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[[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent Bob Fleming is featured in a trio of Italian films, ''[[Secret Agent Fireball]]'' also titled ''Da 077: le spie uccidono a Beirut'' (1965), ''Killers are Challenged'' a.k.a. ''[[A 077, sfida ai killers]]'' (1966), directed by [[Antonio Margheriti]], and ''[[Fury in Marrakesh]]'', a.k.a. ''Furia a Marrakech'' (1966). Margheriti made one other spy film, ''[[Lightning Bolt (film)|Lightning Bolt]]'', a.k.a. ''Operazione Goldman'' (1966).
 
Other notable examples include ''[[Berlin, Appointment for the Spies]]'', a.k.a. ''Spy in Your Eye'' (Italy, 1965), the French ''[[OSS 117]]'' [[André Hunebelle]] series based on the [[Jean Bruce]] character and [[Claude Chabrol]]'s ''[[Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche|Tiger]]'' trilogy (''[[Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche]]'', ''[[Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite]]'', and ''Blue Panther'', a.k.a. ''[[Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha]]''), and the German ''[[Kommissar X]]'' and ''[[Jerry Cotton]]'' series. France's [[Eddie Constantine]] [[Nick Carter (literary character)|Nick Carter]] and [[Lemmy Caution]] series moved into espionage with several films, including [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s ''[[Alphaville (film)|Alphaville]]'' (1965).
 
The French [[Francis Coplan]] novels resulted in six films including ''[[Coplan Saves His Skin]]'' (1968). [[Jean Marais]] starred in the French-Italian ''[[The Reluctant Spy]]'' (1963) and ''[[Pleins feux sur Stanislas]]'' (1965). [[Jean-Paul Belmondo]] was in the French spy spoof ''[[That Man From Rio]]'' (1964). American actor [[Ray Danton]] made two French films, ''[[Code Name: Jaguar]]'' (1965), ''[[Secret Agent Super Dragon]]'' (1966), and the Spanish-Italian 007 parody ''[[Lucky, el intrépido]]'' a.k.a. ''Lucky, the Inscrutable'' (1966) directed by [[Jesús Franco]]. Franco also made ''[[The Girl from Rio (1969 film)|The Girl from Rio]]'' (1969) with ''Goldfinger'''s [[Shirley Eaton]] in the title role.