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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited November 2017 Posts: 15,818
    Gambling scene..........I showed this to a friend about 25 years ago and by this point he asked "Is this almost over?"
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond is getting worried..........but until he starts weeping blood he won't consider himself to be in any real trouble. Bad quip. Sorry.

    He gets bailed out with a note.....he 's ready to go again.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Cane/gun bit...........it's funny when he falls back.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    " This gun is completely silent, I suppose."
    I may have to up Pate in my rankings of the Leiters.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond hides the check, phone rings and he doesn't close the door behind him...........
    now he's caught.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Torture scene!!!!!!!!

    "You're an ugly little man. Why don't you stop talking!"
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Early television in the '50's was fairly violent- this as well as the first season of Superman.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    According to imdb the original broadcast was in color............hmmm.......
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Researching this......I guess this series was originally done in color. Very interesting.


    Valerie rambles on while Bond attempts to break free.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    After that torture Bond's feet are probably as jacked up as Bruce Willis' in Die Hard.

    Bond subdues the henchman..........shoots him............shoots Le Chiffre..........who then goes and sits down......
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    This version doesn't have the full ending.

    Later added on credits- probably from the original 1989 VHS release (which I used to have).

    Fun watching this one again- a great time killer in the evening.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    @Birdleson
    It's pretty cool as a curiosity. James Dean did a lot of live TV back then, and there were several adaptations of classic novels and characters. A few Christmas Carol TV adaptations, Jekyll/Hyde and so forth.
    There's a great live TV version of Frankenstein with Lon Chaney Jr. Apparently he thought they were still rehearsing so moments when he's supposed to smash furniture he gently sets it down.
    Interesting and unpretentious start to Bond's on screen legacy.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    This sequence is one of my favorites in the entire Bond franchise. Watched it just for fun; I absolutely love it. SF is terrific, and this may be my favorite part of it.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    The sequence leading up to it is even better.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    According to imdb the original broadcast was in color............hmmm.......

    If that is true, I would be very interested in seeing it.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    I'd hate to even guess how many times I've seen DR. NO since my first time in '65, but it has to be over 50. And this is the first time that I noticed that the MI6 guy who brings the message to Bond in Le Cercle is still lurking in the background behind a full-sized window staring at Bond and Sylvia as they trade quips at the casino's cashier station. Is that just common knowledge for everyone else?

    Not me; thanks for the discovery!
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    edited November 2017 Posts: 12,271
    Yes. DN is one of the best-ever Bond films in general; a shame it is sometimes overshadowed by FRWL and GF, even though those are excellent too.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    I never noticed that. I'll have to keep an eye on it during my next watch.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Watching OHMSS.

    Despite Lazenby's being in the lower three of all the six Bonds, I've got to give the man credit. His physicality is outstanding when it comes to fistfights. That fight scene with Draco's henchman in Tracy's hotel room is amazing. I love how he isn't just shocked the moment he's hit in the back by the goon, trying to regroup and wonder what just happened. He instantly reacts without even looking who he is and throws the chair on the goon's face... followed by a smooth fight.

    After the Grant vs Bond fight in FRWL, this is my second favorite fight scene in the Bond series.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    ClarkDevlin wrote: »

    After the Grant vs Bond fight in FRWL, this is my second favorite fight scene in the Bond series.

    That is probably how I see it as well, and followed by the stairwell fight in CR.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »

    After the Grant vs Bond fight in FRWL, this is my second favorite fight scene in the Bond series.

    That is probably how I see it as well, and followed by the stairwell fight in CR.
    Yep! Even though Obanno did wallop Bond more than Bond punched him. The former was skillfully superior to him.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Many actors I've never recognized before who have minor roles here are actors I constantly see in many of the ITC Entertainment series. One being the man in white tuxedo next to Bond in the casino, and the other being another of Draco's henchmen who approaches him at the hotel reception while Bond checks out.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Love how the Bond theme plays in the background when Draco insists that all Tracy needs "is a man to dominate her." :))

    Also, love how Bond refers to M as "that monument" while enraged.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »

    After the Grant vs Bond fight in FRWL, this is my second favorite fight scene in the Bond series.

