CAROLE GRAY & BARBARA SHELLEY ON 'THE SAINT' W/ ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEj4LFndYLubeJv7zlktl58WfF3b68k-CPeEQ9jWsRMq6OoOXn9CmyZjZc7XEjADgHwiJCPKPHzFx3ZpQ0hhieRu593VJekUUvxoT-zGrbvgtf_dLzBg8ZGdtqZjZRfxJdH9rxml-4dwz1AtMWWxIXXoOJT5iVVAQIARV6aM6-drWv9942NBrypp7YBAH0Hh/s2110/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-10%20at%2012.16.56%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1306" data-original-width="2110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4LFndYLubeJv7zlktl58WfF3b68k-CPeEQ9jWsRMq6OoOXn9CmyZjZc7XEjADgHwiJCPKPHzFx3ZpQ0hhieRu593VJekUUvxoT-zGrbvgtf_dLzBg8ZGdtqZjZRfxJdH9rxml-4dwz1AtMWWxIXXoOJT5iVVAQIARV6aM6-drWv9942NBrypp7YBAH0Hh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-10%20at%2012.16.56%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carole Gray in THE SAINT: THE COVETOUS HEADSMAN Year: 1962 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before playing a vampire's killer moll in the Satan's coven investigatory horror DEVILS OF DARKNESS, and a leading character's rich and resilient girlfriend in the science-fiction creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, Carole Gray was the bad of two gorgeous women in Roger Moore's British series THE SAINT...</p><p></p><p>Her character not only danced in DARKNESS (having been a professional dancer way back in THE PRINCESS AND THE SHOWGIRL), but she channeled Valerie Gaunt's lead vamp-girl from Hammer's DRACULA... </p><p><span></span></p>

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CAROLE GRAY & BARBARA SHELLEY ON 'THE SAINT' W/ ROGER MOORE

Carole Gray in THE SAINT: THE COVETOUS HEADSMAN Year: 1962 Grade: C+ Before playing a vampire's killer moll in the Satan's coven inv...

ROGER MOORE & LOIS MAXWELL 'THE SAINT: INTERLUDE IN VENICE'

<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/AVvXsEhoADP1mZCsa_x_yCpPFlvAPyvdnOpuMlcSCT61HrLgaA6htpy5A5VHb41v5tMeiTVQqmMZB890arZm3TVFwNgej72Pd0vpU58X25QW2JZ209jQeeE0m3Cd6fOD62rN61slygmsPEX4NMySIOdbMaN9OiSFYB3mQsjYUDM40XChFo-q4hW-Q8Pat9uU9M2R/s1296/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-29%20at%202.34.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoADP1mZCsa_x_yCpPFlvAPyvdnOpuMlcSCT61HrLgaA6htpy5A5VHb41v5tMeiTVQqmMZB890arZm3TVFwNgej72Pd0vpU58X25QW2JZ209jQeeE0m3Cd6fOD62rN61slygmsPEX4NMySIOdbMaN9OiSFYB3mQsjYUDM40XChFo-q4hW-Q8Pat9uU9M2R/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-29%20at%202.34.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger Moore in The Saint: Interlude in Venice Year: 1966 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are good episodes and bad in all television shows, old and new, including THE SAINT, the spy thriller about not a secret-agent but philanthropist helping various people throughout the world, ironically played by future secret-agent/007 James Bond actor Roger Moore in his younger days, but he's still cool, classy, sophisticated, humorous... <br><br>And Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny beginning with Sean Connery and continuing into Roger Moore's entire run, is a relatively younger wife of a millionaire whose spoiled daughter (cute and spicy scene-stealer Quinn O'Hara) is accused of killing a womanizing charlatan in INTERLUDE IN VENICE, mostly talking place there (or made to): backed by future 2001 actor William Sylvester, bookending one of the <i>very good</i> episodes with swift direction and enough twists and turns to be like its very own crime programmer. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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ROGER MOORE & LOIS MAXWELL 'THE SAINT: INTERLUDE IN VENICE'

Roger Moore in The Saint: Interlude in Venice Year: 1966 Rating: **** There are good episodes and bad in all television shows, old and new, ...

IAN HENDRY VS ROGER MOORE IN 'VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT'

<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/AVvXsEjyo1l4DsMZybJoPlVtYte0-pfZVqOcuiWuSpffJCT-gDoIjleA36gj-aiokuzPu4YijNYkzXp2pVt4rw1YbVZkyiggzVF_SrGFNuR8XQ0R7YabCDPLSi06YpoGHgO9D1vJ0hbc77s7YBCnWah50xi1EtezDZ4rAYAKl9Ob6RDFLcCgKYF6WeWVy8RFTYzw/s2168/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-09%20at%202.51.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="2168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyo1l4DsMZybJoPlVtYte0-pfZVqOcuiWuSpffJCT-gDoIjleA36gj-aiokuzPu4YijNYkzXp2pVt4rw1YbVZkyiggzVF_SrGFNuR8XQ0R7YabCDPLSi06YpoGHgO9D1vJ0hbc77s7YBCnWah50xi1EtezDZ4rAYAKl9Ob6RDFLcCgKYF6WeWVy8RFTYzw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-09%20at%202.51.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Ian  Hendry in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When television shows becomes theatrical features, it's usually a cheat like in the case of THE SAINT two-part episode VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT, which, pieced together, becomes a 90-minute movie...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Although herein, there <i>is</i> a kind of theatrical touch, for two reasons: villain Ian Hendry, as a mobster who was once someone else and now goes by a fake name while working as an aging/dying mob boss's sophisticated, falsely-related henchman, is always great on both the big (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/getCarter.html">GET CARTER</a>) and small (THE AVENGERS to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/04/ian-hendry-jill-townsend-christen.html">THE SWEENEY</a>) screen...  </p><p><span></span></p>

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IAN HENDRY VS ROGER MOORE IN 'VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT'

Ian  Hendry in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 When television shows becomes theatrical features, it's usually a cheat...

OLIVER REED DOUBLE FEATURE ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEhsICp65heiiAXpRg50-K5oGk1Q2DMH-fW2t5ZHPTNdQd8yB9-rTsFZ_b-JYlkvnCCrRbkDcSxczvUgTnToG5l3tqTKcY0xYCr61Xv5F5SAWFwq6dgkmqgWghZG-07gYGPfo3XbslKN4_f4JJebG4MnwLeuSFiNKp3O3IGtZzrVcfk8uQrrWq2RZcpDZpoO/s2008/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%209.55.23%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2008" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsICp65heiiAXpRg50-K5oGk1Q2DMH-fW2t5ZHPTNdQd8yB9-rTsFZ_b-JYlkvnCCrRbkDcSxczvUgTnToG5l3tqTKcY0xYCr61Xv5F5SAWFwq6dgkmqgWghZG-07gYGPfo3XbslKN4_f4JJebG4MnwLeuSFiNKp3O3IGtZzrVcfk8uQrrWq2RZcpDZpoO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-23%20at%209.55.23%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Oliver Reed on two 1963 episodes of THE SAINT starring Roger Moore</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In his early troubled-youth pictures THE SYSTEM and THE PARTY'S OVER, British actor Oliver Reed gave his future roles away with imitations that are, in those cases, poking fun of either Americans or the typical cinematic Gangster...<br> <br> The latter being used in the episode SOPHIA where Roger Moore's THE SAINT finds himself in rural Greece where the episode's titular character (played by a gorgeous Imogen Hassall)... the daughter of a stubborn, old-fashioned pub owner... is anticipating her supposedly rich New Yorker cousin...<br> </p><p></p><p></p>

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OLIVER REED DOUBLE FEATURE ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

Oliver Reed on two 1963 episodes of THE SAINT starring Roger Moore In his early troubled-youth pictures THE SYSTEM and THE PARTY'S OVER...

