BRITISH/AMERICAN FILMS

• THE WIFE OF GENERAL LING (1937)
 
In this snappy espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chinese merchant-philanthropist and the agent thinks the merchant is working with the notorious Chinese guerrilla warlord General Ling. What the agent doesn't know is that the merchant and the general are the same man. The villain's wife is a former lover of the agent. When she learns about her husband's hijinks, she decides to help the agent catch him. In the end, the villain is killed and the lovers joyfully reunite. (Sandra Brennan - allmovie.com)

director
Ladislao Vajda

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (story)
Dorothy Hope

cast
Griffith Jones – John Fenton
Valéry Inkijinoff – General Ling
Adrianne Renn – Tai
Alan Napier – Governor
Anthony Eustrel – See Long
Jiro Soneya – Yuan
Hugh McDermott – Tracy

• UNEASY TERMS (1948)

Before detective Slim Callaghan (Michael Rennie) can meet with prospective client Col. Stenhurst, he gets drugged, is ordered not to take the case by the colonel's step-daughter, and finds Stenhurst's dead body. So, of course, Callaghan investigates for himself, accurately predicting that several of the relatives will hire him. What he finds is a sordid history of murder and blackmail. Vernon Sewell's Uneasy Terms is a scrambled British attempt at American-style hard boil. (Steve Press - allmovie.com)

director
Vernon Sewell

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (novel & screenplay)

cast
Michael Rennie – Slim Callaghan
Moira Lister – Corinne Alardyse
Faith Brook – Viola Alardyse
Joy Shelton – Effie
Patricia Goddard – Patricia Alardyse
Barry Jones – Inspector Gringall
Marie Ney – Honoria Wymering
Paul Carpenter – Windy Nicholls
Nigel Patrick – Lucien Donnelly
Sydney Tafler – Maysin
J.H. Roberts – Sallins
Joan Carroll – Matron

• DIPLOMATIC COURIER (1952)

When undercover secret agent Tyrone Power is thwarted in his efforts to obtain a vital document with details of the Russian invasion of Yugoslavia by the death of the courier at the hands of two Russian agents, Siletti and Buchinski (aka Charles Bronson), it becomes his duty to go after the murderers and retrieve the papers. With more loops and turnabouts than a snake, the plot has surprises with agents, double agents, mistaken information and is, all in all, a surprisingly exciting spy vehicle. Michael Ansara and Lee Marvin also make brief appearances in this early cold war story. A script with a lot of holes in it is pulled off by the fine performances and tight direction given in this film. (Tana Hobart - allmovie.com)

director
Henry Hathaway

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on novel Sinister Errand)
Liam O'Brien

cast
includes bit parts for Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson & Russ Conway
Tyrone Power – Mike Kells
Patricia Neal – Joan Ross
Stephen McNally – Col. Cagle
Hildegard Knef (AKA Neff) – Janine (pictured above, with Tyrone Power)
Karl Malden – Ernie
James Millican – Sam Carew
Stefan Schnabel – Platov
Herbert Berghof – Arnov
Arthur Blake – Mrs. Ralli
Helene Stanley – Airline stewardess
Sig Arno – Chef de Train
Lee Marvin – MP at Trieste
Russ Conway – Bill
Carleton Young – Brennan
Monique Chantal – French stewardess

• MEET MR. CALLAGHAN (1954)
 
Slim Callaghan, a fictional British private detective in the American "hard boiled" mode, was the central character in several popular Peter Cheyney novels, in a stage play by Gerald Verner, and in the 1948 movie programmer Uneasy Terms, which top-billed Michael Rennie. Meet Mr. Callaghan stars Derrick DeMarney, no stranger to detective films, in the title role. In this "pilot" for a proposed Callaghan movie series, Slim is required to solve the death of a much-hated rich man. Meet Mr. Callagahan made money (no surprise, since it cost practically nothing to make), but no sequels resulted. In the late 1950s, however, a French-made group of Slim Calaghan pictures went on the market, starring Eddie ("Lemmy Caution") Constantine. (Hal Erickson - allmovie.com)

director
Charles Saunders

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on the novel The Urgent Hangman)
Gerald Verner

cast
Derrick De Marney – Slim Callaghan
Harriette Johns – Cynthia Meraulton
Peter Neil – William Meraulton
Adrienne Corri – Mayolo
Delphi Lawrence – Effie
Belinda Lee – Jenny Appleby
Larry Burns – Darkey
Trevor Reid – Inspector Gringall
John Longden – Jeremy Meroulton
Roger Williams – Bellamy Meraulton

