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| Tuesday January 25 00:26:40 2005 Re: [4854] One Of Our Spies Is Missing (1966) |
| Biff wrote:
> In at least one airing of the movie, on TNT (IIRC), there > was only a handgag at around the 22' mark. Check your > copy of Marburger's for his take on the matter. Could you recap that for us? |
| Brian R |
| Tuesday January 25 03:19:47 2005 Re: [4854] One Of Our Spies Is Missing (1966) |
| Brian R wrote:
> Could you recap that for us? > "ONE OF OUR SPIES IS MISSING (1966) -- This film was originally a two part episode of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. ("The Bridge of Lions Affair"), starring Maurice Evans as a reactionary and aging British politician who wants to punish England for ousting Winston Churchill after the close of the Second World War. Vera Miles is the Paris fashion and beauty expert who has access to the rejuvenation formula Evans covets. Robert Vaughn in London and David McCallum in Paris collectively put the pieces together. Movie Star News offers a still showing a dark, young Latin girl with heavy lashes tied and gagged under the watchful eye of a strapping young woman in a jungle girl dress (only one shoulder strap) who is intimidating her with a horrid-looking bodkin. A wide strip of tape is pasted over the girl's mouth and her hands are behind her. My guess is that this is some of the "adult" footage that was added to the theatrical release. The girl could be any one of a bevy of lovelies in the film. First billing among ingenues goes to Ann Elder. My own guess is that it is Anna Capri (as Do Do). But, of course, there are still Monica Keating and Dolores Faith." |
| Biff |
| Tuesday January 25 05:53:40 2005 Re: [4854] One Of Our Spies Is Missing (1966) |
| Biff wrote:
Movie Star News > offers a still showing a dark, young Latin girl with > heavy lashes tied and gagged under the watchful eye of a > strapping young woman in a jungle girl dress (only one > shoulder strap) who is intimidating her with a > horrid-looking bodkin. A wide strip of tape is pasted > over the girl's mouth and her hands are behind her. That doesn't sound familiar from the British release I saw, though it could be in other versions of the film. UNCLE's tape gags were usually pretty good, too. I remembered the name Lorelei, because we'd not long done the classic German poem at school. Here was one siren who *wouldn't* be singing! > guess is that this is some of the "adult" > footage that was added to the theatrical release. It may also have been edited out, or never included, like the ball gag sequence in "Alias", which also appeared as a Press release. The character was sweet and very naive; perhaps British and other censors thought the scene was too strong for kids who would have identified with her. Actual murders of such characters were uncommon in the light-hearted UNCLE, and Lorelei's was somewhat shocking. Going by reports of our Hammer Studios making more graphic versions of their horror flicks for the Far East, where tastes were more violent, I shouldn't be surprised if this tape gag and knife scene is in Japanese prints of OOOSIM. Best to qualify any mention of it, I think. |
| Mad Dan |
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