i was surprised and saddened to read of the death of john phillip law on alex gildzen's blog last night. law was one of those golden boys best known from late 1960s european cult films, his most famous role is perhaps as the blind angel in roger vadim's classic barbarella.

below is the trailer for another well-known movie, mario bava's danger: diabolik, in which law plays the lead. i've not seen the flick but it's just been released to dvd in the u.s. i think either late last year or this year. just the same, the movie, as you can surmise from the trailer, has that groovy '60s score and campy, outre sets and costumes. and law is simply beautiful to behold.