Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche (Code Name: Tiger) is a 1964 secret agent spy film directed by Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...

 and starring and written by Roger Hanin

Roger Hanin

Roger Hanin is a French actor , best known for playing the title role in the 1989-2006 TV crime series, Navarro.-Personal life:...

 as the Tiger. The film was an attempt to create a French franchise equal to James Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

, and the film From Russia with Love

From Russia with Love (film)

From Russia with Love is the second in the James Bond spy film series, and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1963, the film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1957 novel of the...

is referenced within the film that features the film's female lead Daniela Bianchi

Daniela Bianchi

Daniela Bianchi is an Italian actress, whose best known part was Tatiana Romanova in the 1963 James Bond movie From Russia with Love....

.

The film revolves around The Tiger attempting to protect the wife and daughter of a Turkish Minister in Paris from kidnappers. It was followed by Le tigre se parfume à la dynamite

Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite

Le tigre se parfume à la dynamite is a 1965 secret agent spy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring and written by Roger Hanin as the Tiger...

in 1965.

Cast

• Roger Hanin
  Roger Hanin
  Roger Hanin is a French actor , best known for playing the title role in the 1989-2006 TV crime series, Navarro.-Personal life:...
  
   as Louis Rapière, 'le Tigre'
• Maria Mauban as Madame Baskine
• Daniela Bianchi
  Daniela Bianchi
  Daniela Bianchi is an Italian actress, whose best known part was Tatiana Romanova in the 1963 James Bond movie From Russia with Love....
  
   as Mehlica Baskine
• Roger Dumas
  Roger Dumas
  Roger Dumas is a French film actor. He has appeared in over 100 films since 1954. He was born in Annonay, Ardèche.-Selected filmography:* Pouic-Pouic * That Man from Rio * La Ligne de démarcation...
  
   as Duvet
• Antonio Passalia as Coubassi
• Jimmy Karoubi as Jean-Luc
• Roger Rudel as Benita
• Carlo Nell as L'assassin du théâtre

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