• THE AMAZING MR. CALLAGHAN (1960)

director
Willy Rozier

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (novel)

cast
Tony Wright
Lisiane Rey
Paul Cambo
Robert Berri

FRENCH FILMS

• BRELAN D’AS (1952)
 
director
Henri Verneuil

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (story segment Je suis un tendre)
Jacques Companéez

cast
Reinhard Kolldehoff – René Koldehoff
Inge Landgut –
Nathalie Nattier – Michèle Leroy
Pierre Sergeol –
Georges Tabet –
John Van Dreelen – Lemmy Caution

• LA MÔME VERT-DE-GRIS (1953)
 
The title of this French crime meller translates into The Gun Moll. Eddie Constantine makes the first of several appearances as Lemmy Caution, the two-fisted American government agent created by novelist Peter Cheney. In this outing, Lemmy is dispatched to Casablanca, there to put the kibosh on a gold-hijacking operation. His job is made easier when he wins gun moll Carlotta (Dominique Wilms) over to his side. At 105 minutes, the action flags on occasion in La Mome vert de Gris. Still, the film was successful enough to spawn a whole series of "Lemmy Caution" adventures, including Jean-Luc Goddard's novelle vague fantasy Alphaville (1966). (Hal Erickson - allmovie.com)

director
Bernard Borderie

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on novel Poison Ivy)
Jacques Berland
Bernard Borderie

cast
Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution
Dominique Wilms – Carlotta de la Rue
Howard Vernon – Rudy Saltierra
Darío Moreno – Joe Madrigal
Jean-Marie Robain – Willie
Maurice Ronet – Mickey
Nicolas Vogel – Kerts

• LES FEMMES S’EN BALANCENT (1953)
 
Eddie Constantine makes his third appearance as Peter Cheney's two-fisted FBI agent Lemmy Caution in Les Femmes S'en Balancent (aka Dames Get Along). In this outing, Lemmy is on the trail of a counterfeiting gang. Somehow or other, the mission requires him to dally with a bevy of international beauties, including Nadia Gray and Dominique Willms. Eventually, Lemmy puts the clues together and locates his quarry, leading to a climactic orgy of violence. Among the villains, the dependable Robert Berri stands out as a menacing hood in the Mike Mazurki tradition. (Hal Erickson - allmovie.com)

director
Bernard Borderie

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on novel Dames Don’t Care)
Bernard Borderie
Jacques Vilfrid

cast
Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution
Nadia Gray – Henietta Aymes
Dominique Wilms – Paulette Bénito
Robert Berri – Fernandez
Jacques Castelot – Granworth Aymes
Robert Burnier – Metts, le chef de la police
Darío Moreno – Perera

• CET HOMME EST DANGEREUX (1953)
 
Eddie Constantine makes his second appearance as Peter Cheyney's hard-boiled FBI agent Lemmy Caution in Cet Homme est Dangereux. Curiously, when first we meet Lemmy, he is a crook on the lam. Actually, our hero is working undercover to entrap a French bank robber. Along the way, he becomes a reluctant kidnapper, snatching dizzy American heiress Constance (Collette Doreal). As things turn out, it is Constance who holds Lemmy prisoner at fade-out time—not that he's complaining about it. Based on Peter Cheyney's novel The Gun Moll Poison Ivy, Cet Homme est Dangereux was simultenously filmed in an English-language version. (Hal Erickson - allmovie.com)

director
Jean Sacha

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on novel This Man Is Dangerous)
Jacques Berland

cast
Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution
Grégoire Aslan – Siegella
Colette Deréal – Constance
Véra Norman – Susanne
Claude Borelli – Miranda
Jacqueline Pierreux – Dora

