I think you mean Stanley Baxter, the Scottish comedy actor. Stanley Baker was Welsh and played hard men in films like “Hell Drivers” and “Robbery”. Or were you joking?
@@eamoneejit you're absolutely right! and i wasn't joking I DID get them mixed up, lol! embarrassing! but yeah now thats an image i can't shake-- those two actors in each others roles
It’s just so hard to go wrong with Robert E. McGinnis poster art. He also did the the amazing posters for “Cotton Comes To Harlem”, “The Ambushers(Matt Helm)”, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and so many more.
I tried to express compassion without diving into the politics. Friends, neighbours and others need to know they aren't alone. Also: Innocent Bystanders is a kick-arse movie.
@@terrytalksmovies I have read the 4 John Craig Novels by James Murno They are good spy novels especially the Man who sold Death I had no idea there was a movie I will try to track it down and watch it . thank you terry Glad you are feeling better
Terry, I am from Wyoming, USA, 54 years old.. I have been following terryy tallks movies sincne satrarted the channel. lost most of my relativese in covovid or fires, but u give me hope, thanks for what u do.
Good stuff! I didn't realise that Innocent Bystanders was a Callan story. I watched all the series and the movie during Lockdown rekindling vague memories of watching it with my Grandad when I was a kid many years ago. Being a completist and having huge 'tash envy for Stanley Baker in the stills I'll have to check it out tonight!
In the late '60s there was a shift to drugs being the "bad guys'" business. The TV series Mission Impossible switched from a spy show to having the IMF going against drug kingpins. James Bond went from fighting a supervillain who uses diamonds to build a superweapon to fighting a drug lord who uses a fried chicken franchise as fronts for drug dealing. It made the shows/movies more timely but tended to date them.
Hi Terry, Good to see you back😊! As always you nailed It. Do you think one day you could do a retrospective of the Universal 60's era?? They where hit or miss, I agree, but they had some great casts😅!!! Keep on truckin' ❤
I'm so glad you liked Innocent Bystanders, which has long been a favourite of mine - I read all the novels as well, like you did. Derren Nesbitt recently told a story about a fight scene he played with Stanley Baker in this film, in which Baker started hitting him for real. Nesbitt was a tough, stocky guy and put Baker on his arse. He said he was surprised to find that the macho Baker wasn't very strong (I think by this stage he'd already been suffering from the cancer that would kill him. Baker did do one more feature film: he's great as the villain opposite Alain Delon in the 1975 version of Zorro - far better than the film deserves.
David McCallum in a Charles Bronson role is a pretty hilarious image. That clip of Donald Pleasance was great. He was wonderful at doing a quiet delivery with an undercurrent of frightening intensity.
I understand from what I have read that Bronson was more like the characters McCallum played in private life than the characters, he often played. Quiet guy, very intellectual. Came up in coal mining country and a war vet, but not a guy who started trouble.
I didn't appreciate "Innocent Bystanders" that much when I first saw it on the big screen at age 18 or 19, but re-watched it recently after enjoying Stanley Baker in "Sands Of The Kalahari" and I really dug it
So, Terry. Thanks for the good wishes. We'll need them. But I thought I might share a bit favorite cinematic rabbit hole of mine. You said "Machismo" and pronounced it as "mackismo," The English word is based on the Italian/Spanish word "Macismo." It is based on the character Maciste from the 1914 Italian masterpiece CABIRIA. A Genoese longshoreman called Bartolomeo Pagano. He's a shaven headed muscleman who's the servant of the lead but steals the movie and becomes a leading man Superstar in his own right. 10 Maciste films followed. The final 1925 MACISTE A'LA INFERNO (Maciste in Hades) survives and is also available on RUclips. It's great fun. It was Federico Fellini's favorite movie growing up. All Cheapo Italian Sword and Sandal films that weren't Hercules, were Maciste movies. So we're paying homage to Bartolomeo Pagano when remember his Machismo. ( Muh-cheese-moe)
I always wondered about Maciste, who I came across when looking at 60s *peplum*, and how all the movies featuring him as a character were renamed to "Samson" or "Atlas" for American consumption. Can you recommend any books or movies that might explain more about Maciste?
