It may be that fox had wanted to follow up their popular flint film series our man flint 1966 and in like flint 1967 with a scaled down, less costly tv series, but this vancouvermade pilot ranks as one of the worst cancon productions around. Theyre all picking on james bond, sure, but by the time our man flint came out in 1966, 007 himself had fallen into selfparody as well. Cobb gila golan 1966 superspy derek flint james coburn, agent of z. Although the film crawls with dimestore beauties, there is a noticeable lack of sexiness in it. Main title music from our man flint dead on target 1976. The threedisc ultimate flint collection includes both flint films, in like flint and our man flint as well as a third disc containing a handful of bonus features. Watch derek flint our man flint 1965 full movie ursula strauss on dailymotion. Our man flint movies a list of 3 titles created 23 feb 2014. A sequel, in like flint, followed two years later, and in 1976, the character was revived for a tv movie, our man flint. When originally released on dvd in 2002, fox released our man flint and its sequel, in like flint 1967 as part of a fourfilm spy wave which included 1966s modesty blase and 1967s fathom, but the flint films were reissued in 2006 a 3disc ultimate flint special edition box with audio commentaries for each film, plus a third dvd with. Our man flint and in like flint were the princess bride and shrek of spy movies.
Our man flint subtitles download movie and tv series. Rhythms to our crimesguy ritchie revolver inspired original song by he. Most of these are discussed by film historians eddie friedfeld and lee pfeiffer in their commentary tracks on the ultimate flint collection our man flint in like flint our man flint. Benson fong will be remembered by many as charlie chans number three son tommy, a role which he played in five monogram films.
Our man flint, american spy film, released in 1966, that is considered one of the best james bond parodies former spy derek flint played by james coburn is called back into action after zowie zonal organization world intelligence espionage discovers that a secret group called galaxy plans to rule the world by controlling the weather. So what weve got is a parody of a parody of a parody. James coburn is superagent derek flint in this 1966 spoof of james bond. Flint teams up with his spunky and eager new partner bonita rogers and hits the streets in search of runsler.
Dead on target, but i still found the book interesting reading, if only to show what a marvelous job james coburn did in improving upon the character as. The rumours are that it was buried because it was such a stinker. Cobb, gila golan, edward mulhare, and benson fong the main premise of the film is that a trio of mad scientists attempt to blackmail the world with a weather. When the film spawned its inevitable tvpilot spinoff, ray danton was derek flint and the project was shorn of all traces of humor or satire. Dead on target, 1976, directed by joseph l scanlan, with ray danton, sharon acker, gaye rowan, at turner classic movies. Our man flint is a 1966 american spyfi comedy film that parodies the james bond film series. Dead on target 1976 the starlost the secret storm multiple episodes. Dead on target was a cheesy 1976 tv movie that tried to reconnect flint with the public, but it was a misfire. Dead on target, with ray danton taking over the role of derek flint. Our man flint in like flint remastered soundtrack cd details and availability. Dead on target is the third and final film in the our man flint movie trilogy. Dead on target tv 1975 oil company executive wendell runsler gets abducted by a liberation army group from the middle east. Secret agent derek flint james coburn is the kind of man who likes to unwind after a long day by stopping his pulse while lying rigid between two chairs, who travels to moscow not to watch ballet, but to teach it, and whose lighter has 82 different functions83 if you wish to light a cigar.
Chev chelios statham, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip. The tv movie was also a pilot for a possible weekly series, but it did not get good enough ratings to warrant such, and. And out of all the oddball spy flicks, the austin powers trilogy owes the greatest debt to the flint series. The original man of mystery when scientists use ecoterrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, intelligence chief cramden calls in top agent derek flint. Street date january 15, 20 available through screen archives entertainment 29. Dead on target 1976 flint investigates the kidnapping of an oil company president from offices protected by a sophisticated security system. The film originally aired on abc on march 17, 1976 and was shot in vancouver, british columbia. Our man flint had scored in 1966 as a highgloss spy movie spoof starring james coburn as derek flint, maverick operative of the zonal organization for world intelligence and espionage or z. The film originally aired on abc on march 17, 1976 and was shot in vancouver. Cobb as his his harried former boss, lloyd cramden.
