Film titles that sound like Bond movies/books

Comments

• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2022 Posts: 13,807

  No close connections. But I liked the posters.
  
  
  Dynamite (1929), Cecil B. DeMille. Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019843/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_13
  Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
  
  
  
  
  Dynamite (1949), William H. Pine. William Gargan, Virginia Welles, Richard Crane.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041325/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_19
  Gunner is a veteran at working with dynamite, and is working for Jake. Slowly he becomes romantically interested in Jake's daughter Mary.
  
  
  
  
  Lady Dynamite (La padrina, 1973), Giuseppe Vari. Lidia Alfonsi, Venantino Venantini, Mario Danieli.
  Donna Costanza is married to a New Jersey mafia boss. During their 10 year wedding anniversary party he is shot and killed. His dying words to her are "Giarratana from Palermo". Costanza takes a trip to Palermo in order to avenge the death of her husband. Her target is Don Giarra... Read all
  
  
  
  
  Lady Dynamite (1983), Carlos Tobalina. Colleen Brennan, Shone Taylor, Blair Harris.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125331/
  When an exploitive doctor reveals a woman's husband gave her gonorrhea, she separates from the husband and immediately mounts a lover. She then heads from a yacht owner friend to a women sex party. Can makeup sex fix everything?
  
  
  
  
  From (Television, 2022), John Griffin. Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eion Bailey.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9813792/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  Unravel the mystery of a city in Central America that imprisons everyone who enters. As the residents struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy and seek a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest.
  
  
  
  
  Nightmare (1956), Maxwell Shane. Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049553/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_11
  A New Orleans musician has a nightmare about killing a man in a strange house but he suspects that it really happened.
  
  
  
  
  Nightmare (1964), Freddie Francis. David Knight,Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058405/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_6
  Janet is a young student at a private school; her nights are troubled by horrible dreams in which she sees her mother, who is in fact locked in an insane asylum, haunting her. Expelled because of her persistent nightmares, Janet is sent home where the nightmares continue.
  
  
  
  
  Land (2018), Babak Jalali. Rod Rondeaux, Florence C.M. Klein, Wilma Pelly.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3960820/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3
  A Native American family struggles with violence and alcohol, when news reaches the Reservation that one of them has died during military service in Afghanistan.
  
  
  
  
  Land (2021), Robin Wright. Robin Wright,Demián Bichir, Sarah Dawn Pledge.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10265034/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  From acclaimed actress Robin Wright comes her directorial debut LAND, the poignant story of one woman's search for meaning in the vast and harsh American wilderness. Edee (Wright), in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter (Demián Bichir) brings her back from the brink of death, she must find a way to live again.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Part Two - Them, Chapter 8 - Dynamite from Nightmare-land

  MY heart went to my mouth. Who could it possibly be? And then I remembered. The
  VACANCY sign! I had pulled the switch when the lightning struck and I had
  forgotten to turn the damned thing off. What an idiot! The banging started up
  again. Well, I would just have to face it, apologize, and send the people on to
  Lake George. I went nervously across to the door, unlocked it, and held it on
  the chain.
  
  There was no porch. The neon VACANCY sign made a red halo in the sheet of rain
  and glittered redly on the shiny black oilskins and hoods of the two men. Behind
  them was a black sedan. The leading man said politely, "Miss Michel?"
  
  "Yes, that's me. But I'm afraid the VACANCY sign's on by mistake. The motel's
  closed down."
  
  "Sure, sure. We're from Mr. Sanguinetti. From his insurance company. Come to
  make a quick inventory before things get taken away tomorrow. Can we come in out
  of the rain, miss? Show you our credentials inside. Sure is a terrible night."
  I looked doubtfully from one to the other, but I could see little of the faces
  under the oilskin hoods. It sounded all right, but I didn't like it. I said
  nervously, "But the Phanceys, the managers, they didn't say anything about you
  coming."
  
  "Well, they should of, miss. I'll havta report that back to Mr. Sanguinetti." He
  turned to the man behind him. "That right, Mr. Jones?"
  
  The other man stifled a giggle. Why did he giggle? "Sure, that's right, Mr.
  Thomson." He giggled again.
  
  "Okay then, miss. Can we come inside, please? It sure is wetter'n hell out
  here."
  
  "Well, I don't know. I was told not to let anyone in. But as it's from Mr.
  Sanguinetti..." I nervously undid the chain and opened the door.
  
  They pushed in, shouldering roughly past me, and stood side by side, looking the
  big room over. The man who had been addressed as "Mr. Thomson" sniffed. Black
  eyes looked at me out of a cold gray face. "You smoke?"
  
  "Yes, a little. Why?"
  
  "Reckoned you could have company." He took the door handle from me, slammed the
  door, locked it, and put up the chain. The two men stripped off their dripping
  oilskins and threw them messily down on the floor and, now that I could see them
  both, I felt in extreme danger.
  

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  April 2022 Posts: 13,807

  I Wake Up Screaming (1941), H. Bruce Humberstone. Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033740/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  Why is Inspector Ed Cornell trying to railroad Frankie Christopher for the murder of model Vicky Lynn?
  
  
  
  
  Carry on Screaming! (1966), Gerald Thomas. Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Harry H. Corbett.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060214/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_23
  The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores.
  
  
  
  
  Scream Baby Scream (1969), Joseph Adler. Ross Harris, Eugenie Wingate, Chris Martell.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064950/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  A psycho artist kidnaps models and slices up their faces to create new mutant models.
  
  
  
  
  Scream and Scream Again (1970), Gordon Hessler. Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064949/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_14
  A serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London. The police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
  
  
  
  
  And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973), Roy Ward Baker. Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069715/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_83
  England, 1795: the young Catherine has just married Charles Fengriffen and moves into his castle. She becomes the victim of an old curse that lays on the family. On her wedding night she is raped by a ghost and gets pregnant.
  
  
  
  
  When the Screaming Starts (2021), Conor Boru. Yasen Atour, Vår Haugholt, Ronja Haugholt.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11299422/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_71
  When Norman Graysmith is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aidan Mendle, he believes he has the subject for the documentary that will make his career.
  
  
  
  
  After the Screaming Stops (2018), Joe Pearlman, David Soutar. Luke Goss, Matt Goss, Ron Perlman.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7068942/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  In the 1980s, "BROS" were on of the biggest bands in the world - for 15 minutes. A raw and emotional look into the aftermath of fame and the re-connection between two twins torn apart by their past.
  
  
  
  
  If She Screams (2021), Stephen Garnett. Romy Boloix, Desma Triplett, Shelby Lyn.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8278572/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  Kassi's friend takes her to a farm, up in the hills of Northern California, but when all hell breaks loose, she will be put through a gauntlet of terror, and fight to make it off the mountain alive.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Part Two - Them, Chapter 9 - Then I Began to Scream

  I HEARD a single bullet crash into the metal frame of the door, and then, with
  my hand cushioning the ice-pick so it didn't stick into me, I was running hell
  for leather across the wet grass. Mercifully the rain had let up, but the grass
  was soaking and slippery under my hopeless flat soles, and I knew 1 wasn't
  making enough speed. I heard a door crash open behind me, and Sluggsy's voice
  shouted, "Hold it, or you're cold turkey!" I began to weave, but then the shots
  came, carefully, evenly spaced, and bees whipped past me and slapped into the
  grass. Another ten yards and I would be at the corner of the cabins and out of
  the light. I dodged and zigzagged, my skin quivering as it waited for the
  bullet. A window in the last cabin tinkled with broken glass, and I was round
  the corner. As I dived into the soaking wood I heard a car start up. What was
  that for?

  It was terrible going. The dripping pines were thick together, their branches
  overlapping, and they tore at the arms crossed over my face. It was black as
  pitch and I couldn't see a yard ahead. And then suddenly I could, and I sobbed
  as I realized what the car was for, for now its blazing headlights were holding
  me from the edge of the trees. As I tried to dodge the searching eyes, I heard
  the engine rev to aim the car and immediately they had me again. There was no
  room for maneuver and I just had to make headway in whatever direction the trees
  allowed me. When would the shooting start up again? I was a bare thirty yards
  inside the forest. It would be any minute now! My breath was sobbing out of my
  throat. My clothes had begun to tear, and I could feel bruises coming on my
  feet. I knew I couldn't hold out much longer. I would just have to find the
  thickest tree and try and lose the lights for a minute and crawl in under the
  tree and hide. But why no bullets? I stumbled away to the right, found brief
  darkness, and dived to my knees among the soaking pine needles. There was a tree
  like any other, its branches sweeping the ground, and I crawled in under them
  and up against the trunk and waited for the rasping of my breath to quieten
  down.
  
  And then I heard one of them coming in after me, not softly because that was
  impossible, but steadily, and stopping every now and then to listen. By now the
  man, whichever it was, must realize from the silence that I had gone to ground.
  If he knew anything about tracking, he would soon find where the broken branches
  and scuffed earth stopped. Then it would only be a question of time. I softly
  squirmed round to the back of the tree, away from him, and watched the lights
  from the car hold steady in the glistening wet branches above my head.
  The feet and the snapping twigs were coming nearer. Now I could hear the heavy
  breathing. Sluggsy's voice, very near, said softly, "Come on out, baby. Or poppa
  spank real hard. Da game of tag is over. Time to come home to poppa."
  The small eye of a flashlight began searching under the trees, carefully, tree
  by tree. He knew I was only a few yards away. Then the light stopped and held
  steady under my tree. Sluggsy said softly, delightedly, "Hi, baby! Poppa find!"
  Had he? I lay still, hardly breathing.
  
  There came the roar and flame of a single shot, and the bullet smacked into the
  tree-trunk behind my head. "That's just a hastener, baby. Next time it takes
  your little footsie off."
  
  So that was what showed! I said, weary with fright, "All right. I'll come. But
  don't shoot!" And I scrambled out on all fours, thinking hysterically, This is a
  fine way to go to your execution, Viv!
  
  The man stood there, his pale head fretted with yellow light and black shadows.
  His gun was pointed at my stomach. He waved it sideways. "Okay. Get ahead of me.
  An' if you don't keep moving, you'll get a root in that sweet little keister of
  yours."
  
  I stumbled ignominiously through the trees toward the distant, glaring eyes of
  the car. Hopelessness had me by the throat, and an ache of self-pity. What had I
  done to deserve this? Why had God picked on me as a victim for these two unknown
  men? Now they would be really angry. They would hurt me and later almost
  certainly kill me. But the police would dig the bullets out of me! What evil
  crime were they engaged on that made them indifferent to the evidence of my dead
  body? Whatever the crime was, they must be quite confident that there would be
  no evidence. Because there would be no me! They would bury me, drop me in the
  lake with a stone round my neck!

  I came out through the fringe of the trees. The thin man leaned out of the car
  and called to Sluggsy, "Okay. Take her back. Don't treat her rough. That's for
  me." He put the car into reverse.

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  April 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Me and Him (Ich und er, 1988), Doris Dörrie. Griffin Dunne, Ellen Greene, Kelly Bishop.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093240/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_25
  A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.
  
  
  
  
  Him (Original title: The Devil's Warehouse, 2016) Luis Antonio Rodriguez. Oscar Javier Gutierrez II, Erik Alamia, Natalie Bugarin.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6268594/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_14
  When a businessman fails to keep his end of a deal with the devil, his warehouse becomes haunted. When a group of paranormal investigators decide to spend the night at the warehouse trying to determine if the legends of the haunting are true, they are stalked by a horrifying clown. As evil descends upon the crew, they are forced to fight for their survival or end up the latest victims of ...HIM.
  
  
  
  
  Why Him? (2016), John Hamburg. Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Zoey Deutch, Tangie Ambrose.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4501244/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_9
  A holiday gathering threatens to go off the rails when Ned Fleming realizes that his daughter's Silicon Valley millionaire boyfriend is about to pop the question.
  
  
  
  
  Thinking of Him (2018), Pablo César. Victor Banerjee, Eleonora Wexler, Héctor Bordoni.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6113666/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_55
  Thinking of Him Synopsis Two stories intertwine over the time. In the present, Felix, pessimistic and lazy teacher encounter a book that dazzles him, while he teaches geography in a detention center for minors. IIn the past Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet, author of the book that has come to Felix arrives in Argentina and hosted by Victoria Ocampo, who lives a brief and innocent romance. Felix While more and more obsessed with the story of the poet and journalist, it is approaching to the spiritual notions on which Tagore founded a revolutionary school in India.
  
  
  
  
  You Know Him (2020), Ercan Kesal. Ercan Kesal, Selin Yenincim Inanç Konukçu.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11448936/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_37
  Ercan Kesal's debut feature, a one-day tragicomic story of doctor Kemal, who wants to become a candidate for Istanbul's Beyoglu district mayor. He is trying every way to become a candidate. Unexpected events will occur that night.
  
