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James
Bond  Spoofs
and SuperSpies
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The two
main spoof films which drew unashamedly and directly from the 'real'
Bond were Casino Royale, arguably a 'Bond'
film in it's own right, although treated with somewhat comedic direction,
and an Italian production, curiously starring Sean Connery's brother,
called variously 'Operation Kid Brother' and 'OK Connery'. Various
other 'super' secret agents saved the world on both the large and
small screens during the Sixties, to a greater or lesser believable
extent, but drew less directly on the James Bond stories than these.
With
the nature of these types of film, you will find even more Bond
look-alike movies listed in my Sixties
Science Fiction Films pages, some of which I've
listed further below.
Anne Francis 'Honey West' |
Roger Moore 'The Saint' |
Steve Forrest 'The Baron' |
Patrick McGoohan 'Danger Man' |
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Strangely, the creation which probably came closer than a lot
of these in character, and which Roger Moore very successfully
transferred to his portrayal of 007 in later Bond films, wasn't
a secret agent at all but a modern-day Robin Hood type adventurer
- The
Saint - created by Leslie Charteris.
'The Baron' ( Steve Forrest ) was another TV 'crime buccaneer'
in the same mould. More of a true 'secret agent' was Patrick
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Neil Connery
Daniela Bianchi
Adolfo Celi
Agata
Flori
Bernard Lee
Anthony Dawson
Lois Maxwell
Yachuco Yama
Guido Lollobrigida
Franco Giacobini
Nando Angelini
Mario Soria
Ana Marie Noe
Franco Ceccarelli
Aldo Cecconi
Antonio Gradoli
Mirella Pamphili
Leo Scavini
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Operation
Kid Brother 1967
a.k.a.'OK
Connery' 'Operation Double 007' 'Secret Agent 00'
Produzione D.S. Directed
by Alberto De Martino
A Bond spoof film, the best of several
Italian attempts, which interestingly contains many
genuine 'Bond' artists. The evil crime organisation
Thanatos is planning to take over the world using
a magnetic field generator that will stop all metal
machinery.
The top secret agent is not available so his civilian
brother, Neil ( played by Sean's brother Neil Connery
), is pressed into service to save us. Multi-skilled
in plastic surgery, lip-reading and hypnotism he finds
his talents come in conveniently handy.
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TELEVISION
I Spy ( TV series starring Bill Cosby
and Robert Culp )
Mission Impossible
( TV series starring Peter Graves
and his team of specialists including Leonard Nimoy )
The Avengers
( TV series starring Patrick Macnee
/ Honor Blackman / Diana Rigg / Linda Thorson )
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (
TV series starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum ) (
See Man From U.N.C.L.E. pages
)
The Girl
From U.N.C.L.E. ( TV series starring
Stephanie Powers and Noel Harrison ) ( See Man
From U.N.C.L.E. pages )
FILM
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Charles
Vine
- Tom Adams
- Two feature films
from Golden Era starred
Tom Adams as Bond-style counter-spy Charles Vine.
Licensed To Kill
( 97 mins )
Directed by Lindsay Shonteff and produced by Estelle E. Richmond,
involved him in the protection of a 'suspect' Swedish scientist.
Supporting
cast were Karel Stepanek, Veronica Hurst, Peter Bull, John Arnatt,
Francis deWolff, Felix Felton, George Pastell, Judy Huxtable,
Gary Hope, Denis Holmes, Billy Milton and Carole Blake.
Where The Bullets Fly (
90 mins )
Directed
by John Gilling and produced by James Ward, had him pitted against
super-enemy 'The Angel', messing up his plans to steal a secret
nuclear powered aircraft and its fuel formula. Support in this
movie came from Sidney James, Joe Baker, Michael Ripper, Ronald
Leigh-Hunt, Maurice Browning, Bryan Mosley, Heidi Erich, Maggie
Kimberley, Sue Donovan, Patrick Jordan, James Ellis, Tony Alpino,
Gary Marsh, Peter Ducrow, John Horsley, Joe Ritchie, David Gregory,
Dawn Addams, Wilfred Brambell, Tim Barrett, John Arnott, Marcus
Hammond, Michael Ward, Terence Sewards, Suzan Farmer, Julie
Martin, Tom Bowman, Gerard Heinz, Charles Houston, Michael Balfour,
Michael Cox, Barbara French, Michael Goldie, John Watson and
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Fathom
Film starring Raquel Welch
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Matt
Helm
A series of four movies starring Dean Martin - The Silencers,
Murderer's Row, The Ambushers and The Wrecking
Crew
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Harry
Palmer
British agent played by Michael Caine in three movies:
The Ipcress File, Funeral In Berlin and Billion Dollar
Brain
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Our
Man Flint
James Coburn, who also starred in it's 1967 sequel In Like
Flint and The
President's Analyst
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Modesty
Blaise
Film
starring Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp
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SixtiesCity 2008