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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Nov 22, 2021 18:49:46 GMT 1
ArArArchStanton, get in here! Deadlier Than the Male (1967, dir. Ralph Thomas) is one of many ’60s Bond knockoffs, but what makes this one interesting is that it stars Richard Johnson, Dr. No- From Russia with Love- Thunderball director Terence Young’s original choice for Bond. The movie is not particularly good, even though it’s got Elke Sommer and Sylvia Koscina, at their sexiest, as distaff versions of Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. (Weird sentence and thought, yup, but that’s the way it is.) The script is weak, the direction is weaker, and someone decided to include a wholly superfluous knockoff of Robert Wagner’s Pink Panther character. And yet, and yet, wow, watching this is like discovering a Bond movie from an alternate universe. The theme song is perfectly Bondian; the ’60s-ness is palpable (TECHNICOLOR!); the scheme is Flemingesque; the second half is set on the Italian riviera; the Blofeldian villain has a surrealistic hideout—in a castle; Sommer and Koscina even walk out of the ocean with spearguns! Johnson looks quite a bit like Connery, and even though the script doesn’t give him anything funny or even interesting to say he does a fine job with what little he’s given. No, he’s not as good as Connery, but he almost definitely would have been a better Bond than Lazenby. It’s on YouTube for the time being:
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Nov 22, 2021 21:48:57 GMT 1
It's available on several free streaming sites that I get through ROKU. I've seen it before years ago and generally enjoy it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2021 11:10:03 GMT 1
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Post by Indiana Jones on Nov 24, 2021 1:10:28 GMT 1
Richard Johnson could had been interesting if they went the less glamorous route.
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