the following appeared on my livejournal is a slightly different edit.  

Falling in love with French Actresses from the 60s/70s is probably dangerous

I had just finished watching the 1969 Roger Moore film Crossplot for the second time and loved it again so much I had to write about it.  It had come on late last night so I fell asleep shortly after the helicopter chase/death of a major character from pure exhaustion and still trying to regain sleep from the New Years events.  

Anyway, this film is a ton of fun. It's a pure suspense film with all the elements a good suspense film needs, action, adventure, conspiracy, comedy, romance, intriguing villains, a stunning, brilliant leading man and a gorgeous female lead.  Roger Moore is in the state between Templar and Bond. If you need to ask me who the hell Templar is, please, please, please just go and rent or buy The Saint Megaset .  While you're at it go read yourself Leslie Charteris.  I have a book or two of The Saint myself and I highly recommend them.

The shining light of Crosspoint though and the reason you need to see it if you are a straight man or gay women (Roger Moore is good enough for you straight women and gay guys and if you say no, you have no taste) is an actress by the name of Claudie Lange.  It seems this French actress who speaks flawless English and played a Hungarian immigrant in this film has never appeared in any other English speaking roles or English/American Distributed films for that matter (other than some extremely obscure B sci-fi film).  Which is an amazing shame.  She is positively one of the sexiest and prettiest women I have ever seen grace my television screen.  Her hair is bright red, facially she's a classic beauty and her body is svelte but curvaceous (we are lucky to get one quick glimpse of her backside as she rises from a bathtub).

When I first wroten this article, the film (Crosspoint) was not in a VHS or DVD format.  As of March 2005, a bare bones edition was distributed in MGM.