AJB live commentary on FRWL

HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
edited May 2020 in Off Topic Chat
Time for another group-viewing, this time, it‘s

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE





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London Summertime: 20:00
Paris Summertime: 21:00
New York local time 15:00
LA local time 12:00


PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ARE ALL STARTING 10 MINUTES LATER !

The 19:00 deadline is set so that everybody has enough time to find their DVDs/Blu Rays, boot their players and get done with the menus and pause right before the gunbarrel sequence.

WE ARE STARTING PRECISELY AT 19:10


- Please make sure that everybody has their BluRay/DVD/VCR ready and start the player latest 19:00 GMT to get done with all the dodgy menus.
- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE THE GUNBARREL
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.
I‘ll post some timecodes during the thread just in case that somebody has messed it up
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
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Comments

  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    I will be there. John Barry's first Bond score, how could I not?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Me too. Yay - gipsy girlfight! :D
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    While we're eagerly awaiting tomorrow, this might be a good time filler. It's not mine, this comes from erstwhile member The Cat.

    FRWL marks the first time an actor/actress from an earlier Bond film (DN, obviously) returns playing a different part. Who is it?
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    While we're eagerly awaiting tomorrow, this might be a good time filler. It's not mine, this comes from erstwhile member The Cat.

    FRWL marks the first time an actor/actress from an earlier Bond film (DN, obviously) returns playing a different part. Who is it?

    That would be Anthony Dawson as Dent (DN) and the faceless Blofeld (FRWL).
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    While that's true, it's not the correct answer. :)
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    Oh of course, it’s Bob someone—Bond in the two gun barrels! The very first actor to play Bond in the series :))

    Bob Simmons—had to look up his last name.
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    ...oh wait you said different parts in the two movies. Hmm no idea then?? I think there was a few uncredited extras that appear in both, but apart from those ones and Dawson ?:)
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Not an extra, not.a stuntman.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Wasn‘t one of the gypsie girls seen in Dr. No as well?
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Indeed, but it isn't Martine Beswick.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    I haven‘t mentioned Beswick for a reason.

    The term gipsy girl was not exclusively to the girls in the catfight
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    It’s Peter Evans. He was in the casino scene in Dr. No and a man buying fruit in FRWL. I had to look it up, I didn’t know it before.
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Sorry, guys, it's not a gypsy girl and neither is it Peter Evans.
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,749Chief of Staff
    I assume you don’t mean Nikki Van der Zyl either?
    YNWA 97
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    It's not the talented Ms Nikki either.
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Wow then, I am completely flummoxed. Not Dawson, Van der Zyl or an one of the obvious uncredited background extras—we’re running out of possibilities! This returning actor is actually a human right? We’re not talking about some random parrot in the background??
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    :)) Yes, a human.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Can it be Connery‘s toupee in a significantly higher - errr- coverage :D
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    No toupe on Sir Sean in DN.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Seriously, I am pretty sure that the return is happening in the gipsy camp.
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    Was it Terence Young? I know he doubled for Pedro Armendariz in some of the scenes in the gypsy camp when he was unwell, I don’t remember him in DN but it is possible that he was in it as well.
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    No, it isn't Mr Young.
    Higgins wrote:
    Seriously, I am pretty sure that the return is happening in the gipsy camp.

    Ah, the gypsy camp- scene of my favourite joke in that episode of Shakespeare's Sir James (Kerim takes him to meet some camp gypsies :)) ). But not the scene we're looking for here.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    Well, Juba Kennerley played both a patron at Le Cercle in DN and a chess tournament spectator in FRWL... but who's to say that this isn't the same character jet-setting between London and Venice, and he's an extra so wouldn't qualify anyway...

    Anita Ekberg auditioned unsuccessfully for the part of Honey Rider. So in one sense she got to play that part - for the audition. Her image appears in the movie poster for 'Call Me Bwana' (an Eon production), which is cheekily featured in FRWL... it's Ekberg's mouth through which Krilencu appears. (Ekberg replaces Marilyn Monroe, whose movie 'Niagara' Fleming referenced for the poster in the corresponding sequence in the novel, 'From Russia With Love'). So there's a connection there; but because Ekberg only auditioned for DN and isn't actually in it, I guess this isn't the right answer either!

    I've just made an online order for 'Call Me Bwana', as I've never seen it, and it was made by a number of the Eon Bond team of the time: it's apparently Eon's only non-Bond film to be produced by both Broccoli and Saltzman.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    It's neither Mr Kennerley or the ample Mis Ekberg, Shady. I haven't seen "Call Me Bwana" in years, hope you enjoy.

    (A story from my childhood, while watching a movie with my family-
    Me- Which one's Anita Ekberg, Dad?
    My Dad- She's the one with the biggest boobs.
    Me- How do you know that, Dad?
    My Dad- Anita Ekberg is always the one with the biggest boobs.)
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    :)) :)) :))
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    :)) :))
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    (Please note, Barbel: Shady Tree though the story was only 2/3 as funny as I thought it was …… :v )
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    (Please note, Barbel: Shady Tree though the story was only 2/3 as funny as I thought it was …… :v )

    I was thinking one emoji for each boob :-)

    (A third would would put her in Scaramanga territory!)
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    (Please note, Barbel: Shady Tree though the story was only 2/3 as funny as I thought it was …… :v )

    I was thinking one emoji for each boob :-)

    (A third would would put her in Scaramanga territory!)

    Of course, my mistake. I was thinking about Total Recall.

    total-recall-woman-with-3-breasts.jpg
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Oh Lord, what have I started? :o
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