JANE ASHER IN 'THE SAINT' DOUBLE FEATURE WITH ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEikixz1Y8VD_2XJW6-SQSzOwWhCpUt24VBDQREdRaJDh9W3avf6-Xcq1U-A5UZCYrm798yQkMNDlv2O-TCgk-Txo1h9suFv5pVzk5iGIxkO-vUZZRyW1sZxfYRpAYa54xlDUD0kXPRsBKqGavllIbsoHZOkedAzZXixQ58R9UKwiAcy7BZFWcurZ14AuoHM/s1982/00.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="1982" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikixz1Y8VD_2XJW6-SQSzOwWhCpUt24VBDQREdRaJDh9W3avf6-Xcq1U-A5UZCYrm798yQkMNDlv2O-TCgk-Txo1h9suFv5pVzk5iGIxkO-vUZZRyW1sZxfYRpAYa54xlDUD0kXPRsBKqGavllIbsoHZOkedAzZXixQ58R9UKwiAcy7BZFWcurZ14AuoHM/s16000/00.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Asher in THE SAINT episode The Noble Sportsman from 1963</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Classy, sexy, gorgeous yet equally quirky-cute, girl-next-door British child turned teen turned adult starlet <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jane%20asher">JANE ASHER</a>, right before her big break in Roger Corman's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/06/great-asher.html">MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH</a> and when<i> she was just seventeen</i> on the verge of a long relationship with The Beatles' Paul McCartney, appeared in two second-season episodes of the Roger Moore investigatory British TV-series THE SAINT where in both she plays the daughter of extremely wealthy real estate-dealing moguls...</p><p></p><p>The latter titled THE INVISIBLE MILLIONAIRE as a step-daughter whose dad's fully bandaged from an auto accident after THE NOBLE SPORTSMAN where Asher and another rich dad, Anthony Quayle, both almost die in an their own car crash: each patriarch with lovely yet enigmatic wives surrounded by mysterious scoundrels, and it's the lovely young Jane Asher bringing both someone's-after-dad cases to Moore as Simon Templar, making her technically the most important characters in what are filler episodes of an eclectic hit-or-miss syndicated series. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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JANE ASHER IN 'THE SAINT' DOUBLE FEATURE WITH ROGER MOORE

Jane Asher in THE SAINT episode The Noble Sportsman from 1963 Classy, sexy, gorgeous yet equally quirky-cute, girl-next-door British child t...

JACQELINE ELLIS RETURNS ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

<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/AVvXsEjKBJkRMVxcld5V526QaqvPPeP5Vm04eJH9JSd2btJVkxNMDmTKS9dLQ_a_SKs6mKOb75xDSfIe7nq8xk-Ivzomy30bFOF7L1G3_xn69e-h-V8hvXoMlG5KswV9PTRIC7YCjIs6UK36gwoLHzzKVviB48gV6Dbk4czkihpHd8bwZVsQHBIhkt1aqw4uXA/s1688/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="1688" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBJkRMVxcld5V526QaqvPPeP5Vm04eJH9JSd2btJVkxNMDmTKS9dLQ_a_SKs6mKOb75xDSfIe7nq8xk-Ivzomy30bFOF7L1G3_xn69e-h-V8hvXoMlG5KswV9PTRIC7YCjIs6UK36gwoLHzzKVviB48gV6Dbk4czkihpHd8bwZVsQHBIhkt1aqw4uXA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <u>Jacqueline Ellis & Hugh McDermott in The Saint: The Golden Frog Year: 1965 Grade: C—</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Second episode of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/ellisaint.html">THE SAINT</a> where<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jacqueline%20ellis"> Jacqueline Ellis</a>... the cute British actress who starred in British Film Noirs ranging from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/ellis.html">ACCIDENTAL DEATH</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/10/blog-post.html">THE TRAITORS</a> and THE <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/hijackers.html">HI-JACKERS</a>... is teamed with an older man, holed-up in a posh hotel, attempting to con a rich man...  </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In this case it's Roger Moore's Simon Templar, pretending to be a buyer in search of the titular GOLDEN FROG... and this time the location's South America instead of San Fransisco from an eclectic series that always changed locales... </p><span></span>

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JACQELINE ELLIS RETURNS ON 'THE SAINT' WITH ROGER MOORE

  Jacqueline Ellis & Hugh McDermott in The Saint: The Golden Frog Year: 1965 Grade: C— Second episode of THE SAINT where Jacqueline El...

JACQUELINE ELLIS, JEANNE MOODY & ROGER MOORE 'THE SAINT'

<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/AVvXsEihNuwuQVFdmAL2ExjjQq5IOcbMDsFngDnun4CUsLupc_-CaRm6CoaaGkafbqD0XO9qSe7nIWrsBsyBb6IrWK-NgEHvKAhCU_v-WS1cj9WrygTa5S2R_2Gf1dwMFC_Lg2pLA28Fhqfa9DYYGwoEKTnajrMmLDWhAVk7al7qw-UmZ60fbGNI1XTz_lyr-Q/s1838/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%201.44.22%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1838" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNuwuQVFdmAL2ExjjQq5IOcbMDsFngDnun4CUsLupc_-CaRm6CoaaGkafbqD0XO9qSe7nIWrsBsyBb6IrWK-NgEHvKAhCU_v-WS1cj9WrygTa5S2R_2Gf1dwMFC_Lg2pLA28Fhqfa9DYYGwoEKTnajrMmLDWhAVk7al7qw-UmZ60fbGNI1XTz_lyr-Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%201.44.22%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacqueline Ellis & Roger Moore in The Saint: The Ever-Loving Spouse Year: 1964 Grade: B—</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British actress Jacqueline Ellis was a girl-next-door beauty with vulnerability and strength battling for a kind of spoiled girl's spunky attempt to better herself out of dire circumstance, usually of the crime nature as she appeared in several British New Wave Noirs like ACCIDENTAL DEATH and THE HI-JACKERS, and two episodes of THE SAINT...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In THE EVER-LOVING SPOUSE, Jacqueline's busy at a San Fransisco hotel, that's holding a rowdy convention of businessmen where she's teamed-up to blackmail a candy company mogul with a contrived-suggestive photograph she rushed him into, posing in scantily-clad clothes for the snap...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

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JACQUELINE ELLIS, JEANNE MOODY & ROGER MOORE 'THE SAINT'

Jacqueline Ellis & Roger Moore in The Saint: The Ever-Loving Spouse Year: 1964 Grade: B— British actress Jacqueline Ellis was a girl-nex...

ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT' WITH JACKIE COLLINS & BRIAN WESKE

<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/AVvXsEj89vsyJRIoazWk5tC-5hkoxHjU7FR6LICxEOQpsq6RLeDDyyTl36FlZ0wax9rDaTuUnmILaXz3eki6NXOyNcUpdr-tRBaEiQKOn4seWtva35hz0-4ULmHJqxa2v0wiAip9jd7d3bIVucy_00L4Hjm91SMi6xh_oBF3nwpVWRnzjE1x3NZvUDN2EftE3w/s1883/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%2011.05.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1883" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89vsyJRIoazWk5tC-5hkoxHjU7FR6LICxEOQpsq6RLeDDyyTl36FlZ0wax9rDaTuUnmILaXz3eki6NXOyNcUpdr-tRBaEiQKOn4seWtva35hz0-4ULmHJqxa2v0wiAip9jd7d3bIVucy_00L4Hjm91SMi6xh_oBF3nwpVWRnzjE1x3NZvUDN2EftE3w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-02%20at%2011.05.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger Moore is THE SAINT episode STARRING THE SAINT Year: 1963 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In most TV-series about unique human beings there's usually one that tweaks the 4th wall in having the concept of a film studio wanting to make a motion picture about the series itself, which for the viewer isn't a series at all, often feeling intrusive or contrived but THE SAINT season two's STARRING THE SAINT is one of the iconic British show's best episodes, and features two polar opposite bombshells... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One being Joan's sister, future scandal writer Jackie Collins as a lavish actress and Moore's love interest, and sophisticated secretary Monica Stevenson who... along with has-been actor Alexander Davion seeking the Saint role, troubled director Alfred Burke wanting out of a contract and a frustrated writing team including LOLITA actor Jerry Stovin... continuously weathers her nefarious producer boss, played with sublime menace by Ronald Radd...</p><p><span></span></p>

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ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT' WITH JACKIE COLLINS & BRIAN WESKE

Roger Moore is THE SAINT episode STARRING THE SAINT Year: 1963 Rating: **** In most TV-series about unique human beings there's usually ...

WILLIAM LUCAS NEO NOIR THUGS ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT'

<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/AVvXsEgZUb5-7kjchkWtIb9QTTEB1dz9FvHESUx2UngvOPaY8TnRg1ms0rFLTT4zibYqDA9GsTkVnceSPBn95SKh45qqXx2DIbbUgRHESwvaOG3UNB1EFcf1i2e_tXKS-6ZlZ3p-5IDdlaoNF_1l-mPBetD2cMJUQ6Oz8cQtAMjmui-bPSmzTukQQXYaOPPwNQ/s1230/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-01%20at%201.54.06%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZUb5-7kjchkWtIb9QTTEB1dz9FvHESUx2UngvOPaY8TnRg1ms0rFLTT4zibYqDA9GsTkVnceSPBn95SKh45qqXx2DIbbUgRHESwvaOG3UNB1EFcf1i2e_tXKS-6ZlZ3p-5IDdlaoNF_1l-mPBetD2cMJUQ6Oz8cQtAMjmui-bPSmzTukQQXYaOPPwNQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-01%20at%201.54.06%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Jeffreys with William Lucas and Roger Moore on The Saint from 1965</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British crime-genre actor William Lucas, star of neo noirs <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a>, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/payrollers.html">PAYROLL</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/freeze.html">CALCULATED RISK</a>, as one of two sophisticated thugs flanking a sophisticated scientist/villain planning to heist forgery plates (same McGuffin from another Reynolds vehicle <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/wlucas.html">THE MARKED ONE</a>) for what's to become THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY: and these cocky antagonists have only future James Bond icon Roger Moore to stop them... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the primary guest spot's for beautiful, resilient ingenue Sarah Lawson, seeking to reunite with her kidnapped husband while Moore' Simon Templar, as usual, gets in disguise... herein as an undercover safe cracker watched by Lucas and co-thug Peter Jeffreys... and yet he never feels in that much danger, making this particular episode more action than thriller, and for an otherwise great series, mostly filler.  </p><p><span></span></p>

action, andre morell, caper, heist, peter jeffrey, roger moore, sarah lawson, sixties, spy, the saint, thriller, william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS NEO NOIR THUGS ROGER MOORE IN 'THE SAINT'

Peter Jeffreys with William Lucas and Roger Moore on The Saint from 1965 British crime-genre actor William Lucas, star of neo noirs THE BREA...

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVING HAL NEEDHAM'S 'THE CANNONBALL RUN'

<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/AVvXsEjq1WmjGKS1Cs1V0_Pswj9GoW7M-2pD9_ocAFhgn6H578BWQN3enIHoiLgBAMGCzIMlGMu0DAVnuO7MtmnHwSmrD3Emxjr3eVsSwpAy1P9UqhwmRHsmrcC50nQbQwzOVdyZU6Cd6WuAolGQyhM79zzDlNNkIqfgann2jHGvmZaZK_u9dM_AzpsvplKCOQ/s919/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="919" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1WmjGKS1Cs1V0_Pswj9GoW7M-2pD9_ocAFhgn6H578BWQN3enIHoiLgBAMGCzIMlGMu0DAVnuO7MtmnHwSmrD3Emxjr3eVsSwpAy1P9UqhwmRHsmrcC50nQbQwzOVdyZU6Cd6WuAolGQyhM79zzDlNNkIqfgann2jHGvmZaZK_u9dM_AzpsvplKCOQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in THE CANNONBALL RUN Year: 1981 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, director Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds had the car chase comedy down — actually more of a romantic adventure with humor derived from the situation effecting the characters... wherein THE CANNONBALL RUN is more of an intentional slapdash smashup where laughs happen at every turn (somewhat like the game-changing blockbuster AIRPLANE sans the genre-parody aspect)... </p><p>Fully-loaded with an all-star cast ranging from Roger Moore pretending to be a guy pretending to be Moore as James Bond... to a Kung Fu fighting/biker-brawling Jackie Chan, an Arab Sheikh, two hot-rod hotties and...</p><p><span></span></p>

adrienne barbeau, alfie wise, burt reynolds, dean martin, dom deluise, ensemble, farrah fawcett, hal needham, jackie chan, race car, road movie, roger moore, sammy davis jr.

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVING HAL NEEDHAM'S 'THE CANNONBALL RUN'

Burt Reynolds in THE CANNONBALL RUN Year: 1981 Rating: ****1/2 After SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, director Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds had...

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS MICHAEL CAINE IN 'BULLSEYE!'

