The biggest, most audacious James Bond movie during Sean Connery’s celebrated run as the British superspy is 1965’s Thunderball, a spectacular adaptation of the Ian Fleming novel of the same name. Thunderball sees the insidious terrorist syndicate Spectre steal two nuclear warheads from NATO and hold the world governments hostage for £100 million. After a run-in with Spectre operatives at a local clinic while recuperating from a recent mission, Bond suspects the warheads are hidden in the Bahamas and convinces M to investigate further. Upon arriving, Bond matches wits with high-ranking Spectre figure Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi) and assassin Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi), romancing Largo’s girlfriend Domino (Claudine Auger) as he searches for the warheads.
Nearly 60 years after its initial release, Thunderball remains the highest-earning Bond film in North America after adjusting for inflation and is the second in the long-running series to win an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Nearly 60 years after its initial release, Thunderball remains the highest-earning Bond film in North America after adjusting for inflation and is the second in the long-running series to win an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
- 3/7/2024
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
This article contains light spoilers for James Bond: 007 #1.
In the first pages of a new comic book series, a mafioso gathers his family and talks of revenge. Reeling with sorrow and anger at the murder of his son, the mafioso vows to destroy his child’s killer. As he talks, the mafioso praises the remaining members of his family, and artist Rapha Lobosco devotes a panel to each, letting the reader see their importance: his strapping sons, his beautiful daughters, his loving wife, and his elderly mother.
But just when the mafioso hits the climax of his speech, an interuption forces him to turn around. There, he sees all but his mother dead, blood pouring from a bullet hole placed precisely in their foreheads. After killing the mafioso, the gunman turns to the elderly mother and says, “Better safe than sorry.” The sequence ends with a splash page showing...
In the first pages of a new comic book series, a mafioso gathers his family and talks of revenge. Reeling with sorrow and anger at the murder of his son, the mafioso vows to destroy his child’s killer. As he talks, the mafioso praises the remaining members of his family, and artist Rapha Lobosco devotes a panel to each, letting the reader see their importance: his strapping sons, his beautiful daughters, his loving wife, and his elderly mother.
But just when the mafioso hits the climax of his speech, an interuption forces him to turn around. There, he sees all but his mother dead, blood pouring from a bullet hole placed precisely in their foreheads. After killing the mafioso, the gunman turns to the elderly mother and says, “Better safe than sorry.” The sequence ends with a splash page showing...
- 1/23/2024
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
By Deborah Lipp, author of The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book
But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, who only has to make love to a woman and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing. She repents, and immediately returns to the side of right and virtue. But not this one.
The first, and arguably greatest femme fatale of the James Bond movies was introduced in 1965’s Thunderball, the fourth James Bond movie. Fiona Volpe, played by Luciana Paluzzi was both thunderously femme and stunningly fatale. We meet her as the very sensual, very beautiful lover of Francois Derval. Soon, though, she is supervising his murder and replacement by a surgical double. Next, she is the mysterious motorcyclist who murders a Spectre agent who was indiscreet.
So, before Bond ever encounters her, she’s shown us the full range of thrills and chills; sex, death, and speed.
But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, who only has to make love to a woman and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing. She repents, and immediately returns to the side of right and virtue. But not this one.
The first, and arguably greatest femme fatale of the James Bond movies was introduced in 1965’s Thunderball, the fourth James Bond movie. Fiona Volpe, played by Luciana Paluzzi was both thunderously femme and stunningly fatale. We meet her as the very sensual, very beautiful lover of Francois Derval. Soon, though, she is supervising his murder and replacement by a surgical double. Next, she is the mysterious motorcyclist who murders a Spectre agent who was indiscreet.
So, before Bond ever encounters her, she’s shown us the full range of thrills and chills; sex, death, and speed.
- 10/8/2020
- by Deborah Lipp
- FilmExperience
At the end of his career, Fritz Lang returned to Germany and a producer who gave him a big budget to remake a silent classic in color, with an international cast and locations in remote India, including a palace never seen in a movie before. The two-movie, 200-minute epic was chopped in half for America and dubbed in English. Seen in its full Eastmancolor glory, The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb form an old-fashioned storybook tale, with its special charm lying in our knowledge of Fritz Lang’s fixation on fatalism and intricate patterns of betrayal and intrigue. Plus the films contain the erotic highlight of the decade, the spectacle of star Debra Paget’s scorching ‘temple dances’ before an all-male audience of admirers.
Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic
The Tiger of Eschnapur
and The Indian Tomb
Blu-ray
Film Movement Classics
1959 / Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 203 min. / Street...
Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic
The Tiger of Eschnapur
and The Indian Tomb
Blu-ray
Film Movement Classics
1959 / Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 203 min. / Street...
- 12/3/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Look out! Gamma Gamma Hey! It’s the attack of screaming, arm-waving green goober monsters from a rogue planetoid, here to bring joy to the hearts of bad-movie fans everywhere. Just make sure your partner is agreeably inclined before you make it a date movie — this show has ended many a good relationship, even before the immortal words, “We’ll never make it chief, it’s coming too fast!”
The Green Slime
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 90 min. / Gamma sango uchu daisakusen / Street Date October 3, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel, Bud Widom, Robert Dunham.