  
  
  
  HIM (Original title: Han, 2021), Guro Bruusgaard. Emil Johnsen, Johannes Joner, Frank Werner Laug.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13651868/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_15
  The male role's fall in the contemporary Norway. 1 day in Oslo: Harald (11) is a boy who constantly falls outside every group. Emil (30) is unemployed, angry and looks down on all. Petter (60) is a making a film about hero Fridtjof Nansen.
  
  
  
  
  Him (2021), Scott D Clark, Frank Souter. Martin GroseIzzy Stevens, Jeremy Johnstone.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12421180/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_18
  A series of murders in the city has detectives racing the clock to stop a monster on the hunt. Sex workers are being murders while the killer taunts police and the families of the victims with haunting letters signed as 'Him'
  
  
  
  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Part Three - Him, Chapter 10 - Whassat?t[/b]

  "KERIST, whassat?" Sluggsy had backed away, and his hand was inside his leather
  jacket.
  
  Horror recovered himself first. There was a cold snarl on his face. "Git over
  behind the door, Sluggsy. Hold your fire until I tell you. You,"—he spat the
  words at me--"get yourself into shape. You've got to front for us. If you don't
  do it good, you're dead. Understand? You'll be shot. Now get over to that door
  and find out who it is. Tell 'em the same story you told us. Get me? And take
  that silly expression off your face. No one's going to hurt you if you do what I
  say. Pull that zipper up, dammit!" I was struggling with the thing. It was
  stuck. "Well, hold the damn thing together across your chest and get moving.
  I'll be right behind you. And don't forget, one wrong word and you get blasted
  through the back. And the guy, too. Now scram over there."
  
  My heart was beating wildly. Somehow, whatever happened, I was going to save
  myself!

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  April 2022 Posts: 13,807

  
  What? (Che?, 1972), Roman Polanski. Marcello Mastroianni, Sydne Rome, Hugh Griffith.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070913/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_25
  During her Italian vacation, a young and beautiful American tourist finds herself as a guest in a coastal villa inhabited by a bunch of odd people.
  
  
  
  
  What Is It? (2005), Crispin Glover. Michael Blevis, Carlos Richardson, Lisa Fusco.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118141/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  What Is It? is a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film from the visionary mind of Crispin Glover that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes.
  
  
  
  
  What It Was (2014), Daniel Armando. Arlene Chico-Lugo,Dee Herlihy, Melissa Navia.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2882426/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_49
  An old flame is reignited and a new desire is awaken when Hollywood Actress Adina J. Spencer returns back to New York. Soon she is forced to face her sexual past, confront her present identity, and admit her true love.
  
  
  
  
  What? (2021), Alek Lev. John Maucere, Josh Breslow, Josep Daniel Rosello.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10988894/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_39
  WHAT? is a black and white, silent (and signing) comedy about a struggling deaf actor, sick of agreeing to increasingly humiliating tasks just to get a role, who decides to take matters into his own - hands.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Part Three - Him, Chapter 10 - Wassat?

  Sluggsy said contemptuously, "Kerist! A limey! What is this, the United Nations?"
  

  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  April 2022 Posts: 13,807

  A Bedtime Story (1933), Norman Taurog. Maurice Chevalier, Helen Twelvetrees, Edward Everett Horton.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023787/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_54
  Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanizing.
  
  
  
  
  Bedtime Story (1941), Alexander Hall. Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033382/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3
  A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.
  
  
  
  
  Bedtime Story (1964), Ralph Levy. Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057878/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  Two scam artists prey on women for their money. They clash in a Mediterranean hot spot. Will the cultured, high-class con artist come out on top, or will the rough small-change scammer rise to win the wager?
  
  
  
  
  Bedtime Stories (2002), Maryo J. de los Reyes. Maricar De Mesa, Leandro Baldemor, Anton Bernardo.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344910/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_11
  
  
  
  
  Bedtime Stories (2008), Adam Shankman. Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Courteney Cox.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960731/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_9
  A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.
  
  
  
  
  Deadtime Stories (1986), Jeffrey Delman. Scott Valentine, Nicole Picard, Matt Mitler.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092850/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4
  A babysitting uncle tells his nephew three horror stories about killer witches, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and "Goldi Lox" and the three bears.
  
  
  
  
  Deadtime Stories: Volume 1 (2009), Michael Fischa (segment Dust), Jeff Monahan (segment On Sabbath Hill), Tom Savini (segment House Call). George A. Romero,Amy Marsalis, Marty Schiff.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1334526/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  An anthology of three horror stories presented by George Romero. In "Quota," a pair of young lovers drive to Lovers' Leap, only to be attacked by a mysterious creature. In "Wet," a lonely man finds an empty box on the beach and opens it, with disastrous results. In "Valley of the Shadow," a woman searches for her missing husband in the jungles of South America, only to be in great danger herself.
  
  
  
  
  Deadtime Stories: Volume 2 (2011), Michael Fischa, Jeff Monahan, Matt Walsh. George A. Romero, Aric Amendolea, Kristen Barrega.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156300/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_6
  In this anthology of horror tales, two hikers are trapped in a cave-in, a jilted teen lover turns bad, and a man is murderously desperate to help his ailing wife.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Part Three - Me, Chapter 11 - Bedtime Story

  I HOISTED myself up onto the drainboard of the sink just beside him so that he
  could talk to me quietly— and so that I could be near to him. I refused another
  cigarette, and he lit one and gazed for a long minute into the mirror, watching
  the two gangsters. I looked too. The two men just stared back with a passive,
  indifferent hostility that seeped steadily across the room like poison gas. I
  didn't much like their indifference and their watchfulness. It seemed so
  powerful, so implacable, as if the odds were on their side and they had all the
  time in the world. But this James Bond didn't seem worried. He just seemed to be
  weighing them up, like a chess player. There was a certitude of power, of
  superiority, in his eyes that worried me. He hadn't seen these men in action. He
  couldn't possibly know what they were capable of, how at any moment they might
  just blaze away with their guns, blowing our heads off like coconuts in a circus
  sideshow, and then toss our bodies in the lake with stones to keep them down.
  But then James Bond began talking, and I forgot my nightmares and just watched
  his face and listened.
  
  "In England," he said, "when a man, or occasionally a woman, comes over from the
  other side, from the Russian side, with important information, there's a fixed
  routine. Take Berlin, for instance, and that's the most usual come-over route.
  To begin with they get taken to intelligence headquarters and get treated at
  first with extra suspicion. That's to try and take care of double agents—people
  who pretend to come over and, once they've been cleared by security, begin
  spying on us from inside, so to speak, and pass their stuff back to the
  Russians. There are also triple agents—people who do what the doubles have done,
  but change their minds and, under our control, pass phony intelligence back to
  the Russians. Do you understand? It's nothing but a complicated game, really.
  But then so's International politics, diplomacy—all the trappings of nationalism
  and the power complex that goes on between countries. Nobody will stop playing
  the game. It's like the hunting instinct."
  
  "Yes, I see. It all seems idiotic to my generation. Like playing that old game
  'Attaque,' really. We need some more Jack Kennedys. It's all these old people
  about. They ought to hand the world over to younger people who haven't got the
  idea of war stuck in their subconscious. As if it were the only solution. Like
  beating children. It's much the same thing. It's all out of date—Stone Age
  stuff."
  
  He smiled. "As a matter of fact I agree, but don't spread your ideas too widely
  or I'll find myself out of a job."

  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  April 2022 Posts: 13,807

  

  Hamlet, William Shakespeare, 1603.
  Act 3, Scene 1.

  To be, or not to be, that is the question:
  Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
  Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
  And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
  No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
  The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
  That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
  Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,
  To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,

  For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
  When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
  Must give us pause. There's the respect
  That makes Calamity of so long life:
  For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time,
  The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's Contumely,
  The pangs of dispised Love, the Law’s delay,
  The insolence of Office, and the spurns
  That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
  When he himself might his Quietus make
  With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear,
  To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
  But that the dread of something after death,
  The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
  No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
  And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
  Than fly to others that we know not of?
  Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
  And thus the native hue of Resolution
  Is sicklied o'er, with the pale cast of Thought,
  And enterprises of great pitch and moment,
  With this regard their Currents turn awry,
  And lose the name of Action. Soft you now,
  The fair Ophelia? Nymph, in thy Orisons
  Be all my sins remember'd.

  

  Hamlet, Laurence Olivier, 1948.
  
  Hamlet - To be or not to be - Laurence Olivier (3:25)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DcoiAAuoeg
  HAMLET - Laurence Olivier - 1948 - HD Restored - 4K (2:33:28)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsPPI_7x1dk

  Hamlet, Bill Colleran, John Gielgud, 1964.
  Hamlet "To be or not to be" - Richard Burton (6:13)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsrOXAY1arg
  HAMLET - Richard Burton - John Gielgud - Broadway production - 1964 - HD Restored - 4K (3:10:58)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vABGEzB7T9M

  

  
  
  
  
  Perchance to Dream (Lights Out, episode aired Dec 17, 1951), William Corrigan. William Eythe, Logan Ramsey, Louanna Gardner.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0632318/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_25
  Jeff Morgan reads a story in a pulp fiction magazine exactly like one he'd written and filed away years earlier. His meeting with the author, Frank Joyce, is eerie; he already knows everything about the man without having met him before. Convinced Frank is his doppelganger, Jeff panics when he dreams Frank steps onto an elevator that malfunctions.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2n_bFOQowI
  
  
  
  Perchance to Dream (The Twilight Zone, episode aired Nov 27, 1959), Robert Florey. Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734612/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_32
  A fatigued man fights to stay awake as he explains to a psychiatrist that if he falls asleep it will trigger a nightmare, which will cause his heart to fail.

  

  
  
  
  
  Perchance to Kill (Barnaby Jones, episode aired Mar 11, 1973), Walter Grauman. Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether, Eric Braeden.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0518902/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_28
  After a blow kills his lover's husband, the quick-thinking killer calls police and, pretending to be the victim, lays the blame on two hippies. Barnaby realizes there's something wrong with the story and works to find the facts.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fizOYGzwFHU
  
  
  
  To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream (1976), Manuel Mur Oti. Rafael Arcos, Israel Morales, Ernesto Martín.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074918/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_20
  An old empty mansion. The ghost of a man who lived there returns to recall the crucial moments of a lifetime. Faced with the proximity of death, the experiences of his past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives crucial moments of his life and his family, from 1915 to 1966, almost always linked to the names of several women.
  
  
  
  
  To Sleep So as to Dream (1986), Kaizô Hayashi. Morio Agata, Kenji Endo, Fujiko Fukamizu.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092274/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4
  An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter, Bellflower. The two follow a succession of bizarre, obscure clues, until they track down the location of the kidnappers and the daughter.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgIgIOeExl8
  
  
  
  Perchance to Dream (Batman: The Animated Series, aired Oct 19, 1992), Boyd Kirkland. Kevin Conroy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Bob Hastings.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519611/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_40
  After being knocked out in a mysterious warehouse, Batman wakes up in a world where his parents are alive, he is engaged to Selina Kyle, and someone else is Batman.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Part Three - Me, Chapter 12 - To Sleep--Perchance to Die!

  WHILE Sluggsy made for the back door and went out into the night, the thin man
  came slowly over to us. He leaned against the edge of the counter. "Okay, folks.
  Break it up. It's midnight. We're turning off the electricity. My friend's
  getting emergency oil-lamps from the storehouse. No sense wasting juice. Mr.
  Sanguinetti's orders." The words were friendly and reasonable. Had they decided
  to give up their plans, whatever they were, because of this man Bond? I doubted
  it. The thoughts that listening to James Bond's story had driven away came
  flooding back. I was going to have to sleep with these two men in the adjoining
  cabins on both sides of me. I must make my room impregnable. But they had the
  passkey! I must get this man Bond to help me.
  
  James Bond yawned hugely. "Well, I'll certainly be glad of some sleep. Came a
  long way today, and I've got plenty more to cover tomorrow. And you must be
  ready for bed, too, with all your worries."
  
  "Come again, mister?" The thin man's eyes had sharpened.
  
  "It's a pretty responsible job you've got."
  
  "What job's that?"
  
  "Oh, being an insurance assessor. On a valuable property like this. Must be
  worth half a million dollars, I'd say. By the way, are either of you bonded?"

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  May 2022 Posts: 13,807

  
  Crash of Moons (1954), Hollingsworth Morse. Richard Cran, Scotty Beckett, Sally Mansfield.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045655/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3
  This was never released as a feature film but, instead, is comprised of 3 episodes from the TV series, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954) which were edited together and released on video as a feature-length story.
  
  
  
  
  Crash! (1976), Charles Band. José Ferrer, Sue Lyon, John Ericson.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075887/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_21
  After a woman is nearly killed in a car accident, a doctor investigates the collision, which points toward revenge, destruction, and occult.
  
  
  
  
  Starcrash (1978), Luigi Cozzi. Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_18
  An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a secret weapon by the evil Count Zarth Arn.
  
