka Tiger, is sent to Port-a-Pitre (French Guiana), to supervise the recovery of a treasure from a sunken ship. A group of revolutionaries pirates the ship and steals the treasure, intending to sell it to an international terrorist organization called Orchid. When Tiger arrives there, he demands that the French authorities arrest the revolutionaries, bu... Read all

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Roger Hanin

Louis Rapière, le tigre

Margaret Lee

Pamela Mitchum…

Michel Bouquet

Jacques Vermorel

Micaela Pignatelli

Sarita Sanchez
(as Micaela Cendali)

Carlos Casaravilla

Ricardo Sanchez

José Nieto

José María Caffarel

Col. Pontarlier
(as Jose M. Caffarel)

Jorge Rigaud

Le commandant Damerec
(as George Rigaud)

Roger Dumas

Duvet

Assad Bahador

Hans von Wunchendorf
(uncredited)
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Claude Chabrol

Le médecin radiologue
(uncredited)

Michel Etcheverry

Claudio Ruffini

Spy
(uncredited)

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After the success of his first venture into the spy-thriller genre, The Tiger Likes Fresh Blood (1964), director Claude Chabrol was invited to make another film in the same vein. That film was to be An Orchid for the Tiger (1965), it was intended to be more of a copy of the James Bond films which were hugely successful worldwide. The only difference was that Chabrol didn't have the resources compared to the likes that were availble to the Bond films, so rather than attempting a straight lift, he opted for something more on the lines of a spy parody, similar to Georges Lautner's Les Barbouzes (1964) and Jean-Charles Dudrumet's Pleins feux sur Stanislas (1965), a genre that was also proving to be popular at the time.

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Follows The Tiger Likes Fresh Blood (1964)

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Pedestrian spy thriller with good fights

Roger Hanin is Louis Rapiere AKA the Tiger, his reoccurring character in several spy flicks. He beds the babes and gets beat up regularly but manages to overcome in the end and this adventure is no exception. This time he's up against a lunatic ex-Nazi type called Hans Wunchendorf, also known as The Orchid, who wants to rule the world with his master race (of course) via his evil organization.

The score by Jean Wiener is somewhat cheesy in the French music hall style and therefore pretty much forgettable. This is a middle-of-the-road spy adventure, not entirely without interest especially if good fights are one of your enjoyments.