Cinematography: Yoshikazu Yamasawa
Film Editor: Osamu Tanaka
Original Music: Charles Fox, Toshiaki Tsushima
Written by Bill Finger, Ivan Reiner, Tom Rowe, Charles Sinclair
Produced by Walter Manley, Ivan Reiner
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
It’s a summer evening in 1969. Unable to get into a showing of Butch Cassidy...
The Green Slime
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 90 min. / Gamma sango uchu daisakusen / Street Date October 3, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel, Bud Widom, Robert Dunham.
Cinematography: Yoshikazu Yamasawa
Film Editor: Osamu Tanaka
Original Music: Charles Fox, Toshiaki Tsushima
Written by Bill Finger, Ivan Reiner, Tom Rowe, Charles Sinclair
Produced by Walter Manley, Ivan Reiner
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
It’s a summer evening in 1969. Unable to get into a showing of Butch Cassidy...
- 11/4/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
"Thunderball" co-stars Martine Beswick and Luciana Paluzzi.
Hammer and "Live and Let Die" actress Madeleine Smith.
By Mark Mawston
The London Film Convention, organized by Thomas Bowington was quite literally a Who’s Who of heroes and villains from the small and silver screen. The actual Who came in the shape of a Dr. himself in the guise of Sylvester McCoy, along with Who assistants Katy Manning who played Jo and Bernard Cribbins from both the Amicus film version and the TV version. There was also a rare appearance from Garial Woolf. The other key cult British film genres-the Carry On films, James Bond and Hammer horror- were all represented too, with many of the star guests appearing in all three: from the Carry On Films we had Fenella Fielding, Anita Harris and Amanda Barrie, from Hammer and Bond we had Maddie Smith, Valerie Leon, Martine Beswick, Eunice Gayson, John Wyman,...
Hammer and "Live and Let Die" actress Madeleine Smith.
By Mark Mawston
The London Film Convention, organized by Thomas Bowington was quite literally a Who’s Who of heroes and villains from the small and silver screen. The actual Who came in the shape of a Dr. himself in the guise of Sylvester McCoy, along with Who assistants Katy Manning who played Jo and Bernard Cribbins from both the Amicus film version and the TV version. There was also a rare appearance from Garial Woolf. The other key cult British film genres-the Carry On films, James Bond and Hammer horror- were all represented too, with many of the star guests appearing in all three: from the Carry On Films we had Fenella Fielding, Anita Harris and Amanda Barrie, from Hammer and Bond we had Maddie Smith, Valerie Leon, Martine Beswick, Eunice Gayson, John Wyman,...
- 9/20/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
He’s fast on his feet, quick with a gun, and faster with the to-die-for beauties that only existed in the swinging ’60s. The superspy exploits of Oss 117 were too big for just one actor, so meet all three iterations of the man they called Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath . . . seriously.
Oss 117 Five Film Collection
Blu-ray
Oss 117 Is Unleashed; Oss 117: Panic in Bangkok; Oss 117: Mission For a Killer; Oss 117: Mission to Tokyo; Oss 117: Double Agent
Kl Studio Classics
1963-1968 / B&W and Color / 1:85 widescreen + 2:35 widescreen / 528 min. / Street Date September 26, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95
Starring: Kerwin Matthews, Nadia Sanders, Irina Demick, Daniel Emilfork; Kerwin Matthews, Pier Angeli, Robert Hossein; Frederick Stafford, Mylène Demongeot, Perrette Pradier, Dominique Wilms, Raymond Pellegrin, Annie Anderson; Frederick Stafford, Marina Vlad, Jitsuko Yoshimura; John Gavin, Margaret Lee, Curd Jurgens, Luciana Paluzzi, Rosalba Neri, Robert Hossein, George Eastman.
Cinematography: Raymond Pierre Lemoigne...
Oss 117 Five Film Collection
Blu-ray
Oss 117 Is Unleashed; Oss 117: Panic in Bangkok; Oss 117: Mission For a Killer; Oss 117: Mission to Tokyo; Oss 117: Double Agent
Kl Studio Classics
1963-1968 / B&W and Color / 1:85 widescreen + 2:35 widescreen / 528 min. / Street Date September 26, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95
Starring: Kerwin Matthews, Nadia Sanders, Irina Demick, Daniel Emilfork; Kerwin Matthews, Pier Angeli, Robert Hossein; Frederick Stafford, Mylène Demongeot, Perrette Pradier, Dominique Wilms, Raymond Pellegrin, Annie Anderson; Frederick Stafford, Marina Vlad, Jitsuko Yoshimura; John Gavin, Margaret Lee, Curd Jurgens, Luciana Paluzzi, Rosalba Neri, Robert Hossein, George Eastman.
Cinematography: Raymond Pierre Lemoigne...
