sweepe

the movie the Assassination Bureau? love this movie was fortunate to pick up a new copy the other day for a feww bucks and it still great to watch sweepe

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Jim

Yes Sweepe, It was on terrestrial tv a few months ago, very daft, very enjoyable too! Olly at his most sober? :)

Good morning boys.

Ascoyne D'Ascoyne

I saw part of this movie being filmed in Hyde Park. I was a music-student at that time and hadn't realised all the effort which goes into making a scene for a film which I believed to be a very glamorous business (quite unlike slogging away at piano exercises). Oliver Reed was made to say the same short line over and over again while the sound recording, etc.,etc. was adjusted and by the end of my lunch break the director still hadn't finished filming the scene which, in the completed film, lasts less than a minute!

Gibbie

Diana Rigg plays a sort of Victorian Emma Peel and Oliver Reed plays his usual. Telly Savalas plays the fiend. This is a very 60s movie with a strong sense of characters in defined colour, a playful musical sense (Ron Grainer wrote the music) and a strong sense of location and adventure fun, like the musicals of the day and the mid-60s London thing.
A send up. A Victorian-typed Casino Royale.
Another 60s quality, like the Avengers, etc. (there are some Avenger moments too), it veneers to be serious, while in fact it is a serious send up about Bilderberg-type criminals. The game is afoot...

Gibbie

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