Commander
Posted 20 May 2013 - 04:56 AM
For those in the US, TCM is airing a marathon of classic Bond spoofs starting at 8PM E.S.T., Monday night, May 20-
http://www.tcm.com/t...poofs-5-20.html
I'm most interested in seeing COS as it seems to have a lot in common with "The Living Daylights":
Commander
Posted 21 May 2013 - 02:01 PM
Thanks for the heads-up! I'd've missed this.
Man, those Matt Helm films were pretty poor, weren't they?
Commander
Posted 22 May 2013 - 04:13 AM
Thanks for the heads-up! I'd've missed this.
Man, those Matt Helm films were pretty poor, weren't they?
It's best to see the Helm films as movie versions of Dean Martin's musical-comedy-variety series of the time period doing a Bond spoof. The most impressive aspect of the Helm films was the all-star lineup of beautiful women of the time period to play his leading ladies: Ann-Margret, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Kwan, Elke Sommer, Tina Louise and my personal favorite, Stella Stevens. Her brilliant performance as the well-meaning but klutzy Gail Hendrix shows she was as good a comedienne as she was beautiful. There's a good Matt Helm thread in this section.
http://debrief.comma...-vs-goldfinger/