FRIDAY, 10th July 19:00 GMT: Let‘s watch THE IPCRESS FILE together!!

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  • SpectreOfDefeatSpectreOfDefeat Posts: 404MI6 Agent
    Palmer's little spat with Dalby about the Colt and the automatic echoes M replacing Bond's Beretta in Dr. No...

    "The spectre of defeat..."

  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    A bit like Bond being forced to give up his Beretta
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Sue Lloyd as Jean reappears 30 years later in “Bullet to Beijing” depending on which version you watch
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Gordon Jackson appears, a fine character actor who I always enjoy seeing on screen. He is perhaps best remembered for forgetting to speak German at the checkpoint in The Great Escape.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    A bit like Bond being forced to give up his Beretta
    Palmer's little spat with Dalby about the Colt and the automatic echoes M replacing Bond's Beretta in Dr. No...

    Snap! :)
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Sue Lloyd as Jean reappears 30 years later in “Bullet to Beijing” depending on which version you watch

    Interesting, I didn't realise that it depends on which version you watch. I have a Bullet to Beijing DVD that I haven't watched yet, but I did scan through it looking for Sue Lloyd and I didn't find her.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Sue Lloyd as Jean reappears 30 years later in “Bullet to Beijing” depending on which version you watch

    Interesting, I didn't realise that it depends on which version you watch. I have a Bullet to Beijing DVD that I haven't watched yet, but I did scan through it looking for Sue Lloyd and I didn't find her.

    In the shorter version, you can still hear her voice talking to Harry on the phone.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    More strange camera angles and shots
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Sue Lloyd as Jean reappears 30 years later in “Bullet to Beijing” depending on which version you watch

    Interesting, I didn't realise that it depends on which version you watch. I have a Bullet to Beijing DVD that I haven't watched yet, but I did scan through it looking for Sue Lloyd and I didn't find her.

    In the shorter version, you can still hear her voice talking to Harry on the phone.

    Good to know. Thanks!
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Easy number plate to remember flu
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Oliver MacGreevy, the bald henchman, also the henchman in Alistair MacLean’s “When Eight Bells Toll”
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    The place of the lost OHMSS scene
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    The shots framed through the telephone booth always stand out in my memories of this film. As does the score from this scene.
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    The old telephone boxes that I used to get stuck in as I couldn't remember which one was the door :))
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Another great shot, through the keyhole. Much of the film is shot from a spy's point of view.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    The hands doing the cooking are Len Deighton himself- he wrote cookbooks as well as spy thrillers
  • SpectreOfDefeatSpectreOfDefeat Posts: 404MI6 Agent
    "Mozart"-Palmer shares his classical tastes with Stromberg in TSWLM

    "The spectre of defeat..."

  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    The police sergeant is played by Glynn Edwards, another co-star from Zulu.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Slight Hitchcock feel to the abandoned factory scene?
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    The shopping scene has always struck me as an amusing one. Not sure I'd like to try Palmer's tinned prawn curry or Ross's Beefaroni. I do enjoy the world of espionage being juxtaposed with the mundane routines of life, which is something that Deighton excelled at.
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    No social distancing in this store!
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    From what I've heard, the newspaper cuttings pinned on Palmer's wall are Deighton's own cooking 'strips'.
  • SpectreOfDefeatSpectreOfDefeat Posts: 404MI6 Agent
    I'll have to drop out at this stage unfortunately, have fun with the rest of the film everyone

    "The spectre of defeat..."

  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Bye, SoD. Anyone seen Higgins?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Hi Gymkata!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Timestamp- the bandstand scene
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Still the bandstand scene
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Dalby and Charles Gray's Blofeld could have some interesting discussions on the merits of martial music.
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Timestamp- the bandstand scene

    I must be behind. I've just got there
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Dalby and Charles Gray's Blofeld could have some interesting discussions on the merits of martial music.

    I do so hate that.
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