- 9/16/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Yvonne Monlaur: Cult horror movie actress & Bond Girl contender was featured in the 1960 British classics 'Circus of Horrors' & 'The Brides of Dracula.' Actress Yvonne Monlaur dead at 77: Best remembered for cult horror classics 'Circus of Horrors' & 'The Brides of Dracula' Actress Yvonne Monlaur, best known for her roles in the 1960 British cult horror classics Circus of Horrors and The Brides of Dracula, died of cardiac arrest on April 18 in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Monlaur was 77. According to various online sources, she was born Yvonne Thérèse Marie Camille Bédat de Monlaur in the southwestern town of Pau, in France's Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, on Dec. 15, 1939. Her father was poet and librettist Pierre Bédat de Monlaur; her mother was a Russian ballet dancer. The young Yvonne was trained in ballet and while still a teenager became a model for Elle magazine. She was “discovered” by newspaper publisher-turned-director André Hunebelle,...
- 4/27/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Rob Leane Feb 10, 2017
Star Wars, Terminator 2, Fantastic Beasts and more: they all have scenes in the trailer, that never made the final film...
More often than you might think, scenes that appear in movie trailer don’t turn up in the finished film. This can leave trailer-loving audience members confused as the credits roll, wondering if they dropped off and missed something important.
See related Iron Fist: what to expect from Marvel’s Netflix hero Luke Cage smashed Marvel's 2016 Netflix ratings Daredevil season 3: Vincent D’Onofrio mulls Fisk's return Marvel's The Defenders: more images arrive
A couple of massive movies have done this recently, and the internet has been quick to fill in the blanks with speculation. Fingers have been pointed at tinkering studio bigwigs and extensive reshoots, when the reality is often a little less dramatic: filmmakers always chop some footage in the edit, and they rarely have much involvement in the trailers.
Star Wars, Terminator 2, Fantastic Beasts and more: they all have scenes in the trailer, that never made the final film...
More often than you might think, scenes that appear in movie trailer don’t turn up in the finished film. This can leave trailer-loving audience members confused as the credits roll, wondering if they dropped off and missed something important.
See related Iron Fist: what to expect from Marvel’s Netflix hero Luke Cage smashed Marvel's 2016 Netflix ratings Daredevil season 3: Vincent D’Onofrio mulls Fisk's return Marvel's The Defenders: more images arrive
A couple of massive movies have done this recently, and the internet has been quick to fill in the blanks with speculation. Fingers have been pointed at tinkering studio bigwigs and extensive reshoots, when the reality is often a little less dramatic: filmmakers always chop some footage in the edit, and they rarely have much involvement in the trailers.
- 2/6/2017
- Den of Geek
Numerous prominent stars from the James Bond films will be appearing this weekend at the Hollywood Collector's Show at Lax. James Bond himself, George Lazenby, will be there as well as some of the loveliest Bond ladies including Lana Wood, Luciana Paluzzi, Maryam d'Abo, Tanya Roberts, Diana Lee Hsu, Valerie Leon and Britt Ekland. For info and tickets click here. ...
- 1/7/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Thunderball
Directed by Terrence Young
Written by John Hopkins and Richard Maibaum
1965, UK
Being a relative novice to the James Bond canon, I have never grown accustomed to the many colorful details that have leaked from the Bond films into popular culture. Thunderball, as I discovered, is the home to many of the Bond clichés, as they’ve more or less become. It is, from what I can understand, the mold that which every Bond film is created.
There are the clever puns delivered with a wink, daring escapes using proto-gadgets that bend the boundaries of belief, the beautiful women, seemingly hypnotized by the smooth debonair Bond, and of course, the cartoonish villain and his cartoonish plot to conquer, or destroy the world.
These are all clear marks of every Bond film, past, present, and future. And though there were films that used these ideas before, and even Bond films that used the same formula,...
Directed by Terrence Young
Written by John Hopkins and Richard Maibaum
1965, UK
Being a relative novice to the James Bond canon, I have never grown accustomed to the many colorful details that have leaked from the Bond films into popular culture. Thunderball, as I discovered, is the home to many of the Bond clichés, as they’ve more or less become. It is, from what I can understand, the mold that which every Bond film is created.
There are the clever puns delivered with a wink, daring escapes using proto-gadgets that bend the boundaries of belief, the beautiful women, seemingly hypnotized by the smooth debonair Bond, and of course, the cartoonish villain and his cartoonish plot to conquer, or destroy the world.
These are all clear marks of every Bond film, past, present, and future. And though there were films that used these ideas before, and even Bond films that used the same formula,...
- 11/1/2015
- by James Merolla
- SoundOnSight
'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' 2015: Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer. 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' movie is a domestic box office bomb: Will it be saved by international filmgoers? Directed by Sherlock Holmes' Guy Ritchie and toplining Man of Steel star Henry Cavill and The Lone Ranger costar Armie Hammer, the Warner Bros. release The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has been a domestic box office disaster, performing about 25 percent below – already quite modest – expectations. (See also: “'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' Movie: Bigger Box Office Flop Than Expected.”) This past weekend, the $80 million-budget The Man from U.N.C.L.E. collected a meager $13.42 million from 3,638 North American theaters, averaging $3,689 per site. After five days out, the big-screen reboot of the popular 1960s television series starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum has taken in a mere $16.77 million. For comparison's sake:...
- 8/19/2015
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
“It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.”