<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/AVvXsEiLU0yuKr0p9C8UJ_aYQ2u7pf0tnjYFqL6_FaxQV01qnjVDF9ax8Jlmx3yqZ4vwtESKVMqDuf-TXuCOX3JP0kNrY5K8YDW_QUBMkk877dHO6g_O0TVl7hiezGmMP3uGPXqXyNpgO5N9Vu22QT59xdsaRGcMOAyT6Yu66sSc94de6_M8s1mIKyf1yB79RQ/s1879/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-27%20at%2012.31.14%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="1879" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLU0yuKr0p9C8UJ_aYQ2u7pf0tnjYFqL6_FaxQV01qnjVDF9ax8Jlmx3yqZ4vwtESKVMqDuf-TXuCOX3JP0kNrY5K8YDW_QUBMkk877dHO6g_O0TVl7hiezGmMP3uGPXqXyNpgO5N9Vu22QT59xdsaRGcMOAyT6Yu66sSc94de6_M8s1mIKyf1yB79RQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-27%20at%2012.31.14%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BULLSEYE Cast: Michael Caine, Roger Moore Year: 1990 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By 1990 how the 1970's mighty-British had fallen, three-fold, as Michael Winner directs Michael Caine and Roger Moore in the buddy con-comedy BULLSEYE!, more confusing than unfunny, and extremely farfetched as Caine (collecting a paycheck) and Moore (constantly widening his eyes) just happen to be dead-ringers for two scientists that are also a team-up, and even more crooked...<br><br>Providing Caine a chance to reprise his popular DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS con-artist cadence but in more of the Steve Martin goofball role, and failing, getting no help from Sally Kirkland as the straight-man-lady partner gluing both together, along with Moore's real life daughter as a CIA Agent in what's more a collection of silly scenes than one collective spy spoof, which is hardly even attempted here in the first, second, or third place.</p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

buddy, comedy, con man, derren nesbitt, michael caine, michael winner, roger moore, sally kirkland

MICHAEL WINNER DIRECTS MICHAEL CAINE IN 'BULLSEYE!'

Title: BULLSEYE Cast: Michael Caine, Roger Moore Year: 1990 Rating: ** By 1990 how the 1970's mighty-British had fallen, three-fold, as ...

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...

ROGER MOORE IN 'ESCAPE TO ATHENA' WITH TELLY SAVALAS

<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/AVvXsEhYecJR8Cy6ee_QdKN0zyXzxtnY17_PMMQAemavG2WQdHr1rydAS1Tr3WWwDiSCALaxZB0T5uZSVH6s8ubbnNbZCzAiV0iz7ZOUIc0FaVID68I2ALTe2Ke8D4C03RmKgFzeLGErrZ_nonA3/s467/escape-to-athena-movie-poster-1979-1020551523.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="467" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYecJR8Cy6ee_QdKN0zyXzxtnY17_PMMQAemavG2WQdHr1rydAS1Tr3WWwDiSCALaxZB0T5uZSVH6s8ubbnNbZCzAiV0iz7ZOUIc0FaVID68I2ALTe2Ke8D4C03RmKgFzeLGErrZ_nonA3/w400-h360/escape-to-athena-movie-poster-1979-1020551523.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Escape to Athena Year: 1979 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>About the only thing ESCAPE TO ATHENA is known for is how miscast the famously British James Bond actor Roger Moore is at playing a WWII Nazi... but Moore's actually a charming German major reluctantly running a Greek Island-set POW camp and can care less about Hitler... </p><p>In fact he's what true Nazi villain Anthony Valentine calls "an antique collector" so, as a German Archeologist flirting with sassy ingenue Stefanie Powers, Moore fits much better than scene-wrecker Elliott Gould, partnered with Powers as a captured USO team... and the goofy, flamboyant Gould seems lost in the wrong movie...</p><p>One that's tonally-challenged either way, showing a public execution one minute and silly pratfalls the next: Yet ESCAPE <i>is</i> beautifully directed by George P. Cosmatos, using creative camera shots to cover what feels like every inch of the sea-cliff Greek village of antique buildings and glorious ruins, where the other characters fare better like Sonny Bono as an endearing Italian chef, David Niven as an experienced old Brit and Richard Roundtree as a token black con man, eventually joining Greek cutthroat Telly Savalas and heart-of-gold-hooker Claudia Cardinale. So despite the maligned reputation, ATHENA has loads of neat action, explosions, gun fights, twists, turns, and only the overlong race-against-time climb to a treasure-laden mountain slows down this adventurous/ambitious Lew Grade produced b-picture... that ultimately tries too hard for epic mainstream status. A far better action than heist flick. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, claudia cardinale, comedy, elliott gould, ensemble, heist, prison, richard roundtree, roger moore, seventies, sonny bono, stefanie powers, telly savalas, william holden, world war II

ROGER MOORE IN 'ESCAPE TO ATHENA' WITH TELLY SAVALAS

Title: Escape to Athena Year: 1979 Rates: ***1/2 About the only thing ESCAPE TO ATHENA is known for is how miscast the famously British Jame...

REST IN PEACE BOND VILLAIN & ACTING LEGEND YAPHET KOTTO

<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/AVvXsEix1Y9krKYPWbgKsb89gSSpBrCE_mvyWbd4cEOIA8qvJCjIzPPeMoazZ70XlbpHHMX3f_-9eqXg1CCke0WmT7ZRS3-usTJrY2SvO85KR2v6q37tkvBDPq1Ex3w4bYCsxGrpc9YUDA-P8cJF/s2048/161697547_4024577994253117_3570165528362675602_o.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix1Y9krKYPWbgKsb89gSSpBrCE_mvyWbd4cEOIA8qvJCjIzPPeMoazZ70XlbpHHMX3f_-9eqXg1CCke0WmT7ZRS3-usTJrY2SvO85KR2v6q37tkvBDPq1Ex3w4bYCsxGrpc9YUDA-P8cJF/s16000/161697547_4024577994253117_3570165528362675602_o.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>YAPHET KOTTO on his role as the first black Bond villain in LIVE AND LET DIE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Roger Moore's first James Bond venture LIVE AND LET DIE, the 1973 spy blaxploitation throwing everything into the pot including pimp cars, voodoo, killer crocodiles, serpents, zombies, a boat chase and so much more, wasn't so beloved by actor Yaphet Kotto, who played the drug lord Kananga... a memorable performance as a groundbreaking Bond heavy, being the first black villain in the franchise...</p><p></p><p><u>YAPHET KOTTO</u>: There were so many problems with that script… I was too afraid of coming off like Mantan Moreland… I had to dig deep in my soul and brain and come up with a level of reality that would offset the sea of stereotype crap that Tom Mankiewicz wrote that had nothing to do with the Black experience or culture...</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/AVvXsEghWMbZa1KIeJREL3c3GVt7DoefC2v1D4YnDBIraNlmcGm8h6nRlrvbNvGzcLFuRSU04CZAQ3sJCaevTnUfIruR1SX2rPtYL8pke568IbtYiYWpz0qvsZDzBhymmUyI-ky1H82wYT8kwNs0/s847/title06_204014107.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="847" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghWMbZa1KIeJREL3c3GVt7DoefC2v1D4YnDBIraNlmcGm8h6nRlrvbNvGzcLFuRSU04CZAQ3sJCaevTnUfIruR1SX2rPtYL8pke568IbtYiYWpz0qvsZDzBhymmUyI-ky1H82wYT8kwNs0/s16000/title06_204014107.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger Moore, Jane Seymour and Yaphet Kotto in LIVE AND LET DIE</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><u>YAPHET KOTTO</u> (CONTINUED): It was the first Black Bond villain, I wanted to be original… but there was nothing I could draw on from Tom’s script. It was a trap... <br></p><p></p><p>If I had played it the way it was written, every Black Organization in the world would have been on my case. I had to draw on a real life situation I was going through and that saved me…But the way Kananga dies was a joke… and… well… the entire experience was not as rewarding as I wanted it to be. There were a lot of pitfalls that I had to avoid, and I did.  </p><p><span></span></p>

blaxploitation, interview, james bond, jane seymour, roger moore, seventies, yaphet kotto

