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Written by James M. Tate / 1/16/2024 / No comments / action , alan badel , angus macInnes , barbara bach , carl weathers , franco nero , guy hamilton , harrison ford , michael byrne , philip latham , richard kiel , robert shaw , sequel , world war II

HARRISON FORD AND ROBERT SHAW ‘FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE’

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjod6kTpQwSQjcUq4QAhSzSzeJe3zNpZ7Qv_FVXtqUm2bpwosEA9kuKn9cUb8axQYt58nNtNM05Cu4l3dJpifztslybzY0olLiaGjwvSShPHbBMBJNM8LY0wS0_KAs0WWl5D4EfRZVseDB_q-nPqqL9g5M-NdA6AdCiWL4fu-cTFU-BSytl_ww_HFM4frGO/s1394/3%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjod6kTpQwSQjcUq4QAhSzSzeJe3zNpZ7Qv_FVXtqUm2bpwosEA9kuKn9cUb8axQYt58nNtNM05Cu4l3dJpifztslybzY0olLiaGjwvSShPHbBMBJNM8LY0wS0_KAs0WWl5D4EfRZVseDB_q-nPqqL9g5M-NdA6AdCiWL4fu-cTFU-BSytl_ww_HFM4frGO/s16000/3%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE Year: 1978 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It was unnecessary starting FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE with an introduction about the original GUNS OF NAVARONE since the two have no important connections with each other, other than the same primary leads — replacing Gregory Peck with Robert Shaw and David Niven with Edward Fox as Mallory and Miller, respectively... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>While adding the newly-popular Harrison Ford from the previous years' STAR WARS as grouchy yet intrepid, sharp-shooting American Captain Barnsby, who, with his own secret mission, is initially spiteful working alongside the veteran Brits — and as an actor joined the list of scene-stealers from then-current blockbusters, including Shaw himself, the jovially-cantankerous shark-hunter Quint from JAWS, albeit classy and reserved here (playing the central role)...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, alan badel, angus macInnes, barbara bach, carl weathers, franco nero, guy hamilton, harrison ford, michael byrne, philip latham, richard kiel, robert shaw, sequel, world war II

HARRISON FORD AND ROBERT SHAW ‘FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE’

Title: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE Year: 1978 Rating: ****1/2 It was unnecessary starting FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE with an introduction about the o...

RYAN O'NEAL WITH JACK WARDEN AND RICHARD KIEL IN 'SO FINE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxvi3L9p5KzqhZWsFT2AimSDLKKTdbOGlQNVekIiLAMuoF_YACxByg7T9988nV6KyXKZ6t_BpzEAYXKgGeSYCP6pWsMU2CECVlc0iktYmNbY3wpIQiFa8CQMmo_mzedCibxZRGlb07Tik8lvQYm_Hykk4up44hKfFiOVk5RzvKiPg0gIxBugK1itTwV8um/s1485/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-14%20at%209.14.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxvi3L9p5KzqhZWsFT2AimSDLKKTdbOGlQNVekIiLAMuoF_YACxByg7T9988nV6KyXKZ6t_BpzEAYXKgGeSYCP6pWsMU2CECVlc0iktYmNbY3wpIQiFa8CQMmo_mzedCibxZRGlb07Tik8lvQYm_Hykk4up44hKfFiOVk5RzvKiPg0gIxBugK1itTwV8um/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-14%20at%209.14.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SO FINE Year: 1981 Rating: ^^^</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There were comedies not that funny yet still provided a fair 
amount of entertainment. And in some cases, the actual plot took place
 halfway in and wound up not meaning a lot to the actual structure of 
the film, story, or characters...  <br>
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One such vehicle is
 the semi-slapstick SO FINE by first time director and usual Hollywood writer Andrew Bergman, in which Ryan O'Neal plays a semi-stuffy college professor up for tenure...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

comedy, eighties, exploitation, fashion, gangster, jack warden, john stockwell, richard kiel, ryan o'neal, warner archives

RYAN O'NEAL WITH JACK WARDEN AND RICHARD KIEL IN 'SO FINE'

Title: SO FINE Year: 1981 Rating: ^^^ There were comedies not that funny yet still provided a fair amount of entertainment. And in some cas...