Frank Zappa
For most people nostalgia is just another way of packaging the point of view that, surprise, surprise, the times we lived in were less complicated, better when we were younger. Sometimes that sentiment gets woven into rosy remembrances of past glories or sociopolitical myths built around the alleged pre-Kennedy (or pre-whatever mid-century social upheaval you want to use to fill in the blank) innocence of America and how that innocence was inevitably lost when X, Y or Z happened. And often when we watch movies we loved as kids, when we return to them on our own or in the company of kids whom we hope will be as captivated as we once were, we want nostalgia to be active rather than...
Frank Zappa
For most people nostalgia is just another way of packaging the point of view that, surprise, surprise, the times we lived in were less complicated, better when we were younger. Sometimes that sentiment gets woven into rosy remembrances of past glories or sociopolitical myths built around the alleged pre-Kennedy (or pre-whatever mid-century social upheaval you want to use to fill in the blank) innocence of America and how that innocence was inevitably lost when X, Y or Z happened. And often when we watch movies we loved as kids, when we return to them on our own or in the company of kids whom we hope will be as captivated as we once were, we want nostalgia to be active rather than...
- 3/23/2014
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
"Miss Anders... I didn’t recognize you with your clothes on."
It's been 50 years this month since James Bond first made the leap from the printed page to the silver screen with the release of Dr. No in theaters. Six different actors — Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig — have played Ian Fleming's timeless character over the decades and, while his spy gadgets and cars may change, you can always count on Bond to surround himself with beautiful, resourceful, and downright deadly women.
Considering February is Bond Month on Reelz, we thought this would be a great time to look back at the sexy women who have helped to make James Bond the cultural icon of masculinity he has become. Is Ursula Andress's Honey Ryder still the top Bond Girl, the pinnacle of spy intrigue sex appeal, or is it time to christen a new queen?...
It's been 50 years this month since James Bond first made the leap from the printed page to the silver screen with the release of Dr. No in theaters. Six different actors — Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig — have played Ian Fleming's timeless character over the decades and, while his spy gadgets and cars may change, you can always count on Bond to surround himself with beautiful, resourceful, and downright deadly women.
Considering February is Bond Month on Reelz, we thought this would be a great time to look back at the sexy women who have helped to make James Bond the cultural icon of masculinity he has become. Is Ursula Andress's Honey Ryder still the top Bond Girl, the pinnacle of spy intrigue sex appeal, or is it time to christen a new queen?...
- 2/4/2013
- by BrentJS Sprecher
- Reelzchannel.com
Thunderball
Directed by Terrency Young
Written by John Hopkins and Richard Maibaum
1965, UK
Being a relative novice to the James Bond canon, I have never grown accustomed to the many colorful details that have leaked from the Bond films into popular culture. Thunderball, as I discovered, is the home to many of the Bond clichés, as they’ve more or less become. It is, from what I can understand, the mold that which every Bond film is created.
There are the clever puns delivered with a wink, daring escapes using proto-gadgets that bend the boundaries of belief, the beautiful women, seemingly hypnotized by the smooth debonair Bond, and of course, the cartoonish villain and his cartoonish plot to conquer, or destroy the world.
These are all ear marks of every Bond film, past, present, and future. And though there were films that used these ideas before, and even Bond films that used the same formula,...
Directed by Terrency Young
Written by John Hopkins and Richard Maibaum
1965, UK
Being a relative novice to the James Bond canon, I have never grown accustomed to the many colorful details that have leaked from the Bond films into popular culture. Thunderball, as I discovered, is the home to many of the Bond clichés, as they’ve more or less become. It is, from what I can understand, the mold that which every Bond film is created.
There are the clever puns delivered with a wink, daring escapes using proto-gadgets that bend the boundaries of belief, the beautiful women, seemingly hypnotized by the smooth debonair Bond, and of course, the cartoonish villain and his cartoonish plot to conquer, or destroy the world.
These are all ear marks of every Bond film, past, present, and future. And though there were films that used these ideas before, and even Bond films that used the same formula,...
- 11/4/2012
- by James Merolla
- SoundOnSight
For the next 22 weeks, MTV Movies Blog will be running what we call the Bond-a-Thond. Every Wednesday we're taking a look back at a single (official) Bond film, giving you the vitals and seeing how it holds up, right up until the release of "Skyfall" on November 9. Feel free to watch along with us and share your thoughts or just kick back and enjoy the Bond.
Thunderball (1965)
Title Meaning: Thunderball is the name given to the operation organized to recapture the stolen atomic bombs.
Plot: After taking "Goldfinger" off, evil international organization Spectre returns to hold two stolen atomic bombs for ransom. MI6 assembles all of the 00 agents to help retrieve them, but only James Bond is clever enough to track them to Nassau.
Bond: Sean Connery
Villain: Emilio Largo aka Number 2, Blofeld's second-in-command and the orchestrator of the ransom plot, played by Adolfo Celi, and Fiona Volpe, Spectre agent and murdering seductress,...
Thunderball (1965)
Title Meaning: Thunderball is the name given to the operation organized to recapture the stolen atomic bombs.
Plot: After taking "Goldfinger" off, evil international organization Spectre returns to hold two stolen atomic bombs for ransom. MI6 assembles all of the 00 agents to help retrieve them, but only James Bond is clever enough to track them to Nassau.
