Thursday, 12 February 2015

A SPY TYPE GUY...



Back in 1972 or '73, my local cinema was showing a double-bill of LIVING FREE (the sequel to BORN FREE) and The MAN CALLED FLINTSTONE.  The Flintstones feature was an actual cinema release, not a made-for-TV special, and it was amazing to see on the big screen in full colour.  (As opposed to black and white on a box in the corner of the living-room.)

Anyway, here's one of the songs from the movie that so captivated me as a 13 year-old kid.
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8 comments:

  1. Gey Blabby12 February 2015 at 04:37

    That might be the strangest double bill I've heard of.

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  2. Kid12 February 2015 at 10:57

    What? You mean you never heard of the 'Hey There, it's Yogi Bear' and 'Deep Throat' double-bill, GB?

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  3. Gey Blabby12 February 2015 at 11:04

    Deeper than the average bear.

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  4. Kid12 February 2015 at 11:30

    Pays to keep a packet of Strepsils handy.

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  5. John Pitt12 February 2015 at 21:05

    I saw it in a double bill with Batman and enjoyed it just as much. I haven't heard this song since then.

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  6. Kid12 February 2015 at 23:34

    Flintstones the musical. I thought it was a brilliant film. Went to see it about 3 or 4 times at least.

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  7. Anonymous13 February 2015 at 18:51

    IIRC, it was first released in 1966, at the peak of the spy-fi boom. The original working title was "Our Man Flintstone" or "That Man Flintstone," an allusion to "Our Man Flint." In fact, the poster for "The Man Called Flintstone" was a parody of the first "Our Man Flint" poster.

    It recycled some plot devices from the TV show (there was a regular half-hour episode where Fred and Barney got mixed up with a seductive spy named Madame Yes), but who cares? It was great fun, anyway.

    -TC

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  8. Kid13 February 2015 at 19:38

    Indeed, TC. I mentioned the Our Man Flint allusion in an earlier post on the movie. Watching it now, some of the animation near the end seems a little rushed, but at the time, I though the earlier sequences were more lavish than the TV show.

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