The struggle between Smith and Christensen atop the cable car... surely an inspiration, all at once, for the MR cable car fight, Bond's tussle with Zorin on The Golden Gate Bridge and Necros getting the boot out of the back of the Hercules...
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
I'm now on the pursuers battering at doors to try to get at the escapees... reminiscent of the scene in Guns Of Navarone where the door to the gun emplacement room needed to be broken through...
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
In the book they jumped into snow. I guess they changed it to water in the movie but never thought of the notebooks, or they just couldn't think of a way round it and they figured it's not a big deal.
On a point of trivia, the cover to the Victor Annual 1973, for boys, was obviously based on the scene with our heroes escaping in a bus. The cover shows British soldiers, blasting at a pursuing bike and sidecar, in a bus liveried with a swastika but with 'Under New Management' daubed in paint over the top.
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
In the book this final scene takes place in the far less spacious environment of a De Havilland Mosquito. I think they were all supposed to be sitting in the fairly small bomb bay. That would have been quite the challenge to shoot.
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He just got knocked out.
Me too
I'll pause. Burton fighting on top of cable car, tell me when you get there.
The struggle between Smith and Christensen atop the cable car... surely an inspiration, all at once, for the MR cable car fight, Bond's tussle with Zorin on The Golden Gate Bridge and Necros getting the boot out of the back of the Hercules...
Perhaps I should say, Burton's double fighting on top of cable car.
I'll pause, too...
The cable car fight is infinitely better than the one in MR.
I'm there
Guys?
He did, yes
I'm now on the pursuers battering at doors to try to get at the escapees... reminiscent of the scene in Guns Of Navarone where the door to the gun emplacement room needed to be broken through...
The movie was jokingly called "Where doubles dare" 😁
As well as causing a shock in the freezing water which would drown them all!
Damn, you're right!
In the book they jumped into snow. I guess they changed it to water in the movie but never thought of the notebooks, or they just couldn't think of a way round it and they figured it's not a big deal.
When the cable car station blew up, I half expected to see a short blonde woman appear out of the smoke....
I just saw Clint reloading, probably for the first time!!!!
On a point of trivia, the cover to the Victor Annual 1973, for boys, was obviously based on the scene with our heroes escaping in a bus. The cover shows British soldiers, blasting at a pursuing bike and sidecar, in a bus liveried with a swastika but with 'Under New Management' daubed in paint over the top.
Deposited in the bus before their ascent to the castle perhaps?
Ah, preparing a bridge for demolition. Did that loads of times in the military. We never got to blow them up for real, in spite of our begging. 🤣
Maybe they left it on the bus earlier? Can't recall now.
American T-6 Texans aka Harvards pretending to be German aircraft at this airfield.
Good thing Lt Hip wasn't driving that bus.
lol :-) :-)
In real life about one in ten German soldiers had submachine guns, here they all have them. 😁
In the book this final scene takes place in the far less spacious environment of a De Havilland Mosquito. I think they were all supposed to be sitting in the fairly small bomb bay. That would have been quite the challenge to shoot.
Burton's dialogue with Wymark aboard the plane... both actors play it magnificently.
Agreed, this is better.
Yes, these scenes require good actors.
🤣🤣🤣