Posted on July 23, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
Some James Bond connections to television shows are natural. There are ties between 007 and The Avengers TV series because both were filmed in the U.K. There are a lot of ties between 007 and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. But there are surprising number of connections between James Bond movies and the Hawaii Five-O TV [...]
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Posted on July 19, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
One of our favorite 007 femme fatales, Luciana Paluzzi, turned 72 last month. So we figured that was as good an excuse to honor her here.
Of course, most Bond fans remember her as Fiona, member of SPECTRE’s execution branch, in Thunderball. Here’s the trailer:
Here she is in a similar role in [...]
Filed under: James Bond Films | Tagged: 007 femme fatales, Helen MacInnes, James Bond Films, Luciana Paluzzi, Robert Vaughn, The Green Slime, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Venetian Affair, Thunderball, To Trap A Spy | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 11, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
Elsewhere on this blog, Paul Baack shared his version of a poster for a double feature of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. In this home video era, such a double bill won’t reach movie theaters, at least for a general release. But that poster got us to remembering about Bond double features of the [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
Burl Ives as “Henrico” Largo? Richard Burton as James Bond? Directed by Alfred Hitchcock??
“Liquidator65″ has the whole story over at Jive Mofo, in a concise retelling of how the cinematic James Bond came to be, and Kevin McClory’s sisyphean efforts to create a parallel 007 film series.
Of course, we all know how [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
After recovering from our hangover re-reading James Bond’s impressive drinking in Goldfinger, we had to go back over some our old copies of Ian Fleming novels.
For example, there’s the first page of Thunderball:
He had a hangover, a bad one, with an aching head and stiff joints…The one drink too many signals itself unmistakably. His final [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
What’s the best line from a James Bond movie? Here are a few for consideration:
“Bond, James Bond.” Sean Connery (James Bond, natch) from Dr. No.
Analysis: Perhaps a cliche now, but Connery established a classic introduction line.
“She should have kept her mouth shut.” Sean Connery (Bond), capping off a tense sequence in the movie From Russia [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
The news that TCM is going to show the six Sean Connery 007 films produced by Eon Productions Ltd. got us to thinking about the rocky history of James Bond movies on television. Here’s a partial list:
1972: ABC airs Goldfinger, Eon’s third Bond movies and the 1964 film that became a blockbuster. ABC editors took [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
Finally.
TCM, the Time Warner cable channel that shows movies uncut and in their original form (e.g. widescreen, where applicable) will be showing the Sean Connery Bond movies in May. Or, to be more precise, the six Connery films in the “official” series produced by Eon Productions Ltd. since 1962.
In recent years, Bond has fared worse [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
Evelyn Boren, who did underwater stunt swimming in two James Bond movies, including Thunderball appeared in the original version of To Tell the Truth. Can you guess the real one before the panel does?
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