@@timeliebe "Heroes Never Die' the Italian Peplum Phenomenon 1950-1967" by Barry Atkinson is a good start- but creates a bit of a rabbit hole for a collector...with so much simply unavailable.
You've done it againTerry! Entertained and informed me. 2 movies I was unaware of. I've actually just found an ok quality upload of Sol Madrid on RUclips so that's me sorted for today 👍
Many thanks Terry. I too did not realize Innocent Bystanders was a Callan story. I've seen a couple of Callan episodes and a Red File for Callan (which was very good).
I first saw Innocent Bystanders on my local CBS tv station around 1 am back in the late 1970s, and hsve loved it ever since. A few yrs later my friend told me about the James Mitchell John Craig novels. I have a dubbed copy of the film on vhs & dvd. Definitely gonna try to get the bluray copy you showed. I have been searching for John Keating's excellent score, but it has yet to be released on cd. I'm a OST collector so I'm hoping the various labels (LaLa Land, Intrada, etc) can locate the original score and finally release it. Thanks for your video, and your kind & understanding words regarding our current political nightmare. Take care.
@@terrytalksmoviesThanks!! I saw the link and will order. May I recommend, if you haven't already seen, The 2nd Best Secret Agent In The Whole Wide World (UK title is Licensed To Kill)(1965) starring Tom Adams (doing an excellent riff on Sean Connery) as British agent Charles Vine. There were 2 Charles Vine sequels, Where The Bullets Fly (1967) and in the 1970s One Of Our Russian Agents Is Missing (I think that was the title) Like Innocent Bystanders, I think 2nd Best Secret Agent... is a rare spy movie gem.
I thought stanley baker was sensational in this. He played it as a blunt instrument, but he showed a level of humanity that we never see in spy movies, I thought the scenes with geraldine chaplin were very touching. Personally I never found Bond a likable human being (well actually with roger moore I kind of do), but I found Baker very likable here. There are very few actors who can play tough and yet vulnerable, human, and likable. Baker was probably the best British actor at this.
Sol Madrid is a perfect Saturday/Sunday afternoon TV movie to kill a bit of time, and I enjoyed it for that. I think I have seen Innocent Bystanders, it sounds familiar, but it would have been ages ago and it seems a bit vague. When you were covering the cast, Derren Nesbitt and Sue Lloyd, I immediately thought these two were far too old to be agents in training. Too bad nobody ever seemed to take chances very often when casting age appropriate actors.
Forgot to mention, I also have two original vhs copies of the Callan spy series. There are 4 episodes on each tape. I very much enjoyed watching the late Edward Woodward before he became The (original) Equalizer; anorher one of my favorite tv series.
loathe though i am to quote George Lucas's "Star Wars" , Princess Amidala's line, "So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause" does seem pretty damn salient right now
Thank you, Terry, for the heartfelt offering of support. The US is indeed descending into a Night of the Long Sorrows made all the more painful by knowing how many of its citizens are gleefully anticipating the descent
Tough to think of McCallum as having s name even resembling Saul. (Although I will always feel grateful to McCallum for his star turns in two episodes of the original Outer Limits.) My family turned on to Innocent Bystanders on TV late one night and it left a huge impression on me. I could swear that Dusty Springfield sang a rather Bondian song for it, but I can't seem to corroborate that. Thanks, Ter.
I like the film, last time I saw it was non rating Sunday movie on TV mid 70's. It was David McCallum last of his MGM contract, I think went to UK to film Mosquito Squadron. Innocence Bystanders really is great film.
