I was one of the people watching DAF in the cinema at the time. A ridiculous number of times, to be honest. Audiences laughed at the jokes, "oohed" in the right places, and warmly appreciated Sean Connery- there were actual cheers when he appeared onscreen saying The Line.
DAF had a release date in London mid December 1971. Unlike today, movies were given a London release before going on general release some time after. The general release date for the UK was Easter 1972, so many of you would not have seen it until that date.
Ah, there you go! That explains it then.
I wonder when LALD went on general release? Sounds like there wouldn't have been much of a gap.
LALD was released in London and nationwide in the same week in July 1973. As more and more cinemas were being converted into twin or triple cinemas, instead of being just one with an upper and lower tier, more films were needed, so the general release date became nationwide around this time. Previous to this, London was used as a gauge to see if a film was to have a nationwide release or not, although it would seem to me that a Bond movie would not need gauging.
My dad was friends with our local cinema manager and he used to give him a pack of cigarettes each week in exchange for the movie posters and front of house stills after the movies had had their run
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Everybody likes these images of Tiffany when Bond first meets her, right?
As Bond says, "That's a nice little nothing you're almost wearing"
(saving Gymkata some work here)
That's the one scene in the film that more or less adapted from the novel, and was also the cover of the PAN edition in the early 1960s!
The other volumes in this series had the banner aligned to the bottom of the book's cover.
This one only has the banner raised a bit too far up, inconveniently obscuring Tiffany's bottom.
If you do the math, you'll conclude we really ought to be able to see a bit more cheek, as Blofeld might say.
Great work on the Tiffany imagery, cp. {[] {[] {[]
Following CHB's point about the Easter 72 general release date for DAF in the UK, I've dug out my copy of 'Target: The Great New Weekly For Boys', No. 2, which is dated in its 'letter from the editor' as 29th April 72. This confirms that Easter 72 must have been when I first saw DAF, as the original copy that I owned of this issue of 'Target' I remember carrying around with me everywhere for at least a week at the time of that trip to the cinema.
The reason? Alongside articles by Christopher Lee, boxer Henry Cooper and Formula 1 driver Ray Allen, 'Target' #2 included a full page colour pin up of Bond firing his piton gun in WW's penthouse suite, and a feature on DAF flanked by colour stills of the moon buggy crashing through the Tectronics security barrier, Bond karate chopping Peter Franks in the elevator and a smiling Connery straddling a motorbike with 'Sheriff' marked beneath its windshield. The feature's headline was 'Sean Connery - Billion Dollar Bond' and the writer suggested that: "if Fleming was the instigator of the Bond cult then Sean Connery has surely been the benefactor." The writer credited Fleming as follows, obviously confusing the novels with the films: "He took the grey, cold-blooded world of the seedy espionage agents who actually fight the cold war and moulded it into a space-age fantasy of death rays, gadget-packed cars and man-eating piranha fish." There was no mention at all of OHMSS, yet oddly the writer did refer to the torture scene in the 'Casino Royale' novel. I'm fairly certain that this feature article in 'Target' was the first print text about Bond that I read.
Mankiewicz recalled in the dvd commentary for DAF how at the time there was a popular obsession with the space age and moon missions. 'Target' #2 exemplifies this mania. Its front cover image was of a moon-walking astronaut; the magazine's free gift was a sample of the 'powder of life' used in an Apollo 16 experiment on cosmic radiation (purportedly Artemia Salina eggs)!
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
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Ah, there you go!
I wonder when LALD went on general release? Sounds like there wouldn't have been much of a gap.
My dad was friends with our local cinema manager and he used to give him a pack of cigarettes each week in exchange for the movie posters and front of house stills after the movies had had their run
As Bond says, "That's a nice little nothing you're almost wearing"
(saving Gymkata some work here)
That's the one scene in the film that more or less adapted from the novel, and was also the cover of the PAN edition in the early 1960s!
The other volumes in this series had the banner aligned to the bottom of the book's cover.
This one only has the banner raised a bit too far up, inconveniently obscuring Tiffany's bottom.
If you do the math, you'll conclude we really ought to be able to see a bit more cheek, as Blofeld might say.
Here's Fay Dalton's version of the same scene:
Following CHB's point about the Easter 72 general release date for DAF in the UK, I've dug out my copy of 'Target: The Great New Weekly For Boys', No. 2, which is dated in its 'letter from the editor' as 29th April 72. This confirms that Easter 72 must have been when I first saw DAF, as the original copy that I owned of this issue of 'Target' I remember carrying around with me everywhere for at least a week at the time of that trip to the cinema.
The reason? Alongside articles by Christopher Lee, boxer Henry Cooper and Formula 1 driver Ray Allen, 'Target' #2 included a full page colour pin up of Bond firing his piton gun in WW's penthouse suite, and a feature on DAF flanked by colour stills of the moon buggy crashing through the Tectronics security barrier, Bond karate chopping Peter Franks in the elevator and a smiling Connery straddling a motorbike with 'Sheriff' marked beneath its windshield. The feature's headline was 'Sean Connery - Billion Dollar Bond' and the writer suggested that: "if Fleming was the instigator of the Bond cult then Sean Connery has surely been the benefactor." The writer credited Fleming as follows, obviously confusing the novels with the films: "He took the grey, cold-blooded world of the seedy espionage agents who actually fight the cold war and moulded it into a space-age fantasy of death rays, gadget-packed cars and man-eating piranha fish." There was no mention at all of OHMSS, yet oddly the writer did refer to the torture scene in the 'Casino Royale' novel. I'm fairly certain that this feature article in 'Target' was the first print text about Bond that I read.
Mankiewicz recalled in the dvd commentary for DAF how at the time there was a popular obsession with the space age and moon missions. 'Target' #2 exemplifies this mania. Its front cover image was of a moon-walking astronaut; the magazine's free gift was a sample of the 'powder of life' used in an Apollo 16 experiment on cosmic radiation (purportedly Artemia Salina eggs)!
Thanks for the heads up. It'll be great if you can make it after your meeting.
I hope the day and the drive go well.
No worries.
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Oh My Gods! It’s Lady P in Bond Mode!
Does that make James a Nosey Parker?
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