Bond: Sean Connery
Villain: Emilio Largo aka Number 2, Blofeld's second-in-command and the orchestrator of the ransom plot, played by Adolfo Celi, and Fiona Volpe, Spectre agent and murdering seductress,...
- 7/5/2012
- by Kevin P. Sullivan
- MTV Movies Blog
James Bond 007 Declassified File #4: "Thunderball" This series will trace the cinema history of James Bond, while also examining Ian Fleming's original novels as source material and examining how faithful (or not) the films have been to his work. Directed by Terence Young Screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins and Jack Whittingham Story by Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham and Ian Fleming Produced by Kevin McClory and Stanley Sopel Characters / Cast James Bond / Sean Connery Domino Derval / Claudine Auger Largo / Adolfo Celi Fiona / Luciana Paluzzi Felix Leiter / Rik Van Nutter Count Lippe /...
- 4/24/2012
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
As James Bond prepares for his 23rd official outing in Skyfall and to mark the 50th Anniversary of one of the most successful movie franchises of all time I have been tasked to take a retrospective look at the films that turned author Ian Fleming’s creation into one of the most recognised and iconic characters in film history.
Ian Fleming died just one month before the release of the third James Bond film, Goldfinger in August 1964. Even though both Dr. No and From Russia With Love had been successful and well received it was not until Goldfinger that James Bond truly became a worldwide phenomenon and it is a tragedy that Fleming never lived to see the full impact his creation had on popular culture.
The story of the fourth James Bond film, Thunderball, is a complicated one that pre-dates the formation of Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
Ian Fleming died just one month before the release of the third James Bond film, Goldfinger in August 1964. Even though both Dr. No and From Russia With Love had been successful and well received it was not until Goldfinger that James Bond truly became a worldwide phenomenon and it is a tragedy that Fleming never lived to see the full impact his creation had on popular culture.
The story of the fourth James Bond film, Thunderball, is a complicated one that pre-dates the formation of Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
- 12/31/2011
- by Chris Wright
- Obsessed with Film
As we enter our 8th year of publishing, we'd like to thank each of our loyal readers for helping us keep the dream alive. It's not easy maintaining a magazine in the age of the internet, but we continue to thrive thanks to our many readers throughout the world. A very special thanks to those of you who subscribe to Cinema Retro. Frankly, there is no greater way of helping us out (unless you have a few million bucks laying around that you'd like to donate). Every subscription goes a long way to ensuring that we'll be able to maintain the high standards you've come to expect- with a minimum amount of advertising. We've also been able to maintain our pricing without a single increase in eight years, despite soaring costs for printing and mailing. Every issue will continue to be a limited edition collector's item. In fact with the...
- 11/16/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Cinema Sex Sirens, published by Omnibus Press, is a unique collection of photographs of female stars of the '60s and '70s.
That period marked a new era of frankness in society and the movie industry lost no time in following suit after some 25 years of censorship and self-imposed regulations. The women who became the new erotic goddesses also became world-famous and defined a generation's view of sexuality.
Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer's gallery illustrates a luminous collection of idealized women and offers a fascinating insight into the movies' depiction of female sexuality during the '60s and '70s. From the indisputable legends to actresses whose used their beauty to gain fame in the short-term through exploitation movies, this book provides little-known insights into their lives and careers.
Foreword by Sir Roger Moore
Chapters include:
Hollywood Or Bust: The Early Years
...And God Created the Sex...
That period marked a new era of frankness in society and the movie industry lost no time in following suit after some 25 years of censorship and self-imposed regulations. The women who became the new erotic goddesses also became world-famous and defined a generation's view of sexuality.
Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer's gallery illustrates a luminous collection of idealized women and offers a fascinating insight into the movies' depiction of female sexuality during the '60s and '70s. From the indisputable legends to actresses whose used their beauty to gain fame in the short-term through exploitation movies, this book provides little-known insights into their lives and careers.
Foreword by Sir Roger Moore
Chapters include:
Hollywood Or Bust: The Early Years
...And God Created the Sex...
- 8/4/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
By Fred Burdsall
Back before the dinosaurs died off (sometime around 1968), a little film called Mad Monster Party made its way to my local theater, and like any kid…I had to see it. So, armed with some cash courtesy of my parents, I marched in and was handed a clip-on button that simply read “The Green Slime Are Coming.” I had no idea what that entailed, but if it’s slimy and green…I’m there. It took an agonizing four weeks but one day the marquee read “Saturday at noon..The Green Slime.” This was it, no turning back: Give me the worst chores you got, mom, cause I’m going to see The Green Slime, and I need money.
That being said, let me tell you all about it.
An asteroid is on a collision course with Earth–cue psychedelic late ’60s rock from Richard Delvy and we are on our way.
Back before the dinosaurs died off (sometime around 1968), a little film called Mad Monster Party made its way to my local theater, and like any kid…I had to see it. So, armed with some cash courtesy of my parents, I marched in and was handed a clip-on button that simply read “The Green Slime Are Coming.” I had no idea what that entailed, but if it’s slimy and green…I’m there. It took an agonizing four weeks but one day the marquee read “Saturday at noon..The Green Slime.” This was it, no turning back: Give me the worst chores you got, mom, cause I’m going to see The Green Slime, and I need money.