The transporter movie the original, not a sequel starring jason statham jason. Flint is forced out of retirement to battle galaxy, an organization led by a trio of utopian mad scientists out to take over the world via their weathercontrol machine. Ultimate flint collection our man flint in like flint. Lee j cobb now a govenment agent needs help from derek flint, to help solve a problem on the isle of galaxy where people have been taken prisoners in the past to live up to modern and world of technology as the scients their see. Comments it may be that fox had wanted to follow up their popular flint film series our man flint 1966 and in like flint 1967 with a scaled down, less costly tv series, but this vancouvermade pilot ranks as one of the worst cancon productions around. Two dudes in overalls appear to install a large, wide file cabinet in runslers office. So it should come as no surprise that he knows a thing or two about french cuisine.
I feel like flint being dead the whole time ironically makes it all infinitely messier, and much harder to slot into ti itself. With ray danton, sharon acker, lawrence dane, donnelly rhodes. Hit secret agent movies spoof with james coburn in the title role. Shrewd, handsome, and dashing private eye derek flint is hired to find runsler. Dead on arrival would have been a far more apt title.
Scanlan 324 words exact match in snippet view article find links to article landing the littlest hobo land of the lost whats happening 1 episode our man flint. Flint being in savannah, being with thomas, thomas dying eventually, and flint drinking himself to death out of loneliness and the loss of what maybe could have been with the war neatly fills in the blanks for ti with. Solar music rights management, warner chappell, bmi broadcast music inc. Too bad, danton was an old hand at this sort of thing, after secret agent super dragon, and even the lead role in the french comic adaptation, lucky the. A lighthearted 1966 parody of james bond movies, starring james coburn as supermegaomnicool exz. The little documentaries were only mildly informative and the long lost tv movie dead on target would have been better off had it remained lost. The problem with it though is the writer norman klenman and the director for that matter dont appear to have watched a coburn flint movie or at the very. Its no surprise any hope of a series were thwarted by this stillborn concoction which showed little imagination or directorial. Women bent on being tyrants evidently havent much time for anything else.
Our man flint proved successful enough to warrant its own sequel which came less than a year later. Financial analysis of our man flint 1965 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. Oil company executive wendell runsler gets abducted by a liberation army group from the middle east. The film originally aired on abc on march 17, 1976. The film was directed by daniel mann, written by hal fimberg and ben starr, and starred james coburn as master spy derek flint, with lee j. Flint ends up killing gruber in a toilet stall, while gila escapes, leaving behind a cold cream jar she has. Not only as a purported sequel to the two james coburn films of. This is a bonus film in ultimate flint collection boxed set. Lee j cobb now a govenment agent needs help from derek flint, to help solve a problem on the isle of galaxy where people have been taken prisoners in the past to live up to modern and world of technology as the scients their see it. Our man flint is a 1966 american action film that parodies the james bond genre. Dead on target full movie in hd visit dead on target is the third and final film in the our ma.
The tv movie was also a pilot for a possible weekly series, but it did not get good enough ratings to warrant such, and dead on target became the last derek flint movie. Dead on target 1976 updated on july 4, 2015 by ken begg 20 comments. Clair, gianna serra, sigrid valdis, shelby grant, helen funai, tura satana, robert gunner. Our man flint james coburn like in like flint a great ladies man be wanted and assigned to solve a case on his terms. The tv movie was a pilot for a possible weekly series, but it did not get good enough ratings to warrant such, and the aptly titled dead on target became the last derek flint movie. Mann didnt stick around to direct this time and gordon douglas took over but james coburn and lee j. Cobb, gila golan, edward mulhare, benson fong, rhys williams, peter brocco, michael st. They poked fun of spy movies, yet they were just as fun, colorful and action packed as any spy movie.
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