 |
| Title: ONCE UPON A SPY Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2 |
One of those failed TV-pilots that becomes a standalone TV-movie, ONCE UPON A SPY takes the James Bond aesthetic to the small screen, from formidable (and colorful) technical set pieces to a flaunting trumpet score to a former Bond villain in Christopher Lee, a brilliant computer mogul who, brain-wise, is second to none...
Well except for Ted Danson, turning in one of those befuddled geeks who's really a handsome diamond-in-the rough/anti-leading-man types... and it's no surprise, given his near-future turn in CHEERS, he has great comedic timing...
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY |
Perfectly paired with (and counterbalanced by) sublime ANIMAL HOUSE beauty Mary-Louise Weller, an Alpha Male-like female operative and, after getting Danson's Jack Chenault out of a stuffy office shared with his only friend, a computer the size of a wall, the action is pretty much non-stop...
So the peripheral world-dominating plot doesn't matter since it's the nifty Odd Couple... whether ripping around in a hot-rod on the ground or jumping out of planes in the air... that really matters, and this SPY would have made a genuinely good series (as the creators of REMINGTON STEELE would soon-after prove).
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY with Ted Danson |
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY with Ted Danson |
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY with Ted Danson |
 |
Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY with Ted Danson
|
 |
| Christopher Lee in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Christopher Lee in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY with Ted Danson
|
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Ted Danson in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Ted Danson in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Hot for Teacher video teacher Lillian Müllerin ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY |
 |
| Mary-Louise Weller in ONCE UPON A SPY |
Robyn Hilton enters into an eclectic exploitation comedy career in Wonder Women circa 1973 As mentioned a few posts ago, ROBYN HILTON, b...
year: 1978 cast: Allen Garfield, Leif Garrett, Kathleen Lloyd, Tony Alva, Pam Kenneally rating: ***1/2 Although promoted as a Leif Garret...
Kari Michaelsen in Saturday the 14th year: 1982 In LOVE AT FIRST BITE, a popular comedy that took the vampire genre by satire, Richard ...
Cornelia Sharpe in BUSTING Year: 1974 Rating: **** Starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as determined vice cops BUSTING hookers, makin...
Mary-Louise Weller in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE ANIMAL HOUSE, directed by John Landis and produced by Ivan Reitman, stars John Be...
Kerri Green and John Candy in SUMMER RENTAL Year: 1985 John Candy, in his first leading role, plays a burnt-out air traffic controller ...
Robyn Hilton in Video Vixens the same year as Blazing Saddles: 1974 The Anthology of Comedic Parodies, already done in several Woody All...
CADDDYSHACK is best known for the iconic leading actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray, but originally the ...
Robyn Hilton on STARSKY AND HUTCH Model/Actress ROBYN HILTON played Mel Brook's secretary in BLAZING SADDLES and turns up in an epis...
Elizabeth James and Tom Laughlin on equal ground YEAR: 1967 THE BORN LOSERS wasn't supposed to happen but thank God it did since BIL...
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.