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Nice! Both DN and that episode of The Saint were produced in 1962, so that makes two appearances for that drawer cabinet in the same year.
It's actually a drawer found in the home of a rather shifty character, and not Simon Templar himself!
They should have an IMDB page for every piece of furniture that's acted in more than one film. It's unfair that the actors get all the credits. I mean, some of them do a darn better job than some of the leads (not talkinga bout the ones mentioned here in this thread!).
There's an IMCDB (Internet Movie Cars Database), so why not an IMFDB (Internet Movie Furniture Database)? :-)
A 1904 De Dion Bouton 8, and other early motor car prints by artist George Oliver.
I always thought they were back in Vienna, but they are actually in France.
First time I noticed someone in the background asking Kara:
"How long are you going to stay in France?"
I've been trying to find out who did these prints, @QBranch – thanks for letting us know! :-)
These prints are from 1959.
The vehicles are:
1913/14 Morris 'Oxford'
1904 De Dion Bouton 8
1904 Oldsmobile 7
1915 Ford Model 'T'
1911 Adler 12
Nice! It would be cool to have a few of these prints. I see some of them are available on Amazon as well.
On another subject regarding Dr. No, I saw this: (Director Terence) "Young shot about 90,000 feet of film for Dr. No as opposed to the normal 150,000 feet or the excessive 1 million feet used for big budget epic films from John Ford. Young does not like to shoot master shots or too much coverage, which got him into trouble several points in the film when he didn’t have something to cut to". So, though many of us agree Dr. No is a great film (#2 on my Bond list), perhaps it could've even been better.
https://filmschoolrejects.com/39-things-we-learned-from-the-banned-dr-no-commentary-28e2a5335144/
Brynner plays a CIA agent named Dan Slater in the film, and at the CIA headquarter office we see very early in the film, there are three items that caught my eye. Not only does the office feature the Bodil Kjær desk that can be seen twice in YOLT, but also the Vatne 807 chair and sofa – both of which can be seen in Tiger Tanaka's office!
The Double Man:
And funny enough, Dan Slater's boss and M both seem to love ships in display cabinets! Not the same ship (or cabinet) though, by the looks of it.
Eagle eyes again! :) I didn't spot that desk appears twice in YOLT, a bit naughty! Is The Double Man any good? I've not heard of that one.
Speaking of double appearances, someone on Twitter last night pointed out that the guy who gets knocked out in the basket shed at the end of FYEO is the fella who plays 009 in Octopussy- I never spotted that one!
The same desk also appears in FRWL and OHMSS, so they weren't afraid to use it!
It's quite good, I think. Far from the spectacle you might see in Bond, but a nice spy thriller. A bit darker and moody in tone, so in a way it's closer to the Harry Palmer films.
It is? Wow!
Does he though? When is that mentioned? He has a twenty year old car, but not a fifty year-old one.
When Bond bought his first car, there weren t any fifty year old cars around. I believe it was mentioned in CR that he bought an old car as a teen. This would have been in the 30s.
He wasn't supposed to have bought it as a young teen, it just turned out that way after Fleming kept adjusting his age downwards as the books continued. In the 50s, when the books were set, those cars in the prints were fifty years old.
Stuntman and actor Andy Bradford.
He also appears earlier in FYEO as the man up the ladder during the 2CV chase.
Or had him on a sledge the way they filmed skiiing scenes with principals in OHMSS and TWINE
"Bond’s car was his only personal hobby. One of the last of the 4½-litre Bentleys with the supercharger by Amherst Villiers (photo below at link), he had bought it almost new in 1933 and had kept it in careful storage through the war. It was still serviced every year and, in London, a former Bentley mechanic, who worked in a garage near Bond’s Chelsea flat, tended it with jealous care. Bond drove it hard and well and with an almost sensual pleasure. It was a battleship-gray convertible coupe, which really did convert, and it was capable of touring at ninety with thirty miles an hour in reserve."
Bentleys had raced at Le Mans and had set several speed records.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/jamesbond/images/7/7c/Blower_Bentley_Profile.png/revision/latest?cb=20121107161156
And apparently after Fleming received 6,000 pounds for the film rights to CR, he went out and bought a Ford Thunderbird. Fleming liked cars.
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc-cinema/cc-biography-ian-fleming-the-man-who-loved-thunderbirds/
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/when-ian-fleming-went-car-shopping/
He liked and enjoyed cars but I don't think he knew much about them (I think it's even a bit unclear which Bentley he was talking about when it came to Bond's second one, and he got the name of the Aston Martin in Goldfinger wrong), and there's not much to say that Bond has an interest in old cars beyond his own.
I think it's quite hard to get into a situation where you would have to chase someone on skis! :) It's a very specific set of conditions and kind of bizarre it's happened to Bond so many times! And although the sequence didn't quite come off, turning a plane into a giant skidoo is very Bond.