Lemmy Caution is a fictitious Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent — or in later stories a private detective — created by British writer Peter Cheyney (1896-1951), who published the first book about him in 1936. When This Man is Dangerous was released, Cheyney was a policeman, but the novel's success enabled him to become a professional author.
After World War II many French people had a penchant for American culture and American heroes. Against that background Cheyney's books were promoted very successfully all over France, and consequently the French film business discovered them as arable material for a series of popular films.
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“I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, “Wait.” Perhaps you can. I can’t. And having decided that I cannot urge caution I must stand with him.”
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