# What the heck movie did I see? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-movie-did-i-see/816432 "2018-06-20T07:15:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-movie-did-i-see/816432/1 "2018-06-20T07:15:21Z")
What movie was this? It’s worthy of an MST3K treatment. If someone can actually make the schedule thing at FXM Retro work, it was on Sunday morning. Was watching on a hotel TV system with no channel guide. Sixties-era, kinda campy, not a lot of dialog. Where I came in…Someone squeezes into a tiny submarine, scoots away under water from a ship’s interior moon pool, attaches to a cargo ship (names Tyboli, maybe?) and cuts a hole in the hull. Cargo is spirited away and a crate slid over to cover the hole just in time before someone looks in to see if all is OK, and finds a fish. There was a blonde with gold Wonder Woman cuffs. At some point, she was locked in a room or cell in a seaside mission with lurid purple psycho-plaid walls and a bright red spiral staircase. She finds a key with “Perhaps” on it, gets out, meets up with her accomplice who had what turns out to be radio parts under a fake back skin. (Eew!) They assemble a bird, attach the radio beeping out a message in Morse code, gas it up and it floats off. Eventually a sheikh is having his toenails painted, someone brings a him message, much excitement ensues, and the sheikh needs a better mode of transportation than a small car that couldn’t drive well on sand. I promise, I was not on any mind-altering substances! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-movie-did-i-see/816432/2 "2018-06-20T09:19:43Z")
That’s [Modesty Blaise (1966).](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_Blaise_(1966_film)) Not a film I’ve ever been able to sit through, to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-movie-did-i-see/816432/3 "2018-06-20T13:22:22Z")
WOW! 2hrs 4 mins…with that description. Gotta love the dope.😃 ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-movie-did-i-see/816432/4 "2018-06-20T14:31:43Z")
> [@BobBitchin](#): > > WOW! > > 2hrs 4 mins…with that description. > > Gotta love the dope.😃 Yeah, sorry about that. I got up late this morning, so I didn’t see the question straight away. And then I thought I’d better watch some bits of the film just to make sure it was the right one (as I say, I’ve never seen it all the way through). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-movie-did-i-see/816432/5 "2018-06-20T16:16:41Z")
Are you sure it was a sheikh and not Zoltar? It might have been the alternate ending to\* Big.\* ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-movie-did-i-see/816432/6 "2018-06-20T16:27:02Z")
For the record, the car was a Fiat 600 Jolly. In Europe “Jolly” means “beach buggy”. Here it is stuck in the sand: > **[Fiat 600 in "Modesty Blaise"](http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_225965-Fiat-600-100-1960.html)** Don’t put it down too much, they are highly desirable cars today. Sotheby’s sold one in 2014 for $99,000: > **[1959 Fiat 600 Jolly by Ghia | Amelia Island 2014 | RM Sotheby's](https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/AM14/Amelia-Island/lots/r135-1959-fiat-600-jolly-by-ghia/181819)** > > 1959 Fiat 600 Jolly by Ghia for sale at RM Sotheby's Amelia Island Dennis ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-movie-did-i-see/816432/7 "2018-06-21T16:48:40Z")
I figured this would either die a slow death or someone would know right off in a couple of hours. 😃 And I can buy it at amazon for seven bucks. Perhaps. Perhaps not. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-movie-did-i-see/816432/8 "2018-06-21T17:19:41Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > I figured this would either die a slow death or someone would know right off in a couple of hours. 😃 > > And I can buy it at amazon for seven bucks. Perhaps. > > Perhaps not. You can watch it on YouTube, if you’re quick.