  
  
  
  Crash (2004), Paul Haggis. Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_9
  Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Part Three - Me, Chapter 13 - The Crash of Guns

  Of course James Bond had said that flippantly, in a cross-my-fingers way, like
  the skiers I had known in Europe who said "Hals und Beinbruch!" to their friends
  before they took off on the slalom or the downhill race. To wish them "Break
  your neck and your leg" before the off was to avert accidents, to invoke the
  opposite of the evil eye. James Bond was just being "British"—using a throwaway
  phrase to buck me up. Well, I wished he hadn't. The crash of guns, gangsters,
  attempted murders, were part of his job, his life. They weren't part of mine,
  and I blamed him for not being more sensitive, more human.
  
  Where was he now? Working his way through the shadows, using the light of the
  flames as cover, pricking up his senses for danger? And what were the enemy
  doing? Were they waiting for him in ambush? Would there suddenly be a roar of
  gunfire? Then screams?

  I didn't wait for James. I ran out into the road and began blazing away at the
  back of the car and heard some of my bullets wham into the metal. Then the
  hammer clicked on nothing, and I stood and swore at the thought of them getting
  away. But then came the steady crash of James's gun from the far side of the
  lawn, while fire spat back from the front window of the car. Until all of a
  sudden the black sedan seemed to go crazy. It made a wide swerve and looked to
  be heading across the lawn straight for James. For a moment he was caught in its
  great lights as he stood there, the sweat gleaming on his naked chest, and
  fired, in the classic stance of the dueler, as if at a charging animal. I
  thought he was going to be mown down and I began to run across the grass toward
  him, but then the car veered away and, its engine roaring in bottom gear, made
  straight for the lake.

  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  May 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Bimbo's Auto (1954), Eric Porter.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629239/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_8
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2upaNVLeDs
  
  
  
  Bimbo the Great (1958), Harald Philipp. Claus Holm, Germaine Damar, Elma Karlowa.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052137/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_33
  
  
  
  
  Bimbo (1969), Jun Aristorenas. Robin Aristorenas, Leopoldo Salcedo, Eddie Garcia.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1198544/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3
  
  
  
  
  Bimbo Penitentiary (1992), Lawrence Greenberg. Robin Andrews, Alicia Anne, Michelle Bauer.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180530/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_31
  In futuristic Los Angeles, former basketball player Roundtree (Michelle Bauer) plots to break into a prison to liberate her wrongly-convicted friend.
  
  [Photo Not Found]
  
  
  Bimbos in Time (1993), Todd Sheets. Jenny Admire, Deric Bernier, Kyrie King.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144105/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_7
  
  
  
  
  Bimbo Movie Bash (1997), Mike Mendez, Dave Parker. Ian Abercrombie, Adrienne Barbeau, Michelle Bauer.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118724/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4
  A squadron of outer space bimbos decide to take revenge on the male chauvinists of Earth.
  
  
  
  
  Bimboland (1998), Ariel Zeitoun. Judith Godrèche, Aure Atika, Gérard Depardie.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181978/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_5
  A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes one of them in order to do that, and the professor she loves falls for her new identity.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Part Three - Me, Chapter 15 - Bimbo

  CABIN Number 3 was airless and stuffy. While James Bond collected our "luggage"
  from among the trees, I opened the glass slats of the windows and turned down
  the sheets on the double bed. I should have felt embarrassed, but I didn't. I
  just enjoyed housekeeping for him by moonlight. Then I tried the shower and
  found miraculously that there was still full pressure, though farther down the
  line many stretches of the pipes must have melted. The top cabins were nearer to
  the main. I stripped off all my clothes and made them into a neat pile and went
  into the shower and opened a new cake of Camay ("Pamper your Guests with Pink
  Camay—With a scent like costly French Perfume... blended with Fine Cold Cream" I
  remembered, because it sounded so succulent, it said on the packet) and began to
  lather myself all over, gently, because of the bruises.
  
  Through the noise of the shower, I didn't hear him come into the bathroom. But
  suddenly there were two more hands washing me and a naked body was up against
  mine and I smelled the sweat and the gunpowder and I turned and laughed up into
  his grimy face and then I was in his arms and our mouths met in a kiss that
  seemed as if it would never end while the water poured down and made us shut our
  eyes.

  I relaxed my cramped fingers and reached down for his hand. I said, "James,
  what's a bimbo?"
  
  "Why?"
  
  "I'll tell you when you've told me."
  
  He laughed sleepily. "It's gangster language for a whore."
  
  "I thought it was something like that. They kept on calling me that. I suppose
  it must really be true."
  
  "You don't qualify."
  
  "Promise you don't think I'm a bimbo?"
  
  "Promise. You're just a darling chick. I'm cow-simple about you."
  
  "What's that mean?"
  
  "It means crazy for a girl. Now, that's enough questions. Go to sleep." He
  kissed me gently and turned over on his side.
  
  I curled up against him, fitting myself close in to his back and thighs. "This
  is a nice way to sleep—like spoons. Good night, James."
  
  "Good night, darling Viv."

  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  May 2022 Posts: 13,807

  

  
  The Writing on the Wall (1916), Tefft Johnson. Joseph Kilgour, Virginia Pearson, Naomi Childers.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007594/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4
  Irving Lawrence, prominent and wealthy, owns a large number of tenements in the poor section of the city which are among the city's most objectionable dwelling places. His wife, Barbara, and his brother. Schuyler, are interested in social uplift, but are unable to secure Irving's... Read all
  
  
  
  
  The Writing on the Wall (1983), Armand Gatti. John Deehan, Brendan 'Archie' Jeeney, Paddy Doherty.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257974/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2
  
  
  
  
  The Writing on the Wall (1996), Peter Smith. Lena Stolze, Martin Glyn Murray, Bill Paterson.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111750/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_9
  When a bomb explodes in a British RAF base in Germany, MI5 terrorist specialist Bull (Bill Paterson) is called in to investigate. However, the further he begins to dig into the secrets behind the terrorism, the more he finds himself immersed in dodgy goings-on in the corridors of power of NATO itself.
  
  
  
  
  Writing on the Wall (2011), Nick Peterson. Alien Virtual, Dolly di Rosso, Jenia Emmanuelle.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1238847/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_31
  Documentary feature about a series of graffiti on the walls of London and New York depicting the 'Map of the Universe'. It's 1999 and over a candle-lit dinner Mary Jane d'Arbanville and Paul X are reading their diary of the nineties.
  
  
  
  
  Sam Smith: Writing's on the Wall (2015), Luke Monaghan. Daniel Craig (archive footage), Sam Smith.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7603658/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  Official music video for "Writing's on the Wall" by Sam Smith.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jzDnsjYv9A
  
  
  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Part Three - Me, Chapter 15 - The Writing on my Heart

  THOSE were the last words he spoke to me. When I woke up the next morning he was
  gone. There was only the dent down the bed where he had lain, and the smell of
  him on the pillow. To make sure, I jumped out of bed and ran to see if the gray
  car was still there. It wasn't.
  
  It was a beautiful day and there was heavy dew on the ground, and in the dew I
  could see the single track of his footprints leading to where the car had been.
  A bobolink flew crying across the clearing, and from somewhere in the trees came
  the dying call of a mourning dove.
  
  The ruins of the motel were black and hideous, and a ghostly wisp of smoke rose
  straight up into the still air from the remains of the lobby block. I went back
  into the cabin and had a shower and began briskly to pack my things into my two
  saddlebags. Then I saw the letter on the dressing table and I went and sat on
  the bed and read it.
  
  It was written on motel paper from the writing desk. The writing was very clear
  and even, and he had used a real pen and not a ball-point.

  Dear Viv,
  
  You may have to show this to the police, so I will be businesslike. I am on my
  way to Glens Falls, where I will make a full report to the police after
  telling the Highway Patrol to get to you immediately. I will also get in touch
  with Washington and they will almost certainly put Albany in charge of the
  case. I shall pull every string to see that you are not worried too much and
  that they let you go on your way after getting your statement. Glens Falls
  will have my route and the registration number of the car, and they will be
  able to pick me up, wherever I am, if you need any help or they want to know
  anything more from me. You won't be able to get any breakfast so I shall have
  the Patrol bring you a Thermos of coffee and sandwiches to keep you alive. I
  would much like to stay with you, if only to see Mr. Sanguinetti! But I very
  much doubt if he will be turning up this morning. I guess that when he heard
  nothing from his two strong-arm boys he went like hell to Albany and got on
  the first plane for the south on his way out to Mexico. I shall tell
  Washington that that's my guess and they should be able to pick him up if they
  get a move on. He should get life for this, or what's known as "from now on,"
  or "The Rosary," in the language we've been learning. And now listen. You, and
  up to a point me, have saved the insurance company at least half a million
  dollars, and there'll be a big reward. I'm not allowed to accept rewards by
  the rules of my job, so there's no argument about that, even if it weren't a
  fact that it was you who took the principal burden of all this and it's you
  who are the heroine. So I'm going to make a real issue of this and see that
  the insurance company does the right thing. And something else. I wouldn't be
  at all surprised if one or both of those hoodlums wasn't wanted by the police
  and has a reward on his head. I'll see to that too. As for the future, drive
  very carefully the rest of the way. And don't have nightmares. These sort of
  things don't often happen. Treat it all as just a bad motor accident you were
  lucky to get out of. And go on being as wonderful as you are. If you ever want
  me or need any help, wherever you are, you can get me by letter or cable, but
  not by telephone, c/o Ministry of Defence, Storey's Gate, London, S.W. 1.
  
  Ever, J.B.
  
  PS. Your tyre pressures are too high for the South.
  Remember to take them down.
  PPS. Try Guerlain's "Fleurs des Alpes" instead of Camay!
  * * *

  
  
  
  

  

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  May 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Escape from the Sea (1968), Peter Seabourne. Lieutenant Baston, Nicky Brockway, C.P.O. Fairfield.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290190/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_47
  While on a trip to Cornwall, a young boy named Chris goes sailing in a small boat but gets swept out to sea and into grave danger.
  
  
  
  
  Figures in a Landscape (1970), Joseph Losey. Robert Shaw (screenplay), Barry England(novel). Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065720/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_14
  Two escapees are on the run in the wilderness of an unspecified country. Wherever they go, they are followed by a menacing black helicopter.
  
  
  
  Trailer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UcaYsQ37Qo
  Film (1:48:05)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5pJLX5AzkQ
  Spongebob Squarepants: The Seascape Capers (2004), . Lori Alan. Carlos Alazraqui, Rodger Bumpass.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4055578/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_23
  Dive down to Bikini Bottom for this collection of 10 underwater nuggets featuring everyone's favorite sponge. SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom pals are ready to have a hilariously good time when SpongeBob and Patrick face off in the Fast Food Olympics, where only one will be victorious, SpongeBob tries to teach Squidward and Patrick the fine art of bubble blowing, and Squidward only has one student enroll in his art class - SpongeBob - who proves to be, hands-down, more talented than his instructor. Then whoa! What has SpongeBob's breath smelling so bad?! Then it's time for some underwater pranks when SpongeBob and Patrick get their hands on invisible spray, an underwater romance is brewing when Mr. Krabs and Mrs. Puff start dating, SpongeBob declares himself too old for Grandma's kissy kisses, a screaming giant oyster wreaks havoc, SpongeBob tells on the Tattletale Strangler, and... is Mr. Krabs a robot?! Find out in this waterlogged collection that'll really float your boat!
  
  
  
  
  Seestück (Seascape, 2018), Volker Koepp. Barbara Frankenstein, Volker Koepp writer.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9011390/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
  Travelling to the island of Usedom, the beaches of Poland, the Baltic coasts, and the northern archipelago of Sweden, the director shows the impressive natural landscapes and the different regions on the Baltic Sea as the home of a wide variety of people. The political conflicts between East and West, regional egoism, and ecological problems are also reflected in the history and the present of the sea.
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 1 - Seascape with Figures

  IT WAS one of those Septembers when it seemed that the summer would never end.
  The five-mile promenade of Royale-les-Eaux, backed by trim lawns emblazoned at intervals with tricolour beds of salvia, alyssum and lobelia, was bright with nags and, on the longest beach in the north of France, the gay bathing tents still marched prettily down to the tide-line in big, money-making battalions. Music, one of those lilting accordion waltzes, blared from the loudspeakers around the Olympic-size piscine and, from time to time, echoing above the music, a man's voice announced over the public address system that Philippe Bertrand, aged seven, was looking for his mother, that Yolande Lefevre was waiting for her friends below the dock at the entrance, or that a Madame Dufours was demanded on the telephone. From the beach, particularly from the neighbourhood of the three playground enclosures -'Joie de Vivre', 'Helio' and 'Azur' - came a twitter of children's cries that waxed and waned with the thrill of their games and, farther out, on the firm sand left by the now distant sea, the shrill whistle of the physical-fitness instructor marshalled his teenagers through the last course of the day.
  
