Weekend Poster Feast 6. Not a movie poster, per se, but what looks like a crazily hyperbolic newspaper ad for a double feature of Keep Talking, Baby (Cause toujours, mon lapin) (1961), and Ladies' Man (Lemmy pour les dames (1961), both starring the great Eddie Constatine. Constatine is best known as tough guy Lemmy Caution in Godard's Alphaville, the craggy faced throw-back alpha-male pitted against the cruelly efficient Alpha 60 supercomputer, the Tarzan against IBM, as it were. Constantine made his name in Europe as a cabaret singer and then moved on to play hardboiled American heroes like Lemmy Caution and Nick Carter in French films in the '50s. Constantine's new bride said, in an interview in 1977 (when Eddie was 62, mind you): "I've had five husbands, and Eddie is the best lover of them all." Who needs James Bond or Our Man Flint? Yes indeed!
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