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Any love for Syd Cain?

ToTheRightToTheRight
in Bond Movies Posts: 16,227
In light of the recent Ken Adam favorite set thread, does anyone have any love for Syd Cain's work?
OHMSS is my favorite of his films. The tunnels leading to Piz Gloria and Blofeld's office, Bond's imprisonment behind the cable car machinery, the Piz Gloria revolving dining room are all brilliant, IMO.
I also love the Fillet of Soul interiors in LALD as well as Kananga's underground HQ.

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  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,362
    I certainly enjoy his work. The Chess room from FRWL is one of my favorites.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,227
    Murdock wrote: »
    I certainly enjoy his work. The Chess room from FRWL is one of my favorites.
    That was a great set with the ceiling a matt painting. The gyspy camp was another great set as well.

  • tanaka123tanaka123
    Posts: 4,325
    Never understood his antipathy to the title of 'Production Designer'.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 5,131
    Murdock wrote: »
    I certainly enjoy his work. The Chess room from FRWL is one of my favorites.

    Exactly. Piz Gloria was a brilliant find.....exactly as Fleming described too.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited December 2017 Posts: 18,352
    suavejmf wrote: »
    Murdock wrote: »
    I certainly enjoy his work. The Chess room from FRWL is one of my favorites.

    Exactly. Piz Gloria was a brilliant find.....exactly as Fleming described too.

    Yes, and that so very rarely happens. It's just a part of what makes OHMSS the best film in the series IMHO. Just look at how the Japanese castle location was scuppered in the recce for the previous Bond film YOLT.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,227
    I wonder why he wasn't brought in to do TMWTGG?
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    Posts: 1,009
    Why of course we love Syd. OHMSS is aestethically one of the most deliciously eye catching films of its era. Piz Gloria is a top-5 Bond villain lair: so outwordly with those caverns and its psychdelic lightning, and at the same time so down-to-earth with its real-life exterior and its luxury hotel-like interior.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,227
    As much as I love Peter Lamont's work, and miss him in the newer films, Cain is my 2nd favorite after Ken Adam.
  • IGUANNAIGUANNA
    Posts: 1,296
    suavejmf wrote: »
    Murdock wrote: »
    I certainly enjoy his work. The Chess room from FRWL is one of my favorites.

    Exactly. Piz Gloria was a brilliant find.....exactly as Fleming described too.
    Forgive me if I'm stupid but wasn't Piz Gloria built for the film??
  • tanaka123tanaka123
    Posts: 4,325
    IGUANNA wrote: »
    suavejmf wrote: »
    Murdock wrote: »
    I certainly enjoy his work. The Chess room from FRWL is one of my favorites.

    Exactly. Piz Gloria was a brilliant find.....exactly as Fleming described too.
    Forgive me if I'm stupid but wasn't Piz Gloria built for the film??

    No, but it was renamed after the film.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 5,131
    It was a restaurant refurbished for the film.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 5,131
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    As much as I love Peter Lamont's work, and miss him in the newer films, Cain is my 2nd favorite after Ken Adam.

    Seconded.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited November 2016 Posts: 7,226
    As a big OHMSS fan I made the trip to Piz Gloria last year. They have a whole museum devoted to OHMSS and it must be one of the few places on earth where George is THE face of 007.

    Syd Cain obviously did some great work for Bond. The sets of LALD are among the best things in that movie. I've always been a fan of the chess room too.

    In a way Syd Cain is the antipode of Ken Adam. While the latter's sets were out of this world, Cain's were much more subtly integrated. Even to the point I can't really say which sets were made up and which ones were filmed on location.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 5,131
    Syd Cain created more Flemingesque (i.e. from the novels) sets than Adam. Bar DN.
  • AlexanderWaverlyAlexanderWaverly
    Posts: 2,115
    Non-Bond, but Cain was part of the art department of Our Man in Havana. Alec Guiness gets an idea from reading a newspaper comic strip which, has a Syd Cain byline.
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