REST IN PEACE BOND VILLAIN & ACTING LEGEND YAPHET KOTTO

YAPHET KOTTO on his role as the first black Bond villain in LIVE AND LET DIE Roger Moore's first James Bond venture LIVE AND LET DIE, th...

MODEL ACTRESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

<p><i></i></p><p><i><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/AVvXsEhT_Ht7i0jx_YhA4WjMrsLH8DDb667ZYxCINhZ8U9W0tPmkmdmtzi2N684-msfVa-h9_rl8CQOaaYdBS-ihLu1eclAMO1TGqn4qz7fGnbscyrTxUkUHOxNzC3RHrmusJFrTy4C9rYko_XXaC2LdROdCrAIqqY_NiCAWR3_MmSfc2VYy9Pfos_DtmwHZJIWE/s2100/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-13%20at%2011.12.26%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="2100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT_Ht7i0jx_YhA4WjMrsLH8DDb667ZYxCINhZ8U9W0tPmkmdmtzi2N684-msfVa-h9_rl8CQOaaYdBS-ihLu1eclAMO1TGqn4qz7fGnbscyrTxUkUHOxNzC3RHrmusJFrTy4C9rYko_XXaC2LdROdCrAIqqY_NiCAWR3_MmSfc2VYy9Pfos_DtmwHZJIWE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-13%20at%2011.12.26%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Interview with British actress and model CHRISTINA GREGG (here with William Campbell in The Young Racers)<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table></i></p><p></p><p><i>Christina Gregg was in a handful of British movies and TV from 1959 to 1964, and was one of England's top models... We asked some questions about those years where she juggled two trades that combined immense talent and beauty...  </i><u><br></u></p><p><u>START IN MODELING & ACTING</u>: I won a huge beauty contest when I was 17… Miss ABC Television… I would have won Miss Great Britain as well, but they told me I was too young to win! With this prize was a film test with Robert Day, director of <i>Women</i> Magazine, leading to a theatrical coach, Flossy Freedman, who also helped train Marlon Brando, and Angela Lansbur<i>y... </i></p><p>I was provided with an agent, so I had film training, and films came my way afterwards. Modeling took off with the cover of <i>Women</i> magazine, a huge circulation at that time, followed by many more. But it was not an advantage to be advertising products and acting at the same time… I lost opportunities because of this; however, I needed to earn money so I continued: Did advertisement commercials for Camay soap, which cost me a big part in a film.  </p><p></p><span></span>

british, british new noir, british new wave, christina gregg, christopher plummer, crime, interview, jess conrad, lance comfort, mel ferrer, race car, robert urquhart, roger moore, sixties, william campbell

MODEL ACTRESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

Interview with British actress and model CHRISTINA GREGG (here with William Campbell in The Young Racers) Christina Gregg was in a handful o...

MOORE BOND SIX: 'OCTOPUSSY' WITH MAUD ADAMS

<table align="center" 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/AVvXsEjzPP35BTVb8NuXNcTZ1s8PgM3FB7sjX7nyJaEDfOny4KNYCd0U2k71JJgDCLSeMpgjoHVojGlvrEE3tYYpqlqEeLwtbRgD7p53tRpgzFg3U0qoAAnMjkgRabAwkfLC10XhOX6kSe1q4_4/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPP35BTVb8NuXNcTZ1s8PgM3FB7sjX7nyJaEDfOny4KNYCd0U2k71JJgDCLSeMpgjoHVojGlvrEE3tYYpqlqEeLwtbRgD7p53tRpgzFg3U0qoAAnMjkgRabAwkfLC10XhOX6kSe1q4_4/s400/1.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1983 cast: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> In the 1970's it took directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to make science-fiction matter again, cinematically, bigger and better than ever with CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND and STAR WARS, thus morphing a cold war espionage novel by Ian Fleming into a spacey venture jumping on the lunar bandwagon with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/11/MOONRaker.html">MOONRAKER</a>... <br> <br> And then, in 1983, the Bond franchise borrowed from a Lucas/Spielberg collective, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, since OCTOPUSSY is more or less a modern day pulpy adventure vehicle that, whether in crowded Arabian streets (involving a familiar "basket chase"), flamboyant Russian circuses, formidable trains, or behind the scenes where the philosophizing heavies meet in technological war rooms, there's a vintage, primal aura throughout what should have been Moore's final bow in the series.<br>

adventure, eighties, espionage, james bond, louis jourdan, maud adams, roger moore, steven berkoff

MOORE BOND SIX: 'OCTOPUSSY' WITH MAUD ADAMS

year: 1983 cast: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan In the 1970's it took directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to make sc...

MOORE BOND FIVE: SNOW TO SEA 'FOR YOUR EYES ONLY'

<div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEhXfI2GL5KBnjuRlCS8EUw2YSBa4BvS4arYK2keXczeVf4jKW_R6SRf_SqgQzL8vPmT_RlQQnrKpzcWxUO4tRiI3djEFayps2PhIGz0n0xQ-3TJ_sGn0B0dMwtQVp0stWDBdegKpLCY5yD2/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-21+at+11.25.20+PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="962" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXfI2GL5KBnjuRlCS8EUw2YSBa4BvS4arYK2keXczeVf4jKW_R6SRf_SqgQzL8vPmT_RlQQnrKpzcWxUO4tRiI3djEFayps2PhIGz0n0xQ-3TJ_sGn0B0dMwtQVp0stWDBdegKpLCY5yD2/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-02-21+at+11.25.20+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lynn-Holly Johnson & Roger Moore YEAR: 1981</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Something about ski chase scenes brings out the corniest disco music in the Roger Moore era James Bond films: And this was the early eighties so the previous decade's cheesy groove still resonated...<br> <br> But that doesn't ruin what was probably created to aptly re-stir what the far-fetched MOONRAKER shook after the wonderful SPY WHO LOVED ME genuinely rebooted the franchise's new mug. In fact, in many ways, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY embodies Roger Moore's sarcastically dapper style better than any other 007 vehicle; even the action sequences fit like his stiff suit that never gets ruffled. Sort of a fancy classy yacht of the series... but with a powerful speedboat engine, on occasion. <br>

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MOORE BOND FIVE: SNOW TO SEA 'FOR YOUR EYES ONLY'

Lynn-Holly Johnson & Roger Moore YEAR: 1981 Something about ski chase scenes brings out the corniest disco music in the Roger Moor...

