The greatest movie ever made..!

just watch it!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Yvette Mimieux is a very unlikely lady to play the lead in "Hit Lady". After all, she's rather petite, cute and looks very innocent and anything but dangerous. However, she's a cold-blooded contract killer...and a very good one at that! Plus, Mimieux wrote the script with herself in mind!!The story begins with Angela (Mimieux) going to a barbecue and singling out an old man (Keenan Wynn) and talking with him at length. He invites her to go on a horseback ride...and she kills him when there are no witnesses about them. Next, she receives a call from her contact...he has one more contract. But she initially refuses, she's just retired. But the amount she is to be paid is astronomical...and this would really help her with her new life with her struggling boyfriend (Dack Rambo). So she has a condition...she wants to know more about the guy before he accepts. The mark is a union leader, Jeffrey Blaine (Joseph Campanella) and they really want him dead very badly! So yo see Angela as she goes to work and arranges to 'accidentally' meet Jeffrey at a concert. And, over time, she really comes to like this guy...so what's she to do?!The film is enjoyable and worth seeing. Mimieux created a nice script. My only reservation was the ending...I did see that coming and many others will as well.

"Angela de Vries" (Yvette Mimieux) is a beautiful assassin who has just fulfilled a 3-hit contract and wants to retire. However, the organization she works for insists on one more assignment and since she doesn't appear to have many options she reluctantly agrees. Her new target is a union leader by the name of "Jeffrey Baine" and he just happens to be well-guarded. So this project presents itself as both risky and dangerous. Not only that, but she is also instructed that the hit must look like an accident which further increases the difficulty. Anyway, although this is a "made-for-television" movie it boasts a good storyline and a decent supporting cast. But the most important ingredient is Yvette Mimieux who looks absolutely gorgeous and performs rather nicely as well. So, if a person is interested in a fairly good crime-drama movie then this is one film worth consideration. All things considered then, I rate it as slightly above average.

The synopsis for Hit Lady can be written in a single sentence, Yvette Mimieux portrays a hitwoman eager to leave the assassin for hire business. In the same vein, the film is a rather uncomplicated affair, usually the case with television's "movie of the week" films of the 70's, but here the lean story and budget is to the film's benefit. The excellent Mimieux carries the film more than capably and her co-stars all perform nicely as well. With a title like "Hit Lady" many today might expect this to be full of gunfire and explosions, this is certainly not the case, but it does happen to be a very engaging and well written (Mimieux is credited with the screenplay) film.While Hit Lady is not an action film, it's star Yvette Mimieux is no stranger to the action film genre, her credits include the excellent mercenary film Dark of the Sun. Here, she provides a fine screenplay and gives an engaging performance, in a written interview she stated she had hoped to direct the film as well, but for whatever reason that did not happen. What's also of interest is the film's pedigree in the murder for hire film genre. The film's director Tracy Keenan Wynn (who also has a small role) appeared alongside Charles Bronson in the mafia hit-man film "The Mechanic". Clu Gulager who stars as Mimieux's former hit-man boss, starred alongside Lee Marvin portraying a pair of hit men in Don Siegels "The Killers". On a final note, one wonders if this perhaps served as inspiration for the excellent French film La Femme Nikita, that tells a tale of a trained assassin wanting to leave the business, and her male mentor who stands in the way. Recommended.

Apparently Yvette is as smart as she is beautiful. She wrote this "Movie of the Week" about a female contract killer. Actually quite entertaining, has cameos by a lot of talented people including Keenan Wynn, Joseph Campenella. Yvette kills 'em with class but when she wants to quit the business the heat's on. Yvette should have been given her own action TV series. Unfortunately most of the women kicking butt in the 70's were black (Pam Grier, Tamara Dobson, Teresa Graves) the only other movie I can remember where a white woman does this is possibly Connie Stevens in "Scorchy". I guess I just like to see women beating up men PERIOD! Catch this if you can, I think it was on video in the 80's it should be on DVD as many of these 70's TV movies were lots of fun.