Fox-hunting/Human Hunting Scenes in Spy Novels/Films/TV?

Silhouette Man

Can any members here provide references to spy thrillers/spy films/spy TV shows that feature any of the following:

Fox hunting,

Pheasant or Grouse Shooting,

Human Hunting,

Underwater Hunting.

There are a few that come to mind for me:

The spy thriller novels of John Welcome (pseudonym of Michael Brennan)

Rogue Male (1939) by Geoffrey Household (hunting down a Hitler-like dictator)

'From A View to A Kill' (1960) by Ian Fleming - fox hunting theme - 'D'ye ken John Peel' lyrics (where the short story title is taken from),

Octopussy (1983) - Human hunting of Bond by Prince Kamal Khan and company on safari elephant-back.

I'm writing a little something on this topic regarding James Bond and I wanted to pick the brains of members here to see if they could come up with some more examples. I am especially interested in fox-hunting scenes in spy novels because of the link with Ian Fleming's 'From A View to A Kill' (1960).

Silhouette Man

Please only make your replies to this thread - the top thread is a double post that I've asked the AJB moderators to delete for me. Sorry and thanks.

danjaq_0ff

Agent provocateur, as one of the members of your beloved CBn called you

minigeff

Oh god here we go again.....

I can't help ya here, in the voice of the immensely grumpy Duncan Banatine;

Am oot!!

Silhouette Man

You two again - at least we're friends now (I think).

Seriously though - this was kind of the thread I originally meant to publish here first. -{

This is the sort of topic I meant - one without any controversy, this time (hopefully).

Silhouette Man

danjaq_0ff wrote:

Agent provocateur, as one of the members of your beloved CBn called you

No, I think you'll find you read the thread over on CBn more carefully that I said I was NOT an agent provocateur as a member was implying there, but did not in fact actually say. If you're going to quote someone, make sure you do so accurately, otherwise people get confused and you waste their time.

Thunderpussy

Well I'l have another Go.

Moonraker, In the pheasant shooting scene Where Drax says it's such good sport.
Bond replies "Not if you're a pheasant ", Which I always thought meant Bond wasn't a fan.
The hunt in Octopussy is a variant of "The Most Dangerous Game " 1932. In
which a shipwreck suvivor is hunted by the owner of an Island, and has been used
in numerious movies since.
The Omen 3 had a very good Fox hunting sequence, and that's about it for Me.
On TV The Irish RM had a few hunting scenes along with Midsomer Murders.

Higgins

Sorry SM, you are simply trolling here 8-)

Silhouette Man

Bondtoys wrote:

Sorry SM, you are simply trolling here 8-)

Something which, to quote Thunderball's Fiona Volpe,"you know so much about". 8-)

Jarvio

Not spy, but a recent episode of Futurama parodied fox hunting: http://theinfosphere.org/31st_Century_Fox

Napoleon Plural

Fox hunting features in Hitchcock's Marnie, which of course starred SeanConnery.

Sir Hillary Bray

Largo, Fiona and Bond all hunt clay disks in Largo's backyard.

Moore Than

And now for something completely different.

Monty Python - Hunting Sketch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flj3SvahA3I

chrisisall

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Fox hunting features in Hitchcock's Marnie, which of course starred SeanConnery.

Holy moley! Good work!

Napoleon Plural

Human hunting, loads of films, mainly Arnie's The Running Man, possibly Martin Campbell's No Way Out if I recall and bloodthirsty Battle Royale stuff.

Silhouette Man

Can we think of any more examples (especially of fox-hunting in thrillers)?

I'm revisiting this old topic again. -{

I'm going to finally write something on FAVTAK after having had an idea to do something on it since about 2008 or so.