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Produced by Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli
Written by Richard Maibaum, Terence Young
Photography by Ted Moore
Assistant Art Director Syd Cain
Cast:
Anthony Newley as Noakes
Luciana Paluzzi as Carola
Bob Simmons as Mustapha
The Running Man 1963, the title sequence is by Maurice Binder
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Nightfall 1956
Hard Target (1993)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
Braveheart (1995)
I don't know if these were said but they sound like they could work for a Bond film imo.
No Time to Die (1984), Helmuth Ashley.
no time to die (2006), King Ampaw.
Bonditis (1967), Karl Suter.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166109/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
1h 40min | Comedy | 1 March 1968 (West Germany)
Frank Born believes himself to be a secret agent so his psychiatrist prescribes some time away at a relaxing village in the Swiss Alps. The delusional Born gets enmeshed in a secret international summit and is soon pursuing a coveted microfilm.
Director: Karl Suter
Writer: Karl Suter
Stars: Gerd Baltus, Marion Jacob, Christiane Rücker |
I always thought "Death Lends a Hand" had a Bondian feel to it. Got to love Columbo episode titles.
Endgame
On Stranger Tides
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1972), Milos Forman.
Too Hot to Handle (Playgirl After Dark) (1960), Terence Young.
Too Hot to Handle (1938), Jack Conway.
Too Hot to Handle, Ian Fleming, 1956. Perma Books paperback.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042170/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
You Asked For It, Ian Fleming, 1957. Perma Books paperback.
At the the Killington ski resort something has gone awry. Evil terrorists led by the sinister Greig have taken the resort hostage with a stolen nuclear device. It's up to Ski Patrol bum Matt Foster to save the day... and his fiancé.
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179861/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U-T1INtHP4
Wow, being a big John Gardner fan and a fan of Icebreaker (1983) that's the first time I've ever heard of that film. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, @RichardTheBruce. The film seems to get almost universally bad reviews on IMDb but it might be fun to track down and give a watch to see if there are any small similarities with the novel. I personally doubt it, but you never know. The Ice Palace in Die Another Day may be the closest we ever get to anything ever being adapted from Gardner's Icebreaker, however. As fans of the James Bond Continuation we must take what we can get when it comes to adaptations! :)
No Time To Die:
Into the Storm
The Invisible Woman
The Good German. Will Hans Zimmer deliever a good score or will he be a Badguy,... duh.!.
The Way Back
Now You See Me 2
The Darkest Minds
TMWTGG: No Name on the Bullet
Poster from the movie of 1959
@Dragonpol, I let the RiffTrax version of Icebreaker play in the background while I worked on other things. That kind of sets the stage for the quality of the film--low budget, low quality, low rent. I like the cast and can find entertainment in this kind of thing, but it's all over the place bouncing between family drama and violent shockers and milder violence and mild action and not very good. I can say Sean Astin can snowboard, skiers with guns chase him over the snow, and there's a snow machine chase. Unless I missed it there's really nothing to do with the Gardner novel. One description of it said: Die Hard on skis! It's not that, either.
I honestly didn't evaluate it for Gardner or Bond links, but I may take up that challenge. Notice the later video advertising below with RiffTrax yucking it up, and the action focus ignoring Sean Astin, the lead.
Here's a Bond link: that last cover IceBreaker imitates the GoldenEye type style for its title case.
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054678/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
The Best of Enemies (2019), Robin Bissell.
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4807408/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
My Best Enemy (Mein bester Feind, 2011), Wolfgang Mumberger.
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1822255/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046912/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
For a half second there, I thought that said "Bond Tits"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063041/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2
Dynamite Entertainment James Bond Hammerhead
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7207798/
Carte Blanche (2011), Heidi Specogna.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2023420/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_6
Carte Blanche (2015), Jucek Lusinski.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4329800/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
Reflections in a Golden Eye, Carson McCullers, 1941.
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), John Huston.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062185/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035897/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_dr#directors/
Forever and a Day (2011), Cathy Garcia-Molina.
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950175/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
Forever and a Day (2020), Zeke Jeremiah Campbell.
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10826164/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
There is also the interesting backstory to this almost-Bond-novel, published after the author's own passing.
Forever and a Death, Donald E. Westlake, 2017.
Birth.Movies.Death
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/08/31/exclusive-first-look-at-forever-and-a-death-donald-westlakes-lost-james-bon
Hard Case Crime
http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?title=Forever and a Death
MI6
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/literary-forever-and-a-death
Forever and a Day, Anthony Horowitz, 2018.