Bond Mania in the Sixties
Bond Mania in the Sixties
BoG Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:37 pm
Bond mania spilled over into all the other studios everywhere in the mid-sixties, all attempting to capture some of that patented Bond success. Here is just a partial list of spy / secret agent films released in 1966 (and this is only 1966; there was more in 1967, 1968, etc.):
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Assignment:Female Bang! Bang! You're Dead Blindfold Borman Brides of Fu Manchu Caprice Come Spy With Me Danger!Death Ray! The Defector The Destructors Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs Funeral in Berlin Girl From S.I.N. I Deal in Danger Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die Last of the Secret Agents? The Liquidator A Man Could Get Killed Modesty Blaise Murderer's Row One Spy Too Many Operation Apocalypse Our Man Flint various OSS 117 films Perry Grant-Agent of Iron The Poppy is also a Flower The Quiller Memorandum Secret Agent Fireball Secret Agent Super Dragon The Silencers The Spy in the Green Hat Spy in Your Eye The Spy With My Face Tarzan and the Valley of Gold To Trap a Spy Top Secret Torn Curtain and etc.
Note how even other franchises - the Tarzan films - attempted to shift to the super agent style. I'm still finding out about films from that decade; about a year ago, someone pointed out a film to me called A Man Called Dagger, from '67, which I still had not been aware of, after all this time. Those crazy sixties...
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Assignment:Female Bang! Bang! You're Dead Blindfold Borman Brides of Fu Manchu Caprice Come Spy With Me Danger!Death Ray! The Defector The Destructors Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs Funeral in Berlin Girl From S.I.N. I Deal in Danger Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die Last of the Secret Agents? The Liquidator A Man Could Get Killed Modesty Blaise Murderer's Row One Spy Too Many Operation Apocalypse Our Man Flint various OSS 117 films Perry Grant-Agent of Iron The Poppy is also a Flower The Quiller Memorandum Secret Agent Fireball Secret Agent Super Dragon The Silencers The Spy in the Green Hat Spy in Your Eye The Spy With My Face Tarzan and the Valley of Gold To Trap a Spy Top Secret Torn Curtain and etc.Note how even other franchises - the Tarzan films - attempted to shift to the super agent style. I'm still finding out about films from that decade; about a year ago, someone pointed out a film to me called A Man Called Dagger, from '67, which I still had not been aware of, after all this time. Those crazy sixties...
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BoG Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:38 pm
I obtained the list in the previous post from a book called James Bond the Legacy by John Cork. The list was intended as a partial list of films only from 1966. However, release years can be problematic for some of the obscure films of that era. For example, the list contained Danger!Death Ray!, but this film is listed with a release year of 1967 on IMDb.
Other films from that era: Sol Madrid - this is another film which I must confess I am not too familiar with.
Danger!Death Ray! starred Gordon Scott of Tarzan fame. Other obscurities of that time: Where the Bullets Fly (1966), Hammerhead (1968), the Kommissar X films, Target Goldseven (1966) and OK Connery, which starred Neil Connery, Sean's brother! (and also known as Operation Double 007)
Other films from that era: Sol Madrid - this is another film which I must confess I am not too familiar with.
Danger!Death Ray! starred Gordon Scott of Tarzan fame. Other obscurities of that time: Where the Bullets Fly (1966), Hammerhead (1968), the Kommissar X films, Target Goldseven (1966) and OK Connery, which starred Neil Connery, Sean's brother! (and also known as Operation Double 007)