BURT REYNOLDS GETS CAPTURED FOR 'THE LONGEST YARD'

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action, alfie wise, bernadette peters, burt reynolds, comedy, drama, ed lauter, football, harry caesar, james hampton, michael conrad, prison, richard kiel, robert aldrich, seventies, sport

BURT REYNOLDS GETS CAPTURED FOR 'THE LONGEST YARD'

Burt Reynolds in THE LONGEST YARD Director: Robert Aldrich Year: 1974 Rating: **** Having experienced the many Burt Reynolds road flicks ...

WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM' AND 'MY BLOOD RUNS COLD'

anne francis, dana andrews, drama, drive-in, jazz-score, jeffrey hunter, kathie browne, neo noir, nicolas coster, richard kiel, sixties, strother martin, thriller, troy donahue, viveca lindfors, william conrad

WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM' AND 'MY BLOOD RUNS COLD'

William Conrad Directorial Double Feature from 1965 From his sinister beginnings as one of the two title hitmen who cast an ominous shadow ...

ROGER MOORE IN THE SPACE-CRAZE ERA JAMES BOND 'MOONRAKER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5YAOf6GeR3cILH0QWzoCpfCK8luu_qEPQt1Ve4V2-DgMgbMJTtPEsvVoMg9RwTGzN2QoZ37lvO5EocC4jlwSzQyegkppz2E1IToDi0iXK3NNQaF0twvr6OjhQpfcVqG4z1kPRbuvln4cFnezo3G3CL0sdKqeX8OVj7BkCnO-rD-kdObWIgAZ9tYMd1W9/s2426/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-08%20at%209.21.56%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="2426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5YAOf6GeR3cILH0QWzoCpfCK8luu_qEPQt1Ve4V2-DgMgbMJTtPEsvVoMg9RwTGzN2QoZ37lvO5EocC4jlwSzQyegkppz2E1IToDi0iXK3NNQaF0twvr6OjhQpfcVqG4z1kPRbuvln4cFnezo3G3CL0sdKqeX8OVj7BkCnO-rD-kdObWIgAZ9tYMd1W9/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-08%20at%209.21.56%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MOONRAKER Year 1979 Rating ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What's more ironic than the science-fiction James Bond MOONRAKER 
spending 90-minutes, the length of an average motion picture, 
on land... from England to California to Italy to Rio... 
before living up to its galactic promise, is that Lois Chiles' 
progressive ingenue demands respect for being a 
doctor... and her name is <i>Goodhead</i>, working for one of the more <i>non-charming from the get-go</i> heavies, Hugo Drax, played by French stage actor Michael Lonsdale... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And when we're 
eventually thrust into space, the movie hits a bland, awkward 
wall... Not that the build-up lacks inside lunar gags: the audio code to enter
 a laboratory is from CLOSE ENCOUNTERS and the 2001 theme also turns up...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

anne lonnberg, béatrice libert, bernard lee, corinne cléry, franchise, irka bochenko, james bond, lewis gilbert, lois chiles, michael lonsdale, richard kiel, roger moore, seventies, spy

ROGER MOORE IN THE SPACE-CRAZE ERA JAMES BOND 'MOONRAKER'

Title: MOONRAKER Year 1979 Rating **** What's more ironic than the science-fiction James Bond MOONRAKER spending 90-minutes, the length...

TIM CONWAY IN 'THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY & THAT-A-WAY'

chase, chuck mccann, comedy, prison, richard kiel, seventies, tim conway

TIM CONWAY IN 'THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY & THAT-A-WAY'

Year of Release: 1978 Back in the days of movie tie-ins, or what was mostly referred to as novelizations, the rural buddy comedy THEY WE...

