Secret Agent 077 is a fictional superspy, lead character in a

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films starring Ken Clark as Dick Malloy (or Maloy). However "077" was used on posters or advertising of several other Eurospy films with little or no relationship to each other perhaps to exploit the audience's knowledge of

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Official entries

The first two were directed by

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under the

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Terence Hathaway, the third directed by

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, with all starring Ken Clark. All were Italian/French and Spanish co-productions shot around the world in Technicolor and

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: * '' Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary'' (1965) * '' Agent 077: From the Orient with Fury'' (1965) * '' Special Mission Lady Chaplin'' (1966) (directed by

) In 1967 the same production company produced '' The Tiffany Memorandum'' directed by Grieco but starring Clark as "Dick Hallam" a journalist drawn into the CIA.

Other films

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played an Agent 077 with the name of George Farrell in ''

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'' (with story and music by

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), whilst Luis Dávila played Agent S.077 with the name of "Marc Mato" or "Mike Murphy" in '' Espionage in Tangier'' as well as ''Ypotron'' in which his character, in some prints, is also called "Robert Logan". In 1964, Franco had actually preceded the “official” 077 franchise by directing the French-Spanish coproduction titled ''Agent 077 opération Jamaïque'' (or more rarely ''Agent 077 Opération Sexy'') in France (and ''La muerte silba un Blues'' in Spain and ''Death Whistles a Blues'' in English), starring Conrado San Martín as Alfred Pereira (codenamed agent 077 in the French dub).La muerte silva un blues
IMDB.com. Retrieved December 17, 2023 Richard Harrison's Bob Fleming in ''

Secret Agent Fireball ''Le spie uccidono a Beirut'' (literally, ''The Spies kill in Beirut'', also titled ''Da 077 : le spie uccidono a Beirut'', i.e. ''Message from 077 : the spies kill in Beirut'') is a 1965 Italian/ French international co-production spy film perta ...

'' and '' Killers Are Challenged'' was titled Agent 077 in some countries. A 1968 Indian film was titled ''Golden Eyes Secret Agent 077''.

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