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In a battle of titans, I'll award Ali Kerim Bey as the winner, by a hair.
Would love to go Istanbul and sit with him drinking chai or coffee.
Plus I prefer FRWL to OHMSS (slightly).
Ali Kerim Bey - 8
Marc-Ange Draco - 0
This thread makes me question if EON are able give us a great one-film allie ever again. When was the last time we had one? Raoul from Die Another Day I'd say. What a great character, so much more should have been made of him.
Make that 9-0
Draco was more interested in his own motives. Tracy was more Bond's ally then her father.
But, maybe because I love both the novel and film of OHMSS, I'll always prefer The Draco-meister... ;)
This discussion was had on another thread here, a while back, maybe way back, can't remember, but a member who knew the language (Turkish maybe) said the girl was simply calling him.
"ali" meant come hither or something to that effect. She was effectively saying
"Come to me, Kerim Bey."
anyway my favourite of the pair was Kerim Bey. Solid ally and very well played by Pedro Armendariz.
This guy is one of the biggest crime bosses in Europe.He probably knew Don Corleone. He takes on Blofeld. He is the father-in-law of James Bond. And he does not hold a naked woman chained under his table, he is more civilized than that.
But he wasn't exactly 'squeaky clean' ,for sure.
Sometimes you have to side with a lesser evil to catch total evil.
Bond needed to find Blofeld,Draco knew where he was,and he had limited time as M was seriously losing patience.
I will change the thread title .
EDIT : Done...these are my top 4 allies,tough to pick a favourite.