Your Favourite Espionage Films...

[Guynemer]

In recent years, one must praise the Bourne films, in particular The Bourne Supremacy. I also quite enjoyed Spartan.

[Sikander]

I agree with Three Days of the Condor, Where Eagles Dare, From Russia with Love and The Bourne Identity. Let's not forget our comedies though, they are numerous and pretty good quality all in all:

Casino Royale

Return of the Pink Panther (I think, it's the one where all of the assissins in the world are trying to kill Clouseau)

Austin Powers 1-3

The Liquidator

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Sikander

Let's not forget our comedies though, they are numerous and pretty good quality all in all:

Indeed- the delirious 'Matt Helm' films with Dean Martin, and the 'Flint' series with James Coburn.


And of course those classy 'Man From Uncle' films. Nothing made a rainy summer's day brighten up like a cheesy 'Man From Uncle' film first thing in the morning...

[JohnT]

Technically not spy stuff, but Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate was the first film to pop to my mind upon seeing the thread title.

That and Santa Claus vs. the Martians.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by molly bloom



Indeed- the delirious 'Matt Helm' films with Dean Martin, and the 'Flint' series with James Coburn.


And of course those classy 'Man From Uncle' films. Nothing made a rainy summer's day brighten up like a cheesy 'Man From Uncle' film first thing in the morning...

I think I'll stop by the video station today and see what I can find along these lines. I haven't seen Our Man Flint since the 1960s!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Sikander


I think I'll stop by the video station today and see what I can find along these lines. I haven't seen Our Man Flint since the 1960s!

And don't forget Vincent Price's lunatic spy caper:

' Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine ' .

A comedic take-off on the highly successful James Bond entry Goldfinger, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine finds Vincent Price as the maniacal Dr. Goldfoot, who uses his squad of female robots to snare the world's richest men. Frankie Avalon portrays an agent with SIC (Special Intelligence Command) who is charged with solving the crimes that Dr. Goldfoot is perpetrating.

http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/goldfoot.html

And if that's not a guaranteed larf a minute fest, try the British 'Carry On Spying'-

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agents Desmond Simpkins (Kenneth Williams) and James Bind (Charles Hawtrey), aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt (Barbara Windsor) and Agent Crump (Bernard Cribbins), battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies, Dr Crow, Milchmann and the Fat Man. From the heat of the Casbah to the elegance of the Orient Express, the Carry On team pursue STENCH to the bitter end!"

http://www.carryonline.com/carry/cospy.html

Dig the groovy poster, baby.... Feztive frolics.

[SpencerH]

bah!