AJB live commentary on Casino Royale 1967

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,332Chief of Staff
    Music "Old Berlin House/Mata-Hari School for Spies"
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    There's about a minute's difference again. She just got into the cab here.
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    The German Expressionist style set design is an odd, but enjoyable choice for this section of the film. Reminiscent of the likes of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    The interior set is very much The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari. Perhaps also reflecting Ken Adam's German Expressionist aesthetic over in the main series.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,332Chief of Staff
    What's the Mata?
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    Bloody awful isn’t it?
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    That repeating pinging ruler and bugle is another annoying ‘noise’
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,797MI6 Agent
    The Mata Hari school is a fun set and so is the sequence!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    The weird dynamic between Anna Quayle and Ronnie Corbett is a bit like that between Scaramanga and Nick Nack...
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,332Chief of Staff
    Best bit yet to come. I use the word "best" only in comparison
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Several EON Bond alumni in this auction scene: Kronsteen, Ling, Strap... anybody I'm missing?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,332Chief of Staff
    Burt Kwouk.

    Edit- too late
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    ...and then the plot went BOOM!!!

    Oops, sorry false alarm, stock footage.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,332Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Best bit yet to come. I use the word "best" only in comparison

    The end credits?

    :)) :)) :)) The bit where it resembles the novel
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,797MI6 Agent
    No psycoactive drugs were consumed during the making of this film :D
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    SMERSH isn't a Russian organisation in this film. But this is the only Bond film to give a key role to SMERSH. It's only name-checked in FRWL and it's used as a red herring in TLD
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    I'll say this: as a heterosexual male, the costumes for the women in this film are definitely...sufficient.

    The women are all highly decorative but also strong characters in the film.
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    ...and then the plot went BOOM!!!

    Le Chaffee does a Blofeld to Vladek Shibell. (Thinks)

    Yes that’s right!
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,797MI6 Agent
    Just a quick show of hands: Who is sober at this time? (raises hand)
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,332Chief of Staff
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton-Browne_of_the_F.O. referred to by Bernard Cribbins
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    Please note - the meeting in the car carswash. The plot stats here. Ish.... with a P in front.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,332Chief of Staff
    Higgins, here's where the clip shown at the start of the film was taken from
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Mata uses a fire extinguisher in combat (DAF) and slides down a banister to take out villains (OP).
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Just a quick show of hands: Who is sober at this time? (raises hand)

    24. Do NOT rub it in!
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,797MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    Just a quick show of hands: Who is sober at this time? (raises hand)

    I am, simply because I don't drink. This film is making me reconsider that, though.

    Me too ...
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,332Chief of Staff
    Music “Hi There Miss Goodthighs” Hello Jacqueline Bisset
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,797MI6 Agent
    Can anyone, based on past or current experience, say if this movie is any good while under the influence of alcohol or drugs?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Hilarious when Sellers just punches the passport control guy in the face. Sort of parodies Bond punching the widow in the face in the TB PTS.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Higgins, here's where the clip shown at the start of the film was taken from

    Yep, noticed. Thanks!

    Not that it makes the movie any more enjoyable :#
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,332Chief of Staff
    Music “Dream On, James, You’re Winning” Vocal- Mike Redway (uncredited)
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