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

<div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEgTxjkoei91jtXK0CWbKDbRbBJzB9UAMjcXUvZUgXW_EmX9uNf67uF__pCacvm3uMAdUtLCtdPpIYvSkds2cwlGkV9jpQ8FYuCqQn0Np9LTXnYZ6Ovu7Q_dWKJRLlQzSQy9L2LtGykfUC0/s1600/Atlantis_-_Profile.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTxjkoei91jtXK0CWbKDbRbBJzB9UAMjcXUvZUgXW_EmX9uNf67uF__pCacvm3uMAdUtLCtdPpIYvSkds2cwlGkV9jpQ8FYuCqQn0Np9LTXnYZ6Ovu7Q_dWKJRLlQzSQy9L2LtGykfUC0/s400/Atlantis_-_Profile.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Spider-like Under Water City in Spy Who Loved Me 1977</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> 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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6RLh3ezXG_TG3rQ5eiZVjUje9u9EuF8Xdeudw8MbJI-t-6zqhjmxYinQ8n7b_QsAaKPuap7atHLxrt3woZEFOh_jkd4AcUxPFQFwibC1hEtSwBL54nz5aIOBTLPUZoG2_hcPtfTjguZI/s1600/s1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6RLh3ezXG_TG3rQ5eiZVjUje9u9EuF8Xdeudw8MbJI-t-6zqhjmxYinQ8n7b_QsAaKPuap7atHLxrt3woZEFOh_jkd4AcUxPFQFwibC1hEtSwBL54nz5aIOBTLPUZoG2_hcPtfTjguZI/s400/s1.jpg" width="383" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Signed Laserdisc by Caroline Munro and the late Richard Kiel</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> 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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> <table align="center" 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/AVvXsEirwGhKG3YGiFdYi0lIv8Hw3UhRC2ZBAPydPzz2z7zT2RhL_iB432YWmT-T7WWE67MvXN113tuOfLK5EQjdU0MZPdB3A2gA26pT09mKccN1KN0G2A8Zf9x6V8iVpARlPqcYE1QUAFJyHpc/s1600/s2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirwGhKG3YGiFdYi0lIv8Hw3UhRC2ZBAPydPzz2z7zT2RhL_iB432YWmT-T7WWE67MvXN113tuOfLK5EQjdU0MZPdB3A2gA26pT09mKccN1KN0G2A8Zf9x6V8iVpARlPqcYE1QUAFJyHpc/s400/s2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1977 cast: Roger Moore, Curd Jürgens, Barbara Bach, </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> 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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLvSb4xERWok8QefIs-xD2TwzBjhhTYbhYJHk95gnQt5e6JCMczxzGAOujqt6wPz2djiCRV7jEilqwUIOa3D4z2m3Uk2IRK47wAY8Tjmh9VnH63ufWRjY31u-BBO56b9CCSF1mVqDtoxQ/s1600/s3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLvSb4xERWok8QefIs-xD2TwzBjhhTYbhYJHk95gnQt5e6JCMczxzGAOujqt6wPz2djiCRV7jEilqwUIOa3D4z2m3Uk2IRK47wAY8Tjmh9VnH63ufWRjY31u-BBO56b9CCSF1mVqDtoxQ/s400/s3.png" width="260" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger and Richard</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> 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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> 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 /> <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/p/bond.html">CLICK FOR ALL BOND REVIEWS</a>

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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 ...

MOORE BOND TWO KUNG FU 'THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN'