  It was one of those beautiful, naive seaside panoramas for which the Brittany and Picardy beaches have provided the setting - and inspired their recorders, Boudin, Tissot, Monet - ever since the birth of plages and bains de mer more than a hundred years ago.
  
  To James Bond, sitting in one of the concrete shelters with his face to the setting sun, there was something poignant, ephemeral about it all. It reminded him almost too vividly of childhood - of the velvet feel of the hot powder sand, and the painful grit of wet sand between young toes when the time came for him to put his shoes and socks on, of the precious little pile of sea-shells and interesting wrack on the sill of his bedroom window ('No, we'll have to leave that behind, darling. It'll dirty up your trunk!'), of the small crabs scuttling away from the nervous fingers groping beneath the seaweed in the rock-pools, of the swimming and swimming and swimming through the dancing waves - always in those days, it seemed, lit with sunshine - and then the infuriating, inevitable 'time to come out'. It was all there, his own childhood, spread out before him to have another look at. What a long time ago they were, those spade-and-bucket days! How far he had come since the freckles and the Cadbury milk-chocolate Flakes and the fizzy lemonade! Impatiently Bond lit a cigarette, pulled his shoulders out of their slouch and slammed the mawkish memories back into their long-closed file.

  Today he was a grown-up, a man with years of dirty, dangerous memories - a spy. He was not sitting in this concrete hideout to sentimentalize.about a pack of scrubby, smelly children on a beach scattered with bottle-tops and lolly-sticks and fringed by a sea thick with sun-oil and putrid with the main drains of Royale. He was here, he had chosen to be here, to spy. To spy on a woman.

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Turismo de carretera (1968), Rodolfo Kuhn. María Vaner, Tito Alonso, Dora Baret.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063722/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_5
  
  
  
  
  Gran Turismo (Video Game, 1997).
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190428/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_14
  Gran Turismo is a sim racing video game that emulates the appearance and performance of a large selection of vehicles, nearly all of which are licensed reproductions of real-world automobiles.
  
  
  
  
  Gran Torino (2008), Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205489/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_9
  Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
  
  
  
  
  Turismo Infinito (2020), Paulo Américo. João Reis, Emília Silvestre, Pedro Almendra.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13493666/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_6
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 2 - Gran Turismo

  ALMOST EXACTLY twenty-four hours before, James Bond had been nursing his car, the old Continental Bentley - the 'R' type chassis with the big 6 engine and a 13:40 back-axle ratio - that he had now been driving for three years, along that fast but dull stretch of N.1 between Abbeville and Montreuil that takes the English tourist back to his country via Silver City Airways from Le Touquet or by ferry from Boulogne or Calais. He was hurrying safely, at between eighty and ninety, driving by the automatic pilot that is built in to all rally-class drivers, and his mind was totally occupied with drafting his letter of resignation from the Secret Service.

  The letter, addressed 'Personal for M', had got to the following stage:
  
  Sir,
  
  I have the honour to request that you will accept my resignation from the Service, effective forthwith.
  
  My reasons for this submission, which I put forward with much regret, are the following:
  
  (1) My duties in the Service, until some twelve months ago, have been connected with the Double-O Section and you, Sir, have been kind enough, from time to time, to express your satisfaction with my performance of those duties, which I, for my part, have enjoyed. To my chagrin, [Bond had been pleased with this fine word] however, on the successful completion of Operation 'Thunderball', I received personal instructions from you to concentrate all my efforts, without a terminal date, [another felicitous phrase!] on the pursuit of Ernst Stavro Blofeld and on his apprehension, together with any members of SPECTRE -otherwise 'The Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Revenge and Extortion' - if that organization had been re-created since its destruction at the climax of Operation "Thunderball'.
  
  (2) I accepted the assignment with, if you will recall, reluctance. It seemed to me, and I so expressed myself at the time, that this was purely an investigatory matter which could well have been handled, using straightforward police methods, by other sections of the Service - local Stations, allied foreign secret services and Interpol. My objections were overruled, and for close on twelve months I have been engaged all over the world in routine detective work which, in the case of every scrap of rumour, every lead, has proved abortive. I have found no trace of this man nor of a revived SPECTRE, if such exists.
  
  (3) My many appeals to be relieved of this wearisome and fruitless assignment, even when addressed to you personally, Sir, have been ignored or, on occasion, curtly dismissed, and my frequent animadversions [another good one!] to the effect that Blofeld is dead have been treated with a courtesy that I can only describe as scant. [Neat, that! Perhaps a bit too neat!]
  
  (4) The above unhappy circumstances have recently achieved their climax in my undercover mission (Ref. Station R'S PX 437/007) to Palermo, in pursuit of a hare of quite outrageous falsity. This animal took the shape of one 'Blauenfelder', a perfectly respectable German citizen engaged in viniculture - specifically the grafting of Moselle grapes on to the Sicilian strains to enhance the sugar content of the latter which, for your passing information, [Steady on, old chap! Better redraft all this!] are inclined to sourness. My investigations into this individual brought me to the attention of the Mafia and my departure from Sicily was, to say the least, ignominious.
  
  (5) Having regard, Sir, to the above and, specifically, to the continued misuse of the qualities, modest though they may be, that have previously fitted me for the more arduous, and, to me, more rewarding, duties associated with the work of the Double-O Section, I beg leave to submit my resignation from the Service.
  
  I am, Sir,
  Your Obedient Servant,
  
  007

  
  
  
• Gerard

  June 2022 Posts: 5,994

  Something I learned today : Before becoming the french title for TLD, Tuer n'est pas jouer was the french title for I saw what you did in 1965 :
  
  
  
  The pitch : two bored young girls phone various strangers to tell them : "I saw what you did". Trouble, one of those strangers has just killed his wife.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Gambit (1966), Ronald Neame. Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060445/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
  An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer's help to pull off the perfect heist, but even the most foolproof schemes have a way of backfiring.
  
  
  
  
  Gambit (2012), Michael Hoffman. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404978/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
  
  
  
  
  King's Gambit (2020), Joseph Sayer. Blake Webb, Rebecca Galarza, Reggie Peters.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3380766/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_15
  King's Gambit is an Independent, live-action feature film set in present-day Florida about Bryce, a man who uses a mystic journal to alter the world around him.
  
  
  
  
  The Queen's Gambit (2020), Scott Frank, Allan Scott. Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe PirrieBill Camp.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10048342/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4
  When winning takes everything, what are you left with? The Queens Gambit follows a young chess prodigys rise from an orphanage to the world stage. But genius comes with a cost. A riveting adaptation of Walter Tevis groundbreaking novel comes to Netflix on October 23rd, starring Anya Taylor-Joy.
  Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.
  
  
  
  

  

  James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #1

  https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/92-430/James-Bond-007-Quasimodo-Gambit-1

  In the tropical paradise of Jamaica, things are not as picturesque as the travel brochures would suggest. Sent to stop a notorious arms dealer called Rifle, James Bond once again finds more than he bargained for. Rifle's clients turn out to be Elias Hazlewood and the Disciples of the Heavenly Way, a successful televangelist operation. Among the Way's membership is Maximillian "Quasimodo" Steel, a reformed mercenary. He's got a plan to stop the Beast and further God's cause. That is, unless James Bond can stop him first.

  Creators
  Writer: Don McGregor
  Artist: Gary Caldwell
  Letterer: Elitta Fell
  Editor: Edward Martin III
  Cover Artist: Christopher Moeller
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: January 01, 1995

  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 3 - The Gambit of Shame

  'I didn't wait to see. I came to look for you.'
  
  She gave him a sideways, appraising glance. 'Why did you rescue me when I made the "coup du deshonneur"?'
  
  Bond shrugged. 'Beautiful girl in distress. Besides, we made friends between Abbeville and Montreuil this evening. You drive like an angel.' He smiled. 'But I don't think you'd have passed me if I'd been paying attention. I was doing about ninety and not bothering to keep an eye on the mirror. And I was thinking of other things.'
  
  The gambit succeeded. Vivacity came into her face and voice. 'Oh, yes. I'd have beaten you anyway. I'd have passed you in the villages. Besides' - there was an edge of bitterness in her voice - 'I would always be able to beat you. You want to stay alive.'
  
  Oh, lord! thought Bond. One of those! A girl with a wing, perhaps two wings, down. He chose to let the remark lie. The half-bottle of Krug he had ordered came. After the huissier had half filled the glass, Bond topped it to the brim. He held it towards her without exaggeration. 'My name is Bond, James Bond. Please stay alive, at any rate for tonight.' He drank the glass down at one long gulp and filled it again.
  
  She looked at him gravely, considering him. Then she also drank. She said, 'My name is Tracy. That is short for all the names you were told at the reception in the hotel. Teresa was a saint. I am not a saint. The manager is perhaps a romantic. He told me of your inquiries. So shall we go now? I am not interested in conversation. And you have earned your reward.'

  Chapter 10 - Ten Gorgeous Girls

  There were cries of 'Oh, one more game, Miss Bunt!' But Bond politely rose with his whisky in his hand. 'We will play again tomorrow. I hope it's not going to start you all off smoking. I'm sure it was invented by the tobacco companies!'
  
  There was laughter. But the girls stood admiringly round Bond. What a sport he was! And they had all expected a stuffed shirt! Bond felt justifiably proud of himself. The ice had been broken. He had got them all minutely on his side. Now they were all chums together. From now on he would be able to get to talk to them without frightening them. Feeling reasonably pleased with his gambit, he followed the tight pants of Irma Bunt into the dining-room next door.

  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 2022 Posts: 13,807

  

  
  
  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29019/29019-h/29019-h.htm

  all
  cats
  are
  gray
  
  by … Andrew North

  
  Under normal conditions a whole
  person has a decided advantage over a
  handicapped one. But out in deep space
  the normal may be reversed—for
  humans at any rate.

  
  
  
  The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, "At Night All Cats Are Grey" (television, 1949). Basil Rathbone.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0539992/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_10
  This was an anthology series which aired live. It often featured adaptations of one-act stage plays.
  
  
  
  
  Colonel March of Scotland Yard, "At Night All Cats are Grey" (television, 1954), Phil Brown. Leslie Slote (script, based on: "The Department of Queer Complaints" by John Dickson Carr). Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Christopher Lee.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0544271/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4
  A French model asks for Colonel March's help just hours before she's found murdered.
  
  
  
  
  Rocky King, Inside Detective, "All Cats are Gray" (television, 1954), Wes Kenney, Lee Polk. Roscoe Karns, Todd Karns.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10430816/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  At the end of each show, Rocky King (Roscoe Karns) calls his wife, Mabel, and says, "Case is closed Mabel, I'm coming home".
  
  
  
  
  Tous les chats sont gris (1963), Guy Lessertisseur. Mireille Darc, Jacques Jouanneau, Yves Rénier.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14610252/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlWAfXCWIZ4
  
  
  The Three Musketeers "At Night All Cats Are Grey" (television, 1966), Peter Hammond. Jeremy Brett, Brian Blessed, Jeremy Young.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1349294/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_9
  Naive but avid for adventure, young D'Artagnan travels from Gascony to Paris in 1625 to become a Musketeer like his father. He is at once plunged into intrigue.
  
  
  
  
  La nuit, tous les chats sont gris (1977), Gérard Zingg. Gérard Depardieu, Robert Stephens, Laura Betti.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076474/?ref_=fn_al_tt_7
  Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert. Both these people have something to do with Philibert.
  
  
  
  
  Tous les chats sont gris (2014), Savina Dellicour. Manon Capelle, Anne Coesens, Dune de Braconier.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3965866/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2
  This Belgian drama is about the special bond between father and daughter. Paul is a 46 year old PI. Dorothy is almost 16 and has an identity crisis when she finds out her father isn't her biological father. Her mother won't tell her anything. Paul doesn't know Dorothy but he knows that he is her biological father. One day he spots her on the street. He keeps an eye on her but doesn't have the courage to approach her. Until one day she approaches him to look for her father.
  
  
  
  
  Nachts sind alle Katzen grau (All Cats Are Grey in the Dark, 2019), Lasse Linder.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10623508/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_8
  No mere viral cat video can compare with the feline-centric poignancy of Lasse Linder's astonishingly intimate study of one man's ardent longing to expand his multi-species household.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 4 - All Cats are Grey

  SHE WAS waiting in the big double bed, a single sheet pulled up to her chin. The fair hair was spread out like golden wings under the single reading light that was the only light in the room, and the blue eyes blazed with a fervour that, in other girls, in other beds, James Bond would have interpreted. But this one was in the grip of stresses he could not even guess at. He locked the door behind him and came over and sat on the edge of her bed and put one hand firmly on the little hill that was her left breast. 'Now listen, Tracy,' he began, meaning to ask at least one or two questions, find out something about this wonderful girl who did hysterical things like gambling without the money to meet her debts, driving like a potential suicide, hinting that she had had enough of life.
  
  But the girl reached up a swift hand that smelt of Guerlain's 'Ode' and put it across his lips. 'I said "no conversation". Take off those clothes. Make love to me. You are handsome and strong. I want to remember what it can be like. Do anything you like. And tell me what you like and what you would like from me. Be rough with me. Treat me like the lowest whore in creation. Forget everything else. No questions. Take me."
  