Interesting. I wasn't aware of either of these. So much cinematic water under the bridge! Innocent Bystanders looks intriguing. The creator of Callan, the anti-Bond, writes a spy film for Stanley Baker, who turned down the role of Bond... Was there ever a film, good, bad or indifferent, that wasn't improved by Donald Pleasance? Perhaps the greatest character actor ever? Certainly in the top 5. His performance as the tramp in Clive Donner's film of Pinter's The Caretaker is one of the greatest film performances I've seen. EDIT: Doing a little research on Baker, I came across a 1970 action thriller called The Last Grenade, which I was also unaware of, and which looks interesting - and I read that James Mitchell did a rewrite of the script...
@@terrytalksmovies Baker was also a great supporter of the British (and Welsh) film industry in his later years. The Last Grenade is on YT. Looks like they might make an interesting double bill...
The next four years -- as both a woman and liberal in Georgia -- are frightening. But movies are always my safe space. I'll try to check out both of these.
Ouch Terry. You really can't say "Your kind sucks, but let's not get political." That is up there with, "Well, we ALL know about THOSE kinds of people, don't we ? "Fortunately, I understand your Pardon is in the mail. 😁😁🤩
What? I'll call out fascist oligarchs every time. They deserve nothing but the backs of our hands. As for pardons, I'm Australian. I need nothing from the senile leader of a foreign country. 😉😀
I'm a bit behind on your videos Terry -- things have gone batsh*t crazy here and with my job I have some inside access/knowledge and it's been freaking me out. Headed for a nervous breakdown and I need to take a break -- so I'm going to try to catch up on some of your vids....
Hi, I'm okay so far. I watched Caberet yesterday, and by some crazy coincidence, I saw that Musk did a nazi salute at the trump rally. Hopefully, we will overcome this trump shit show.
Getting by here in the US of a, Terry, waiting for the other shoes to drop… And with Trump? You know he's gonna drop a lot of shoes! One thing that made me feel better was watching a British report about Brexit eight years on, and laughing at all the people in the comments STILL trying to defend it.
Thanks for the support Terry. My hope is that he is too lazy or easily distracted to do too much evil. I could rant all day. Pardoning the nJan. 6th rioters and calling them hostages, please. Not sure it was the best move b ut Biden pardoned all those Trump says he wants revenge on preemptively. I'll look out for these 2 films. I'm working my way thru OSS 117.
It won't be Trump that does the evil. He's the figurehead. It's the oligarchs around him who understand how to manipulate Trump that are the real threat.
Baker was absolutely unafraid to be unsympathetic (the 1st XO of the Compass Rose in The Cruel Sea), even as a main character (Ulysses in Helen of Troy [1955]).
Lots of the really hard guys you meet are REALLY, REALLY LOW KEY. The old US Army joke that most Airborne/Rangers weigh 150 ibs and wear glasses is more true than not . . . .
Was SOL MADRID all MGM backlot? No location shooting outside the TMZ? that sounds like David McCallum didn't venture far outside of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., another project shot on the MGM backlot. Maybe if they'd modified this character to be more like McCallum, somebody who seems unassuming, but is really deadly, it would've worked a bit better. Not a lot better, but a little better.....
You're a good man, Terry. Your sincere intro will be very welcome to a great many people.
Nice one.
👍👍👍
Take care, Brian. We're in this together. Nobody needs to stand alone.
Not the last time Donald Pleasance would bring a character named Loomis to the screen. A great actor who made any movie he was in better.
He did. Yes me played Dr Loomis in Halloween but they pronounced it differently. 😀
"Innocent Bystanders" sounds sensational! i forget Stanley Baker did more than comedy!!
I think you mean Stanley Baxter, the Scottish comedy actor. Stanley Baker was Welsh and played hard men in films like “Hell Drivers” and “Robbery”. Or were you joking?
Check out the movies Baker did with Joseph Losey. Gritty AF.
Good point. Stanley Baxter in Innocent Bystanders would've been weird.
@@eamoneejit you're absolutely right! and i wasn't joking I DID get them mixed up, lol! embarrassing! but yeah now thats an image i can't shake-- those two actors in each others roles
It’s just so hard to go wrong with Robert E. McGinnis poster art. He also did the the amazing posters for “Cotton Comes To Harlem”, “The Ambushers(Matt Helm)”, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and so many more.