<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/AVvXsEj8OO9DSi6b6nivymn1TubFZGpS8VvtvLUbc3NysdP646-8pkvr7f3gPKBhC8X68JDsx4BtGJLijMRFcf4fWKbPpO3iw388ayUt2IMGGJbTc8hQLbYS2JJGlA9juETcYfAWB0ZHyKrdf12u/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+1.24.17+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1234" data-original-width="1600" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8OO9DSi6b6nivymn1TubFZGpS8VvtvLUbc3NysdP646-8pkvr7f3gPKBhC8X68JDsx4BtGJLijMRFcf4fWKbPpO3iw388ayUt2IMGGJbTc8hQLbYS2JJGlA9juETcYfAWB0ZHyKrdf12u/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+1.24.17+AM.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger Moore in The Man With The Golden Gun YEAR: 1974</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Gary Oldman in SPECTRE describes 007 as a kite in a thunderstorm, which doesn't fit headstrong Daniel Craig, Timothy Dalton or Sean Connery...<br /> <br /> That kind of vulnerability is what Roger Moore brought to the franchise: a freewheeling dapper suit who bobbed around, depending on the proverbial weather i.e. villains, henchman, good or bad dames, and whatever else got thrown in his direction: always along for the ride, second-fiddle to the creative gadgets and perpetual mayhem...<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> And going back to the first two Roger Moore Bond flicks, before the spectacular SPY WHO LOVED ME genuinely cemented the former SAINT star into the Ian Fleming super-spy, keep in mind that a few low-budget genres... what could even be considered Drive-In flicks... were immensely popular, and seemed to have been intentionally injected into the franchise to get it restarted after Sean Connery only quit, twice...<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvaqC4gydf6fFLPoLwGEDxpq26EAh-qeZJqH-Wr5OV6CHdW0M-H3Szpoh9KzoB7RI6F2yjRYU6aoYPcg3nQXJGVBX6061-nxvACo_XVMaGTPxhIE4zrZLtke9nV7_WWGrGpZni7nEDGWB/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+12.29.26+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="625" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvaqC4gydf6fFLPoLwGEDxpq26EAh-qeZJqH-Wr5OV6CHdW0M-H3Szpoh9KzoB7RI6F2yjRYU6aoYPcg3nQXJGVBX6061-nxvACo_XVMaGTPxhIE4zrZLtke9nV7_WWGrGpZni7nEDGWB/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+12.29.26+AM.jpeg" width="186" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Britt Eckland, Bond Girl</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Moore's debut, LIVE AND LET DIE, was basically a blaxploitation flick with a rural car and boat chase thrown in while this second venture is a cross between a modern Western, including a two-man tropical island outpost shootout/showdown in the beginning and end (controlled by the villain's manipulating sidekick midget, Hervé Villechaize as Nick Nack)... All the while taking full advantage of the previous year's karate craze, ignited from the late Bruce Lee's ENTER THE DRAGON...<br /> <br /> Some of the best scenes, centered in Hong Kong and Thailand, occurs when Moore karate-chops thugs in a rural lair being taken over by Christopher Lee's Scaramanga, who, trying to look and act the Bond persona, is a highly paid maverick assassin stylistically wielding his golden gun with golden bullets, and he's literally worth a million dollars for each score: And whatever his target happens to be is important to the flowing plot and ultimately leads to that island's solar device that can... as usual... help this madman control the world... or something like that...<br /> <br /> Of course, Bond has a golden bullet with his name on it, and what truly carries GUN is the villain saving his best would-be victim for last; even admitting that slaying Bond anytime before a secretly planned showdown-duel would have been "ridiculously easy." Meanwhile, what's left over from the previous LIVE AND LET DIE continues with a similar boat chase and a follow-up car chase: bringing back a now-vacationing white trash hillbilly Sheriff played by character-actor Clifton James, jovially goofing it up and not really fitting in this time around...<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEgUFwWSOeQouRjj4yuchiXm22R_LeGZ4Rb-oueMhUiDZhOZ_-QEK99irhP1zH7sXzV9vABfXgKLJaYlYh-2yQY1YHEIGR48SjpkgW90qTMrYGZklBE1H0HkxjZNFOx99xjxXUDVHvEe2QO-/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+12.38.46+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="562" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUFwWSOeQouRjj4yuchiXm22R_LeGZ4Rb-oueMhUiDZhOZ_-QEK99irhP1zH7sXzV9vABfXgKLJaYlYh-2yQY1YHEIGR48SjpkgW90qTMrYGZklBE1H0HkxjZNFOx99xjxXUDVHvEe2QO-/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+12.38.46+AM.jpeg" width="167" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Score: ****1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> On the female side of things, holding more significance than the faithfully thankless Britt Ekland (and her perfect bikini body), sneaking around within a dangerous, suspenseful maze, is future OCTOPUSSY Maud Adams as the guilt-ridden, ambiguous vixen caught between both men: taking a major risk right when the plot starts to thicken.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEife9WDDEDIVQ_v4_Iv0fos-_2d6DDCz0so698ekdtKBio20FxGvRiQ1t5c9I3HDv6tuMCDYuxEkTPiaWDL1EBqxaWv8ivZh4jkJWne4AlFwjJaFLksIu00w5L-Aya1joYYmBpRSfnMqJM/s1600/12190074_10208171847316324_8617113084204683943_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEife9WDDEDIVQ_v4_Iv0fos-_2d6DDCz0so698ekdtKBio20FxGvRiQ1t5c9I3HDv6tuMCDYuxEkTPiaWDL1EBqxaWv8ivZh4jkJWne4AlFwjJaFLksIu00w5L-Aya1joYYmBpRSfnMqJM/s400/12190074_10208171847316324_8617113084204683943_n.jpg" width="391" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>Autographed by Maud Adams and Britt Ekland</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> So while THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN never lets up with what made the entire Moore era so splendid...<br /> <br /> A handing-off of non-stop action sequences grooving the plot into endless directions... and each time you watch never exactly remembering what happens when... it's also the most personal and basic 007: An extravaganza masquerading as a low budget rollercoaster ride. Perhaps negative reviews of this and LIVE AND LET DIE don't appreciate (or, dare it be said, failed to comprehend) the aspect of playing to audiences who were more into gritty crime flicks than the brainy, page-turning espionage of the Cold War 1960's, when Mr. Connery reigned.<br /> <br /> <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/AVvXsEjvcBlS4evXBdwCBp_kQn8vFGoxOY7RL3sfV_8w2zA8JA8GP-Cbob4IWwEul3HclS7vr8NJCAZb2UmZYMiuWKF77rXsMPqbARvLp82auV4ukjVzdtkeM4zjWbsgMwohByy94H8Hx_pY1J-B/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+2.03.27+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="1600" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcBlS4evXBdwCBp_kQn8vFGoxOY7RL3sfV_8w2zA8JA8GP-Cbob4IWwEul3HclS7vr8NJCAZb2UmZYMiuWKF77rXsMPqbARvLp82auV4ukjVzdtkeM4zjWbsgMwohByy94H8Hx_pY1J-B/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+2.03.27+AM.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hervé Villechaize oversees the final duel, and is actually rooting for...</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> At this point, in the early seventies, the youth culture was grounded into a breezy EASY RIDER/SHAFT mode sans an immense fear of the Atomic Bomb (that would continue cinematically in the eighties)...<br /> <br /> So while journeying back to the primal Bond double feature, leading to the sublime and streamlined, big budget SPY WHO LOVED ME, you might want to brush up on particular Drive-In genres before taking anything too seriously in a franchise that's still taken seriously, to this very day, while Moore is often blamed for ruining a character he championed for over a decade.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wzwpUti6E6q5IeEtU0u2HTys7szEf1uMhTF5UhzOlehFwj1nAa9XxCLw1C9aXPh_Pv0AeQBaYYcwU04mHGFfipj4yUPvdm63sBpWaOWqWgsGALRyVblj66xfkm8F3s6ObEnUHRviBuh3/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+1.57.27+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wzwpUti6E6q5IeEtU0u2HTys7szEf1uMhTF5UhzOlehFwj1nAa9XxCLw1C9aXPh_Pv0AeQBaYYcwU04mHGFfipj4yUPvdm63sBpWaOWqWgsGALRyVblj66xfkm8F3s6ObEnUHRviBuh3/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+1.57.27+AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Suspend disbelief as Roger Moore goes kung fu against masters of kung fu!</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN_VElinf_-Cq4gLYH1JrCHlW0zO1gT2SRXYdgug3xFVKWtekS_USLX0rU-zDr3IuygaHMr6KW852N35usnY66wt-3YYtlBisEXVax9mEq3y4GpvjX8VenYSQscX3NGroFLHfoINvx6kcJ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+12.31.03+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN_VElinf_-Cq4gLYH1JrCHlW0zO1gT2SRXYdgug3xFVKWtekS_USLX0rU-zDr3IuygaHMr6KW852N35usnY66wt-3YYtlBisEXVax9mEq3y4GpvjX8VenYSQscX3NGroFLHfoINvx6kcJ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+12.31.03+AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger Moore's James Bond and a gigantic microphone or... something about solar power</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLdj0ohIu_e_8k60CkcU7RuyE6vsYtBqbuMcaJqhQxjbRkWlRJ8awX2_HHzDVlQy3oYtzwqsFKErAWmXhY2qAXh6CtBR_bpgL0jKBTDY5bYOu5qa3mf3-Oc9Wmho-KSkhc77_F-ZKRgY4j/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+1.25.31+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLdj0ohIu_e_8k60CkcU7RuyE6vsYtBqbuMcaJqhQxjbRkWlRJ8awX2_HHzDVlQy3oYtzwqsFKErAWmXhY2qAXh6CtBR_bpgL0jKBTDY5bYOu5qa3mf3-Oc9Wmho-KSkhc77_F-ZKRgY4j/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+1.25.31+AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The ridicuously gorgeous Maud Adams in THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj8NcTRT3ls3M77nICPU9ONa-_mCdlujTIBYFvV2MbLF87Bh2nACsFg_XhDaMb5IV9DzSK1nXaQ0Q4iw7GPylJKX06yg-vDRn9R11SJRxLX5GiLn7HIFfzeck2gujRZTHNPAsknW-tXSVW/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+1.25.14+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj8NcTRT3ls3M77nICPU9ONa-_mCdlujTIBYFvV2MbLF87Bh2nACsFg_XhDaMb5IV9DzSK1nXaQ0Q4iw7GPylJKX06yg-vDRn9R11SJRxLX5GiLn7HIFfzeck2gujRZTHNPAsknW-tXSVW/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+1.25.14+AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Showering our praise on the lovely Maud Adams in THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6fxEvISq1ZmdoyHd6aWr0fOxAfc08qzkcz34TkxPihsIxuO23acIrZ82BIk9gZOKNY3TCfWouS4wibPrrPQyNnhPaRGtp7XtyUD3uQLhaBxGM0HXH84xH38K8M1G6-stCq1ZDukO0lcl/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+2.23.38+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6fxEvISq1ZmdoyHd6aWr0fOxAfc08qzkcz34TkxPihsIxuO23acIrZ82BIk9gZOKNY3TCfWouS4wibPrrPQyNnhPaRGtp7XtyUD3uQLhaBxGM0HXH84xH38K8M1G6-stCq1ZDukO0lcl/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+2.23.38+AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Maud Adams, Christopher Lee and Hervé Villechaize in THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCtL6DQTaajKwv2u3UggiM_afndZ3-Fl25P_1bTK3ZK27gGnKaADhyHDpi4YFKXJZ_24OqIhWqwJJ8byhT9q8drvZ14YQyaTBVYG-B5c3Rn9NwCm2g7RQ56Hd27YEQ3I9RGl8VBaHlLgAV/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+12.44.00+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCtL6DQTaajKwv2u3UggiM_afndZ3-Fl25P_1bTK3ZK27gGnKaADhyHDpi4YFKXJZ_24OqIhWqwJJ8byhT9q8drvZ14YQyaTBVYG-B5c3Rn9NwCm2g7RQ56Hd27YEQ3I9RGl8VBaHlLgAV/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-22+at+12.44.00+AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A car trick bought by the studio, pulled off in the Astrodome and computerized onto this location</u></td></tr> </tbody></table>