  An hour later, James Bond slipped out of bed without waking her, dressed by the light of the promenade lights filtering between the curtains, and went back to his room.
  
  He showered and got in between the cool, rough French sheets of his own bed and switched off his thinking about her. All he remembered, before sleep took him, was that she had said when it was all over, 'That was heaven, James. Will you please come back when you wake up. I must have it once more.' Then she had turned over on her side away from him and, without answering his last endearments, had gone to sleep - but not before he had heard that she was crying.
  
  What the hell? All cats are grey in the dark.
  
  True or false?
  
  Bond slept.

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 2022 Posts: 13,807

  The Seer of Bond Street (Spiritualism Exposed, 1913), Charles Raymond. Louis Nikola, Violet Stacey, Douglas Payne.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2108611/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_13
  A fake medium persuades an heiress to invest in a crook's shares.
  
  
  The Tailor of Bond Street (1913). Augustus Yorke, Robert Leonard, Thomas H. MacDonald.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279452/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_27
  A Jewish student changes his name and denies his father until he is dying.
  
  
  Bond Street (1948), Gordon Parry. Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039206/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  A young British woman is getting married, and as she goes through her trousseau, the stories behind four of the items that were bought on Bond Street in London unfold.
  
  
  
  
  Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street (Zui jia pai dang 3: Nu huang mi ling, 1984), Hark Tsui. Samuel Hui, Karl Maka, Sylvia Chang.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088457/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_41
  A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuable gem from a heavily guarded location then must help the police recover it.
  
  
  
  
  Billion Pound Bond Street (2021), Michael Waldman. Jenna Coleman.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14742252/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_18
  Bond Street has been London's most exclusive shopping street for 300 years. This documentary takes us behind-the-scenes.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 6 - Bond of Bond Street?

  Griffon Or held up his hand. He said severely, 'Where did your parents come from, if I may ask? That, my dear fellow, is the first step in the chain. Then we can go back from there -Somerset House, parish records, old tomb-stones. No doubt, with a good old English name like yours, we will get somewhere in the end.'
  
  'My father was a Scot and my mother was Swiss. But the point is...'
  
  'Quite, quite. You are wondering about the cost of the research. That, my dear fellow, we can leave until later. But, now tell me. From whereabouts in Scotland did your father come? That is important. The Scottish records are of course less fully documented than those from the South. In those days I am forced to admit that our cousins across the border were little more than savages.' Griffon Or bobbed his head politely. He gave a fleeting and, to Bond's eye, rather false smile. 'Very pleasant savages, of course, very brave and all that. But, alas, very weak at keeping up their records. More useful with the sword than with the pen, if I may say so. But perhaps your grandparents and their forebears came from the South?'
  
  'My father came from the Highlands, from near Glencoe. But look here...'
  
  But Griffon Or was not to be diverted from the scent. He pulled another thick book towards him. His finger ran down the page of small print. 'Hum. Hum. Hum. Yes, yes. Not very encouraging, I fear. Burke's General Armory gives more than ten different families bearing your name. But, alas, nothing in Scotland. Not that that means there is no Scottish branch. Now, perhaps you have other relatives living. So often in these matters there is some distant cousin...' Griffon Or reached into the pocket of the purple-flowered silk waistcoat that buttoned almost up to his neat bow tie, fished out a small silver snuff-box, offered it to Bond and then himself took two tremendous sniffs. He exploded twice into an ornate bandana handkerchief.
  
  Bond took his opportunity. He leaned forward and said distinctly and forcibly, 'I didn't come here to talk about myself. It's about Blofeld.'

  'What's that?' Griffon Or looked at him in astonishment. 'You are not interested in your line of descent?' He held up an admonishing finger. 'Do you realize, my dear fellow, that if we are successful, you may be able to claim direct' - he hesitated - 'or at any rate collateral descent from an ancient baronetcy founded' - he went back to his first volume and peered at it - 'in the year 1658! Does it not excite you that a possible ancestor of yours was responsible for the name of one of the most famous streets in the world - I refer of course to Bond Street? That was the Sir Thomas Bond, Baronet of Peckham in the County of Surrey, who, as you are no doubt aware, was Comptroller of the household of the Queen Mother, Henrietta Maria. The street was built in 1686 and its associations with famous British folk are, of course, well known. The first Duke of St Albans, son of Nell Gwynn, lived there, as did Laurence Sterne. Boswell's famous dinner party took place there, with Johnson, Reynolds, Goldsmith, and Garrick being present. Dean Swift and Canning were residents at different times, and it is intriguing to recall that while Lord Nelson lived at number 141, Lady Hamilton lived at number 145. And this, my dear sir, is the great thoroughfare of which you bear the name! Do you still wish to establish no claim to this vastly distinguished connexion? No?' The bushy eyebrows, raised in astonishment, were now lowered in further admonishment. 'This is the very warp and woof of history, my dear Commander Bond.'

  He reached for another volume that lay open on his desk and that he had obviously prepared for Bond's delectation. 'The coat of arms, for instance. Surely that must concern you, be at least of profound interest to your family, to your own children? Yes, here we are. "Argent on a chevron sable three bezants ".' He held up the book so that Bond could see. 'A bezant is a golden ball, as I am sure you know. Three balls.'
  
  Bond commented drily, 'That is certainly a valuable bonus' - the irony was lost on Griffon Or - 'but I'm afraid I am still not interested. And I have no relatives and no children. Now about this man...'
  
  Griffon Or broke in excitedly, 'And this charming motto of the line, "The World is not Enough". You do not wish to have the right to it?'
  
  'It is an excellent motto which I shall certainly adopt,' said Bond curtly. He looked pointedly at his watch. 'Now, I'm afraid we really must get down to business. I have to report back to my Ministry.'

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  July 2022 edited July 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Fury of Achilles (1962), Marino Girolami. Gordon Mitchell, Jacques Bergerac, Cristina Gaioni.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056104/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
  In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.
  
  
  
  
  The Rat Catchers: The Heel of Achilles (1967), Don Gale. Gerald Flood, Glyn Owen, Philip Stone.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0148662/?ref_=tt_ov_inf
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0682763/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  A highly secret British Intelligence Unit is set up to deal with enemy menaces, staffed by three tough & capable operatives - the flamboyant Peregrine Smith, cold & logical Davidson, and tough ex-cop Richard Hurst. All licensed to kill - and pledged to protect the nation!
  
  
  
  
  Achilles Heel (1973), Alan Clarke. Alan Barry, Karen Boyes, Kenneth Cranham.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059180/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2
  A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardize his career.
  
  
  
  
  Achilles Heel (Achillesferse; 1978), Rolf Losansky. Heidrun Welskop, Erwin Berner, Dieter Franke.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077119/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_24
  Seventeen-year-old Susanne is a gymnast and has a chance at making the national team. But of all things, she now has problems at training. She cannot do the new dismount from the uneven bars. At the same time, she runs into other conflicts: in school, her performance dwindles. Her ambitious mother, who is used to her daughter's success, cannot seem to muster the necessary understanding of the situation. The father, divorced from Susanne's mother and constantly traveling, is rarely there for her. Her boyfriend Michael, with whom she experienced her "first love," soon has to enlist in the military and feels neglected because Susanne has too little time for him. Her coach, however, shows understanding, stands up for her in the midst of her conflicts, with which she eventually copes, and thus sets herself up for success once again in her sport.
  
  
  
  
  Achilleshælen er mit våben (The Achilles heel is my weapon, 1979), Jytte Rex. Helle Ryslinge, Clemens Hildebrandt, Eileen Hansen.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126784/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_35
  
  
  
  
  Titanic's Achilles Heel (2007), Kirk Wolfinger. John Chatterton, Richard Kohler, Edward Herrmann.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1264114/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_26
  An expedition looks into whether Titanic's hull had a construction design flaw that caused her to break apart.
  
  
  
  
  Evolution's Achilles' Heels (2014), Robert Carter. Donald Batten, Alessandro Bianchi (voice), Pieter Borger.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3863814/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_25
  This groundbreaking documentary featuring 15 PhD scientists reveals the fatal flaws of evolutionary theory. 3D animations and dramatic footage help to show how the theory's supposed strengths are, in fact, Evolution's Achilles' Heels.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scqLAppasmw
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 7 - The Hairy Heel of Achilles

  JAMES BOND'S heart was still in his boots as he was conducted again through the musty corridors. Sable Basilisk indeed! What kind of a besotted old fogy would this be?
  There came another heavy door with the name in gold and this time with a nightmare black monster, with a vicious beak, above it. But now Bond was shown into a light, clean, pleasantly furnished room with attractive prints on the walls and meticulous order among its books. There was a faint smell of Turkish tobacco. A young man, a few years younger than Bond, got up and came across the room to meet him. He was rapier-slim, with a fine, thin, studious face that was saved from seriousness by wry lines at the edges of the mouth and an ironical glint in the level eyes.
  
  'Commander Bond?' The handshake was brief and firm. ' I'd been expecting you. How did you get into the claws of our dear Griffon? He's a bit of an enthusiast, I'm afraid. We all are here, of course. But he's getting on. Nice chap, but he's a bit dedicated, if you know what I mean.'

  'Don't worry about Blofeld. He has already swallowed the bait. He may be a tremendous gangster, and he must be from what I remember of the case. He may be tough and ruthless in his corner of human behaviour. But if he is trying to prove that he is the Comte de Bleuville, you can be sure of various things. He wants to change his name. That is obvious. He wants to become a new, a respectable personality. That is obvious too. But above all he wants to become a Count.' Sable Basilisk brought his hand flat down on his desk for emphasis. 'That, Mr Bond, is tremendously significant. He is a rich and successful man in his line of business - no matter what it is. He no longer admires the material things, riches and power. He is now 54, as I reckon it. He wants a new skin. I can assure you, Air Bond, that he will receive you, if we play our cards right that is, as if he were consulting his doctor about' - Sable Basilisk's aristocratic face took on an expression of distaste - 'as if he were consulting his doctor after contracting V.D.' Sable Basilisk's eyes were now compelling. He sat back in his chair and lit his first cigarette. The smell of Turkish tobacco drifted across to Bond. 'That's it,' he said with certitude. 'This man knows he is unclean, a social pariah. Which of course he is. Now he has thought up this way of buying himself a new identity. If you ask me, we must help the hair to grow and flourish on his heel of Achilles until it is so luxuriant that he trips on it.'

  Chapter 8 - Fancy Cover

  'AND WHO the hell are you supposed to be?'
  
  M more or less repeated Bond's question when, that evening, he looked up from the last page of the report that Bond had spent the afternoon dictating to Mary Goodnight. M's face was just outside the pool of yellow light cast by the green-shaded reading lamp on his desk, but Bond knew that the lined, sailor's face was reflecting, in varying degrees, scepticism, irritation, and impatience. The 'hell' told him so. M rarely swore and when he did it was nearly always at stupidity. M obviously regarded Bond's plan as stupid, and now, away from the dedicated, minutely focused world of the Heralds, Bond wasn't sure that M wasn't right.
  
  'I'm to be an emissary from the College of Arms, sir. This Basilisk chap recommended that I should have some kind of a title, the sort of rather highfalutin one that would impress a man with this kind of bee in his bonnet. And Blofeld's obviously got this bee or he wouldn't have revealed his existence, even to such a presumably secure and - er - sort of remote corner of the world as the College of Arms. I've put down there the arguments of this chap and they make a lot of sense to me. Snobbery's a real Achilles heel with people. Blofeld's obviously got the bug badly. I think we can get to him through it.'

  Chapter 16 - Downhill Only

  He took the second lap more carefully than the first, got across to the second flag, turned at it and made back across the plunging slope for the series of linked S's under the cables. How fast did these bloody gondolas go? Ten, fifteen, twenty miles an hour? This was the latest type. It would be the fastest. Hadn't he read somewhere that the one between Arosa and the Weisshorn did 25? Even as he got into his first S, the tune of the singing cable above him momentarily changed and then went back to its usual whine. That was the gondola passing the first pylon! Bond's knees, the Achilles heel of all skiers, were beginning to ache. He cut his S's narrower, snaking down faster, but now feeling the rutted tracks of the piste under his skis at every turn. Was that a flag away over to the left? The magnesium flares were swaying lower, almost directly over him. Yes. It looked all right. Two more S turns and he would do a traverse schuss to it!
  
  Something landed with a tremendous crack amidst a fountain of snow to his right! Another to his left! They had a grenade-thrower up front in the cable car! A bracket! Would the next one be dead on? Almost before the thought flashed through his mind, there came a tremendous explosion just ahead of him and he was hurled forward and sideways in a Catherine wheel of sticks and skis.

