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Nostalgic Dean Martin cold war spy film
posted by PT 100STAFFMOD on March 21, 2017 at 1:42 AM
The first of four Matt Helm flicks w/a pretty decent cast and some humor. A lighter alternative to James Bond, but not as goofy as Get Smart. Martin and Stella Stevens are a good combo.
Reply by PT 100
on March 21, 2017 at 4:22 AM
I liked the first Flint outing better. Then things declined. I actually preferred The President's Analyst over In Like Flint. The Helm series declined somewhat but then recovered with The Wrecking Crew. But neither series can match Connery's Bond--not that they were ever intended to.
Reply by PT 100
on March 21, 2017 at 5:45 PM
Duh.
Of course he did.
Reply by Sixties Holdout
on April 8, 2017 at 6:28 PM
Pretty sure PT 100 was alluding to that when he had said previously [emphasis mine]:
Thus his curt reply.
Reply by PT 100
on April 8, 2017 at 8:51 PM
Yes, to anyone familiar with the Bond series and the parodies thereof, it was obvious that: the parodies were parodies, even when they had plenty of drama and suspense; and the Bond series itself gradually became more tongue-in-cheek, and even occasionally downright self-referential, as when George Lazenby said in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, "This never happened to the other fellow," referring cryptically to Sean Connery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biSKZZXZbYE