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[Friedrich Baxter]

Well, I watched this movie from 1965 some 3 years ago when TNT (now TCM) was still not encrypted via sattelite dish. This movie is somekind of Bond-ish. Rod Stewart palys a certain spy; Boysie Oakes, and with his Jaguar E type he goes on his way. Trevor Howard plays an M-kind character. I must say. HE could easily play M himself. In this movie we also see Jill St. John as Iris. A funny, but good role.

And then the title song, sang by Shirley Bassey! This could be EASILY a James Bond theme. 'The Liquidator'is still in my mind. So, therefore I ask, if anyone can find the song 'The Liquidator'sang by Mrs. Bassey.

Conclusion: Far more better than 'Casino Royale' and 'Operation Kid Brother'. 'Perhaps, beacuse it's not a complete Bond ripp off, but it has got some typical Bond elements. The song included.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Actually, The Liquidator starred Aussie Rod Taylor, not Rod Stewart.

And it was based on a novel by John Gardner who wrote a series of Boysie Oakes tales.

[Mister Asterix]

LOL! Rod Stewart: International Super-Spy.

[Friedrich Baxter]

I always confuse him with another person ;-) But can you find the song 'the Liquidator'?

[General Koskov]

Sounds good! I'm sure even my library will have it as they always wait about thirty years before getting a film! ;d

[Friedrich Baxter]

It was deliberately ;-)

But serious. Does anyone now the theme song of this movie?; The Liquidator sang by Shirley Bassey? Can anyone find it for me? It's a GOOD song.

[Tanger]

I've just scanned Audiogalaxy for you Friedrich. Bad news, there are only two versions of the one you want...and they're both copyrighted! This means, unless you are a paying Gold member, you cannot download them.
Sorry, I couldn't help. Perhaps someone here who is a Gold member could get them for you?

I just realised, Gold member=Goldmember!

[Mister Asterix]

J J (04 Apr, 2002 04:18 p.m.):(edited)
Minor detail, but Rod TAYLOR (he was the Time Traveler in the original TIME MACHINE) plays the lead...

Yes, yes. I know. But I'm still laughing at the idea of Rod 'Do You Think I'm Sexy' Stewart playing a James Bond-type character. Sorry, it just tickles me.

[J J]

Mister Asterix (04 Apr, 2002 04:08 p.m.):
LOL! Rod Stewart: International Super-Spy.

Minor detail, but Rod TAYLOR (he was the Time Traveler in the original TIME MACHINE) plays the lead. It does, however, has two more Bondlink as it features Jill St.John and Derek Nimmo (Casino Royale)...

[Friedrich Baxter]

Well, I was very lucky, but now I've got The Liquidator sang by Bassey from KaZaA. If anyone wants to reciece this incredible song, totally in style of the songs 'Thunderball' and 'Goldfinger', please write or call me :-)

[WillieGarvin]

The theme song of The Liquidator movie is called:"The Liquidator". The Liquidator was based on John Gardner's best-selling satire of the Bond novels and films.His hero,Boysie Oakes,is an anti-Bond with Bondian qualities.There are several Liquidator novels,all of them worth a look-they're the books that later won Gardner the role of 007 author-they're lively,funny and also suspenseful adventure stories,complete with colorful villains and gorgeous women in the Fleming tradition.

Here are most of the titles in the series:

1)The Liquidator

2)Understrike

3)Amber Nine

4)Founder Member

5)Air Apparent

6)Madrigal

[taxman2001]

And if anyone wants to see this excellent movie (and it is - I first saw it in the early 80's and loved every second of it) and are in Europe then Turner Classic Movies regularily show it.

In fact I'm watching it as we speak.

And if you want to see it then it's next showing is Thursday 1st July 2004 at 00:50am.

[Von Hammerstein]

TCM is is showing it again @ 12:50 am in Thursday July 1st, must set VCR!

As a little known side nugget of info, Taylor will look familar to those of you who read paperback spy thrillers in the 60's and 70's. There was a cover artist, whose name escapes me at the moment, who drew action heroes with Taylor's handsome square-jawed features, Nick Carter,
Commander Shaw, and even James Bond (check out the Goldfinger avatar in CBn archive, the one with Bond, a gun and golden girl in the background.) he also sported on the covers of some of Edward S. Aaron's Sam Durrell (Assignment.........) Series, any used book store is bound to have lots of covers with this character on them.

Edited by Von Hammerstein, 07 June 2004 - 07:26 PM.

[PrinceKamalKhan]

This message contains SPOILERS for those who've not yet seen The Liquidator.








The Liquidator is indeed one of the more interesting 1960s Bond-inspired spy films, both for what it shares in common with Bond(John Gardner, Shirley Bassey, Jill St. John, Suzy Kendall, a hero who's a ladies' man/British agent) and for how it differs. What makes it stand out from such other knockoffs as Derek Flint and Matt Helm is that Boysie Oakes is not a superspy. The film does not glamorize killing but shows its distastefulness and (SPOILER HERE) Boysie hires a freelance hitman to do his assasination assignments for him. When Boysie's reputation finally forces him into action, he has to prove his mettle. Trevor Howard and Wilfrid Hyde-Whyte are letter perfect as the film's M and Frederick Gray-type characters. Jill St. John's Iris character is markedly different from her Tiffany Case character. (SPOILER HERE) She comes off as a kind of mixture of Miss Moneypenny and Miranda Frost. Shirley Bassey's title song rocks and Lalo Schiffrin(Mission Impossible) provides an effective '60s spy score. Richard Williams(who also did some of the Pink Panther title sequences) provides an interesting animated opening credit sequence.

Both The Liquidator and 1967's Deadlier Than The Male with Richard Johnson and Elke Sommer qualify as 2 of the more unique and entertaining Bond knock-offs of the time.

[Blofeld's Cat]

There was a cover artist, whose name escapes me at the moment, who drew action heroes with Taylor's handsome square-jawed features, Nick Carter,
Commander Shaw, and even James Bond (check out the Goldfinger avatar in CBn archive, the one with Bond, a gun and golden girl in the background.) he also sported on the covers of some of Edward S. Aaron's Sam Durrell (Assignment.........) Series, any used book store is bound to have lots of covers with this character on them.

Would the cover artist in question be Robert McGinnis?

[Von Hammerstein]

There was a cover artist, whose name escapes me at the moment, who drew action heroes with Taylor's handsome square-jawed features, Nick Carter,
Commander Shaw, and even James Bond (check out the Goldfinger avatar in CBn archive, the one with Bond, a gun and golden girl in the background.) he also sported on the covers of some of Edward S. Aaron's Sam Durrell (Assignment.........) Series, any used book store is bound to have lots of covers with this character on them.

Would the cover artist in question be Robert McGinnis?

I'm not sure if he is the on e or not. But I remember his cover women from my youth. Those women haunted my dreams. They were pure sex and as fourteen year old it was like being able to pickup a Playboy. And my mom thought I just was an avid mystery thriller reader. Those covers do take me back. Thanks Cat!

Von

[PrinceKamalKhan]

It was deliberately ;-)

But serious. Does anyone now the theme song of this movie?; The Liquidator sang by Shirley Bassey? Can anyone find it for me? It's a GOOD song.

Well, it's 5 years later but here's 2 renditions of Dame Bassey singing it off youtube-

In B & W:



In Color(or should I say Colour since this is a Bond website?)

http://www.youtube.c...8...ted&search=

I think I like the B & W version better, if you listen carefully she flubs a line in the colour version.

Indeed, a great Bondian type song.

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