Showing posts with label James Coburn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Coburn. Show all posts

Monday, September 01, 2014

In Like Flint (1967) (Full movie)

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Yesterday I posted the full movie Our Man Flint in honor of what would've been James Coburn's 86th birthday. Today a followup to that post, the sequel In Like Flint.


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In Like Flint (1967)

Super-spy Flint takes on a cabal of women plotting to rule the world.




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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Today would've been James Coburn's 86th Birthday! (Our Man Flint 1966 - Full movie)

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Today would've been James Coburn's 86th Birthday! A popular actor as well as a student of Bruce Lee's ... I am posting one of his popular movies, Our Man Flint, in honor of what would've been his 86th birthday today.


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 Our Man Flint (1966)

 When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.



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Saturday, August 30, 2014

IN MEMORY OF: Charles Bronson (Nov 3, 1921 – Aug 30, 2003) - Hard Times (1975) (Full movie)

8/30/2014 10:54:00 AM  , , , , , , ,  2 comments



11 years ago today, actor, nay, cultural icon, Charles Bronson, left us all too soon. In his memory, I'm posting one of his best, if not THE best movie of his career.

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Trivia:

  • The movie was shot in 38 days in September 1974 in New Orleans, of which the final fight took more than a week alone.
  • Charles Bronson was nearly 53 when he appeared in this movie.
  • Charles Bronson's Chaney is a man of few words, speaking barely 500 of them in the entire course of the film.
  • Originally Chaney was supposed to be a much younger man, played by Jan-Michael Vincent. Bronson and Vincent co-starred in an earlier movie, The Mechanic (1972).
  • The producers were going to release the film under the title "The Street Fighter", but when the Shin'ichi "Sonny" Chiba film of the same name came out first (The Streetfighter (1974)), they reverted to the original screenplay title.
  • This movie was retitled 'The Streetfighter' for its original UK theatrical release so that it wouldn't be confused with Charles Dickens 'Hard Times' story of the same name. This was despite the fact that there apparently hadn't been a filmed version of this Dickens novel for sixty years, since Hard Times (1915). However, Hard Times (1977), a new version, was made and released within a couple of years of this film debuting.
  • The nickname of James Coburn's Spencer Weed character was Speed.
  • James Coburn also worked with Charles Bronson two other classics: The Magnificent Seven (1960) & The Great Escape (1963)
  • Charles Bronson's street-fighter Chaney character is said to punch like the way a mule kicks.
  • Roger Ebert in his October 14, 1975 review of Hard Times in the Chicago Sun-Times called it "a powerful, brutal film containing a definitive Charles Bronson performance."
  • First time director Walter Hill remembers that Bronson "was in remarkable physical condition for a guy his age; I think he was about 52 at the time. He had excellent coordination, and a splendid build. His one problem was that he was a smoker, so he didn’t have a lot of stamina. I mean, he probably could have kicked anybody’s a$$ on that movie, but he couldn’t fight much longer than 30 or 40 seconds."




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Sunday, December 01, 2013

Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do (Full movie)

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Continuing my Bruce Lee theme in celebration of what would've been his 72nd birthday, here is the full movie of Bruce Lee - Jeet Kune Do. This was made in 1995. Pretty well edited - as you have the actual voice of Bruce giving pointers on James Coburn's private lessons - mixed in with other footage and the audio of Bruce himself 'narrating' is awesome.


If you haven't watched this before, please check it out. If you have watched it before, well watch it again and think "Happy Birthday Bruce".


Enjoy!










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Saturday, September 07, 2013

Our Man Flint GIF Set 1

9/07/2013 11:00:00 AM  , ,  No comments

In honor of what would've been James Coburn's 85th birthday this past August 31st, I am making some animated GIF's from his Our Man Flint.








More to come. Enjoy!





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Saturday, August 31, 2013

James Coburn would've been 85 yrs old today!

8/31/2013 11:00:00 AM  , , ,  No comments

Source pic: A Certain Cinema

Today, please remember James Coburn. He gave us memories of the ultra-cool "Britt" (The Magnificent Seven), or The President's Analyst, or Speed in Charles Bronson's Hard Times or John H. Mallory in Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker! (aka A Fistful of Dynamite). You of course remember the James Bond spoofs where he played suave Derek Flint, right?

But for Bruce Lee fans, we know him as a student of Bruce Lee's. With his consent, his training footage of his private lessons with Bruce made its way to the video Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do. He, along with Steve McQueen, was one of the pall bearers for Bruce.



Mike Stone, James Coburn, Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee


He would've been 85 years old today!



James Coburn winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998's Affliction



Tribute video



As Britt in the Magnificent Seven - his switchblade vs the cowpoke's six-shooter



He is missed! Happy 85th Birthday James Coburn!


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