ROBERT SHAW & HARRISON FORD IN 'FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE'

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Begins as a straight-out action/adventure and gathering espionage/thriller elements along the way,  FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE is a fun, old school World War II programmer but hardly a genuine sequel to THE GUNS OF NAVARONE...<br>
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That movie, deemed a classic by critics and audiences alike, has two (three, actually) main characters played by leading men style actors as Gregory Peck and David Niven (and a Anthony Quinn) are replaced by character-actors Robert Shaw, riding high on his 1975 ignited JAWS fame, and Edward Fox, joining FORCE 10 led by an initially grouchy, and STAR WARS favorite, Harrison Ford, filling in Anthony Quinn's vacant position as third banana despite being on-par with Shaw: this ragtag team is sent from England to Italy and then into Yugoslavia...<br>
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Ford's mission is, at first, classified to Shaw, who joins to kill a German secret agent played by Franco Nero. The main goal is something that occurs in many war films: blowing up a strategic bridge used by the Germans while the b-story wields a more subtle underline for the tables to turn at any given moment.<br>
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Before the bombastic climax, twists begin to settle within the cracks of the somewhat cliche yet spontaneous rollercoaster ride. When the missions of Force 10 and the Nararone vets intertwine, you never really know which peripheral character's on the right side, adding intrigue and a fair amount of suspense. And as a completely unrealistic albeit fun casting bonus, Carl Weathers adds an edgy blaxploitation element, eventually going up against his "rival" of sorts, a formidable Richard Kiel, whose voice was replaced in post production.<br>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6plwxe75MspN0DAgkc53ma6XVsKq8SHk0VlVULyo9zJTPYRFjg2ndSXzcY4ZbrwMsLGDBoofuT7EmcbnSVFXZfEnYk4GNRZD-7Hubut-fWtOEm8hjKI7GHqRRMlSiprGpSI-HG0-y8dobTxfg67fTwoeOAQvqn0Q-T6QLTTtDZldug-OFGU1Mjhpbg/s609/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-11%20at%209.42.26%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="609" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6plwxe75MspN0DAgkc53ma6XVsKq8SHk0VlVULyo9zJTPYRFjg2ndSXzcY4ZbrwMsLGDBoofuT7EmcbnSVFXZfEnYk4GNRZD-7Hubut-fWtOEm8hjKI7GHqRRMlSiprGpSI-HG0-y8dobTxfg67fTwoeOAQvqn0Q-T6QLTTtDZldug-OFGU1Mjhpbg/w400-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-11%20at%209.42.26%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Signed by the late Richard Kiel </u></td></tr></tbody></table>While it's much too easy for our heroes to traipse around Nazi-ridden Yugoslavia without getting killed...conversing as if taking a stroll down a public nature center.. there are enough snags in their way that you'll either forget or embrace the fact that, for <i>better </i>or worse, this is a fantasy war film...<br>
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A good thing when you have gun and knife fights, grand explosions and an ensemble dream cast banking in on actors from that period's smash hits: JAWS for Shaw, ROCKY for Weathers, and of course, Harrison Ford in STAR WARS and his trusted Reynolds is Angus McGuinness, who was Gold Leader in that same epic's Battle of the Death Star. And the biggest connection has to do with James Bond: One of the franchise's best directors, Guy Hamilton, captains two Bond villains and one Bond girl: Richard Kiel, who played the fan-adored henchman, Jaws, in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (and later, MOONRAKER); that same film's Barbara Bach; and Robert Shaw, the classic heavy from FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach in FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The cool guy 1970's all-stars in FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Blasting away in FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE</u></td></tr>
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ROBERT SHAW & HARRISON FORD IN 'FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE'

FORCE 10 actors Nero, Ford, Shaw, Fox and Weathers YEAR: 1978 Begins as a straight-out action/adventure and gathering espionage/thriller...

MOORE BOND THREE: 'THE SPY WHO LOVED ME' W/ RICHARD KIEL

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Spider-like Under Water City in Spy Who Loved Me 1977</u></td></tr>
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Years before Quentin Tarantino used the funky TRUCK TURNER theme as part of his own KILL BILL... As if, beyond homage, it was made for that story without having been actually created for something beforehand...<br />
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The windswept theme of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA brings Roger Moore's James Bond from one desert location to another, and that's just the beginning... Actually, the middle... The middle of the beginning of a motion picture that takes us all over the place...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Signed Laserdisc by Caroline Munro and the late Richard Kiel</u></td></tr>
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In fact there's so much to THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, you can watch it a dozen times and (as once pointed out by a good friend) still forget the order of events. Ironically, this venture, after Hammer Film Frankenstein/Dracula Christopher Lee played the villain in the previous MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, the 007 team created their very own Giant-Monstrous/Neck-Biting "Dracustein" Hybrid in the form of Richard Kiel as Jaws, whose very name derives from the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster...<br />
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And one separate scene includes an actual shark attacking a helpless woman: What's trying to be said here is that SPY is downright epic on all counts. And yet, there's still a very personal touch throughout. The man, Bond, seems more alone and maverick than ever, despite having a gorgeous ingenue/sidekick in Barbara Bach's Agent XXX, keeping a secret grudge/vendetta that, despite her monotone delivery, makes her one of the more complicated and mysterious "Bond Girls," which doesn't mean Caroline Munro's Naomi (bitten by Chris Lee's Dracula in 1972) can't hold her own as the stock "bad Bond girl," an important part of one of many action sequences...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1977 cast: Roger Moore, Curd Jürgens, Barbara Bach, </u></td></tr>
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Mountainous car chases are one thing... A helicopter chasing a car is another... But a land vehicle suddenly going underwater provides a new level of visual glory...<br />
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And with all the intriguing, creative reasons for the ground and water to be covered in the first place, SPY makes for the first Moore outing to lean on espionage over genre-driven action. And on the lighter side, gadget wizard Q gets a bigger, better chance to show his worth after being somewhat neglected in the first two Moore vehicles, and even exceeds what he accomplished in the Connery films: back then, mostly complaining about his doomed hot rods.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger and Richard</u></td></tr>
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Last but certainly not least, the main world-dominating villain and his underwater fortress is something to behold. An intense Curd Jürgens as Karl Stromberg is a great chair-sitting heavy, but pales to... you got it... the roaming henchman, Jaws, who not only takes part in some of the most shadowy, suspenseful, ultra violent and often hilarious scenes including a truck being torn to bits, he's the odds-on favorite of what's become a Bond staple: that is, fighting on a train (FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE to LIVE AND LET DIE to OCTOPUSSY to the recent SPECTRE).<br />
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According to Kiel in a<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/richard-kiel-spy-who-loved-me.html"> Cult Film Freak interview</a>, explaining the train bout: "They used a mini-trampoline for Roger Moore to bounce up in the air as I picked him up seemingly with little effort and attached him to a cable so I could bang him against the ceiling of the train." Well that's behind the scenes... but what we get on screen, right before our very eyes, is perhaps the most solidly entertaining Bond feature of any decade... That is, if you can forgive some of the dated disco music and an overlong third act military battle finale, where it's hard if impossible to keep score on who's winning or losing with so many soldiers firing guns at each other, this SPY is one to not only LOVE, but could possibly give even the most rabid Moore haters a reason to sit back, relax, and enjoy.<br />
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RATING: ****1/2<br />
TRIVIA: One year later, SPY WHO LOVED ME director Guy Hamilton would direct Barbara Bach and Richard Kiel, as well as former FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Bond heavy Robert Shaw, in FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE that also starred Harrison Ford, the maverick hero in STAR WARS in which the next Bond vehicle, MOONRAKER (review coming soon), was obviously banking on. Also, Kiel's Bond name, JAWS, connects with Robert Shaw, who got a short-lived second-wind career after downright stealing the summer blockbuster.<br />
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MOORE BOND THREE: 'THE SPY WHO LOVED ME' W/ RICHARD KIEL

Spider-like Under Water City in Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Years before Quentin Tarantino used the funky TRUCK TURNER theme as part of his ...

Written by James M. Tate / 9/11/2014 / 1 Comment / action , espionage , franchise , james bond , richard kiel , roger moore , seventies , train

RICHARD KIEL BITES INTO THE SPY WHO LOVED ME

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Kiel 1939-2014</td></tr>
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<i>RICHARD KIEL played the classic villain Jaws in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, arguably the best Roger Moore James Bond film... With a stature well over seven feet, and silver teeth that can chomp through anything, especially human necks, this character is a fan favorite and remains an icon to this day...   </i><br />
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<b>Here the late Richard Kiel, in a 2010 written interview, details two key scenes: destroying a truck and fighting with Bond in a train compartment...</b><br />
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My  most outstanding memories of the truck scene would be where Barbara Bach is supposed to throw me off the van by  changing gears from forward to reverse and back again...<br />
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By accelerating  quickly in first gear then slamming on the brakes, shifting quickly to  reverse, accelerating quickly in reverse then slamming on the brakes  again she would be successful in using these forces to throw me off the  van, an English Ford product that required "Double clutching" to change  from forward to reverse gear or vice-versa.<br />
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Commercial truck drivers  would be familiar with the fact that you have to push the clutch in  twice in order to synch the gearbox and change direction. Obviously  Barbara Bach wasn't familiar with this although she could drive a  stick-shift car (they don't require double clutching).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Kiel lifts</td></tr>
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When  she tried to go from forward to reverse without "double clutching" the  gears ground miserably making a very loud gear grinding noise. Roger  Moore being a most accommodating person was outside the passenger window  standing on the running board next to the camera in order to give  Barbara a person to look at for her lines and facial reactions.<br />
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When the  gears ground loudly Barbara was totally frustrated by the loud and  sharp grinding sound and this was obvious by the look on her face. Roger  shot her an ad-lib line through the open window, saying: "You want me  to drive?" This was not in the script that lovely Barbara had memorized  and his ad-lib quip took her completely by surprise and the stunned look  on her face was priceless.<br />
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Barbara  told the director she was sorry but Lewis Gilbert said, "No, Barbara,  it was fine!" He had ideas of his own at that point on how to use this  in a humorous way. "Let's try it again" he said. Barbara did the scene  again and the gears made that sharp metallic grinding noise again and  this time Roger said, "Women drivers!" Barbara reacted again even more  surprised to this second unscripted ad-lib by Roger and Lewis said,  "Cut. Print!" with a big smile on his face.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And lifts and lifts</td></tr>
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Lewis  then proceeded to get close-up shots of Roger Moore saying these lines  inside the car so he could cut the scene together with both of those  funny lines from Roger. Both lines and Barbara shocked reaction ended up  in the movie.<br />
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All the time this was going on I was ripping the roof off  the van; then started ripping the side panels off. Lewis got one of the  transportation people to show Barbara how to double-clutch and they  shot the scene again. This time I was standing on the back bumper of the  van and Barbara was supposed to slam the van gently against the curb in  front of the wall, which would throw me off the back of the van.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Kiel keeps truckin</td></tr>
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When  she accelerated in reverse after successfully double-clutching, the  gears were going so fast that when the van's real wheels hit the curb, I  was thrown off so hard that I ripped the metal ladder that I was  holding onto right off the van. Thank God the van didn't go up over the  curb or Jaws wouldn't have been able to do another Bond film as I would  be dead or at least maimed.<br />
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After I am tossed off the back of the van  James Bond and Anya drive quickly off to make their get-away.  Frustrated, I pick up a 2,000 pound stone block and try and throw it at  them in a feeble attempt to stop them. In the close up of me lifting the  massive heavy block you can see me grunting and groaning as I struggled  to get it over my head so I could throw it at the van.<br />
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Early  on in my career I had been told by directors to pick up heavy objects  like they were nothing and when I saw the movie on the big screen it  looked like the huge boulder I was picking up weighed nothing and it  looked like I was picking up what it was a light-weight Styrofoam  boulder. Knowing this I used my acting talents to make the huge  Styrofoam block look like the real thing as I grimaced and struggled to  raise the block over my head making it look like it really weighed a  ton. This was a rehearsal so I decided to show the director, Lewis  Gilbert, that I too was capable of injecting humor into a scene.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Kiel's Jaws gets crunched</td></tr>
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Struggling  to get the "heavy" block over my head, you can see by the look on my  face that the van is simply too far away for me to land the huge block  on it, and, frustrated, I just let it fall to the ground. Then from the  look on my face and the gasp of pain everyone watching knew that the  "heavy" block had dropped on my foot and as I hopped around in pain  people were calling out, "call for an ambulance," or "Get the nurse,  quick."<br />
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Lewis was practically falling down on the ground in laughter as  he knew full well that the "heavy" block I dropped on my foot was  lightweight Styrofoam and weighed practically nothing.<br />
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Lewis  came over to me and said, "That was hilarious, let's shoot one like  that." I said, "Sure, but let's also shoot one a bit more subtle.” We  shot it both ways and the final edit used the more subtle one where I  look down with a slightly painful look on my face as I realize that I  have dropped this two-thousand pound block on my foot. Audiences  throughout the world roared with laughter as they watched the van scene.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>RICHARD KIEL ON THE TRAIN COMPARTMENT FIGHT</u></b></td></tr>
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Filming in England is quite different then filming in the U.S. Stunts  are usually rehearsed with the actors and choreographed on the day...<br />
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Which usually causes a two to three hour delay as the stunt coordinator  lays out the scene for the director, the camera man and the lighting  director. In England they build a mock-up of the train set and when you  are not acting in a scene they have you rehearsing with the stunt  coordinator and the stunt men involved.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bond Vs Jaws</td></tr>
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At  first this seemed like overkill and an unnecessary drudge but as I  worked out the scene with the stunt men I realized how much better this  was going to make the scene.<br />
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They used a mini-trampoline for Roger Moore  to bounce up in the air as I picked him up seemingly with little effort  and attached him to a cable so I could bang him against the ceiling of  the train. They even had an articulated dummy (its arms and legs and  writs and ankles had joints, which moved making it look like a real  person flailing about, whom I could slam against the train ceiling even  more easily).<br />
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What started out as boring became much  more interesting and fun as we all came up with ideas to make the train  fight scene better. I had an idea: my hands are the biggest thing about  me and I knew that and used them in photos to make it look like was  crushing someone’s head like a ping pong ball. I showed the stunt  coordinator, Bob Simmons, what this would look like if I grabbed James  Bond's face in my huge hands and shoved his head and whole body up the  wall of the train compartment… Bob Simmons loved it!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Roger Moore</td></tr>
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Unfortunately  as they began to dress the mock train set out they put a luggage rack  on the very wall we were using for me to push Roger Moore up against.  Bob made them move the luggage rack to the corner so we could still do  the visual gag. After dressing the set they found that Roger wasn’t  going to be able to reach the lamp so he could break the light bulb and  stick the metal filaments to my steel teeth shocking the living hell out  of me.<br />
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Bob  had them move the shelf so the lamp could be reached by Roger as I was  shoving his head and body up the wall. Come day of shooting, this scene  was so well rehearsed that it went like clockwork! I slammed Roger Moore  against the ceiling of the train compartment like a rag doll. Of course  he was either on a cable or I was slamming an articulated dummy dressed  in his clothes. As I grabbed his seemingly little head in my huge hands  Roger lifted himself up using his feet to make it look like I was  pushing his whole head and body up the wall.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moore Vs Kiel</td></tr>
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We  rehearsed this for about 15 minutes while the director, the cameraman  and the lighting director watched to see how they would photograph and  light this scene. Forty-five minutes later the camera was in place the  train compartment lighted and we began to film. The scene really  “cooked” as we say in the movies.<br />
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At the end Jaws is supposed to be  thrown out the train window by Bond. I wondered how they were going to  do that as I knew one thing for sure they weren't going to throw me  through a glass window to the ground below.<br />
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To make  this even scarier the people who make candy glass (glass made out of  sugar) so it wouldn’t break into shards and cut you, well, they were on  strike. This meant no candy glass but rather real glass. In spite of  this challenge and the scene had to be shot and there was only one stunt  man in England that had the balls to do it and that was the stunt  coordinator Bob Simmons. He was only about 5' 9' or 5' 10" at the most  and I am 7' 2" so I doubted if it could look like me going out the  window.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good Eating</td></tr>
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They  dressed him identical but smaller matching wardrobe and he proceeded to  use the minitram to run and jump ad hitting the minitram just right he  flew right through that real glass window.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RIP Richard "Jaws" Kiel</td></tr>
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The only cuts he sustained  were when he landed on the mattresses below as some shards of glass had  made there way ahead of him but they were just superficial cuts... Bob was  a brave man and I was sad to hear a number of years ago that he had  passed away. He died not from doing a dangerous stunt but from excessive  drink as I understand. He was a wonderful guy and a true friend. He  certainly made yours truly look good and helped turn me into a James  Bond icon.<br />
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