ANNE FRANCIS STARS IN ‘FORBIDDEN PLANET’ (SLIGHT RETURN)

[defrog]

And now she’s gone. Just like Leslie Nielsen less than two months ago.

Anyway, now’s as good a time to remind you that she was also TV’s incarnation of pulp detective Honey West. Which was good, goofy joke-shop spy fun and one of the first American TV shows to have a heroine who could not only shoot a gun but also punch people unconscious.

Respect.

PRODUCTION NOTE: That’’s an edited clip of the fight scene – which is too bad because you miss the part where the villain beats her assistant Sam with a shelf of encyclopedias.

Also, have fun spotting the glaringly obvious continuity problem.

A taste of Honey,

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