In the clutches of Madame Sin

Movie
German title	In the clutches of Madame Sin
Original title	Madame Sin
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1972
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	David Greene
script	David Greene Barry Oringer
production	Lew Grade Lou Morheim Robert Wagner Julian Wintle
music	Michael Gibbs
camera	Anthony B. Richmond
cut	Peter Tanner
occupation
Bette Davis : Madame Sin Robert Wagner : Anthony Lawrence Denholm Elliott : Malcolm De Vere Gordon Jackson : Commander Cavendish Dudley Sutton : Monk Catherine Schell : Barbara Pik Sen Lim : Nikko Paul Maxwell : Connors David Healy : Braden Alan Dobie : White Al Mancini : fisherman Roy Kinnear : Holidaymaker Burt Kwouk : Scarred Operator Gabriella Licudi : nun

In the clutches of Madame Sin (Original title: Madame Sin ) is a British science fiction film directed by David Greene for independent artists from 1972 with Bette Davis , Robert Wagner , Denholm Elliott and Gordon Jackson in the lead roles.

action

Anthony Lawrence is an ex- CIA agent , one of the best in his field. But he has given up his job. But you don't leave him alone. He gets into the vicious circle of the power-hungry Madame Sin, who is obsessed with usurping world domination and has no qualms about having him kidnapped to harness him for her own purposes.

She commands an army of scientists in a think tank in the Scottish Highlands . With the help of Lawrence, Madame Sin tries to get a Polaris submarine so that she can finally put her sinister plans into practice.

Reviews

“A mysterious and power-hungry woman tries to win world domination from a coastal island, uses medicinal-chemical inventions for her goals and kidnaps people and submarines. Science fiction film, staged silly and without tension; hollow in terms of content, only complex on the outside. "

- Lexicon of international film

Production notes

The buildings are by Brian Eatwell. Make-up artist was Beau Wilson. The electronic sound effects were supplied by Hugh Davies. Filming locations were in Ascot , Berkshire , England . Other location shots were shot in Scotland and on Piccadilly in London. The interiors at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire were used for interior shots .

background

The film was originally intended as a pilot for a weekly ABC series, but the ABC schedule failed. In the United States, In the Fangs of Madame Sin was broadcast on January 15, 1972, in Germany on October 5, 1972.

Web links

• In the clutches of Madame Sin in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the clutches of Madame Sin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .