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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:

    (Elementary, I need a Greek Interpreter- anyone get that?)

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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,966MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Peck's performance is the lynchpin of this entire movie, imho, and he's a great foil for Niven's set-piece theatrical speeches.

    You find Niven more theatrical than Peck? I'm the opposite.

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    :)) :)) :))
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,764MI6 Agent
    Why are the Germans in snow camouflage? I remember we were always making sure we used white camouflage correctly.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,966MI6 Agent
    Andreas picks off only the enemy soldiers who seem to assume a leading role... authentic guerilla tactics.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,208Chief of Staff
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:

    (Elementary, I need a Greek Interpreter- anyone get that?)

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    Indeed, my dear Golrush007.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,966MI6 Agent
    Quinn's quiet, "Good evening, gentlemen..." He'd have made a great Blofeld, or Draco...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,764MI6 Agent
    Ik bik ein Deutche soldat.... :))
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,208Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Quinn's quiet, "Good evening, gentlemen..." He'd have made a great Blofeld, or Draco...

    Largo.

    For which part he was in fact considered (early on).
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,764MI6 Agent
    The actress playing Anna had mental problems, something that caused delays and problems. A decade later she sadly took her own life :#
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,966MI6 Agent
    edited February 2021
    James Darren and Irene Papas's brother/ sister relationship here is quickly established, but the film does absolutely nothing else with that (except in some brief dialogue at the end when she asks Quinn how her brother died). In a different context, her slapping of James Darren is a bit like Paris Carver slapping Brosnan's face for walking out on her.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,208Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    The actor playing Spiros Papadimos reminds me of Walter Koenig from STAR TREK.

    And he did, in fact, turn up in STAR TREK about 30 years later as a lounge singer (James Darren was a pro singer, acting was a sideline).
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    The Germans running down the steps to see the team has fled is much like Blofeld and his men bursting open the barn doors to find Bond and Tracey have departed in OHMSS.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,208Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    So the two female characters here...they are men in the book? do they serve the same function in the book in terms of character purpose?

    Basically, yes.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,966MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    The actor playing Spiros Papadimos reminds me of Walter Koenig from STAR TREK.

    Yes, very much so. This guy was a pop star, possibly cast to bring in the youth market. Thus his singing later on.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,764MI6 Agent
    The explosions are really close to the actors.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    The actor playing Spiros Papadimos reminds me of Walter Koenig from STAR TREK.

    I can't see James Darren without thinking of The Time Tunnel, a staple Irwin Allen series from my childhood like Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    Gymkata wrote:
    It occurs to me that James Darren would make a good option in my casting draft for one of the Hobbits. duly noted...

    Singing 'The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins'?

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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,966MI6 Agent
    Exciting Stuka action. Some good effects with rubble flying everywhere in the explosions.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,208Chief of Staff
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    The actor playing Spiros Papadimos reminds me of Walter Koenig from STAR TREK.

    I can't see James Darren without thinking of The Time Tunnel, a staple Irwin Allen series from my childhood like Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

    Hashtag Me T2!!! I loved all of those when I was a kid.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,764MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    The actor playing Spiros Papadimos reminds me of Walter Koenig from STAR TREK.

    Yes, very much so. This guy was a pop star, possibly cast to bring in the youth market. Thus his singing later on.

    In real life most of the team would be his age.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,208Chief of Staff
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    It occurs to me that James Darren would make a good option in my casting draft for one of the Hobbits. duly noted...

    Singing 'The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins'?

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    ...and making a better job of it than Nimoy, I'd think.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,208Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    In real life most of the team would be his age.

    That's true, but this is the movies. We have to accept that.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,208Chief of Staff
    ...and now we have the bit where James Darren sings. Possibly a contractual obligation?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,764MI6 Agent
    The KGB! :o
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    Some of this Greek village stuff reminds me a bit of FYEO. I'm keeping an eye out for Michael G Wilson as a priest ;)
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,208Chief of Staff
    Walter Gotell!

    Morzeny!

    General Gogol!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,966MI6 Agent
    That 'local guy' is arguably as good a singer as Darren.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    edited February 2021
    This folk tune - Yalo Yalo - is one that seems to be in my head an awful lot. I'm often heard whistling the melody. I assume it was written by Tiomkin.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,208Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Walter Gotell!

    Morzeny!

    General Gogol!

    Per usual, Barbel is ahead of everyone.

    :D

    Oh, sorry. Will pause.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,966MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Walter Gotell!

    Morzeny!

    General Gogol!

    Per usual, Barbel is ahead of everyone.

    :D

    Indeed. Gottel's just showed up now lol
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
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