His poster work was genius and it became the zeitgeist for movie advertising in a groovy way.
hi terry
I come here to listen to good people like you and have some fun to get away from politics
I tried to express compassion without diving into the politics. Friends, neighbours and others need to know they aren't alone. Also: Innocent Bystanders is a kick-arse movie.
@@terrytalksmovies I have read the 4 John Craig Novels by James Murno
They are good spy novels especially the Man who sold Death
I had no idea there was a movie
I will try to track it down and watch it .
thank you terry
Glad you are feeling better
Terry, I am from Wyoming, USA, 54 years old.. I have been following terryy tallks movies sincne satrarted the channel. lost most of my relativese in covovid or fires, but u give me hope, thanks for what u do.
Wow. Thank you. Take care up there. I'm glad you like the channel.
Good stuff! I didn't realise that Innocent Bystanders was a Callan story. I watched all the series and the movie during Lockdown rekindling vague memories of watching it with my Grandad when I was a kid many years ago. Being a completist and having huge 'tash envy for Stanley Baker in the stills I'll have to check it out tonight!
Innocent Bystanders isn't a Callan story. It's by the same writer.
In the late '60s there was a shift to drugs being the "bad guys'" business. The TV series Mission Impossible switched from a spy show to having the IMF going against drug kingpins. James Bond went from fighting a supervillain who uses diamonds to build a superweapon to fighting a drug lord who uses a fried chicken franchise as fronts for drug dealing. It made the shows/movies more timely but tended to date them.
And now the supervillains run meme-coins and social media platforms. Times change.
@@terrytalksmovies Not always for the better.🙂
Excellent stuff Terry. You had me at Vladek Sheybal, Telly Savalas and Donald Pleasance. Cool overload !
Good actors totally lift even mediocre movies (which Innocent Bystanders isn't).
Thanx for the suggestions.💙🌻💙
My pleasure!
I just watched "Innocent Bystanders" . I quite enjoyed it, so thanks again for the tip!!!
Happy to help, John!
Hi Terry, Good to see you back😊!
As always you nailed It. Do you think one day you could do a retrospective of the Universal 60's era?? They where hit or miss, I agree, but they had some great casts😅!!! Keep on truckin' ❤
It's a broad topic but some films from Universal in the 1960s will show up on the channel. Thanks, Walter. 😀
I'm so glad you liked Innocent Bystanders, which has long been a favourite of mine - I read all the novels as well, like you did. Derren Nesbitt recently told a story about a fight scene he played with Stanley Baker in this film, in which Baker started hitting him for real. Nesbitt was a tough, stocky guy and put Baker on his arse. He said he was surprised to find that the macho Baker wasn't very strong (I think by this stage he'd already been suffering from the cancer that would kill him. Baker did do one more feature film: he's great as the villain opposite Alain Delon in the 1975 version of Zorro - far better than the film deserves.
It was his last starring role, unfortunately. Smoking curtailed so many lives and careers in the 20th Century. 🙁
David McCallum in a Charles Bronson role is a pretty hilarious image.
That clip of Donald Pleasance was great. He was wonderful at doing a quiet delivery with an undercurrent of frightening intensity.
Loomis is a great malevolent character. Amoral and focused.
@@terrytalksmovies That's weird that he has the same name that he had in "Halloween"! It's not like it's Smith, or something.
Donald Pleasance was the best Blofeld.
I understand from what I have read that Bronson was more like the characters McCallum played in private life than the characters, he often played. Quiet guy, very intellectual. Came up in coal mining country and a war vet, but not a guy who started trouble.
Thanks brother hard times for decency here in the USA.
I always will be an ally. Take care up there. Avoiding cynicism and trudging toward utopia is the name of the game.
Hear,hear.
