Remember that classic scene in Dr. NO when
SEAN CONNERY first utters the immortal line
"Bond... James Bond" ? Well, here's how it might
have looked had James Bond been Jane Bond in-
stead. ELKE SOMMER is certainly prettier than
big Tam, so there's no way anyone would ever
say "No" to her - not even a doctor.
(Winner of 2017's Most Tenuous Pun award.)
4 comments:
"Blonde...Jane Blonde."
This pic looks like an early scene from The Wrecking Crew, the last movie in the Matt Helm series. Dean Martin as a sort of American James Bond.
Am I right in thinking they were originally TV movies, TC, that were later given a cinematic release abroad (UK, etc)? I quite enjoyed them.
AFAIK, the Helm movies were shown in theaters first in the US in the 1960s, when the spy-fi fad was at its peak. I think they were sold to TV networks sometime around 1970-71.
There was a short-lived Matt Helm TV series, starring Tony Franciosa, in the mid-1970s.
I know some two-part Man From U.N.C.L.E. episodes were strung together to make full-length feature movies, and I believe some of those had cinematic release in the UK and Europe. I believe the same was done with some two-part episodes of The Baron and The Saint.
Ah, perhaps the lower budgets made them seem like TV movies when I first saw them on TV, TC. As for The Man From U.N.C.L.E., I think about seven 'movies' were released outside the US (maybe even in the US for all I know), and new scenes were shot for some of them. One film featured Yvonne Craig, who never appeared in the two TV episodes it was cobbled together from.
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