That being said, let me tell you all about it.
An asteroid is on a collision course with Earth–cue psychedelic late ’60s rock from Richard Delvy and we are on our way.
- 12/20/2010
- by Movies Unlimited
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
The Green Slime
DVD Remaster
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Starring Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel
Warner Bros Home Entertainment
Release date: October 26, 2010
The year 1968 was quite a time for science-fiction. On television the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise was in the midst of a five-year adventure traveling to strange new worlds under the command of Captain James Tiberius Kirk. Meanwhile on movie screens around the world Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was launching a bold new vision of the future of its very own with Stanley Kubrick’s long-in-the-works outerspace epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke‘s short story "The Sentinel." What Star Trek and 2001 represented at a time when the country was neck deep in the bloody apocalypse of Vietnam was a vision of an optimistic future where mankind could sail an endless ocean of stars to places unknown without having to face the threat...
DVD Remaster
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Starring Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel
Warner Bros Home Entertainment
Release date: October 26, 2010
The year 1968 was quite a time for science-fiction. On television the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise was in the midst of a five-year adventure traveling to strange new worlds under the command of Captain James Tiberius Kirk. Meanwhile on movie screens around the world Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was launching a bold new vision of the future of its very own with Stanley Kubrick’s long-in-the-works outerspace epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke‘s short story "The Sentinel." What Star Trek and 2001 represented at a time when the country was neck deep in the bloody apocalypse of Vietnam was a vision of an optimistic future where mankind could sail an endless ocean of stars to places unknown without having to face the threat...
- 11/16/2010
- by Robert Morgan
- Geeks of Doom
The Green Slime Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku Written by: William Finger, Ivan Reiner, Tom Rowe, Charles Sinclair Starring: Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel In the futuristic world of The Green Slime, people travel through space freely, and nuke incoming asteroids by drilling into them a whole lot easier than Bruce Willis and crew did. With all of these gadgets around, blinking lights on sterile-colored walls, the epitome of '60s sci-fi, one has to question why a woman is clearly seen using a typewriter in the control room's second floor. Computers can transfer video calls, control all of the equipment aboard space station Gamma 3, but word processing? Forget it. It's one of those ludicrous details that makes this obscure Japanese/American/Italian production such a blast, a kooky space saga involving miniatures from Godzilla effects artist Akira Watanabe, English-speaking actors who still seem to be dubbed over, and a...
- 11/8/2010
- by Matt P.
- FilmJunk
Article by Dana Jung
Decades before there was ‘J-Lo’. or ‘LiLo’, we had ‘La Lollo’,. one of the most beautiful actresses ever to grace movie screens, Gina Lollobrigida. Along with Sophia Loren, Elsa Martinelli, Monica Vitti, and others during the new wave. of Italian and European cinema, she gained fame as an international sex star in the 1950’s and 60s in low-budget Italian films with racy titles such as Fast & Sexy and Go Naked In The World. But when Loren won her Oscar for Two Women, Lollobrigida was already 35 years old, way beyond starlet status. In 1968 (ironically the same year her compatriot actresses Claudia Cardinale & Luciana Paluzzi respectively starred in the cult classics Once Upon A Time In The West and The Green Slime), Gina made probably her best Hollywood film, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, which is sadly not available on DVD.
A pleasant mash-up of Hollywood screwball comedy and Italian sex farce,...
Decades before there was ‘J-Lo’. or ‘LiLo’, we had ‘La Lollo’,. one of the most beautiful actresses ever to grace movie screens, Gina Lollobrigida. Along with Sophia Loren, Elsa Martinelli, Monica Vitti, and others during the new wave. of Italian and European cinema, she gained fame as an international sex star in the 1950’s and 60s in low-budget Italian films with racy titles such as Fast & Sexy and Go Naked In The World. But when Loren won her Oscar for Two Women, Lollobrigida was already 35 years old, way beyond starlet status. In 1968 (ironically the same year her compatriot actresses Claudia Cardinale & Luciana Paluzzi respectively starred in the cult classics Once Upon A Time In The West and The Green Slime), Gina made probably her best Hollywood film, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, which is sadly not available on DVD.
A pleasant mash-up of Hollywood screwball comedy and Italian sex farce,...
- 8/25/2010
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Richard Delvy was drummer and composer for such early surf-rock groups as the Bel-Airs and the Challengers. He also provided the rockin’ theme song for the 1968 cult sci-fi film The Green Slime, starring Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel, and Luciana Paluzzi. Delvy belted out the unforgettable lyrics “Will you believe it when you’re dead? Gree-ee-eenn Slii-ii-ii-iime!! Gree-ee-eenn Slii-ii-ii-iime!! Gree-ee-eenn Slii-ii-ii-ii-ii-iime!!!!.”
Delvy was born Richard Delvecchio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on April 20, 1942, and moved to Southern California in the late 1950s. He played on several minor surf-rock hits including “Mr. Moto,” and acquired the rights to such hits as “Wipe Out” and “Chick-a-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It)”. He also contributed music for such animated series as Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, My Favorite Martian, The Archies, and The Groovy Ghoulies.