I didn't appreciate "Innocent Bystanders" that much when I first saw it on the big screen at age 18 or 19, but re-watched it recently after enjoying Stanley Baker in "Sands Of The Kalahari" and I really dug it
It's an underrated spy movie. I love it.
So, Terry. Thanks for the good wishes. We'll need them. But I thought I might share a bit favorite cinematic rabbit hole of mine.
You said "Machismo" and pronounced it as "mackismo," The English word is based on the Italian/Spanish word "Macismo." It is based on the character Maciste from the 1914 Italian masterpiece CABIRIA.
A Genoese longshoreman called Bartolomeo Pagano. He's a shaven headed muscleman who's the servant of the lead but steals the movie and becomes a leading man Superstar in his own right.
10 Maciste films followed. The final 1925 MACISTE A'LA INFERNO (Maciste in Hades) survives and is also available on RUclips. It's great fun. It was Federico Fellini's favorite movie growing up.
All Cheapo Italian Sword and Sandal films that weren't Hercules, were Maciste movies.
So we're paying homage to Bartolomeo Pagano when remember his Machismo. ( Muh-cheese-moe)
I always wondered about Maciste, who I came across when looking at 60s *peplum*, and how all the movies featuring him as a character were renamed to "Samson" or "Atlas" for American consumption.
Can you recommend any books or movies that might explain more about Maciste?
I love the peplum movies, inclusing Maciste. I did see TV reviews of them that called the character MA CYST.
@@timeliebe "Heroes Never Die' the Italian Peplum Phenomenon 1950-1967" by Barry Atkinson is a good start- but creates a bit of a rabbit hole for a collector...with so much simply unavailable.
@@jackfriend4u - thank you! I'll see about picking it up....
Except the Maciste films that got re-titled as Hercules movies by AIP!
You've done it againTerry! Entertained and informed me. 2 movies I was unaware of. I've actually just found an ok quality upload of Sol Madrid on RUclips so that's me sorted for today 👍
Happy to help out, Doug.
Many thanks Terry. I too did not realize Innocent Bystanders was a Callan story. I've seen a couple of Callan episodes and a Red File for Callan (which was very good).
It's not a Callan story, it's by the same writer. 😀
35 cents! Easy there, Mr. Whale! 🙂
That was a lot of money when I was a kid. 😉
I first saw Innocent Bystanders on my local CBS tv station around 1 am back in the late 1970s, and hsve loved it ever since. A few yrs later my friend told me about the James Mitchell John Craig novels.
I have a dubbed copy of the film on vhs & dvd. Definitely gonna try to get the bluray copy you showed. I have been searching for John Keating's excellent score, but it has yet to be released on cd. I'm a OST collector so I'm hoping the various labels (LaLa Land, Intrada, etc) can locate the original score and finally release it.
Thanks for your video, and your kind & understanding words regarding our current political nightmare. Take care.
There's a link to the BR in the description of my video if that's a help.
@@terrytalksmoviesThanks!!
I saw the link and will order.
May I recommend, if you haven't already seen, The 2nd Best Secret Agent In The Whole Wide World (UK title is Licensed To Kill)(1965) starring Tom Adams (doing an excellent riff on Sean Connery) as British agent Charles Vine.
There were 2 Charles Vine sequels, Where The Bullets Fly (1967) and in the 1970s One Of Our Russian Agents Is Missing (I think that was the title)
Like Innocent Bystanders, I think 2nd Best Secret Agent... is a rare spy movie gem.
I thought stanley baker was sensational in this. He played it as a blunt instrument, but he showed a level of humanity that we never see in spy movies, I thought the scenes with geraldine chaplin were very touching. Personally I never found Bond a likable human being (well actually with roger moore I kind of do), but I found Baker very likable here. There are very few actors who can play tough and yet vulnerable, human, and likable. Baker was probably the best British actor at this.
Stanley Baker doesn't get as much acknowledgement as posh actors of the time but he really delivered the goods.
