Shout At The Devil is a 1976 action adventure movie set in East Africa at the time of the First World War. It was the second movie in two years directed by Peter Hunt and starring Roger Moore (after Gold). Lee Marvin co-stars as his hard-drinking (naturally) father in-law. I remember going to see this…
The Man With The Golden Gun
The Man With The Golden Gun was Roger Moore’s second foray as James Bond. Having subsequently lived for many years in the Far East, it is interesting for me in retrospect to see its clever use of locations in Thailand and Hong Kong. Some of it was filmed in Phuket, which at the time was…
The Wild Geese
In 1978, when it was released, a movie where white mercenaries kill a bunch of black soldiers and (almost) rescue a black resistance leader was nothing more than a cracking adventure. Now, its ‘white saviour’ theme is rather uncomfortable, notwithstanding some token attempts in the script to address racism head-on. (The movie also invited controversy…
For Your Eyes Only
For me, For Your Eyes Only got the Bond franchise back on track for a short while, after the ludicrous, played for laughs, Moonraker – which shot Bond into space! This is a deliberately much more grounded and sober affair, and despite Roger Moore showing his age, I consider it the best of his later…
“Making of…” books
Here are a couple of examples of an interesting sub-genre of movie books – the ‘behind the scenes’ making of…. The Live And Let Die book, unusually, does seem to have been authored by Roger Moore himself (albeit probably with the help of a ghost-writer). It is an interesting personal journal of his journey becoming…
North Sea Hijack
Roger Moore made North Sea Hijack immediately after Moonraker, and this poster very knowingly apes the classic “Bond with gun” pose. This is somewhat ironic, as Moore very much plays against type here – portraying a bearded, eccentric cat-loving anti-terrorism expert, who goes by the name of Rufus Excalibur ffolkes! From memory, I think the character…
Live And Let Die/You Only Live Twice
One of these James Bond posters is an original, the other is a reprint. Can you tell which one is which? I bought these 2 posters together from a shop in Singapore, when I was living there. It was very unusual to find any places selling movie posters there, so when I saw these I…
Moonraker / A View to a Kill
Here are a couple of original posters for two of the lesser Roger Moore Bonds. Moonraker IMHO is a low point in the franchise – honestly, what the hell is James Bond doing in space? It seemed then and still does a rather pathetic attempt to cash in on the success of contemporary sci-fi…