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One of the nice things about watching classic movies is that I always find some connection between them and the Bond films. And today, when watching “Key Largo” (1948) I saw this about one of the henchmen in DAF and TMWTGG (PTS), actor Marc Lawrence.
https://soulrideblog.com/2019/02/18/marc-lawrence-henchman-and-then-some/
And happy birthday BTW.
Thanks, @Dwayne! Also Brice Cabot from DAF was in several Golden Age movies: KING KONG, several Errol Flynn movies. Marc Lawrence was great. I remembered him in Abbott and Costello's HOLD THAT GHOST.
Yes ToTheRight, again great comments. TSWLM is my favorite Roger Moore film, #7 on my Bond list. About the scenes with Jaws' van, what you said reminded me of when Moore throws out the box of tools with some disgust. Moore could do that well yet also get totally macho during the battle in the Liparus--good range.
Tomorrow is Lois Chiles' birthday so this is a good excuse to follow up my viewing of SPY with this one.
First Bond film I ever saw. My folks took me to see this summer of '79.
I love how traditional the gunbarrel is: just a straight up classic Roger Moore gunbarrel.
The music is very MOONRAKER esque obviously just by those opening chords.
This is one of my favorite PTS openings. While Bond and the pilot are fighting, the air hostess probably ran off the get Jaws to assist . I imagine Bond caught up with her after they both landed and had her arrested. Nah.
Jake Lombard and BJ Worth are my favorite stuntmen in the series after Bob Simmons. Lombard more or less does look like Roger in many of these shots, especially as Bond is pushed from the plane.
I love the wrist dart gun gadget. When I was a kid my Dad made me a facsimile MOONRAKER dark gun watch using some electrical component he had lying around. It didn't fire darts but I could pretend.
Chang (or Cha as Bond pronounces it) sporting a classic 1979 EIGHT IS ENOUGH Adam Rich bowl cut.
I love Holly, one of my favorite Moore era leading Bond girls.
Damn- my Blu-ray froze for a moment. I may have to clean the disc................luckily I have a back up copy just in case.............
Okay back to the centrifuge bit.
Bond is getting worried here..................
I wish we'd get more scenes like this in newer films.
Bond is getting thrashed.......................
I love Chang's expression as Bond stops the centrifuge. YES!!!!
Bond got his ass kicked. He looks pretty rattled.
The still of him and Holly as they embrace was used in quite a few magazine articles and movie review books.
Chang is pretty funny.
Corrine seems to have a rather large birthmark or tattoo on her left hand which is seen as Bond quietly slips out of bed to do some Sneaky Bonding.
More Sneaky Bond this time in broad daylight. I love the museum bit as Bond follows Dr. Goodhead.
I believe, according to The Suits of James Bond, the suit 007 wears in this scene is a gray version of his TSWLM train sequence suit.
The Bondola bit is pretty silly, but I love it anyway.
I'm really tempted to go backwards and start recollecting the old 2000 SE DVDs. Some of those transfers pre-Lowery I actually liked better.
In this movie, Bond removes his Seiko watch to have sex. He puts it back on as he attempts to inconspicuously sneak out.
We don't see his dart gun watch until much later in the film when he needs it.
I wonder if he's storing it Christopher Walken PULP FICTION style for the duration of the movie?
Emily Bolton is another great Bond girl, IMO. I wonder if she's been interviewed about this film?
I love this bit where they zip line down to ground.
The Romeo and Juliet theme is a bit silly, but I actually like Jaws falling in love at first sight. Good for him.
It would have been funny to see Roger's Bond puke here.
The space scenes are pretty damned amazing really in terms of visual effects.
Bond looks like he's wearing yellow Converse All Stars.
Comfy shoes. I had a pear of black ones I wore for years.
The Drax demise. Love this bit.
"At least I shall have the pleasure of putting you out of my misery."
Drax had some great lines. A superb Bond villain, IMO.
I love Barbara Carrera .... Easily my favorite female Bond villain.
She just pounded Pettachi. I vividly remember this scene in the cinema and her spotting Bond through her night vision lenses. "Oh, yes. 007."
I thought Connery looked really old in that shot.
Pat Roach is another favorite. He gives Bond as good a thrashing as he gave Indiana Jones.
I wonder if Felix was heating up some conch chowder?
The Dyson/Zaritsky debate video today got me in the mood for
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.
I really never tire of this one, and no doubt I'll be watching it again soon when my 2000 SE DVD arrives in the mail. I'm looking forward to comparing the color timing.
I still feel the old CBS/FOX transfer looked the truest to the cinematic prints.
The Blu-ray is quite sharp and crisp though.
When Q hits his head on the Aston Martin it sounds like he says
"Good morning, 007! Aw, sh*t!"