britt ekland, christopher lee, franchise, hervé villechaize, james bond, maud adams, roger moore, seventies, spy

MOORE BOND TWO KUNG FU 'THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN'

Roger Moore in The Man With The Golden Gun YEAR: 1974 Gary Oldman in SPECTRE describes 007 as a kite in a thunderstorm, which doesn'...

MOORE BOND SEVEN: A VIEW TO A KILL

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbbcdr2skMs_qOL0bpkCBTN3CRmNFQqYvWPyGzGW95V7OulHVFBumNIUG7vHhkQq_ejk51Mq7BwdWsB3A_qcxgcs3In_il2ffH-GHhJJf1sUSPcqPqlEvS8HVgev4e-SC5nl9RHSZiYnU/s1600/a-view-to-a-kill-06.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbbcdr2skMs_qOL0bpkCBTN3CRmNFQqYvWPyGzGW95V7OulHVFBumNIUG7vHhkQq_ejk51Mq7BwdWsB3A_qcxgcs3In_il2ffH-GHhJJf1sUSPcqPqlEvS8HVgev4e-SC5nl9RHSZiYnU/s1600/a-view-to-a-kill-06.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The final Roger Moore performance as Secret Agent 007 James Bond</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <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/AVvXsEigwgjuCPbY_Hy3c8OACwVr28kCToO_0TnCC02msoLCk9IdBSm8DBPL0uy50RgC071ma7aWubklj5IFMkbT6y5xG_qUbSsybY5Uv9CnRkIXGyyKN5Bj8_H12ELAXM7Na7oQbJEDw2O79cg/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigwgjuCPbY_Hy3c8OACwVr28kCToO_0TnCC02msoLCk9IdBSm8DBPL0uy50RgC071ma7aWubklj5IFMkbT6y5xG_qUbSsybY5Uv9CnRkIXGyyKN5Bj8_H12ELAXM7Na7oQbJEDw2O79cg/s320/2.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1985 rating: ***</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> The first and only time a disclaimer appears before the movie begins, telling us the villain isn’t based on anyone actual… Perhaps since the computer race was just starting, nerves could have been touched... <br /> <br /> After all, Christopher Walken’s Zorin isn’t a bald cat lover yearning to take over the world with a simple little nuke… This guy has his sites set on Silicon Valley with microchips to – making a complicated plot point short – allow bad things to happen. <br /> <br /> Roger Moore, surprisingly older than Sean Connery, looked young for his age… His sly boots in the eyes of a smitten Moneypenny and an ever-lecturing M is now old shoe. In fact, during one scene where the three are hanging out at a horse track, they all seem like contemporaries. But Roger Moore still pulls off the super agent with ease… Perhaps too much so…<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> At one point he tells fellow agent Tibbett (a new Felix type played by Patrick Macnee, probably to make Roger look young) that pretending to be someone else has become second nature… Moore's Bond has been around the block six times and this adventure is a breezy piece of cake, although there are some snags in the icing.  <br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWceL_qJiqanT7sUkldC04bqaWpbJYa9vHdIwlXowod1CRMEkTygjA-64GJc6l0FYUnLUHYth5llO7azmeGx1F6G8MNQ7R9hZ1N0YKosat2ltThRhGNqjVe32ADSoa3GJITu-iAo0bsPc/s1600/1.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWceL_qJiqanT7sUkldC04bqaWpbJYa9vHdIwlXowod1CRMEkTygjA-64GJc6l0FYUnLUHYth5llO7azmeGx1F6G8MNQ7R9hZ1N0YKosat2ltThRhGNqjVe32ADSoa3GJITu-iAo0bsPc/s320/1.jpg" width="220" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poster Artwork</td></tr> </tbody></table> The best parts take place at Zorin’s immense compound, a castle-like world onto itself, much like Drago’s lair in MOONRAKER…<br /> <br /> Here’s where Bond gets to dangle the ladies and have his usual sneaking-around/close calls… Eventually cozing up to Stacey, played by SHEENA starlet Tanya Roberts, the plot shifts to San Francisco with a seismic warning and a hazardous oil tanker, where we experience a few neat action sequences along the way – but where’s our main villain?<br /> <br /> In other films the heavy constantly reminds us of the danger Bond and the entire world faces… But a neglected Christopher Walken is out of the loop for so long that at one point, you might forget there’s any threat at all. This allows his wicked (and now extremely dated) henchwoman Grace Jones as May Day to do the dirty work.<br /> <br /> A VIEW TO A KILL, complete with a catchy Duran Duran opening song and the usual variation on that particular theme, is a whimper to Moore's finale to the sublime bang of his previous venture, OCTOPUSSY, feeling like a big budget TV Movie of the Week… Begging for the next 007, Timothy Dalton, to dirty things up once again.

christopher walken, eighties, james bond, roger moore, spy, tanya roberts

MOORE BOND SEVEN: A VIEW TO A KILL

The final Roger Moore performance as Secret Agent 007 James Bond year: 1985 rating: *** The first and only time a disclaimer a...