Film titles that sound like Bond movies/books

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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 2019 Posts: 13,941

  No Time to Die! (1958), Terence Young.
  
  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
  
  
  
  
• Fire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!

  August 2019 edited August 2019 Posts: 25,435

  
  The Running Man 1963, the title sequence is by Maurice Binder
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  Nightfall 1956
• infovise Ireland

  September 2019 Posts: 114

  There Will Be Blood (2006)
  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.
• Gerard

  September 2019 Posts: 6,022

  The last two could also work as titles for a Doctor Who episode.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 2019 Posts: 13,941

  NEMA VREMENA ZA SMRT (1984), Helmuth Ashley.
  
  
  No Time to Die (1984), Helmuth Ashley.
  
  
  no time to die (2006), King Ampaw.
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2019 edited November 2019 Posts: 13,941

  Funny to come across this.
  
  Bonditis (1967), Karl Suter.
  

  Bonditis (1967)
  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 |
  

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
• thedove hiding in the Greek underworld

  November 2019 Posts: 5,491

  Strikes me as the plot to Bill Murray comedy "The Man Who Knew too Little".
  
  I always thought "Death Lends a Hand" had a Bondian feel to it. Got to love Columbo episode titles.
  
  
• John3 The Netherlands

  November 2019 Posts: 17

  Scarface
  
  Endgame
  
  On Stranger Tides
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2019 Posts: 13,941

  Scarface is a good one, @John3. Dare I suggest this title.
  
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1972), Milos Forman.
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2019 edited January 2020 Posts: 13,941

  Goldengirl (1979), Joseph Sargent. Curd Jürgens, Robert Culp and James Coburn in the cast. Music by Bill Conti.
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  January 2020 Posts: 13,941

  Too Hot to Handle (1977), Don Schain.
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
• Safin_Unmasked

  January 2020 Posts: 68

  WOW - so THAT's what "Too Hot to Handle" posters look like!
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  January 2020 Posts: 13,941

  You Asked For It (1950-1959, Television). Art Baker, Jack Smith, Lon Chaney Jr., others.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042170/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  
  You Asked For It, Ian Fleming, 1957. Perma Books paperback.
  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  January 2020 Posts: 13,941

  The Golden Eye (1948), William Beaudine.
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  February 2020 edited February 2020 Posts: 13,941

  Icebreaker (2000), David Giancola, director. Sean Astin, Bruce Campbell, Stacy Keach.
  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
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• Dragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com

  February 2020 Posts: 18,348

  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  Icebreaker (2000), David Giancola, director. Sean Astin, Bruce Campbell, Stacy Keach.
  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! :)
• M_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands

  February 2020 Posts: 4,538

  Bombshell = Twine. Billie song Bad Guy is heard in tv spot.
  
  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
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  February 2020 edited February 2020 Posts: 13,941

  I like that No Name on the Bullet poster, @M_Balje.
  
  @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.
  
  

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  February 2020 Posts: 13,941

  What Have You Done to Solange? (1972), Massimo Dallamano.
  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Devil May Care (1929), Sidney Franklin.
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  The Best of Enemies (1961), Guy Hamilton. David Niven,
  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
  
  
  
  
• Fire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!

  March 2020 edited March 2020 Posts: 25,435

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2020 Posts: 13,941

  Dial M for Murder (1954), Alfred Hitchcock. Anthony Dawson (Charles Swann).
  IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046912/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  
• Thunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers

  March 2020 Posts: 815

  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  Funny to come across this.
  
  Bonditis (1967), Karl Suter.
  

  Bonditis (1967)
  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 |
  

  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  For a half second there, I thought that said "Bond Tits"
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  A natural for Celebrity Jeopardy, that one, @Thunderball.
  
  

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Hammerhead (1968), David Miller. Vince Edwards, Peter Vaughn, Diana Dors. Maggie Wright.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063041/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2
  
  
  

  
  

  
  Dynamite Entertainment James Bond Hammerhead

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2020 Posts: 13,941

  Carte Blanche (2019), Eva Dolezalova.
  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
  
  
  
  

  Carte Blanche, Jeffrey Deaver, 2011

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2020 Posts: 13,941

  A familar book to Fleming.
  
  
  
  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
  
  

  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  April 2020 Posts: 13,941

  Forever and a Day (1943), Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox, René Clair.
  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.
  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  
• Gerard

  April 2020 Posts: 6,022

  Just found that on Cracked :