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Best duo of actors in the series since Connery and Lord in the first movie. James Bond has his next movie in the series when he tries to get a macguffin called a solex agitator, which should take care of an energy crisis at the time. His mission takes him to Asia where he encountersContinue reading “Man With the Golden Gun (1974)”

Well, Oode flipping lolly to you, too… Robin Hood was a movie about a couple of foxes who play the main two characters from the Robin Hood movie. Robin is stealing money from a lion so he can give it to the poor animals that have been taxed a lot. The lion decides to tryContinue reading “Robin Hood (1973)”

Last time it was frogs. This time it is crocodiles. I’m starting to think the early 1970s had an understandable fascination with reptiles and amphibians. This James Bond movie has James Bond take on a bunch of black people when he goes to Harlem and finds a group of black guys working at a placeContinue reading “Live and Let Die (1973)”

Ray Milland needed all of the alcohol he could get his hands on to show up in this. The Frogs was a horror movie about frogs that attack some people when they have a party on an island. At the beginning people are killed off one at a time one of which is gassed inContinue reading “Frogs (1972)”

Several of the locations in this movie were absolutely gorgeous such as the exterior of this chapel in the middle of the Nevada desert. This was the next movie in the James Bond series. It is about some smugglers who steal diamonds and smuggle them into the United States. James Bond must infiltrate the groupContinue reading “Diamonds Are Forever (1971)”

Rio Lobo is the third of the Rio Bravo trilogy with John Wayne. It is also Howard Hawkes’ final movie. You can tell that Hawkes wanted to go out on a high note because while a lot of this movie tried to adapt to the times, which were pretty damn cynical and sometimes not veryContinue reading “Rio Lobo (1970)”

William Holden in one final blaze of glory. Wild Bunch is a western movie about a group of guys who rob a bank but when they get back to their campsite where an old guy is waiting for them with some fresh horses they find out the only thing they shot their way out ofContinue reading “Wild Bunch (1969)”

No, that is not actually Lex Luthor, but it is close, isn’t it? James Bond has another movie and this time he has fallen head over heels for a woman who is the daughter of a mafia gangster. They spend a lot of time together and fortunately there is not too much focus on thisContinue reading “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)”

Wayne does not abide personal insults. True Grit was a western with John Wayne about a marshall who is employed by the daughter of a man who was shot by a no good convict that had been working for them. They set out together with some help from a marshall played by Glen Campbell toContinue reading “True Grit (1969)”

Eye of the tiger. This movie is about a family that is on a ship before the ship crashes during a storm into some rocks and the family goes ashore on a nearby island. While they are there they encounter pirates, find some animals and even make themselves their very own treehouse, which is basedContinue reading “Swiss Family Robinson (1960)”