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Have you ever seen "Operation Kid Brother"?

chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
edited October 2012 in General Movies & TV Posts: 17,691

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Connery

I haven't seen this in ages, but I remember that it was fun, in a stupid Flint sort of way... so many actors that acted in Bond films... a Martini probably makes it a better flick... :-?

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  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    Posts: 3,494
    I remember seeing it as a kid, Connery's brother Neil was the star, Daniela Bianchi, Adolfo Celi, Bernard Lee, and Lois Maxwell all took part. I'm sure it wasn't very good or I'd own a copy.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited October 2012 Posts: 17,691
    From the trailer, you can see it was something that probably only younger, more forgiving Bond fans might be able to make it all the way through... :-O

    I believe I was in my teens the last time I saw the entire film, I stumbled across it in TV Guide, and assumed it had been made by the same people producing the Bond movies. Well when I watched that Saturday afternoon on the telly, I remember being at once highly entertained & somewhat confused as to how something like this could ever have come to be.
  • SharkBaitSharkBait
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    No. I have never seen it. But I've tried to find it online on many occasions.
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
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    What I did like was Sean's boy Jason in "The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming". OKB in 1967 was little more than the same Bond cash-in every studio was making.
  • timmertimmer
    edited October 2012 Posts: 4,622
    I' ve never seen it but I sure should would like to. The Bond inspired spyfy mania of the '60s was great fun. I've got complete Flint and Helm collections as well as Man From Uncle, although I hesitate to include Uncle with the straight-out campy spoof stuff. Uncle, but for its a-tad-too-campy 3rd season, was otherwise quite Bond-worthy, especially in the early seasons. The 4th season was quite good too and the 8 Uncle feature films are probably the next best thing to cinema Bond.
    It would be great if a bunch of these Bond inspired spoof films could be packaged in one dvd set. I'd suggest the two Bulldog Drummond films, Deadlier Than the Male and its sequel, plus Operation Kid Brother, Modesty Blaise. There are several others that could round out the collection. Although I should add that Deadlier Than The Male is also of a quality that rivals Uncle. Same with Flint, but Flint is pure spoof-just real good spoof, as opposed to Operation Kid Brother, which looks kinda stupid, but still probably fun.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    timmer wrote:
    The 4th season was quite good too and the 8 Uncle feature films are probably the next best thing to cinema Bond.
    And a kick a*s theme that comes close to rivalling Bond's!
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
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    @ Timmer- Sharon Tate's undie dance while lighting a smoke for Helm and fixing him up with a drink in TWC. @-) Didn't get much better than that :) Sometimes I think they just don't make women like her and Talitha Pol Getty anymore.

    Thoughts?
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    @ Timmer- Sharon Tate's undie dance while lighting a smoke for Helm and fixing him up with a drink in TWC. @-) Didn't get much better than that :)
    Oh yeah.
    And, did you know the fights in that were staged by Bruce Lee?
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    edited October 2012 Posts: 3,494
    Yes I did. Nancy Kwan, Elke Sommer, Tina Louise, what a smorgasbord. This was probably my favorite Helm film. I still laugh at Ann-Margret's epileptic 60's dancing in Murderer's Row, my fave Helm theme song. Still can't believe Ann didn't dislocate something :))
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    edited October 2012 Posts: 3,494
    Speaking of old 60's movies and spoofs, any "It Takes A Thief" fans other than 4EverBonded out there? I've been watching all the reruns on Antenna TV and reliving my childhood. Lots of Bond people had guest roles. Speaking of 60's babes, add Joey Heatherton and Canadian sexpot Sharon Acker to that list, assorted other minor hotties also appeared.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited October 2012 Posts: 28,694
    Ha, these women can light flames to the women of the late 30s, 40s, and 50s. And considering many are trying so hard to be Marilyn, and to no avail. :))
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
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    I don't think you can compare the eras to be truthful. I thought the Hollywood classic women were heavily made up and many of them didn't look quite as good off screen as on. There were a few exceptions, of course. Whereas the 60's women were just naturally beautiful with hardly any makeup. I guess it's personal taste and probably not a debate anyone can win.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited October 2012 Posts: 28,694
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    I don't think you can compare the eras to be truthful. I thought the Hollywood classic women were heavily made up and many of them didn't look quite as good off screen as on. There were a few exceptions, of course. Whereas the 60's women were just naturally beautiful with hardly any makeup. I guess it's personal taste and probably not a debate anyone can win.

    As time went on less and less were as natural as the women present in the Golden Age of Hollywood (Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Grace Kelly, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Ava Gardner, so on). Unfortunately, so many from both times died tragically young, for various melancholic reasons.
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    edited October 2012 Posts: 3,494
    All I can say is that my Dad and his parents saved a lot of old movie mags from that era and I saw lots of candid shots without makeup. If I had them I'd send you some to see my point that you don't see. I'd put Sharon Tate, Talitha Getty, Joey Heatherton, and Sharon Acker up against any of them. All 4 of these women would have been just as big in the same era as far as pure looks and sex appeal. Stunning with or without makeup. And of all those you mention, my Philly home girl Grace beat them all IMHO.
  • timmertimmer
    edited October 2012 Posts: 4,622
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    @ Timmer- Sharon Tate's undie dance while lighting a smoke for Helm and fixing him up with a drink in TWC. @-) Didn't get much better than that :) Sometimes I think they just don't make women like her and Talitha Pol Getty anymore.

    Thoughts?
    No arguments there. Tate might be the most gorgeous creature to ever live. She's got a small role in one of the first season Uncle episodes too, but her Helm appearance is the stuff of legend @-) (hyperbole intentional) . It's suggested on the dvd extras that her terrible murder was one of the reasons Dino declined to do another Helm film, after Wrecking Crew. He was rather broken-up, and understandably.
    Valley of the Dolls is another memorable Tate appearance.
    The Helm films are all babe-a-paloozas and great entertainment, but they are also so bad (bad in a good way) that they make Flint look like Shakespeare by comparison. Dino basically lampoons himself as much as the spyfy genre. Love the drinking and driving scene, where he actually makes himself a drink as he's driving. :))
    chrisisall wrote:
    timmer wrote:
    The 4th season was quite good too and the 8 Uncle feature films are probably the next best thing to cinema Bond.
    And a kick a*s theme that comes close to rivalling Bond's!
    Thank you to Jerry Goldsmith for that great theme. It does rival what Monty Norman and John Barry created for Bond, two years earlier. The Avengers (Steed and company) theme, IMO would rank a close third behind Bond and Uncle.
    Bond, Solo and Steed, the Holy Trinity of '60s spyfy.



  • bondsumbondsum
    edited October 2012 Posts: 3,333
    Yes, I've seen it and it's not very good. In fact it's terrible. I really can't understand why the Italians didn't try and make a more grounded and interesting spy caper considering they had the nearest thing to Connery in the shape of his brother. It is closer to the spirit of the Charles K. Feldman's awful Casino Royale than it is a Bond film. Neil Connery does alright with what he's been given, it's just the whole story and production that lets it down.

    Worth catching for the beautiful Daniela Bianchi and machine gun totting Lois Maxwell. There was a version on the Mystery Science Theater 3000. If you're interested here it is...

  • CraterGunsCraterGuns
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    The MST3K version is a riot!
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    That was SO funny!
  • MrBrownMrBrown
    edited December 2012 Posts: 202
    CraterGuns wrote:
    The MST3K version is a riot!

    Absolutely.

    I love this bit: youtube.com/watch?v=14Mfmn7vN4g&t=35m17s

    :))
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