  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  July 2022 Posts: 13,807

  

  Irma La Douce (musical)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_La_Douce_(musical)
  Music Marguerite Monnot
  Lyrics Alexandre Breffort
  Book Alexandre Breffort

  Irma la douce ("Irma the Sweet") is a 1956 French musical with music by Marguerite Monnot and lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort. The musical premiered in Paris in 1956, and was subsequently produced in the West End in 1958 and on Broadway, by David Merrick, in 1960. The English lyrics and book (1958) are by Julian More, David Heneker, and Monty Norman.

  
  
  
  
  
  Irma la Douce (1963), Billy Wilder. Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057187/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_8
  A policeman falls in love with a prostitute, Irma, but doesn't want her seeing other men. So he creates an alter-ego, a wealthy Englishman who will be her only customer. Seems like a solid enough plan - what could possibly go wrong?
  Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtuBtsEvYgw
  
  
  
  
  Irma la Douce (Television, 1972), Paul Paviot. Marie-Claude Mestral, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Armand Mestral.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308416/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_10
  
  
  
  Irma la dolce (1980), Vito Molinari. Maddalena Crippa, Cristiano Censi, Gianrico Tedeschi.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8844926/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3
  Italian adaptation by Luciano Lucignani (adaptation).
  
  
  
  
  Irma Vep (1996), Olivier Assayas. Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116650/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_7
  A Hong Kong actress, Maggie Cheung playing a fictional version of herself, is cast in France to star in a remake of Les vampires (1915), but petty intrigues and clashing egos plague the production.
  
  
  
  
  Irma Vep (TV Mini Series, 2022), Olivier Assayas. Vincent Macaigne, Alicia Vikander, Byron Bowers.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13649314/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
  Mira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and recent breakup, who comes to France to star as Irma Vep in a remake of the French silent film classic, "Les Vampires."
  
  
  
  
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Daily Express: John McLusky, artist; Henry Gammidge, writer; from 29 June 1964.

  

  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 9 - Irma la not so douce

  At the Swissair desk inside the door, a woman was standing beside the reception counter. As soon as Bond appeared in the entrance she came forward. 'Sair Hilary Bray?'
  
  'Yes.'
  
  'I am Fraulein Irma Bunt. Personal secretary to the Count. Good afternoon. I hope you had a happy flight.'
  
  She looked like a very sunburned female wardress. She had a square, brutal face with hard yellow eyes. Her smile was an oblong hole without humour or welcome, and there were sunburn blisters at the left corner of her mouth which she licked from time to time with the tip of a pale tongue. Wisps of brownish grey hair, with a tight, neat bun at the back, showed from under a skiing hat with a yellow talc visor that had straps which met under her chin. Her strong, short body was dressed in unbecomingly tight vorlage trousers topped by a grey wind-jacket ornamented over the left breast with a large red G topped by a coronet. Irma la not so Douce, thought Bond. He said, 'Yes. It was very pleasant.'
  
  'You have your baggage check? Will you follow me, please? And first your passport. This way.'

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  July 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), Norman Taurog. Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Jeremy Slate.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056023/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_25
  When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
  
  
  
  
  Ten Girls Ago (TV Movie, 1962), Harold Daniels. Babette Bain, Larry Benson, Jennifer Billingsley.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234112/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  Three aging showmen (Keaton, Lahr and Foy) try to make a comeback with the help of pop star Dion.
  
  
  
  
  Une belle fille comme moi (A Gorgeous Girl Like Me, (1972), François Truffaut.
  Bernadette Lafont, Claude Brasseur, Charles Denner.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069442/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_21
  Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs...
  
  
  
  
  10, (1979), Blake Edwards. Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078721/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
  A Hollywood composer goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman.
  
  
  
  
  The 'Ten' Girls (1981). Carol Jennings, Sharon Cannon, Janie Vixen.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11061826/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_12
  
  
  
  
  Angely smerti (Angels of Death, 1993), Yuriy Ozerov. Fedor Bondarchuk, Ekaterina Strizhenova, Powers Boothe.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166483/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
  A young Russian officer rescued from being executed by NKVD officers for cowardice arrives at Stalingrad, where he is assigned to the sniper unit. As Russian sniper threat arises, the German Olympic champion is called to destroy them.
  
  
  
  
  Angel of Death (2009), Paul Etheredge. Zoë Bell, Jake Abel, Vail Bloom.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1269734/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  A career assassin becomes haunted by one of her victims following a near fatal injury to her brain. Becoming a rogue assassin settling the score with her former mob employers, chaos and power struggles ensue.
  
  
  
  
  Angel of Death (2012). Steven Seagal.
  [IMDb entry not found]
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 10 - Ten Gorgeous Girls

  IT WAS one of those leather-padded bars, bogus-masculine, and still, because of its newness, smelling like the inside of a new motor-car. It was made to look like a Tyrolean Stube by a big stone fire-place with a roaring log fire and cartwheel chandeliers with red-stemmed electric 'candles'. There were many wrought-iron gimmicks - wall-light brackets, ashtrays, table lamps - and the bar itself was 'gay' with small flags and miniature liqueur bottles. Attractive zither music tripped out from a hidden loud-speaker. It was not, Bond decided, a place to get seriously drunk in.
  
  When he closed the leather-padded, brass-studded door behind him, there was a moment's hush, then a mounting of decibels to hide the covert glances, the swift summing-up. Bond got a fleeting impression of one of the most beautiful groups of girls he had ever seen, when Irma Bunt, hideous in some kind of home-made, homespun 'apres-ski', in which orange and black predominated, waddled out from among the galaxy and took him in charge.' Sair Hilary.' She grasped his hand with a dry, monkey grip. 'How delightful, isn't it? Come please, and meet my girls.'
  
  It was tremendously hot in the room and Bond felt the sweat bead on his forehead as he was led from table to table and shook this cool, this warm, this languid hand. Names like Ruby, Violet, Pearl, Anne, Elizabeth, Beryl, sounded in his ears, but all he saw was a sea of beautiful, sunburned faces and a succession of splendid, sweatered young bosoms. It was like being at home to the Tiller or the Bluebell Girls. At last he got to the seat that had been kept for him, between Irma Bunt and a gorgeous, bosomy blonde with large blue eyes. He sat down, overcome. The barman hovered. Bond pulled himself together. 'Whisky and soda, please,' he said, and heard his voice from far away. He took some time lighting a cigarette while sham, stage conversation broke out among the four tables in the semicircular embrasure that must, during the day, be the great lookout point. Ten girls and Irma. All English. No surnames. No other man. Girls in their twenties. Working girls probably. Sort of air-hostess type. Excited at having a man among them - a personable man and a baronet to boot - if that was what one did to a baronet. Pleased with his private joke, Bond turned to the blonde. 'I'm terribly sorry, but I didn't catch your name.'
  
  'I'm Ruby.' The voice was friendly but refined. 'It must be quite an ordeal being the only chap - among all us girls, I mean.'
  
  'Well, it was rather a surprise. But a very pleasant one. It's going to be difficult getting all your names right.' He lowered his voice conspiratorially. 'Be an angel and run through the field, so to speak.'
  
  Bond's drink came and he was glad to find it strong. He took a long but discreet pull at it. He had noticed that the girls were drinking Colas and squashes with a sprinkling of feminine cocktails - Orange Blossoms, Daiquiris. Ruby was one of the ones with a Daiquiri. It was apparently OK to drink, but he would be careful to show a gentlemanly moderation.

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  July 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Pistols for Breakfast (1919), Alfred J. Goulding. Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010571/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_156
  
  
  
  
  Bullets for Breakfast (1992), Holly Fisher. Betty Fitzsimmons, Roberta Hooper, Ryerson Johnson.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103895/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_25
  This movie examines the role women play in Westerns from a feminist perspective. It uses clips from old Westerns and includes conversations with a pulp Western writer, a film critic, a poet and a fish packer.
  
  
  
  
  Dead & Breakfast (2004), Matthew Leutwyler. Jeremy Sisto, Erik Palladino, Bianca Lawson.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350774/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_185
  A night at a local bed and breakfast turns into a bloody supernatural fight to the death.
  
  
  
  
  Death Over Dinner (2018). Jamel Rodriquez, Carol Rowley, Steph Raffman.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9568818/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_10
  The global movement Death Over Dinner encourages friends, colleagues, and even total strangers to get together, share a meal, and build healthier relationships with their own mortality by discussing ideas and feelings about death. In this documentary series, join a group of strangers in London who gather to explore their own brushes with loss, reflect on what it means to mourn, and wonder what happens after we shuffle off this mortal coil. Listen in as these folks look for answers to the questions about death that most of us are too afraid to ask.
  
  
  
  
  Death for Breakfast (2020), Devin White. Devin White.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12700674/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
  A man who commits suicide has breakfast with death.
  
  
  
  Death for Breakfast (10:37)
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 11 - Death for Breakfast

  JAMES BOND awoke to a scream. It was a terrible, masculine scream out of hell. It fractionally held its first high, piercing note and then rapidly diminished as if the man had jumped off a cliff. It came from the right, from somewhere near the cable station perhaps. Even in Bond's room, muffled by the double windows, it was terrifying enough. Outside it must have been shattering.
  
  Bond jumped up and pulled back the curtains, not knowing what scene of panic, of running men, would meet his eyes. But the only man in sight was one of the guides, walking slowly, stolidly up the beaten snow-path from the cable station to the club. The spacious wooden veranda that stretched from the wall of the club out over the slope of the mountain was empty, but tables had been laid for breakfast and the upholstered chaises-longue for the sunbathers had already been drawn up in their meticulous, colourful rows. The sun was blazing down out of a crystal sky. Bond looked at his watch. It was eight o'clock. Work began early in this place! People died early. For that had undoubtedly been the death-scream. He turned back into his room and rang the bell.
  
  It was one of the three men Bond had suspected of being Russians. Bond became the officer and gentleman. 'What is your name?'
  
  'Peter sir.'
  
  'Piotr?' Bond longed to say. 'And how are all my old friends from SMERSH?' He didn't. He said, 'What was that scream?'
  
  'Pliss?' The granite-grey eyes were careful.
  
  'A man screamed just now. From over by the cable station. What was it?'
  
  'It seems there has been an accident, sir. You wish for breakfast?' He produced a large menu from under his arm and, held it out clumsily.

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  July 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Near Mrs. (L'ambassade en folie, 1992), Baz Taylor. Judge Reinhold, Casey Siemaszko, Cécile Paoli.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104976/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4
  A philandering executive tries to juggle two wives and a mistress, and finds himself suddenly being shadowed by some angry Russian holdouts from the Cold War.
  
  
  
  
  3 Misses (short, 1998), Paul Driessen.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239206/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_80
  Three interlocking tales of damsels in distress. An urban scene: a man sees a woman fall off the roof of the neighboring apartment building. A Western scene: a cowboy hears a woman tied to the railroad tracks and an approaching train. And a fantasy scene: seven dwarfs, reading the tale of Snow White, sense a witch passing by with a poison apple. Each races to save their respective "miss" (and sometimes get involved with the stories of the others); each runs into a staggering number of obstacles along the way (including a steadily dwindling supply of dwarves). Who will succeed?
  
  Paul Driessen - 3 Misses (9:56)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgTJKnXIgv4
  
  
  
  
  Near Miss (short, 2007), Alaric S. Rocha. Jana Bilikova, Julio Ervin, Cara Maurizi.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1268977/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_6
  A nameless traveler takes a vacation to New York City. During this trip an unknown woman continually crosses his path. He curiously and enviously watches as other interact with her, he is curious, frustrated and attracted to her comforting beauty. He fantasies about being "the one" to really connect with her, but lacks the courage to say anything to her and misses his chances except for one bit of luck. Now he has a choice to make, the beauty of the fantasy or the fear of reality.
  
  
  
  
  101 Near Misses (2020), Elaine Hackett. Shane Richie.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14530814/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_17
  From heart-stopping close shaves and averted disasters to incredible brushes with danger, this show counts up from 1 to 101 to feature some of the most unbelievable near misses of all time.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 12 - Two Near Misses

  BOND WAS shown out of the building by a man in a white coat with the conventional white gauze of the laboratory worker over the lower half of his face. Bond attempted no conversation. He was now well inside the fortress, but he would have to continue to walk on tiptoe and be damned careful where he put his feet!
  
  He returned to his room and got out one of the giant sheets of squared paper with which he had been furnished. He sat down at his table and wrote firmly at the top centre of the paper 'Guillaume de Bleuville, 1207-1243'. Now there were five hundred years of de Bleuvilles, with their wives and children, to be copied down from his books and notes. That would fill up an impressive number of pages with impeccable fact. He could certainly spread that chore over three days, interspersed with more tricky work - gassing with Blofeld about the Blofeld end of the story. Fortunately there were some English Blofields he could throw in as makeweight. And some Bluefields and Blumfields. He could start some pretty hares running in those directions! And, in between these idiotic activities, he would ferret and ferret away at the mystery of what in hell the new Blofeld, the new SPECTRE, were up to!
  