Sol Madrid is a perfect Saturday/Sunday afternoon TV movie to kill a bit of time, and I enjoyed it for that. I think I have seen Innocent Bystanders, it sounds familiar, but it would have been ages ago and it seems a bit vague. When you were covering the cast, Derren Nesbitt and Sue Lloyd, I immediately thought these two were far too old to be agents in training. Too bad nobody ever seemed to take chances very often when casting age appropriate actors.
Yeah, they were definitely too old for the roles.
Forgot to mention, I also have two original vhs copies of the Callan spy series. There are 4 episodes on each tape. I very much enjoyed watching the late Edward Woodward before he became The (original) Equalizer; anorher one of my favorite tv series.
Callan has such a gritty, working class groundedness that it hit hard when it came out.
loathe though i am to quote George Lucas's "Star Wars" , Princess Amidala's line, "So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause" does seem pretty damn salient right now
History tells us that. 🙁
Thank you, Terry, for the heartfelt offering of support. The US is indeed descending into a Night of the Long Sorrows made all the more painful by knowing how many of its citizens are gleefully anticipating the descent
Thanks for the kind words. Take care out there. It's getting weird and ugly. Meanwhile, I'll keep posting the videos.
Tough to think of McCallum as having s name even resembling Saul. (Although I will always feel grateful to McCallum for his star turns in two episodes of the original Outer Limits.) My family turned on to Innocent Bystanders on TV late one night and it left a huge impression on me. I could swear that Dusty Springfield sang a rather Bondian song for it, but I can't seem to corroborate that. Thanks, Ter.
It was Hurricane Smith who sang the song for Innocent Bystanders. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies AH! Thank you.
Dusty Springfield sang "The Look of Love" in "Casino Royale" (1967).
@@creech54 Yeah, that I remember.
I like the film, last time I saw it was non rating Sunday movie on TV mid 70's. It was David McCallum last of his MGM contract, I think went to UK to film Mosquito Squadron. Innocence Bystanders really is great film.
Sol Madrid is such a failure. It could've been so much better.
Totally agree with you about the film
Interesting. I wasn't aware of either of these. So much cinematic water under the bridge!
Innocent Bystanders looks intriguing. The creator of Callan, the anti-Bond, writes a spy film for Stanley Baker, who turned down the role of Bond...
Was there ever a film, good, bad or indifferent, that wasn't improved by Donald Pleasance? Perhaps the greatest character actor ever? Certainly in the top 5. His performance as the tramp in Clive Donner's film of Pinter's The Caretaker is one of the greatest film performances I've seen.
EDIT: Doing a little research on Baker, I came across a 1970 action thriller called The Last Grenade, which I was also unaware of, and which looks interesting - and I read that James Mitchell did a rewrite of the script...
Stanley Baker and Donald Pleasence were both brilliant actors. Innocent Bystanders is completely a hidden gem.
@@terrytalksmovies Baker was also a great supporter of the British (and Welsh) film industry in his later years.
The Last Grenade is on YT. Looks like they might make an interesting double bill...
Terry when are you going to review The Seven Ups? It has the 2nd best car chase in film history. Plus Richard Lynch is in it 😅😅😅😅😅
I mentioned it briefly a while back.
Did you forget "Bullitt"? 😁
It was movies like Sol Madrid that led to French connection. And the less expensive “Ginger “ films
Sol Madrid could've been tougher and more entertaining with little extra effort.
The next four years -- as both a woman and liberal in Georgia -- are frightening. But movies are always my safe space.
I'll try to check out both of these.
Take care up there. Build alliances, do self care, watch movies! 😉😀
Sol Madrid had me at Lalo Schifrin
It's not great Schifrin, so temper your expectations.
Hmmmmm -- will try to track down 'Innocent Bystanders' and give it a watch.
It's a tough little flick.
I’m grateful for your encouragement for those of us in the states.. ❤
BTW I’m a 57 but I am available for adoption:)
Sorry, mate but we're only adopting cats this millennium. Take care up there.
Thanks for the kind words for us Yanks not cool with the oligarchy.
Stay strong, Jeffrey. This too will pass.