Delvy died after a long illness in a West Hills, California, hospital on February 6, 2010, at age 67.
Delvy was born Richard Delvecchio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on April 20, 1942, and moved to Southern California in the late 1950s. He played on several minor surf-rock hits including “Mr. Moto,” and acquired the rights to such hits as “Wipe Out” and “Chick-a-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It)”. He also contributed music for such animated series as Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, My Favorite Martian, The Archies, and The Groovy Ghoulies.
Delvy died after a long illness in a West Hills, California, hospital on February 6, 2010, at age 67.
- 3/24/2010
- by Jesse
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Attention, all nerds, geeks and fanboys (and, trust me, I count myself among your ranks): The Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention is coming, and this year’s festivities feature a healthy dose of campy cult goodness!
This year’s show, on Sunday, November 8, will feature an exclusive 40th anniversary screening of The Green Slime, the 1969 cult science fiction classic. Notorious for its unequaled goofiness, which manifests in every element from its theme song to its low-budget effects, the film was a success thanks to aggressive marketing, including an appearance on the cover to Famous Monsters of Filmland #57.
The Green Slime, which follows the inhabitants of a space station as they’re attacked by tentacled green aliens that multiply when they’re shot, was directed by Kinji Fukasaku, who would become more of a cult figure in later years with his adaptation of Battle Royale. The screenplay was penned by Bill Finger,...
This year’s show, on Sunday, November 8, will feature an exclusive 40th anniversary screening of The Green Slime, the 1969 cult science fiction classic. Notorious for its unequaled goofiness, which manifests in every element from its theme song to its low-budget effects, the film was a success thanks to aggressive marketing, including an appearance on the cover to Famous Monsters of Filmland #57.
The Green Slime, which follows the inhabitants of a space station as they’re attacked by tentacled green aliens that multiply when they’re shot, was directed by Kinji Fukasaku, who would become more of a cult figure in later years with his adaptation of Battle Royale. The screenplay was penned by Bill Finger,...
- 10/23/2009
- by sean
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Issue #15 of Cinema Retro has just been mailed to all subscribers in North America and territories outside of Europe. As a reminder, this is the last issue of season 5. Subscribers will find a renewal form inside this issue, but you don't need to wait. You can re-subscribe for next season at any time. If you haven't subscribed yet, this is a great chance to enjoy all three issues of the current season - #13, #14 and #15. You will receive them all in one package along with a renewal form should you wish to continue subscribing for next season.
Here are the highlights of issue #15 :
Lee Marvin Tribute Issue Featuring Rare Unpublished 1974 Interview In Which Marvin Discusses His Key Films; Plus Steve Mori's On-location Report From The Set Of "The Klansman" Starring Marvin, Richard Burton, O.J. Simpson And Luciana Paluzzi - Featuring Unpublished Behind The Scenes Set Photos Taken By Steve.We...
Here are the highlights of issue #15 :
Lee Marvin Tribute Issue Featuring Rare Unpublished 1974 Interview In Which Marvin Discusses His Key Films; Plus Steve Mori's On-location Report From The Set Of "The Klansman" Starring Marvin, Richard Burton, O.J. Simpson And Luciana Paluzzi - Featuring Unpublished Behind The Scenes Set Photos Taken By Steve.We...
- 9/16/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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Cinema Retro reader Pete Emslie, who happens to be a top talent cartoonist, reminds us that today is Lee Marvin's birthday- and his provided this terrific depiction of Marvin in his Oscar-winning role in Cat Ballou. (Visit Pete's site at The Cartoon Cave for more great artwork.) Marvin, who would have been 85 today, died at age 63 in 1987. Cinema Retro will be presenting an exciting feature relating to Marvin in issue #15. Writer Steve Mori, who provided us with his "lost" Steve McQueen interview for issue #1, has just come through with a fascinating feature that is sure to thrill classic movie lovers. In 1974, Steve was a journalist on the set of The Klansman which paired Marvin and Richard Burton as well as Luciana Paluzzi, Cameron Mitchell and a promising newcomer named O.J. Simpson. While on the set, Steve witnessed the destruction of Burton's second marriage to Elizabeth Taylor,...
Cinema Retro reader Pete Emslie, who happens to be a top talent cartoonist, reminds us that today is Lee Marvin's birthday- and his provided this terrific depiction of Marvin in his Oscar-winning role in Cat Ballou. (Visit Pete's site at The Cartoon Cave for more great artwork.) Marvin, who would have been 85 today, died at age 63 in 1987. Cinema Retro will be presenting an exciting feature relating to Marvin in issue #15. Writer Steve Mori, who provided us with his "lost" Steve McQueen interview for issue #1, has just come through with a fascinating feature that is sure to thrill classic movie lovers. In 1974, Steve was a journalist on the set of The Klansman which paired Marvin and Richard Burton as well as Luciana Paluzzi, Cameron Mitchell and a promising newcomer named O.J. Simpson. While on the set, Steve witnessed the destruction of Burton's second marriage to Elizabeth Taylor,...