  One thing was certain, they had already been through his belongings. Before going for his interview, Bond had gone into the bathroom, away from that seemingly watchful hole in the ceiling, and had painfully pulled out half a dozen of his hairs. These, while he had selected the books he needed to take with him, he had dispersed inconspicuously among his other papers and in his passport. The hairs were all gone. Someone had been through all his books. He got up and went to the chest of drawers, ostensibly for a handkerchief. Yes, the careful patterns in which he had laid out his things had all been minutely disturbed. Unemotionally he went back to his work, thanking heaven he had travelled as 'clean' as a whistle! But by God he'd have to keep his cover solid! He didn't at all like the thought of that one-way trip down the bob-run!

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Ruby (1977), Curtis Harrington. Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Roger Davis.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076644/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  Sixteen years after Ruby Claire's gangster boyfriend was shot and killed by four associates, a series of gruesome murders takes place at the drive-in movie theatre she now owns. Meanwhile, the behaviour of her mute daughter Leslie is becoming increasingly strange and a visiting psychic claims that forces from beyond are out for revenge.
  
  
  
  
  Ruby (1992), John Mackenzie. Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Frank Orsatti.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105291/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2
  An exploration of certain conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination from Jack Ruby's perspective. Ruby owns a run-down strip club in Dallas, and does what he can for credibility, both by giving information to the FBI and by doing the odd favor for his mafia contacts. When hitman Action Jackson is hit, Louie Vitali asks him to help get crime boss Santos out of a Cuban jail. When they get back, the bosses take his headliner Candy Cane under their wing to develop her career in Vegas. A mysterious government man named Maxwell expresses his displeasure to Ruby over his Cuban activities. Slowly all the pieces of a massive conspiracy begin to emerge to Ruby, who can do nothing to stop it.
  
  
  
  
  The Ruby Princess Runs Away (2001), Jahnna Beecham. Michelle Horn, Cork Hubbert, Harvey Korman.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304649/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  While the great wizard Gallivant scours the Jewel Kingdom to find the Runaway Princess, the evil Darklings and their leader Princess Rudgrin plot to take over her throne. Only Princess Roxanne and her new friends (some loyal gnomes and a very special dragon) can stop them.
  
  
  
  
  Ruby Sparks (2012), Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris. Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839492/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_5
  A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence.
  
  
  
  
  Rescued by Ruby (2022), Katt Shea. Grant Gustin, Scott Wolf, Kaylah Zander.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11278476/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4
  State trooper Dan dreams of joining the K-9 Search & Rescue team, but no one will give him the chance. Shelter dog Ruby dreams of having a home, but is running out of hope. When fate brings Dan and Ruby together, it's their unshakable bond that helps them face their toughest challenge yet.
  Chasing his dream to join an elite K-9 unit, a state trooper partners with a fellow underdog: clever but naughty shelter pup Ruby.
  
  
  
  
  Ruby's Choice (2022), Michael Budd. Jane Seymour, Jacqueline McKenzie, Coco Jack Gillies.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11651668/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_22
  A teen girl who's forced to share her bedroom with her Grandmother, who has dementia, goes from hating her to loving her as she learns more about some family secrets.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 13 - Princess Ruby?

  Bond rang the bell, handed out the letter for dispatch, and got back to his work, which consisted initially of going into the bathroom with the strip of plastic and his scissors in his pocket and snipping two inch-wide strips off the end. These would be enough for the purposes he and, he hoped, Ruby would put them to. Then, using the first joint of his thumb as a rough guide, he marked off the remaining eighteen inches into inch measures, to support his lie about the ruler, and went back to his desk and to the next hundred years of the de Bleuvilles.
  
  At about five o'clock the light got so bad that Bond got up from his table and stretched, preparatory to going over to the light-switch near the door. He took a last look out of the window before he dosed it. The veranda was completely deserted and the foam rubber cushions for the reclining-chairs had already been taken in. From the direction of the cable-head there still came the whine of machinery that had been part of the background noises to the day. Yesterday the railway had closed at about five, and it must be time for the last pair of gondolas to complete their two-way journey and settle in their respective stations for the night. Bond closed the double windows, walked across to the thermostat and put it down to seventy. He was just about to reach for the light-switch when there came a very soft tapping at the door.
  
  Bond kept his voice low. 'Come in!'
  
  The door opened and quickly closed to within an inch of the lock. It was Ruby. She put her fingers to her lips and gestured towards the bathroom. Bond, highly intrigued, followed her in and shut the door. Then he turned on the light. She was blushing. She whispered imploringly, 'Oh, please forgive me, Sir Hilary. But I did so want to talk to you for a second.'
  
  'That's fine, Ruby. But why the bathroom?'
  
  'Oh, didn't you know? No, I suppose you wouldn't. It's supposed to be a secret, but of course I can tell you. You won't let on, will you?'
  
  'No, of course not.'
  
  'Well, all the rooms have microphones in them. I don't know where. But sometimes we girls have got together in each other's rooms, just for a gossip, you know, and Miss Bunt has always known. We think they've got some sort of television too.' She giggled. 'We always undress in the bathroom. It's just a sort of feeling. As if one was being watched the whole time. I suppose it's something to do with the treatment.'
  
  'Yes, I expect so.'
  
  'The point is, Sir Hilary, I was tremendously excited by what you were saying at lunch today, about Miss Bunt perhaps being a duchess. I mean, is that really possible?'
  
  'Oh yes,' said Bond airily.
  
  'I was so disappointed at not being able to tell you my surname. You see, you see' - her eyes were wide with excitement - 'it's Windsor!'
  
  'Gosh,' said Bond, 'that's interesting!'

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Sweet Dreams Intermingled with Nightmares (Cauchemar et doux rêves, 1909), Segundo de Chomón. Julienne Mathieu.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449867/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_47
  An attractive young woman, falling asleep on a park bench, begins to dream. Satan appears to her as she sleeps, and sends her off to a hellish cavern which is inhabited by big-headed, large, hideous dwarf-like creatures. At first, they act like friends, but by accidentally offending them, these wicked being roast her over a fire. Fortunately, she wakes up, unhappy and thankful it was all a dream; but, as her rest has not been peaceful, she again attempts some shut-eye. She then begins dreaming again. This time, a magical woman appears to her and transports her to a beautiful fantasy world where she dances with a handsome prince. After waking up, she wishes her dream to come true, but the suitor she encounters thereafter isn't exactly who she was hoping for.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-O7sw1qmWc
  
  
  
  
  Sweet Dreams (1985), Karel Reisz. Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth .
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090110/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.
  
  
  
  
  Sweet Nightmare (1998), Fernando Fragata. Diogo Infante, Catarina Furtado, George Felner.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120732/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  To help a friend, Daniel Bricks, a young British engineer living in Portugal, goes to the country to inspect a water dam. On his way he meets Carolina, a sexy girl who could well be the woman of his dreams. Except that her behavior soon proves erratic and unpredictable. Except that she is just out of jail, which she is very careful not to tell him. In these conditions, it does not take long before sweet Carolina turns the young Englishman's life into a nightmare...
  
  
  
  
  Sweet Dreams (2016), Marco Bellocchio. Valerio Mastandrea, Bérénice Bejo, Guido Caprino.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4746506/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_5
  Massimo's idyllic childhood is shattered by the death of his mother. Years later, he is forced to relive his traumatic past and compassionate doctor Elisa could help him open up and confront his childhood wounds.
  
  
  
  
  Sweet Dreams (2017, DVD).
  Full movie 1:28:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHNhQ0aigrs
  
  
  
  
  Sweet Dreams (2021), Alvin Gray. Desi Alexander, Evan Carrington, Kelsey Delemar.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14260538/
  A dream becomes a nightmare when girlfriend Melody can see into her cheating boyfriend Curtis Monroe's dreams.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 14 - Sweet Dreams-Sweet Nightmare!

  IT WAS eleven o'clock and the place was as quiet as the grave. Bond, with due respect for the eye in the ceiling, went through the motions of going to the bathroom and then climbing into bed and switching off his light. He gave it ten minutes, then got quietly out of bed and pulled on his trousers and shirt. Working by touch, he slipped the end of the inch of plastic into the door crack, found the lock and pressed gently. The edge of the plastic caught the curve of the lock and slid it back. Bond now only had to push gently and the door was open. He listened, his ears pricked like an animal's. Then he carefully put his head out. The empty corridor yawned at him. Bond slipped out of the door, closed it softly, took the few steps along to Number Three and gently turned the handle. It was dark inside but there was a stirring in the bed. Now to avoid the click of the shutting door! Bond took his bit of plastic and got it against the lock, holding it in the mortice. Then he inched the door shut, at the same time gently withdrawing the plastic. The lock slid noiselessly into place.
  
  There came a whisper from the bed. 'Is that you?'
  
  'Yes, darling.' Bond slid out of his clothes and, assuming the same geography as in his own room, walked gingerly over to the bed and sat down on its edge.
  
  A hand came out of the darkness and touched him. 'Ooh, you've got nothing on!'
  
  Bond caught the hand and reached along it. 'Nor have you,' he whispered. 'That's how it should be.'

  It was too good to be true! But how to play it? Diffidently, Bond said, 'What you are suggesting, Count, is - er - not without interest. Of course' - Bond's smile was sufficiently expansive, sufficiently bland - 'if the documents were convincing, so to speak solid, very solid, then it would be quite reasonable for me to authenticate them.' Bond put spaniel into his eyes, asking to be patted, to be told that everything would be all right, that he would be completely protected. 'You see what I mean?'
  
  The Count began, with force, sincerity, 'You need have absolutely no...' when there was the noise of an approaching hubbub down the passage. The door burst open. A man, propelled from behind, lurched into the room and fell, writhing, to the floor.
  
  Two of the guards came stiffly to attention behind him. They looked first at the Count and then, sideways, towards Bond, surprised to see him there.
  
  The Count said sharply, 'Was ist derm los?'
  
  Bond knew the answer and, momentarily, he died. Behind the snow and the blood on the face of the man on the floor, Bond recognized the face of a man he knew.
  
  The blond hair, the nose broken boxing for the Navy, belonged to a friend of his in the Service. It was, unmistakably, Number 2 from Station Z in Zurich!

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 2022 Posts: 13,807

  The Heat's On (1943), Gregory Ratoff. Mae West, Victor Moore, William Gaxton.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035978/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_91
  When his biggest star joins a rival's show, a Broadway producer bluffs and schemes to get her back.
  
  
  
  
  The Big Heat (1953), Fritz Lang. Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045555/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_54
  Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
  
  
  
  
  Mercury Rising (1998), Harold Becker. Bruce Willis, Miko Hughes, Alec Baldwin.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120749/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.
  
  
  
  
  Queen: Mercury Rising (2011), Miriam Lyons. Mike Cooper, Mick Rock, Paul Gambaccini.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9168022/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_51
  This is the story of one of the worlds greatest rock bands of all time, known for their constant record breaking, sell out tours, chart-topping records and eternal worldwide success. 20 years after the death of frontman Freddie Mercury, the band still remain immensley popular. Queen's album sales have topped 300 million sales worldwide and their Westend stage show is shown in almost 20 cities accross the globe. Formed in 1971, Queen embarked on their journey to fame in the UK with their first two albums Queen (1973) and Queen II (1974). But it wasn't until the release of Sheer Heart Attack (1974) and A Night at the Opera (featuring Bohemian Rhapsody) in 1975, that they went to achieve global success. By the late 1970's Queen had gone on to release 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions', two of the greatest Rock anthems to be released which cemented their status as one of the worlds greatest rock bands. This is the story of one of the most iconic rock bands in the world, from the very beginning through to the sad demise of Freddie Mercury in 1991. Through classic archive footage and some of their greatest hits and interviews with Brian May and the likes of Paul Gambaccini, their incredible and unique story is told. This is the story of Queen.
  
  
  
  
  Silenced as mercury rises (2021), Chad Murdock, Karl Andre Talbot. Mike Adams, Robert Scott Bell, Del Bigtree.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10222148/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_92
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 15 - The Heat Increases

  YES, IT was Shaun Campbell all right! Christ Almighty, what a mess! Station Z had especially been told nothing about Bond's mission. Campbell must have been following a lead of his own, probably trailing this Russian who had been 'buying supplies'. Typical of the son of balls-up that over-security can produce!
  
  The leading guard was talking in rapid, faulty German with a Slav accent. 'He was found in the open ski compartment at the back of the gondola. Much frozen, but he put up a strong resistance. He had to be subdued. He was no doubt following Captain Boris.' The man caught himself up. 'I mean, your guest from the valley, Herr Graf. He says he is an English tourist from Zurich. That he had got no money for the fare. He wanted to pay a visit up here. He was searched. He carried five hundred Swiss francs. No identity papers.' The man shrugged. 'He says his name is Campbell.'
  