Ouch Terry. You really can't say "Your kind sucks, but let's not get political." That is up there with, "Well, we ALL know about THOSE kinds of people, don't we ? "Fortunately, I understand your Pardon is in the mail. 😁😁🤩
What? I'll call out fascist oligarchs every time. They deserve nothing but the backs of our hands. As for pardons, I'm Australian. I need nothing from the senile leader of a foreign country. 😉😀
@@terrytalksmovies Well, you will call out SOME "oligarchs" every time. Let's try to be a little honest when it comes to politics. 🥰
I'm a bit behind on your videos Terry -- things have gone batsh*t crazy here and with my job I have some inside access/knowledge and it's been freaking me out. Headed for a nervous breakdown and I need to take a break -- so I'm going to try to catch up on some of your vids....
Posted my comment before I hit Play -- so it was great to hear your intro. Thanks!
Take care, Aengus. Do what you need to do for self-care.
Of course, Rip Torn was the villain in one of the two part UNCLE's that were released as movies!
He was a madman.
Sounds like 2 worth checking out. We're trying to pull a Man In The High Castle and escape to a reality where Bernie won
Won't happen. You just need to deal with this shitstorm reality. Good luck. 😀
@terrytalksmovies Maybe the Big Macs will take him down before he blows up the world
Hi, I'm okay so far. I watched Caberet yesterday, and by some crazy coincidence, I saw that Musk did a nazi salute at the trump rally. Hopefully, we will overcome this trump shit show.
As Neil Young said, Rust Never Sleeps. Abide, Persist, Assist.
I stopped watching any news 2 years ago and I am a much happier person for it. No use worrying about things you can't change.
I'd rather stay engaged with the world. There are fewer shocks if I know what's coming down the pipe.😀
That's how evil wins.
Mcallum had some "interesting" political views and at the height of his fame, dated my friends sister, who is about a foot taller than he was.
RWNJ views?
@terrytalksmovies Yup, extremist neo liberal.
Getting by here in the US of a, Terry, waiting for the other shoes to drop… And with Trump? You know he's gonna drop a lot of shoes!
One thing that made me feel better was watching a British report about Brexit eight years on, and laughing at all the people in the comments STILL trying to defend it.
There are always going to be the crumb maidens and stans. Always is.
Thanks for the support Terry. My hope is that he is too lazy or easily distracted to do too much evil. I could rant all day. Pardoning the nJan. 6th rioters and calling them hostages, please. Not sure it was the best move b ut Biden pardoned all those Trump says he wants revenge on preemptively. I'll look out for these 2 films. I'm working my way thru OSS 117.
It won't be Trump that does the evil. He's the figurehead. It's the oligarchs around him who understand how to manipulate Trump that are the real threat.
@@terrytalksmovies True but I hope the various oligarchs and trolls will fight each other for his attention and waste loits of time.
Baker was absolutely unafraid to be unsympathetic (the 1st XO of the Compass Rose in The Cruel Sea), even as a main character (Ulysses in Helen of Troy [1955]).
He was great in everything I saw him in. A great working class actor.
@@terrytalksmovies He put thought and effort into what he did and got on with it. Good attitude to have toward everything . . . .
Lots of the really hard guys you meet are REALLY, REALLY LOW KEY. The old US Army joke that most Airborne/Rangers weigh 150 ibs and wear glasses is more true than not . . . .
People who have nothing to prove are always low-key. Lee Marvin, who was at the Battle of Saipan AS A TEENAGER had that quality.
@@terrytalksmovies Yeah, very solid record. Combat wounded on Saipan.
Was SOL MADRID all MGM backlot? No location shooting outside the TMZ?
that sounds like David McCallum didn't venture far outside of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., another project shot on the MGM backlot.
Maybe if they'd modified this character to be more like McCallum, somebody who seems unassuming, but is really deadly, it would've worked a bit better. Not a lot better, but a little better.....
There were Acapulco locations but the interiors were all backlot.