Bulldog Drummond was revitalized in the 60s to be a James Bond competitor which could potentially print money. Quite honestly, this movie turned out great. The goal was to make a recurring series, potentially a TV series as originally envisioned by the producers. Read on to see how that worked out.
Richard Johnson plays Drummond in this film – word was that he was actually one of the top picks to be James Bond in Dr. No at one point. Missed it by that much! No matter, he acted in this. And we get to enjoy it tonight!
Given the title, there is the usual bevy of beautiful female assassins including Elke Sommer, Suzanna Leigh and Sylva Koscina. There is a stereotypical British villain who distains firearms and prefers to kill in creative ways. If I may be serious for a moment, Nigel Green, who plays the villain here, was an absolute fixture of the 1960s. Once you recognize him here you will realize just how many other cool films he was in, including The Ruling Class and at least one Matt Helm film.
There was second movie made. It was called Some Girls Do, and I was lucky enough to find a version on You Tube. If you want to view it, click away! Some advice: If you intend to make a successful movie series, you should come up with enough material for two or three movies first, then film the first one. The revitalized Bulldog Drummond seems to have followed the less successful model of write one film, then quickly decide to write another if the first one works. That almost always results in a rushed script and a box office bomb. Reviews of Some Girls Do indicate this is exactly what happened. In fact, the producer and writers made no attempt at continuity with the first film (except for the actor playing Bulldog Drummond), which probably added to the confusion.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary until a beautiful woman paralyses you and throws you off a building! I hope you enjoy this spy flick, it’s yet another gem from the 60s that is seldom seen.
As for me, tomorrow morning I will be signing papers and getting a key to the new Stately R.J. manor, after a 90 day stay in an air B&B/apartment made of papier-mâché. Parties will begin by this summer.*
*I was on a cruise ship at one point too, don’t feel too bad for me.
Once upon a time I was helpless before the allure of a beautiful woman in a bikini. I still have eyes for them but that helplessness…they finally beat it the fuck out of me.
In this film they would shoot you to death with a speargun. Reminds me of those modern female assassins that were in South America.
*hits play*
Hey! I was about to send a callout and see how you are doing. I saw in the comments that your mom took a turn for the worse. How are you?
I’m OK. I’ve kept very busy today. I’m sort of thinking it hasn’t quite hit me yet.
My condolences. We are your extended family of broken toys, should you need to talk.
Thanks everyone. I must be exhausted. I just fell asleep trying to watch the movie.
Sorry CT
I caught up late today;
So sorry to hear about your mom, Tater.
Condolences here too. Even when expected it hurts.
My deepest condolences.
Richard Johnson?
Porn name, anyone?
Mine is Richard Sizemore.
Lol
Hey, RJ, drop me a line at mapbookman@gmail.com. I have a req for a shot film.
Done.
Got it. I can work it in one of the upcoming shows. I planned all the movie posts through May in a fit of pique last weekend while I had the flu. I can always fit in a short.
Excellent. I think it will be enjoyed.
I misread the title as “Deadlier than the Mole” and thought it was about subterranian predation.
“Deadlier than the Mole” is really about chocolate.
You’re thinking of “Más Mortal que el Mole”
“Deadlier Than The Mohel”
Ow, that cuts.
OWW, MY
BALLSFORESKIN!Deadlier Than the Mule, a sci-fi adventure inspired by Asimov
Isn’t that a reimagining of a western?
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You see, I understand you men were just playin’ around, but the mule, he just doesn’t get it. Course, if you were to all apologize… [the men laugh] I don’t think it’s nice, you laughin’. You see, my mule don’t like people laughin’. Gets the crazy idea you’re laughin’ at him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv_GcxkmW4Y
Deadlier than the mall?
https://apnews.com/article/business-minnesota-a154a75f729954ba579ce71ad9af7144
THANK YOU, HAVE A NICE DAY
Go away, baitin’!
Meh, nothing is deadlier than the male Dawson bee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtpECWl-5v4
♫ I don’t wanna wait…for my life to be over, sting and bite my rivals to death!
That is a lot of Feudin’.
Bulldog Drummond is not a spy he is a bored wealthy playboy that solves crimes because he has nothing better to do. Fucks sakes, you people will ruin everything with your constant re-imagining of classic characters.
Plutonium-239 critical mass: 11 kg
Uranium-235 critical mass: 47 kg
Americium-241 critical mass: 67 kg
Americium-241 can be harvested from smoke detectors, though the average smoke detector only contains about 0.29 micrograms of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment
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The experiment consisted in paying three young physicists who had just received their PhDs, though they had no prior weapons experience, to develop a working nuclear weapon design, using only unclassified information, and with basic computational and technical support. “The goal of the participants should be to design an explosive with a militarily significant yield”, the report on the experiment read, “A working context for the experiment might be that the participants have been asked to design a nuclear explosive which, if built in small numbers, would give a small nation a significant effect on their foreign relations.”
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It’s pronounced ‘Mericium.
Freedom Metal
Reminds me of a youtube video about a guy who actually smelted platinum sequence metals out of roadside grit, thanks to residue emitted from exhaust control devices.
“Nuclear Boy Scout”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHy2LRMG6t4
You had me at Elke Sommer. Young me was smitten.
She looks fantastic in this.
I hope Richard Johnson called himself’Big’ Dick Johnson.
That popcorn GIF is adorns.
I’ll never look at popcorn the same ever again.