• PLUS DE WHISKEY POUR CALLAGHAN (1954)

director Willy Rozier

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on novel It Couldn’t Matter Less)
Xavier Vallier

• À TOI DE JOUER CALLAGHAN (1955)

director Willy Rozier

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on novel Sorry You’ve Been Troubled)
Xavier Vallier

cast
Tony Wright – Slim Callaghan
Martine Alexis – Ketty
Henri Arius – Le commissaire Merlin (as Arius)
Maurice Bénard – Boutillon
Robert Berri – Raoul de Bois-Joli
Roger Blin – Wladimir
Robert Burnier – Nicholls
Paul Cambo – Nicky Storata

• VOUS PIGEZ? (1956)

Vous Pigez! (You Get It!) stars Eddie Constantine in his standard guise of hard-boiled American G-man Lemmy Caution. The plot is the usual melange of intrigue, double-crosses and impossibly beautiful women. The delectable damsels in this outing include the toothsome Maria Frau, Nadine Tallier and Irene Tunc. The villainy is in the capable hands of Roger Hanin, who went on to spy-flick fame of his own as "The Tiger." Though Vous Pigez! was the seventh of the "Caution" series, it was held back from release in the U.S. until a few of the later entries made the rounds. (Hal Erickson - allmovie.com)

director
Pierre Chevalier

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on novel Don’t Get Me Wrong)
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

cast
Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution
Maria Frau – Fernanda
Yorick Royan – Georgette Istria
François Perrot – Tony Martinelli
Roger Hanin – Istria
René Clermont – Romano
Irène Tunc – Lucia

• ÇA N'ARRIVE QU'AUX VIVANTS (1958)

This uneven crime drama by director Tony Saytor is based on a tale by novelist Peter Cheney (author of the 1945 La Mome Vert de Gris). The story here has nothing innovative to offer; it is essentially what happens when a decent man (Raymond Pellegrin) is framed for a crime he never committed by some mafia-types. Rather than sit back and accept his misfortune, the good guy changes his colors and goes after the gangsters, one by one. (Eleanor Mannikka - allmovie.com)

director
Tony Saytor

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (novel)
Jean Cosmos

cast
Raymond Pellegrin   
Gisèle Pascal   
Magali Noël   
Daniel Cauchy   

• COMMENT QU’ELLE EST! (1960)
 
This "B"-grade spy drama features the ubiquitous Eddie Constantine as Lemmy (a favorite role), the special agent who has an unbounded capacity for Scotch and women, though not necessarily in that order. Lemmy has come to France to help the secret police track down a dangerous spy. His ability to fight himself out of any corner and charm himself out when fighting will not work comes in handy, as he and his French colleagues start to hunt down the elusive spy. (Eleanor Mannikka - allmovie.com)

director
Bernard Borderie

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on novel I’ll Say She Does!)
Bernard Borderie

cast
Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution
Françoise Brion – Martine
Alfred Adam – Girotti
Renaud Mary – Demur
Robert Berri – Dombie
Nicolas Vogel – Mayne
Françoise Prévost – Isabelle

• CALLAGHAN REMET ÇA (1960)

director Willy Rozier

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on characters)
Xavier Vallier

• LEMMY POUR LES DAMES (1961)
 
Lead Eddie Constantine first began his stint as Lemmy, the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, womanizing American agent, back in 1951. He continues in that well-established role in this routine spy story about blackmail and state secrets. While Lemmy is relaxing on vacation, a woman is murdered and he gets involved in discovering why. It turns out that she and four other wives have been the target of blackmail. An Eastern European government is using unsavory information from the wives' pasts to force them into prying intelligence data out of their husbands — all of whom work in government capacities in a variety of leading Western democracies. (Eleanor Mannikka - allmovie.com)

director
Bernard Borderie

writing credits
Bernard Borderie
Peter Cheyney (novel)

cast
Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution
Françoise Brion – Marie-Christine
Claudine Coster – Françoise
Eliane D'Almeida – Sophie
Yvonne Monlaur – Claudia
Jacques Berthier – Docteur Nollet
Robert Berri – Dombie

