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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Great little Q scene here as well.

    Now comes Peter Franks..................
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond makes out with himself.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    ABC used to cut this fight scene down considerably.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Several close ups of Bond's shoes in this one.

    When I was a kid I had my folks buy me some dress shoes to look like Bond. I desperately tried to master the art of running around with slippery soles.

    I fell on my a$$ several times. But after awhile got pretty good at it. I had two or three pairs. One was a pair of slip- ons that I though resembled Roger's shoes in OCTOPUSSY.

    I'd run around my neighborhood like Bond. Industrial neighborhood with several warehouses actually. To a 10 year old, it looked like Auric Enterprises.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond and Leiter look like twins.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Sid Haig is one of my favorite character actors. A legend.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond gets knocked out by Wint and Kidd. As the camera moves in one can see Bond's taper is rather sloppily trimmed.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond cremated.

    I recall going to a friend's mother's cremation about 15 years ago. My friend was in the used record/video store business and I was staying with his family while I looked for an apartment. Sadly his mother was ill and passed, and we all went to the funeral/cremation.
    His business partner was an aggressive guy about my age. Tough as nails and I got along with him splendidly.
    After the coffin when into the furnace he looked at me and said "Wow. That was intense."

    It really was. Probably one of the most intense things either one of us had seen at that point.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond flirts with Plenty.
    Someday I'll visit Vegas, and either walk around humming the music as heard here or the Robert Urich Vega$ theme song.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond and Plenty are interrupted.
    Marc Lawrence is wonderful.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond undresses and we get to see the 1971 Sean in all his glory.

    Robert Mitchum used to suck in his gut and puff out his chest for shirtless scenes.
    He deliberately gained weight during the Howard Hughes RKO years because he was tired of taking his shirt off.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Blow up your pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Annie Oakley on the end!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I love how DAF has a mixture of fashion styles.
    The CIA men here look perfectly 1971, yet the actor who gives Tiffany the elephant would look right at home in an Abbott and Costello movie from the 1940's.

    I should look up who that actor is.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Larry J Blake.

    Learn something new every day.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Damn! He was in a ton of television. Even played Wally's driving instructor on LEAVE IT TO BEAVER.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    He was on some classic SUPERMAN episodes as well.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Gas station scene. The Mustang looked extremely red in the cinema.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The great Ed Bishop.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond on the moon. I love the Moon Buggy bit.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    DAF was the first Connery Bond I remember seeing on ABC Sunday Night At The Movies.
    Probably around 1980. I didn't pay attention to it since Jaws wasn't in it.

    Later after I had become a full fledged Bond fan it aired again in 1984 and I was enthralled.
    I was particularly interested in this one since NSNA had just come out and I was curious what Connery looked like in this one.

    A year later my folks bought our first VHS player and my mom rented DAF for me one afternoon when school let out early. I was reading Raymond Benson's Bedside Companion book, and the Rubin James Bond Films book daily. So I wanted to see ALL the Bonds in their un-edited versions.

    I watched DAF twice in a row that afternoon.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Norman Burton does have good chemistry with Sean, IMO. I'm appreciating him more and more as the years pass. In addition he has quite a bit of screen time.

    Bond mountaineers to the penthouse...............great scene.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited June 2018 Posts: 23,883
    I really enjoy these early 70s Hamilton Bond flicks these days, DAF included. They are somewhat idiosyncratic, eccentric and just a little trashy, but highly charismatic and colourful. Somehow it all works even though it perhaps shouldn't. Moreover, they all boast great scores, particularly DAF.

    That scene as Bond climbs Whyte's penthouse is an example of Barry at his best. Very suspenseful work by him there.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    bondjames wrote: »
    I really enjoy these early 70s Hamilton Bond flicks these days, DAF included. They are somewhat idiosyncratic, eccentric and just a little trashy, but highly charismatic and colourful. Somehow it all works even though it perhaps shouldn't. Moreover, they all boast great scores, particularly DAF.

    That scene as Bond climbs Whyte's penthouse is an example of Barry at his best. Very suspenseful work by him there.

    Great music. DAF has one of my favorite scores.


    I love Hamilton's tradition of having a little post climax fight with the henchman. DAF is a lot of fun for me.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Thumper and Bambi.............another great Barry cue.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    How many years did Donna Garrett receive credit for playing Bambi in the Bond reference books?
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    James is getting destroyed here.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I believe Tim had a similar scene in the scripts for B17.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Jimmy Dean is great. I doubt audiences today would get the Howard Hughes references in the Willard Whyte character.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    bondjames wrote: »
    I really enjoy these early 70s Hamilton Bond flicks these days, DAF included. They are somewhat idiosyncratic, eccentric and just a little trashy, but highly charismatic and colourful. Somehow it all works even though it perhaps shouldn't. Moreover, they all boast great scores, particularly DAF.

    That scene as Bond climbs Whyte's penthouse is an example of Barry at his best. Very suspenseful work by him there.

    Great music. DAF has one of my favorite scores.


    I love Hamilton's tradition of having a little post climax fight with the henchman. DAF is a lot of fun for me.
    Yes, that's a good point. It's been a long time since they've done that. SP arguably would have been a perfect opportunity. I'd like to see it again.
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Thumper and Bambi.............another great Barry cue.
    And really fun characters!
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    James is getting destroyed here.
    A serious trashing, but I always get the feeling he's just getting warmed up and letting them have their fun before he kicks it up a notch. Connery sells it well.
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