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Susan Lucci played two characters in the hitwoman melodrama 'Double Edge'. By
far the most intriguing was Carmen Moore, the hitwoman being pursued by her doppleganger
police detective equivalent. I think she adds five victims to her name before meeting her
maker herself. She uses a different method to dispatch most of her victims but in this
particular scene she is using a sniper rifle to further her career.
The golden oldie sci-fi series 'The Twilight Zone' provides the material for the next few images. This particular episode starred a young Charles Bronson as a soldier who comes face to face with the enemy in a town centre decimated by war. As it turns out the enemy is a woman and a series of confrontations arise before the pair are united, which formed the closing narrative for Rod Sterling. Fans of sixties TV will (just about) recognise the woman as Elizabeth Montgomery who starred as Samantha in the comedy series 'Bewitched'
All right, it wasn't so long ago that I reviewed the Bollywood film 'Aag Hi Aag'. Nevertheless you can never have too much of a good bad girl so without further ado here is the film's gorgeous villainess (Sheha) showing her skills as a sniper at the beginning of the film.
'Nikita' is possibly the most well known girl assassin film and has appeared on these pages several times. Several movie companies have copied the story for their own local populace. The USA had 'Point of No Return' (aka 'Assassin'), the HK industry had the 'Black Cat' films and even the Lollywood film industry got into the act with 'Muhje Deenay Do'. One of the classic set pieces has Nikita (or the character's equivalent) assassinating somebody from a hotel window. Here is the scene, plus one or two variations, from the various movies.
Here is Anna Karina from the Jean Luc Goddard sixties film 'Pierrot Le Fou'.
Like many of his films the narrative of the film is hard to follow though not as bad as
much of Goddard's work. The acting and cinematography are good and makes this one of
Goddard's more watchable 'French New Wave' films of the 1960s. In this particular scene
Marianne (Karina) is shooting some rival gangsters/revolutionaries whilst pontificating on
the nature of the world. Anna Karina appeared in quite a number of JLG's films of the
time, not just because she is extraordinarily pretty but because she was married to him at
the time.
Some lady sniper's from British TV are featured next. The first is from the series 'Dempsey and Makepeace' which was an enjoyable load of twaddle produced in the late 1980's. The woman on show is a hitwoman brought over from the US by a London gangland leader to deal with the opposition, and a very good job she did too. The second batch are from the unsuccessful sci-fi comedy series 'The Strangerers'. Sarah Alexander is the woman behind the scope who has some pretty ruthless methods at stopping an alien invasion of Earth.
