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Published: 2012-10-05 20:52:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 270; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 1
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Our final super-spy for the week is the unmatchable James Coburn as Derek Flint from Our Man Flint. Flint was to be the American answer to Bond: hence the explanatory "Our Man" in the title. An early scene has Flint eschewing the Walther PPK and the myriad of other weapons associated with the movie spygame as barbaric. Flint is every bit as sophisticated and intelligent as Bond if not more so, and the publicity for the film shows him tackling armies of girls at a time. To some, Coburn's performance might initially seem smug or arrogant, but it'd be hard for the man who really could do it all to be all that humble, and Coburn's charisma eventually wins the day.Related content
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One hell of an illustration!! I've always enjoyed watching those two films of his. I wonder why a third one was never made, despite making four Matt Helm movies in similar vein in a row. Once again, spectacular artwork of Coburn in disguise as Flint. Indeed a great character!!
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Many thanks! The Flint's are both a ton of good fun, and certainly less silly than the Helm efforts (though I own them all…haha). There was a sort of third Flint movie, a Canadian TV pilot called Dead on Target, that aired but never went to series.
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Agreed. Flint is packed with a lot more fun than the Matt Helm movies. Even though, both franchises are really great. I own them all, as well, because I'm a huge spy fan, I also have over 30 Eurospy movies with my favourite franchises being the OSS 117 series (in canonical order; from Kerwin Matthews to John Gavin) and the Agent 077 trilogy starring Ken Clark as the titular character (aka Dick Malloy). I'm also aware of the Canadian one-off TV Movie which was supposed to be a pilot for a potential TV Series, but didn't really pull it off. Ray Denton is a good actor, but didn't manage to outshine Coburn by far, but he was very good in his own spy movie "Secret Agent Super Dragon", if you haven't seen that one, I recommend it to you.
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Ah, your love of eurospy is much like my love of the eurowestern. I've got something like 100 spaghetti westerns scattered around. Though I had seen Flint and Helm many times over the years, I've recently expanded into the eurospies and have taken in the Dick Malloy trilogy, Super Dragon and an array of others. I think the last was That Man in Istanbul, and my only complaint was that it needed more Klaus Kinski!
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Agreed!! And I am a huge spaghetti western as well, starting from The Dollars Trilogy, to Django (cough, no Tarantino remake, cough), to Sabata and even further more. Lee Van Cleef made some of the best westerns, with my favourite standalone being "Death Rides A Horse". Then, Kinski's "His Name Was King" was another great movie, co-starring Richard Harrison. However, I do really think Harrison was better off as the spy Bob Fleming, specially in "Secret Agent Fireball". Spaghetti Western, to be precise, was better than Eurospy. Because of the theme tunes and the soundtrack, which gave the material a lot more advantage in the matter of remembrance. Eurospy has good soundtracks too, but not as much as the spaghetti westerns. For instance, take a look at "Agent 505: Deathtrap Beirut". Awesome movie, but a very poor music score. I could say the same for "OSS-77: Operation Lotus Flower", great movie, but a very few good music cues were found, and all those being jazz and blues (my favourite). I just wish people gave those two genres more attention than what they are getting.
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