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Why Richard Johnson would have been a lousy James Bond [RIP]
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^

Posted on 06/06/2015 5:59:06 PM PDT by Perdogg

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To: katana

Want to see the actor that should’ve got the role instead of Craig ? Watch Clive Owen (currently doing the series, “The Knick.”). I was lobbying for his casting. I liked 2 other JB portrayers, George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton. Roger Moore was OK, but he played it like he was still doing “The Saint.” Brosnan was too insufferable. Connery, of course, was the gold standard.


21 posted on 06/07/2015 5:12:08 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: mylife

Turn is a good show...Any wonder why AMC is kicking network Tv butt


22 posted on 06/07/2015 7:17:23 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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Sad that this week is the last episode of the season.


23 posted on 06/07/2015 10:21:33 AM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: Perdogg

I don’t recognize him.


24 posted on 06/07/2015 12:26:13 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Perdogg

Of course Connery was the best. I had the pleasure of seeing “Goldfinger” on the big screen for first time today.

But I don’t think Johnson would’ve been too bad of a 2nd choice.

He got a chance to play a very James Bondian mid 1960s updating of the 1920s English fictional detective Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond in the best of the 1960s Bond knockoff films, “Deadlier Than The Male” with Elke Sommer.

It’s currently available on youtube if you’ve never seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhdjmZ_uJZU

I think it comes the closest in quality to an official Bond film. I rank it higher than the James Coburn/Derek Flint films(and I quite enjoy those as well).

However, avoid the dreadful sequel to it Johnson made called “Some Girls Do”. It’s so campy it makes the Dean Martin/Matt Helm films look like “From Russia With Love”.


25 posted on 06/07/2015 4:00:51 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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actually, Bulldog Drummond came before Bond. I.F. based the Bond series after Drummond.


26 posted on 06/07/2015 4:34:33 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/damian-lewis-frontrunner-replace-daniel-5890480

A ginger Bond? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?


27 posted on 06/16/2015 6:16:41 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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Whatever. I still haven’t watched a 007 flick since “Die Another Day”.

I think Brucina Jenner should be cast as James and Jenny Bond.

That, I’d watch.


28 posted on 06/16/2015 6:24:56 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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