Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming’s James Bond released in US

CommanderBond.net ^ | 04 Oct, 2009 | Written by Devin Zydel

[Perdogg]

yes. I was surprised. I thought something like this would embarrass the Queen. It's funny. The scene where Grant's Masseuse (played by a brickhouse named Jan Williams) strips down to her swimsuit is the openning chapter to From Russia with Love (novel), except neither Grant nor she is dressed. The chapter is told from her point of view. Apparently she doesn't like him because it is implied she is a lesbian and that even among SMERSH, he is to be feared.

[potlatch]

Lol, I’m a woman so Daniela’s bare backside holds no thrills for me. Perhaps the movie was a version made for Europe as they were more uncut?

I loved the James Bond books way back. Books describe thoughts and feelings. Movies are better at depicting action. Women are more into thoughts and feelings.

No, Bond would not have been good boyfriend or husband material.

[Perdogg]

I brought that up about Daniela because I was surprised to see in a movie that was made in 1962.

[potlatch]

I agree, that would have been really risque in 1962. I do think they always made more nude type movies for the Europeans though, don’t know about that far back.

[devolve]

[fieldmarshaldj]

I saw some French movie from 1956 recently, “Bob le Flambeur”, that featured a teenaged Isabelle Corey, showing her bare breasts and her rear end. My jaw just about dropped. She was beautiful, but “vacant”, if you catch my drift (similar to the lead actress in “Lolita”, Sue Lyon). The director, Jean-Pierre Melville, “found” her.

[potlatch]

Beautiful post devolve and your linked webpage is fabulous! I’m glad you fixed the missing links. NOW you have to work on the index page, lol.

Wish you had posted it early on so many would see it.
I had actually looked at this webpage earlier today when I was fixing something else.

[potlatch]

That is really surprising for 1956. As a Catholic, I can recall being a teenager when some movies were banned because they uttered certain ‘words’!

[devolve]

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Thanks potlatch -

Did you notice the “Fort Marcy” entrance sign on the “License To Kill” graphic?

I had this webpage over at one of my Angelfire sites and forgot where I had it!

Now it is easier to find

The index page will require looking up the URLs in the HTML and checking the dead image links

[potlatch]

I just scrolled back through to see it. You have several new images in there. Have you transfered the Angelfire page? If you sent me the url I could right click, view source and just copy and paste it into a webpage at ‘D’. I can easily do that to view each image and get the urls in the index page too.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I can imagine that film was either highly edited or even not shown in America at the time of its release. I saw yet another film a few weeks ago, “Age of Consent” with James Mason playing a middle-aged artist and a young Helen Mirren playing a late teen (although she was in her early 20s) set in Australia, filmed around 1968, and they couldn’t even show it in the U.S. at the time (even the opening credits were considered too risque for Columbia Pictures !). The film had liberal amounts of nudity from Miss Mirren (short of an open pubic shot). I’m not sure a “mainstream” film today could get an actress in a leading role to expose herself that much (especially when you consider there were no love scenes that involved her, just Mason and his soon-to-be real life wife in the film, very briefly).

I have to admit I’ve changed my opinion over the past decade as I’ve gotten older that I’d much rather see nudity in a film than extreme violence or gore. I don’t think the former can warp the public (especially youngsters) as much as the latter can. I guess I have more of a “European” mindset on that.

[potlatch]

Sounds like they were making two versions of movies even way back.

Everything has got worse. Kids used to play cowboys and Indians with guns, nowdays they frown on that but have awful stuff on TV in Prime Time.

I dislike much that children can view on TV, not to mention movies.
When you view anything a lot, you become inured to it, so the next step doesn't surprise you as much.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yeah, if I had children I don’t think I’d want them watching the bulk of what’s on today. I was a kid when cable first became available in my city about 27 years ago, and aside from some “naughty” movies on the pay channels, you could largely trust your kids to watch the bulk of everything else on with little exception. Today, not anymore.

[devolve]

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I had D images in the webpage at A - a few were I-C - so I swapped in D for those

I swapped the BG sound music

Then simply I uploaded the A page to D (no Cut & Paste needed) and edited out the Javasript ad and tracking scripts :

/MI6/d-Bond.html

[potlatch]

I remember when HBO first came out and I was embarrassed at some of the movies - but - I led a sheltered life, lol!

[potlatch]

Good that it’s easy for you. Copy and paste is very quick and easy too and when you copy from Angelfire’s preview there are no ads in the html.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I snuck a peak at some of the naughty movies, like “Porky’s”, and got an eyeful. Of course, my mother ended up cancelling the movie-channel tier for several years, so only got to see movies when they had free previews, didn’t get the channels again until the late ‘80s. We still have all those channels now, but I scarcely watch ‘em (since so many of the new movies today are drek).

[Perdogg]

I remember when we got HBO the first movies I remembering watching were “Pretty Maidens All in a Row”, “The Harrad Experiment”, and “The Great Texas Dynamite Chase “

Wasn’t “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” x-rated?

[potlatch]

It was in the 80’s when I first watched HBO. I don’t recall ever seeing Porky’s, have seen it talked about a lot.

I do believe I saw Beyond The Valley of the Dolls but can’t even remember it.

Don’t think the movies were X-rated on HBO at that time??

[fieldmarshaldj]

I recall “Pretty Maidens” if only because it was from Gene Roddenberry (fresh of Star Trek). They couldn’t do that movie today since it was pretty much high school teachers openly banging underage students (yet, of course, it goes on quite frequently now).

Yes, “Beyond...” was originally X-Rated (though that rating soon became a joke, when they started doing bonafide hard-core porno with the XX, XXX, etc., which weren’t real ratings). Infamously written by that sage liberal film critic, Roger Ebert. I remember seeing a review of it in film books, where they’d often give it 3 (out of 4) stars, so as not to offend Ebert. It’s campy and a hoot, but 3 stars ? Gimme a break. I liked the original Jacqueline Susann’s “Valley of the Dolls” better (and despite the name, there’s no real connection between the two), although it was also camp, but still has that beautiful Dionne Warwick song in the opening, with the theme done by John Williams.