Lonsdale's Drax was always trolling his enemies with his dry comments and he bought the Eifel Tower. Moonraker is my 3rd favourite Moore movie and is entertaining if you treat it as a live action comic book or anime (like The Castle Of Cagliostro).
'Alright guard, begin the unnecessarily slow moving dipping mechanism...'
Superb in Moonraker, which is always in my Top 5. Gymkata's comment is quite correct and the same could be said of John Barry's often gloomy score - it helps ground the film.
As is often the case, the villain is relatively young but seems older than Bond due to a difference in attitudes and delivery.
Oddly, the writer Christopher Wood disliked Lonsdale's approach, viewing it as too downbeat - I think he'd have preferred James Mason in the role.
Who would Drax have copped off with in space? Or, being the cult leader, would he have had the pick of the beauties? It is a tribute to Lonsdale's restrained performance than in all these decades the thought has only just occurred to me.
Also v good in The Day of the Jackal - lensed by the same French cinematographer as did Moonraker. He went after 'M' in that - you can't keep a bad man down!
Margaret Nolan's screentime in the Bond films was very little, but nonetheless very iconic - especially as the golden girl in the title sequence and poster. Another sad loss to the Bond alumni.
A fine obit to Nolan in today's Times. She had a more interesting life than you'd imagine.
She had a blink and miss it role in A Hard Day's Night - so like Colonel Smithers that's another Goldfinger star who popped up in the Beatles' film. (Smithers was the old gent on the train so rudely abused by the young sods - you know you're getting old when you sympathise with him and not the Fabs...) Of course, the Beatles are unfavorably namechecked by Bond in the film, so that tells you whose side he'd be on, I guess.
RIP Bobby -strange to think he died of Covid, as did another of his contemporaries recently, Eddie Large - both at the height of their fame in the early 80’s.
Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
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So sad to hear of the death of Bobby Ball, a genuinely funny man...he will be missed
RIP Sir Thomas Sean Connery .... you will be missed!
Babs and Michael got their tribute very wrong “the names Bond, James Bond” where in fact the actor’s opener should have been “I admire your courage Ms?” Trench, Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck Mr? “Bond, James Bond” -{
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Superb in Moonraker, which is always in my Top 5. Gymkata's comment is quite correct and the same could be said of John Barry's often gloomy score - it helps ground the film.
As is often the case, the villain is relatively young but seems older than Bond due to a difference in attitudes and delivery.
Oddly, the writer Christopher Wood disliked Lonsdale's approach, viewing it as too downbeat - I think he'd have preferred James Mason in the role.
Who would Drax have copped off with in space? Or, being the cult leader, would he have had the pick of the beauties? It is a tribute to Lonsdale's restrained performance than in all these decades the thought has only just occurred to me.
Also v good in The Day of the Jackal - lensed by the same French cinematographer as did Moonraker. He went after 'M' in that - you can't keep a bad man down!
Roger Moore 1927-2017
RIP -{
She had a blink and miss it role in A Hard Day's Night - so like Colonel Smithers that's another Goldfinger star who popped up in the Beatles' film. (Smithers was the old gent on the train so rudely abused by the young sods - you know you're getting old when you sympathise with him and not the Fabs...) Of course, the Beatles are unfavorably namechecked by Bond in the film, so that tells you whose side he'd be on, I guess.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Comedian passes. I was laughing
at him only a couple of nights ago
Watching several episodes of
Not going out .
Very sad news- 2020 has been a horrible year and it just goes on!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Babs and Michael got their tribute very wrong “the names Bond, James Bond” where in fact the actor’s opener should have been “I admire your courage Ms?” Trench, Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck Mr? “Bond, James Bond” -{
In memoriam: 1930-2020
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