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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    007ClassicBondFan wrote: »
    Today I learned that out of every person cast in a James Bond film, only 3 actors/actresses were born outside of the 20th century.
    •Lotte Lenya (Rosa Klebb) - Born 1898
    •Coline Defaud (Young Madeline Swan) - Born 2010
    •Lisa-Dorah Sonnet (Mathilde Swann) - Born 2015

    Quite shocking in all honesty haha.

    Bessie Love, an American actress born in 1898 (and an Academy Awards nominee in 1929), played an uncredited role as a baccarat player in OHMSS.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Is she the one who's saying how it's a stroke of luck to be bailed out like that etc.? She's great.
    It is kind of bonkers how those early films didn't feature anyone over 63 or 64; not sure that would happen now.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,421
    I seem to remember - maybe from an earlier thread, probably several years ago - that there was also a male actor born before 1900 who played a role worth mentioning in one of the early (1960s) movies. Just couldn't find him this time around. I'd also be surprised if there wasn't, considering my own age now which is getting close to 70. Why shouldn't there have been 70+ (and certainly 65+) actors in those films? They are full of "mature" characters, like retired generals and Sir Bla-bla and what have you.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited October 23 Posts: 6,198
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Why shouldn't there have been 70+ (and certainly 65+) actors in those films? They are full of "mature" characters, like retired generals and Sir Bla-bla and what have you.

    Probably because they were all played by 39 year old actors like the guy who played Colonel Smithers ;)
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Heh, it's true. When Bernard Lee started playing M he was younger than Roger Moore was when he played Bond in not just one, but three Bond films :D
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    I can offer two born in the 19th Century from CR 67, non-Eon of course.

    Charles Boyer ...
    Born: August 28, 1899, Figeac, France
    Died: August 26, 1978, Phoenix, AZ

    George Raft ...
    Born: September 26, 1895, Hell's Kitchen, New York City, NY
    Died: November 24, 1980, Los Angeles, CA
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 25 Posts: 19,477
    I’m not a gun person so I’m sure this is well-known to people who are, but just watching TSWLM and I’d never spotted before that Bond is carrying what I think is a Beretta pistol at the Pyramids when he’s trying to meet Fekkesh, rather than his usual PPK.

    Also another Spy thing I’d never noticed but is very cool:

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    mtm wrote: »
    I’m not a gun person so I’m sure this is well-known to people who are, but just watching TSWLM and I’d never spotted before that Bond is carrying what I think is a Beretta pistol at the Pyramids when he’s trying to meet Fekkesh, rather than his usual PPK.
    Yes confirmed on the Beretta.


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    https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me

    https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me#Beretta_70
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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    For me, a gun is a gun is a gun... I wouldn't notice any difference. I'd recognize a P08 (Luger) because of that funny round thing on top of it (don't know what it's for). The only handgun I ever fired, during my mandatory military service almost fifty years ago, was what the German army calls a P1, and others (like the police) call a P38 (from Walther). I can also tell a revolver from a pistol, but that's it. If Bond used an air gun, it wouldn't register with me if they get the sound effect right.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Great catch @mtm, never noticed that, what with all the distractions: the green lighting, the liquorice, Fekkesh' beautiful handwriting, and the thought that he might carry a skeleton key on him 'just in case'.

    Hopefully Bond gets a Beretta in this next phase.
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    It jammed on him on his last job.

    Sorry had to throw that one in. One wonders how or why they gave Moore this gun for this film?
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    It is fun, just for the sake of Bond getting a lecture about it beeing the wrong gun, whilst he loves it. Seems Bond managed to get his back, ignoring orders (again).
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited 8:56am Posts: 19,477
    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    I’m not a gun person so I’m sure this is well-known to people who are, but just watching TSWLM and I’d never spotted before that Bond is carrying what I think is a Beretta pistol at the Pyramids when he’s trying to meet Fekkesh, rather than his usual PPK.
    Yes confirmed on the Beretta.

    Thanks for looking it up! As I say, I’m not a gun person but I think that sort of long notch on the top of the barrel is a distinctive Beretta thing, never noticed it there before. I think he poses with it on one of the posters but I thought that was just a poster thing.
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