Edit: adorbs
I have another one where I pop into a dozen little popcorns. I will use it eventually. That pretty much exhausts the useful Jib Jabs.
That sounds even more adorbs
I am assuming that since there’s a new post up the links post is dead so I just want to say, Tonio, if you see this, that Electric Lit link you posted made me want to die
Sadly, brother Tonio does not come to Thursday’s evening service.
He just dumps links that cause physical, mental and emotional harm to their readers and then runs
Very true. After he figured out I would always be here on Thursdays, he buggered off. Something about a boyfriend.
Ya that dude is a total whore…and a good friend.
Gaaah. This took long enough to find.
https://gifdb.com/gif/young-frankenstein-244-x-140-gif-i98g4g0dls43tq7e.html
“He just dumps links that cause physical, mental and emotional harm to their readers and then runs”
You have stumbled on our unwritten mission statement.
His boyfriend is George Glass.
And just when you were finally starting to recover from My Lady Pain. 😞
Mythelina last week goes “we didn’t finish that” and all the blood drained out of my body
ATC three part series, since Duffy will be ‘replacing our system’ in 3-4 years incoming.
Crafting a series about this.
Nice. Content is King.
I can’t tell what exactly they’re carrying, but I want to believe it’s a plastic grabber toy.
They’re carrying Spear-gats.
No, no, those are clearly plastic grabber toys, which they use to tweak one another’s nipples.
Nothing wrong with that.
Black gospel choir sings A Cruel Angel’s Thesis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfd_4LHzNHY
Tubi has a bunch of Falcon movies.
I had perfectly cromulent rant lined up in my mind. But it’s really just blather.
Today I realized that Mia Sara looks like Jane Seymour.
Mornin’ mornin’. Caught the end of the eclipse with my 330 alarm. I didn’t detect any ‘blood’ moonity, but the cosmic ballet … goes on. (“Does anyone wanna change seats?!”)
The first few hours should be vacant, a welcome start after three days off (one for a doc’s appt). Factory work, ‘see task; perform task’, has a delightful way of making time enter warp speed. I strongly approve. Hope y’all can kick ass today.
Tater, deepest condolences.
Happy national Pi day, all you nerds.
🌞☕✌
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KbANp9cRd6o
🎶🎶
Better than National Poi Day.
https://billypenn.com/2025/03/07/philly-cereal-cocktail-bar-bucket-listers-review/
Eeeeww.
Lucky Charms in your drink? Kind of attractive visually because of the novelty but who wants to drink that, especially on a regular basis?
It’s the kind of business you open when your friends are either too scared of you to say you shouldn’t do it or feel too bad for you. Either way, I give it a year.
Morning, Glibs.
Good morning, U, Stinky, Sean, Ted’S., Evan, and Roat!
How goes?
Pretty well, except the router was acting up, so I had to try to remember exactly how to whack it upside the head to fix it. 😒 It’s better now, and so am I! 🙂 How are you?
I made it to the office, though I still wish I had the day off.
All of the complaints that have come to the fore of my mind are petty, so I can’t say things are going badly, but my mood doesn’t reflect that.
Some Northern Virginia leaders say local economy is too dependent on federal government
The DMV is no longer recession proof.
We lost Rosie y’all, what’s this country coming to?
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/rosie-odonnell-ireland-move-trump-election-1235294202/
At least she put her money where her mouth is when it comes to leaving the country…I for one encourage more of it.
I wish she’d picked a country other than Ireland. The poor Isle is already suffering under migrant assault.
I used to tsk tsk but in retrospect the illegal abortions Ireland where a Catholic Church with a conservative bent wielded the pimphand was the better Ireland. Even aside from the migrant influx they are well and truly fucked.
https://babylonbee.com/news/ireland-capsizes-after-arrival-of-rosie-odonnell
So the Bee as resorted to fat jokes? I remember when they were funny.
Fat jokes are funny.
/fat man.
No they are not, they are the lowest of low hanging fruit in the comedy world.
Mr. Hyperbole, let me intoduce you to the Pun. Pun, meet Hyperbole.
Stop doing that thing.
WEF globalist Mark Carney becomes Prime Minister of Canada today. Wife and I are having a discussion about our Plan B in case he manages somehow to win the next election.
Worse than Trudeau you think or about the same?
Apply for refugee status early before the rest of the north realizes it too must flee?
The same only smart.
Most won’t realize until it’s too late.
First Ellen, now Rosie. We must do something about this
brainlesbian comic*/talk show host drain before it becomes a national crisis!*debatable in Rosie’s case
Has anyone checked on Jimmy Kimmel?
Good Morning, Boys and Girls,
Hope all is well with everyone and slippery roads are last week’s news, for 6-8 months anyway
Morning.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
I get to go home today (for maybe 36 hours)
Jugsy better have it ready and waiting on me.
TALL CANS!
Nice. Today is the day I will have a home again. I am eating some breakfast, loading up more in the car and then it’s off to sign paperwork and hand over a shit ton of dimes.
You’re reminding me of my own closing.
The process went smoothly, but I’m glad I didn’t have to interact with the lawyer who handled my side of the paperwork too much. (He ‘joked’ about the $68k check from the mortgage company I was handing over being the most money I’d ever hold. If I were being charitable I’d say he flubbed and meant to say ‘held’, but I’m not)
Hope everything goes smoothly and you can sleep under your own roof tonight.
Rosie does seem to be related to the potato. Perhaps she’s returning to her ancestral homeland?
Spud, or Common Tater?