  At the sound of his name, the man on the ground stirred. He lifted his head and looked wildly round the room. He had been badly battered about the face and head with a pistol or a cosh. His control was shot to pieces. When his eyes lit on the familiar face of Bond, he looked astonished, then, as if a lifebuoy had been thrown to him, he said hoarsely, "Thank God, James. Tell 'em it's me! Tell 'em I'm from Universal Export. In Zurich. You know! For God's sake, James! Tell 'em I'm O.K.' His head fell forward on the carpet.
  
  The Count's head slowly turned towards Bond. The opaque green eyes caught the pale light from the window and glinted whitely. The tight, face-lifted smile was grotesquely horrible. 'You know this man, Sir Hilary?'

  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 2022 Posts: 13,807

  
  Downhill (aka When Boys Leave Home, 1927), Alfred Hitchcock. Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017825/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
  Bound by honor, a successful schoolboy takes the blame for his roommate's indiscretion, and it's all downhill from there.
  
  
  
  
  Downhill Racer (1969), Michael Ritchie. Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064253/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4
  A skier and his coach battle it out on the mountain in this trailer for classic late 60s film
  Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax.
  
  Trailer (2:04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBpHsIxp8ak
  Trailer (2:45) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz1oJjtPLFQ
  
  
  
  
  The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995), Christopher Monger. Hugh Grant,Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112966/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
  When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.
  
  
  
  
  Downhill (2020), Nat Faxon, Jim Rash. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell, Zach Woods.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4558376/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
  Things go off-piste for a married couple on a family vacation in the Alps. An avalanche leads to some drastic decisions with uncomfortable consequences. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell star in this biting dark comedy. From writers and directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Way Way Back, writers of The Descendants) and written by Jessie Armstrong (Succession), Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.
  Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 16 - Downhill Only

  Bond cursed into the sodden folds of his silk handkerchief and got going. The next thing would be a man after him -probably a man with a gun!
  
  He took the second lap more carefully than the first, got across to the second flag, turned at it and made back across the plunging slope for the series of linked S's under the cables. How fast did these bloody gondolas go? Ten, fifteen, twenty miles an hour? This was the latest type. It would be the fastest. Hadn't he read somewhere that the one between Arosa and the Weisshorn did 25? Even as he got into his first S, the tune of the singing cable above him momentarily changed and then went back to its usual whine. That was the gondola passing the first pylon! Bond's knees, the Achilles heel of all skiers, were beginning to ache. He cut his S's narrower, snaking down faster, but now feeling the rutted tracks of the piste under his skis at every turn. Was that a flag away over to the left? The magnesium flares were swaying lower, almost directly over him. Yes. It looked all right. Two more S turns and he would do a traverse schuss to it!
  Something landed with a tremendous crack amidst a fountain of snow to his right! Another to his left! They had a grenade-thrower up front in the cable car! A bracket! Would the next one be dead on? Almost before the thought flashed through his mind, there came a tremendous explosion just ahead of him and he was hurled forward and sideways in a Catherine wheel of sticks and skis.
  
  Bond got gingerly to his feet, gasping and spitting snow. One of his bindings had opened. His trembling fingers found the forward latch and banged it tight again. Another sharp crack, but wide by twenty yards. He must get away from the line of fire from the blasted railway! Feverishly he thought, the left-hand flag! I must do the traverse now. He took a vague bearing across the precipitous slope and flung himself down it.

  

  
  
• Gerard

  August 2022 edited August 2022 Posts: 5,994

  Found that one thanks to TV Tropes :
  
  
  
  The story of two lovers who meet, get separated by duty, meet again, and rescue each other on the battlefronts of World War I. Written and drawn by Nell Brinkley from 1917 to 1919.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Those are beautiful @Gerard, I wasn't aware of them.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 2022 Posts: 13,807

  Lady Snowblood (1973), Toshiya Fujita. Meiko KajiToshio KurosawaMasaaki Daimon.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158714/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2
  A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
  
  
  
  
  Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974), Toshiya Fujita. Meiko KajiJûzô Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072157/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_5
  To avoid a death sentence for her prior acts of bloodshed, the vengeful swordswoman Lady Snowblood is conscripted by the Japanese Secret Police to assassinate political dissidents.
  
  
  
  
  Snow Day, Bloody Snow Day (film short, 2005), Jessica Baxter, Faye Hoerauf. Justin Alley, Andy McCone, Zach Adair.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464203/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3
  When an unexpected snowstorm strikes Seattle, the dead rise from their graves to prey on the city's helpless citizens. From the confines of their living room, a group of unlikely heroes emerge to stop the flesh hungry hordes, only to discover that zombies aren't the only evil they are up against.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XcdzQpZhs4
  
  
  
  
  Blood Snow (aka Necrosis, 2009), Jason Robert Stephens. James Kyson, George Stults, Tiffany
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131743/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2
  In 2009, six friends arrive at an isolated cabin to enjoy a long weekend in the snow. An epic snowstorm interrupts their vacation, trapping them on the mountain and resurrecting the haunting ghosts of the Donner Party
  
  
  
  
  Bloody Snow (2016), Desmon Heck. Monique Giselle, Chris Nelson, Desmon Heck.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5320860/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
  Sara Snow, an awkwardly lonely and nervous girl, is being targeted by a serial killer whose thirst for death cannot be quenched.
  
  
  
  
  Blood and Snow (2022), Jesse Palangio. Vernon Wells, Simon Phillips, Brooke Chamberlain.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18482470/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4
  Two scientists uncover a meteorite impact site in the Arctic tundra, but it kills one scientist and infects the other. A nearby base takes in the lone survivor whilst trying to understand what happened. The lone survivor may not be the person they think she is.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 17 - Bloody Snow

  Now a great blaze of light showed coming up the railway line, and, before it was hidden by the cable station, Bond identified an express and could just hear the thudding of its electro-diesels. By God, it would just about be passing the cable station as he wanted to get across the track! Could he make it - take a run at the low embankment and clear it and the lines before the train got there? It was his only hope! Bond dug in with his sticks to get on extra speed. Hell! A man had got out of the black car and was crouching, aiming at him. Bond jinked and jinked again as fire bloomed from the man's hand. But now Bond was on top of him. He thrust hard with the rapier point of a ski-stick and felt it go through clothing. The man gave a scream and went down. The guide, now only yards behind, yelled something. The great yellow eye of the diesel glared down the tracks, and Bond caught a sideways glimpse of a huge red snow-fan below the headlight that was fountaining the new snow to right and left of the engine in two white wings.
  
  Now! He flashed across the parking place, heading straight at the mound of the embankment and, as he hit, dug both his sticks in to get his skis off the ground, and hurled himself forward into the air. There was a brief glimpse of steel rails below, a tremendous thudding in his ears, and a ferocious blast, only yards away, from the train's siren. Then he crashed on to the icy road, tried to stop, failed, and fetched up in an almighty skid against the hard snow wall on the other side. As he did so, there came a terrible scream from behind him, a loud splintering of wood, and the screech of the train's brakes being applied.
  
  At the same time, the spray from the snow-fan, that had now reached Bond, turned pink!
  Bond wiped some of it off his face and looked at it. His stomach turned. God! The man had tried to follow him, had been too late or had missed his jump, and had been caught by the murderous blades of the snow-fan! Mincemeat! Bond dug a handful of snow off the bank and wiped it over his face and hair. He rubbed more of it down his sweater. He suddenly realized that people were pulling down the windows in the brilliantly-lit train above him. Others had got down on the line. Bond pulled himself together and punted off down the black ice of the road. Shouts followed him - the angry bawls of Swiss citizens. Bond edged his skis a little against the camber of the road and kept going. Ahead of him, down the black gulch of the road, in his mind's eye, the huge red propeller whirred, sucking him into its steel whirlpool. Bond, close to delirium, slithered on towards its bloody, beckoning vortex.
  * * *
  Bond, a grey-faced, lunging automaton, somehow stayed upright on the two miles of treacherous Langlauf down the gentle slope to Samaden. Once a passing car, its snow-chains clattering, forced him into the bank. He leaned against the comforting soft snow for a moment, the breath sobbing in his throat. Then he drove himself on again. He had got so far, done so well! Only a few more hundred yards to the lights of the darling, straggling little paradise of people and shelter!

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 2022 Posts: 13,807

  
  Turn Left at the End of the World (Sof Ha'Olam Smola, 2004), Avi Nesher. Neta Garty, Liraz Charhi, Aure Atika.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374279/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_14
  As a family from India moves in to a desert neighborhood in Southern Israel in the 1960's, the family's eldest, beautiful daughter discovers friendship and romance with the lovely local French girl. The film also explores the hardships and surprises that come with the integration of multiple families from different ethnic backgrounds (from the diaspora) and their struggle with immigration and prejudice.
  
  
  
  
  Go to Hell and Turn Left (2019), Carlo Caldana. Solana Paz, Cristina Anselmo, Keith Jefferds.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9642010/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  A deaf painter finds his wife alive, two years after her supposed death, and winds up in a whirlwind of misunderstanding and intrigue.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 18 - Fork Left for Hell!

  The Mercedes was coming faster than it should over the bumpy track, its chains clattering inside the mudguards. It made straight for the black opening to which the arrow now pointed. Bond caught a glimpse of white, strained faces and then the desperate scream of brakes as the driver saw the abyss in front of him. The car seemed almost to stop, but its front wheels must have been over the edge. It balanced for a moment on its iron belly and then slowly, slowly toppled and there was a first appalling crash as it hit the rubble beneath the old bridge. Then another crash and another. Bond ran forward past the lying arrow and looked down. Now the car was flying upside-down through the air. It hit again and a fountain of sparks flashed from a rock ledge. Then, somersaulting, and with its lights somehow still blazing, it smashed on down into the gorge. It hit a last outcrop that knocked it sideways and, spinning laterally, but now with its lights out and only the glint of the moon on metal, it took the last great plunge into the iced-up river. A deep rumble echoed up from the gorge and there was the patter of rocks and stones following the wreckage. And then all was peaceful, moonlit silence.
  
  Bond let out his breath in a quiet hiss between his clenched teeth. Then, mechanically, he straightened things out again, put up the remains of the fence, lifted the arrow, and put it back facing to the right. Then he wiped his sweating hands down the side of his trousers and walked unsteadily down the road and round the next corner.

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 2022 Posts: 13,807

  
  Love Before Breakfast (1936), Walter Lang. Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027908/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  A rich businessman stalks another man's fiancée.
  
  
  
  
  Kisses for Breakfast (1941), Lewis Seiler. Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyatt, Shirley Ross.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033792/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_5
  Rodney has just married the often engaged Juliette and they are both ready to leave on their honeymoon. However, Clara showed up and Rodney sneaks out to talk to her. Clara is blackmailing Rodney, as he knew her before Juliette. Clara's accomplice hits Rodney over the head when he refuses to pay. This causes amnesia and the only name Rodney can find in his pockets is Laura Anders - who is Juliette's cousin. Laura had never met "Rodney" so she does not know him. Laura and "Rodney", still not remembering who is really is, get married on their way to Juliette's house. When "Rodney" is recognized everyone tries to keep Laura and "Rodney" from starting their honeymoon. Mayhem ensues.
  
  
  
  
  Breakfast in Bed (1990), Ernest G. Sauer. Marilyn Chambers,Michael Rose, Courtenay James.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099178/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_200
  Marilyn Chambers plays an aging film star who turns a dumpy hotel into a sizzling, successful brothel.
  
  
  
  
  Bed & Breakfast (1991), Robert Ellis Miller. Roger Moore, Talia Shire, Colleen Dewhurst.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103784/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  Three generations of women (Talia Shire, Nina Siemaszko, and Colleen Dewhurst) run a failing bed and breakfast in this gentle romantic comedy. Everything changes when a charming mysterious stranger (Sir Roger Moore) shows up on the scene.
  
  
  
  
  Sex and Breakfast (2005), Miles Brandman. Macaulay Culkin, Kuno Becker, Eliza Dushku.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837803/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_17
  Two young couples take a swing at handling their relationship problems through psychologist-prescribed partner-swapping.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter 19 - Love for Breakfast

  Bond suddenly thought, Hell! I'll never find another girl like this one. She's got everything I've ever looked for in a woman. She's beautiful, in bed and out. She's adventurous, brave, resourceful. She's exciting always. She seems to love me. She'd let me go on with my life. She's a lone girl, not cluttered up with friends, relations, belongings. Above all, she needs me. It'll be someone for me to look after. I'm fed up with all these untidy, casual affairs that leave me with a bad conscience. I wouldn't mind having children. I've got no social background into which she would or wouldn't fit. We're two of a pair, really. Why not make it for always?
  
  Bond found his voice saying those words that he had never said in his life before, never expected to say.
  
  'Tracy. I love you. Will you marry me?'
  
  She turned very pale. She looked at him wonderingly. Her lips trembled. 'You mean that?'
  
  'Yes, I mean it. With all my heart.'

  
  
  
• Legionnaire

  September 2022 Posts: 142

  Cobra (1971), 3 Men to Kill(1980), The Girl From Rio(1969)