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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    These balloon-tired tricycles have to be some of the most ridiculous looking vehicles in any of the Bond movies. Especially when Sean Connery is the rider.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    I love the Mustang
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    I actually like this Sheriff better than JW. His understated performance is great as comic foil. (He does make a brief reappearance in LALD).
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Tiffany: James, watch out for that man with green trainers!
    (Thump.)
    James: What?
    Tiffany: Never mind...

    :)) :)) :))
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    The whole "wrong side" thing just about works... sort of
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Note that one of Leiter's men is called "Hamilton", like the director
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Would other fans have preferred that they just skip the stupid insert shot where the Mustang changes sides while performing the side-wheely in a narrow alleyway? I'd happily live with a continuity error in that scenario.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Tiffany: James, watch out for that man with green trainers!
    (Thump.)
    James: What?
    Tiffany: Never mind...

    :)) :)) :))

    :)) :)) :))
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    I love this scene with Bond standing on top of the elevator
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Connery's and Jill St John's comic expressions for the shot which fixes the wheelie continuity error are terrific. Making a virtue of necessity... brilliantly.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    I think bond "popping out" is one of the better scenes in the lst half of DAF.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    The moment Bond swings into the air made my stomach twirl in the cinema, an experience you don’t get watching on TV
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The red carnation is a nod to GF.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Music “Death At The Whyte House” (edited in the film)
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    This snooping about and gymnastics in “contemporary” black tie, classic Connery era Bond.
    Won’t be this good again till Dalton blows up Sanchez’s bullet proof glass!
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    The moment Bond swings into the air made my stomach twirl in the cinema, an experience you don’t get watching on TV

    One of the most tense and memorable scenes ever imho -{
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The moment Bond swings into the air made my stomach twirl in the cinema, an experience you don’t get watching on TV

    Absolutely
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    These first 70 minutes are really good, unfortunately it goes downhill now, I can’t take to a camp Blofeld after the great Telly Savalas
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Charles Grey- it's just a jump to the left...
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Ken Adam has fun with the lavatory set. It characterises WW nicely.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Ken Adam liked that shape of the roofs.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Charles Grey- it's just a jump to the left...

    My favourite Blofeld. Comic, cultured and camp but also cruel, duplicitous and bonkers.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    This snooping about and gymnastics in “contemporary” black tie, classic Connery era Bond.

    Black dinner jacket here following the white one he wore in the earlier Vegas scenes. No wonder he puts two massive suitcases into the hearse at Vegas airport. He must have packed everything.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    "Right idea"
    "But wrong pussy"

    :)) :)) :))
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    edited June 2020
    I do like Ken Adam's penthouse set. Very much of its time, but most stylish. I particularly love the stainless steel elevator. Peter Lamont specifically mentions the steel tiles that were used in the 'Inside Diamonds Are Forever' doccie.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    The trick with kicking the cat would have worked better if Bond hadn't kicked it directly into the lap of fake Blofeld :# :# :#
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Charles Grey- it's just a jump to the left...

    My favourite Blofeld. Comic, cultured and camp but also cruel, duplicitous and bonkers.

    And physically very like Fleming's depiction in OHMSS
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    I love how this film just forgets OHMSS. But beneath the surface the violence is there: Connery WOULD have impaled one of the Blofelds with that spike if it had been a practical weapon.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Golrush007 wrote:
    I particularly love the stainless steel elevator.

    No room for a delicatessen.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    The lapels on Bond's dinner jacket are rather flashy... :))
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