    That is probably how I see it as well, and followed by the stairwell fight in CR.
    Yep! Even though Obanno did wallop Bond more than Bond punched him. The former was skillfully superior to him.
    I love that fight too, but prefer the beach one that precedes it (perhaps because of Barry's masterful score being incorporated). In terms of #2 behind the class leader FRWL fight, I personally would have to say Bond's duel with Alex in GE. Despite being overly choreographed, the animosity between the two is telling, and that is why I rank it high.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    bondjames wrote: »
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »

    After the Grant vs Bond fight in FRWL, this is my second favorite fight scene in the Bond series.

    That is probably how I see it as well, and followed by the stairwell fight in CR.
    Yep! Even though Obanno did wallop Bond more than Bond punched him. The former was skillfully superior to him.
    I love that fight too, but prefer the beach one that precedes it (perhaps because of Barry's masterful score being incorporated). In terms of #2 behind the class leader FRWL fight, I personally would have to say Bond's duel with Alex in GE. Despite being overly choreographed, the animosity between the two is telling, and that is why I rank it high.
    Agreed. The Alec/Bond fight is so great and the best fight in the Brosnan era who was holding himself very well in that fight. I wonder whatever happened to that kind of fistfight in the next three of his films. It makes me upset. That fight, for example, in TND, over the crane right above the newspaper publication room was embarrassing. Sorry, Pierce.

    Now, back to OHMSS... I love how useful Moneypenny really is as a secretary in this scene when Bond tries to spite M by resigning yet she fixes it for them both by writing in a request for two weeks' leave. See, this is Moneypenny. Not the current field agent wannabe that they're trying to make her.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »

    After the Grant vs Bond fight in FRWL, this is my second favorite fight scene in the Bond series.

    That is probably how I see it as well, and followed by the stairwell fight in CR.
    Yep! Even though Obanno did wallop Bond more than Bond punched him. The former was skillfully superior to him.

    you also feel the effort Bond puts into killing him. The moment when Bond slowly strangled him is dileberately drawn out.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    BAIN123 wrote: »
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »

    After the Grant vs Bond fight in FRWL, this is my second favorite fight scene in the Bond series.

    That is probably how I see it as well, and followed by the stairwell fight in CR.
    Yep! Even though Obanno did wallop Bond more than Bond punched him. The former was skillfully superior to him.

    you also feel the effort Bond puts into killing him. The moment when Bond slowly strangled him is dileberately drawn out.
    Definitely.
  • mattjoesmattjoes
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    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Love how the Bond theme plays in the background when Draco insists that all Tracy needs "is a man to dominate her." :))

    It sounds sinister, too, probably because of the line's politically incorrect nature.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
    edited November 2017 Posts: 15,423
    mattjoes wrote: »
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Love how the Bond theme plays in the background when Draco insists that all Tracy needs "is a man to dominate her." :))

    It sounds sinister, too, probably because of the line's politically incorrect nature.
    Not for those times, though. Nowadays, feminazis will spark an outrage over that line.

    It was more akin to Bond's being a womanizer and can handle the job with the back of his hand. "Sounds like a job for James Bond." That kind of impression is the one I got from it.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Love how the Bond theme plays in the background when Draco insists that all Tracy needs "is a man to dominate her." :))

    Also, love how Bond refers to M as "that monument" while enraged.

    When I saw OHMSS in the cinema years ago the audience erupted into laughter at that line.

    Watching SKYFALL.....

    close to the half way mark-
    casino scene......

    There's a seedy casino in the Robert Mitchum noir MACAO run by Brad Dexter.
    I'm always reminded of that film when we get to this section.
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