• À TOI DE FAIRE... MIGNONE(1963)
 
In this suspenseful espionage adventure, Yankee super-sleuth Lemmy Caution must investigate the murder of a female agent and the disappearance of an important scientist. Caution's search leads him to Europe where he learns that the scientist was not kidnapped. He is instead the secret leader of a spy ring. (Sandra Brennan - allmovie.com)

director
Bernard Borderie

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on novel Your Deal, My Lovely)
Bernard Borderie (dialogue)

cast
Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution
Philippe Lemaire – Enrico Prazetti
Gaia Germani – Géraldine
Christiane Minazzoli – Carletta Strasser
Guy Delorme – Elmer Whittaker
Robert Berri – Kriss
Henri Cogan – Pierrot

• ALPHAVILLE
Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)
 
In Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to Alphaville, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human computer called Alpha 60. While on his mission, Lemmy meets and falls in love with Natacha (Anna Karina), the daughter of the scientist who designed Alpha 60. Their love becomes the most profound challenge to the computer's control. Void of any flashy special effects, Alphaville uses 1960s Paris to depict the city of the future. (Matthew Tobey - allmovie.com)

director
Jean-Luc Godard

writing credits
Peter Cheyney (based on characters)
Paul Éluard (novel)
Jean-Luc Godard

cast
Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution
Anna Karina – Natacha Von Braun
Akim Tamiroff – Henri Dickson

Private eye films are famed for their dialogue but this futuristic thriller, with Constantine as a detective called Lemmy Caution sent to rescue a scientist from a city run by an electronic brain, has some of the most extraordinary dialogue in the genre. As the electronic brain says: “Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables all over the world.” Top that Philip Marlowe. Beautiful to look at, hard to follow, this is fascinating, irritating viewing. If you’re bored just follow the influences on Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the source for Blade Runner.
– review from The Rough Guide to Cult Movies
published by Penguin 2001, editor Paul Simpson

• MAKARONI BLUES (1986)
 
director
Bela Csepcsanyi
Fred Sassebo

writing credits
Odd Børretzen

cast
Riccardo De Torrebruna – Mario
Patrizio Caracci – Vincenzo
Anne Marie Ottersen – Elsa
Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution

• ALLEMAGNE 90 NEUF ZÉRO (1991)
 
Germany Year Nine Zero follows an old spy's journey back to France from the east. Since the Cold War has ended the spy is unclear about who his enemies are, and he doesn't know what to do with himself. Jean-Luc Godard's film is a series of scenes that present his thoughts on European unification and the fall of Communism. The title harkens back to Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, a film made in the immediate aftermath of World War II that, like Godard's film, considered the fate of the world in changing political conditions. As his use of Rossellini's title suggests, Godard is concerned with the fate of cinema as well as the fate of the world. He is concerned that as borders are erased, and as the world comes more and more under the sway of corporate power, the cinema will become more and more homogenized and commercial. (Louis Schwartz - allmovie.com)

director
Jean-Luc Godard

Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution
Hanns Zischler – Count Zelten (as Hans Zischler)
Claudia Michelsen – Charlotte Kestner/Dora
Nathalie Kadem – Delphine de Stael
André S. Labarthe – Récitant
Robert Wittmers – Don Quichotte
Kim Kashkashian – Musician

TV SERIES

• LES GRANDS DÉTECTIVES (1975) series

director
Alexandre Astruc
Jean-Pierre Decourt

writing credits
episode based on Peter Cheyney (novel)

• KOTTAN ERMITTELT (1976) series
(Kottan Investigates) a defining moment of Austrian television...
an Austrian cult

director
Peter Patzak

writing credits
Helmut Zenker

1981 episode featuring Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution

• LE RETOUR DE LEMMY CAUTION (1989)
 
director
Josée Dayan

writing credits
Philippe Setbon

cast
Eddie Constantine – Lemmy Caution
Corinne Touzet – Séverine
Thierry Redler – Martin
Philippe Polet – Jérôme
Richard Fontana – Le Mamba
Jean-François Dérec – Nino
Roger Dumas – Edgar Lorient