theuofc

Don't know where you and Samk get the inspiration! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img] Had a laugh at "006's Leaving."

The play on 007 reminded me of the alternate title for one of Bogarde's films "Hot Enough for June" aka Agent 008-3/4," obviously a spoof.

Best,

Barbara

julian_craster

Barbara writes:
<<Your comments reminded me that Sid James did many roles in the 40s and 50s, including several films with Dirk Bogarde, before his long line of Carry On films>>

I fid that it is often difficult to tell Dirk and Sid apart in these films!
Sid, however, is usually the good looking one with sex appeal, known in the 1950s as 'the Loretta Young of Pinewood'.....

Julian

theuofc

I don't think that Sid wore a gown, did he? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Best,

Barbara

samkydd

One of the best Sid James films I've seen recently (twice) is Too Many Crooks with George Cole, Brenda Da Banzie, the lovely Vera Day, Bernard Bresslaw, Joe Melia and starring Terry-Thomas in his usual cad character(with Nick Parsons and Terry Scott in there somewhere as well). Very funny, some great throwaway lines, and very enjoyable. When it was made Sid has already established himself as the lovable shady Sid character in Hancock's Half Hour on the radio so in this classic playing a crook was almost second nature to him.

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

samkydd

ENTER THE MINISTER of DEFENCE (Kenneth Connor):

MOD: Good morning M, is this Bond?

M: Yes Minister this is Commander Bond.

MOD: I’ve been reading about your exploits Commander, you certainly know how to impregnate the enemy.

M: That’s infiltrate Minister.

MOD: Not from the report I was reading, Phooooeerrr! So what happened to the girl Commander?

Bond: After we’d escaped from my hotel Shoaz Yahtitz took me to see her belly dancing sister, Wahbul, in the Sheihk’s penthouse and I hid in her Chinese friend Bum Slung Lo the limbo dancer’s bedroom.

MOD: Any trouble?

Bond: None at all, I just laid Lo for awhile.

MOD: Phooooeerrr I bet you did Commander. Who is this Sheikh, do we know him?

M: He’s a multi-billionaire gambler Minister, he likes to play the dice in the casinos apparently.

Bond: His name is Sheikh Rah Tulan Roal, I’ve seen him in the casino.

M: Is he working for the other side?

Bond: I don't think so but I saw a girl with him, she was playing some game trying get balls past pins and into holes. Now what was her name?

M: Mia Bagatelle, we have her on file.

Bond: Yes that’s it M, and she had a small automatic pistol strapped high up on the inside of her thigh.

MOD: How on earth did you manage to see that Commander?

Bond: I didn’t see it I felt it. You can’t be too careful with so many lady-boys around, I just wanted to make sure she didn’t have a toggle and two BWAHAHAH!

M: Really Bond, and where have you seen these so-called lady-boys exactly?

Bond: Around the hotel foyer, the casinos, in the bars!

M: That's no good I want evidence; names, addresses, or just their 'phone numbers would do! (presses intercom) Miss Moneypenny book me on the next flight to Istanbul if you would, the same hotel as Commander Bond stayed in.

Q: Are these lady-boys very pretty then 007?

Bond: Very Q, I almost ended up in bed with one who looked liked Marilyn Monroe, but when I found out she was more like Matt Monro I used my '00' status and shot him dead.

Q: Oooh I say, you are a brute 007, was he very convincing then?

Bond: He was a dead ringer BWAHAHAH!

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

julian_craster

Here are some memorable quotes from
the screenplay for 'Carry On Spying' (1964)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057920/

which is almost a James Bond parody, but
sadly did not feature Sid James......

I think the Britmovie versions are better!

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Desmond Simpkins: Oh, Vienna! Lovely! I've always wanted to see Vienna
before I die.

The Chief: With a bit of luck, you'll do both.

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[Arriving at the villains' secret lair]

Daphne Honeybutt aka Agent Brown Cow: It must be their headquarters!

Charlie Bind: [Ogling a female technician bent over some equipment] Looks
more like their hindquarters.