- 2/19/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Now Shipping In UK And Europe. Will Ship Soon Everywhere Else! Highlights Include:
Lee Marvin Tribute Issue Featuring Rare Unpublished 1974 Interview In Which Marvin Discusses His Key Films; Plus Steve Mori's On-location Report From The Set Of "The Klansman" Starring Marvin, Richard Burton, O.J. Simpson And Luciana Paluzzi - Featuring Unpublished Behind The Scenes Set Photos Taken By Steve.We Also Feature Steve Saragossi's Tribute To Marvin's Bizarre Crime Classic "Prime Cut"Sir Christopher Lee Recalls The Making Of The Fu Manchu Movies In An Exclusive Interview With John Exshawbruce R. Marshall Interviews Screenwriter Richard Tuggle About The Making Of The Clint Eastwood Crime Classic "Escape From Alcatraz"James Caan'S Exclusive Interview With Steve Saragossi Continues With His Memories Of Making "The Godfather" And The Sci-fi Classic "Rollerball"Sexy Screen Siren Shirley Anne Field Talks To Mark Mawston About Her Remarkable Career And Working With Steve McQueengareth Owen Takes...
Lee Marvin Tribute Issue Featuring Rare Unpublished 1974 Interview In Which Marvin Discusses His Key Films; Plus Steve Mori's On-location Report From The Set Of "The Klansman" Starring Marvin, Richard Burton, O.J. Simpson And Luciana Paluzzi - Featuring Unpublished Behind The Scenes Set Photos Taken By Steve.We Also Feature Steve Saragossi's Tribute To Marvin's Bizarre Crime Classic "Prime Cut"Sir Christopher Lee Recalls The Making Of The Fu Manchu Movies In An Exclusive Interview With John Exshawbruce R. Marshall Interviews Screenwriter Richard Tuggle About The Making Of The Clint Eastwood Crime Classic "Escape From Alcatraz"James Caan'S Exclusive Interview With Steve Saragossi Continues With His Memories Of Making "The Godfather" And The Sci-fi Classic "Rollerball"Sexy Screen Siren Shirley Anne Field Talks To Mark Mawston About Her Remarkable Career And Working With Steve McQueengareth Owen Takes...
- 1/3/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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Day 2 in Venice, and as the press accreditation desk wasn’t opening till the afternoon, that left the morning free for a visit to the Libreria Solaris, the only place in Venice for film books and DVDs (and I mean ‘only’ in both senses of the word). Having grabbed a fistful of movies – including the Italian releases of both HerculesHercules Unchained, which I fervently hope are taken from better prints than the budget discs available in the States – I moseyed on back to the hotel and then over to the Lido, pondering awhile the relationship between Venice and the movies.
MoonrakerVenice has often been likened to a living film set, a most appropriate comparison considering the city was literally conjured into reality from nothing. And yet, paradoxically, it’s the very unreality of the place, the sheer improbability of it, that leaves...
Day 2 in Venice, and as the press accreditation desk wasn’t opening till the afternoon, that left the morning free for a visit to the Libreria Solaris, the only place in Venice for film books and DVDs (and I mean ‘only’ in both senses of the word). Having grabbed a fistful of movies – including the Italian releases of both HerculesHercules Unchained, which I fervently hope are taken from better prints than the budget discs available in the States – I moseyed on back to the hotel and then over to the Lido, pondering awhile the relationship between Venice and the movies.
MoonrakerVenice has often been likened to a living film set, a most appropriate comparison considering the city was literally conjured into reality from nothing. And yet, paradoxically, it’s the very unreality of the place, the sheer improbability of it, that leaves...
- 8/30/2007
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
At Last - A Magazine Devoted To The Classic And Cult Films Of The 1960's And 1970's
"Cinema Retro Is A Must For Fans Of Movies Of The 1960S And 1970S- And They Didn't Have To Pay Me To Say That!"- Sir Roger Moore, K.B.E.
Fed up with reading those glossy film magazines, which contain endless pages of advertising for DVDs and promote the latest product placement-infested film appearing at a cinema near you?
Do you remember the days when cinemas showed 'Double Bill' programmes, Road Show films with intermissions, and sold souvenir brochures?
Do you long for those days when you could read great film magazines like ABC Film Review, Photoplay and Showtime?
You Do?
Then you must remember that the 60's and 70's were probably the greatest period ever for the film industry - an era that brought the cinemagoer a choice of several classic movies released every week,...
"Cinema Retro Is A Must For Fans Of Movies Of The 1960S And 1970S- And They Didn't Have To Pay Me To Say That!"- Sir Roger Moore, K.B.E.
Fed up with reading those glossy film magazines, which contain endless pages of advertising for DVDs and promote the latest product placement-infested film appearing at a cinema near you?
Do you remember the days when cinemas showed 'Double Bill' programmes, Road Show films with intermissions, and sold souvenir brochures?
Do you long for those days when you could read great film magazines like ABC Film Review, Photoplay and Showtime?
You Do?
Then you must remember that the 60's and 70's were probably the greatest period ever for the film industry - an era that brought the cinemagoer a choice of several classic movies released every week,...
- 1/1/2006
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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