In the late 1960s 20th Century Fox were doing their best to cash in the spy craze created by the popular James Bond movies with such less than stellar entries as Modesty Blaise, and today we will be looking at another fun if unsuccessful attempt at capturing Bondmania, this one starring Raquel Welch as the…
Tag: spy thriller
Invisible Agent (1942) – Review
With the United States entering World War II it was up to Hollywood to do their part, which meant providing propaganda films and some serious flag waving for the people on the Homefront, but where the likes of John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart facing off against the Axis powers made sense it was a little…
Never Say Never Again (1983) – Review
Twelve years after departing the franchise, for the second time, Sean Connery returned to go head-to-head with the official Eon Production’s Bond film, Octopussy, in what was is considered a non-canon remake of Connery’s 1965 Bond outing Thunderball – due to a successful lawsuit by producer Kevin McClory which allowed him to maintain the movie…
You Only Live Twice (1967) – Review
What happens when you get the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to write the screenplay for a Bond film? As odd as that question sounds the world was treated to the answer in 1967 when children’s author Roald Dahl adapted Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice to the big screen. With this film,…
Thunderball (1965) – Review
The fourth Bond film has a very interesting genesis as it was based on a book that originally started out as a screenplay by Jack Whittingham which was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming. To say this led to some very complicated rights issues would be a massive…