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Doctor Crow: I am Doctor Crow. You are surprised?

Daphne Honeybutt aka Agent Brown Cow: Yes, I am! I expected you to be a
man... or a woman.

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Harold Crump: [approaching Carstairs, in disguise as the filter tip bootlace
salesman] I cannot smoke those, they make me deaf!

Johnny Rico

Q---- Oh Ello Bond , How was Istanbul?
Bond-I could tell Ya, but then I I'd have to Kill Ya BWAHAAH , Cor Blimey Only Jokin!
Q---- I heard you hid in the Lair of the Beggars
Bond- Yeah , I was surrounded by Bums
Q----Ooh
Bond -Yeah , they was real mean as well . I spent 48 hours surrounded by Tight Arab Bums
Q---TAXI ---Airport Please!
Bond --You might just catch the Minister of Defence! BWAHAHA
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Couldn't You just try acting , Old Boy...It's so much easier

samkydd

Bond: Well M I’d better leave for the airport.

M: Why where are you going?

Bond: I promised the film crew a few days location work in The Seychelles.

M: No, stop messin’ about, we can’t afford to spend that sort of money! DVD sales were at an all time low with the last film.

Moneypenny: Quite right M, I’m afraid you’re not flying anywhere James, the government has cut our budget again so we’ve got to find criminal masterminds here in the UK, so no more gallivanting for you.

Bond: But what about my reputation as an international jet setter?

M: That’s another thing 007, we need your car back. It’s going to the auctions tomorrow, we’ve got you a hire car instead.

Bond: A hire car?

Moneypenny: Not quite what you’re used to I’m afraid, but a least it’s got a sun-roof to throw any unwanted occupants out of! They think of everything these Malaysians.

Bond: Malaysian! Don’t tell me it’s a Kia?

M: It’s nearly top of the range James; CD, climate control, alloy effect wheel discs that sort of thing. It had a good write up in Saga magazine !

Bond: I couldn’t Kia less, and I’ve a good mind to give you a good right………

M: That’ll do Commander, now you’re to go immediately to Shepherd’s Bush.

Bond: Shepherd’s Bush?

M: Yes, Oil Drum Lane we’ve got a safe house there. The two men there will look after you.

Bond: Why don’t I save you the congestion charge and parking fees and take the bloomin’ Tube?

M: Excellent idea, cancel the car Miss Moneypenny we won’t be needing it after all.

Later in Oil Drum Lane Bond arrives in his hired dinner suit:

Harold: Good evening you must be Commander James Bond Oh, Oh, Oh I’m very pleased to meet you.

Bond: Thank you H, but it's Oh, Oh, seven not Oh, Oh, Oh. M said there was supposed to be another man here as well.

Harold: Yes it’s only my father, he’s just a little old man.

Albert: Eeeerh, what’s all the bleedin’ racket, and shut that door it’s like a polar bear’s khazi in ‘ere!

Harold: A dirty old man as you can tell.

Albert: ‘Arrold, Whose this all ponced up? If he’s from the double-glazing people tell him to clear off! We haven’t even got a full set of single glazing in this ‘ouse yet!

Harold: Father I’d like you to meet Commander James Bond, I told you about him.

Albert: Eeeerh, secret agent indeed, in that clobber he looks more like a pox doctor’s clerk.

Bond: Are you lookin’ for a punch up the bracket?

Harold: Show some manners father, and go and put the dinner on. Would you like a drink before we dine Commander?

Bond: Yes I’ll have a dry Martini, shaken not stirred.

Harold: Dry Martini, I don’t believe we have that particular beverage in my humble collection. I’ve got a bottle of Cinzano Bianco with a bit left in it I picked up on the round if that’s any good?

Bond: No thanks!

Harold: How about a coffee, a cappuccino?

Bond: I’d rather ‘ave a cuppa tea!

Harold: Pater, make our distinguished guest The Commander some tea would you?

Albert: What d’you think I am, his batman? I didn’t served in the 1914-18 war just to make some poof of a lounge lizard tea! Besides, it's colder than a witch's tit in that kitchen!

Harold: Just make his tea father, if you're cold you can stand round the gas ring. If that isn't to your liking stick your head in the oven, only don't bother to light it!

Albert: Some son you are, I bet you'll be glad when I'm gone, I don't want to be a lumber to you 'Arrold.

Harrold: Gordon Bennett get in that kitchen and make the tea, or The Commander here may have to shoot you ha, hah, har, har, har, hah!

Albert: Don’t let him shoot me son, I’m an old man, my heart’s not what it was you know!

Harold: Just make the tea, and stop goin’ on about your heart!

Albert: The ‘orse gets treated better than me around ‘ere.

Harold: The ‘orse can at least pull the cart, you have enough trouble pullin’ the chain in the khazi!

Bond: Where's the action round here H? I don’t want to stay in this dump all night!

Harold: Action, well there’s a quiz night on at The Skinner’s Arms, and all you can eat for a fiver at The Lotus Rooms.

Bond: What about night clubs, casinos?

Harold: I don’t think we’ve got a casino, a bookies on the corner if that’s any good.

Albert: There’s your tea Commander, stirred not bleedin' shaken, I ‘ope it chokes you!

Harold: Night clubs, no, I don’t think we’ve got any of them neither!

Albert: Eeeerh, you don’t know what you’re talkin’ about, course we got a night club. There’s The British Legion for a start, and you’re eligible being a Commander an’ all.

Harold: I somehow don’t think Commander Bond would be interested in an evening out at The British Legion pater.

Albert: Why not, the beer’s cheap, and there’s bingo on tonight. Get a few old brasses down there waiting to scoop the jackpot I can tell you, eh, heh! A port n' lemon and a packet of crisps and your 'ome and dry! Yeerggh!

Harold: You are revolting sometimes father, now sling your 'ook, me and the Commander here have got important business to discuss!

(What next; Bond meets Delboy and Rodney, Vicky Pollard, The Goons et al. ...........no more please!)

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

djdave

It was one of the Carry Ons that Sid James didn't appear in, but Carry On Spying is pretty funny and certainly one of the best.

INTERESTING FACT:

Sid James and Laurence Harvey were both from South Africa, with the latter being of eastern European extraction. One day, the pair were on a bus driving through London and James was telling Harvey that he had to change his (unusual) name to something English-sounding.

But to what? Well, they simply chose two OK-sounding street names as the bus drove through London:

Laurence Street and Harvey Street.

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samkydd

I've heard that a few people have done that, and also names of towns.

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

Steve Crook

Eric Morecambe said "I decided to name myself after the town where I was born - Eric!" [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]
(Heard on "Great Lives" this afternoon on Radio 4)

Steve

Johnny Rico

According to the PR , Michael Caine got his name from seeing the "Caine Mutiny" at Leicester Square. His second choice was Michael Butterkist!

Couldn't You just try acting , Old Boy...It's so much easier

Steve Crook

Sorry to burst your bubble but it'd work better if there really was a Laurence Street in London.
The closest is "Laurence Poutney Lane" or "Laurence Poutney Hill" both in EC4 between Cannon Street and the Monument.

Maybe the bus was going past Harvey Nick's [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Steve

Steve Crook

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Steve

djdave

I can only go off the information I assimilate as I go along. Not having been born until 1965, and not having known any of the people concerned - or anybody who knew them - I can only base my statements on what I pick up. It's the same for the majority of people on the majority of subjects.

Having said that, neither of the two previous posts demonstrate that that the "fact" is wrong.

I didn't say that Sid James consulted LH about his own name: merely that he advised LH - whose family had emigrated to South Africa - that he had to change his name in order to make it in films.

Moreover, the fact that there isn't a Laurence Street is a bit spurious: it may very well have been "Laurence Poutney Lane" or "Laurence Poutney Hill" and not "Laurence Street". Laurence is still a man's name.

The main point of the "fact" would therefore still hold true. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Howeve, if anybody does know for certain that this story is an urban myth, I'd be delighted to hear from them.