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In Like Flint (1967)

 
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:07 pm    Post subject: In Like Flint (1967) Reply with quote



Derek Flint is back, that super-duper secret agent who stops his heart when he wants to relax, keeps his own private harem, and knows absolutely everything.

This time he takes on an ambitious group of scheming ladies who plan to dominate the world by substituting look-alikes for world leaders and using electronically rigged hair dryers to brainwash all the women (!).






This sequel to Our Man Flint is slanted more toward comedy than the original, with a little less action and a lot more camp. The spy craze had waned a bit, so the producers wisely elected to make the comedy more overt. Both the original and the sequel are highly enjoyable.





The funniest line in the film is delivered by Coburn when he learns that the President has been replaced by an ex-actor whose face was changed by plastic surgery. Coburn looks amazed as he mumbles to himself, "An actor as president!"

Prophetic.






Good music by Jerry Goldsmith. Lee J. Cobb returns as the head of ZOWIE. Jean Hale is the pretty blonde heroine.





Yvonne Craig (Batgirl) is a hot-blooded Russian ballerina, and Andrew Duggan is the true villain of the piece.





A few passable special effects enliven the climax, in which Flint is launched into space and ends up in a capsule with blonde Russian cosmonauts. Forgive the science faux pas presented by the scene in which Flint uses his sonic beaming belt buckle to propel himself through space to reach the capsule with the hot Russian babes in it.







Directed by Gordon Douglas. Rumor has it that The President's Analyst (which starred Coburn) inherited certain aspects of an unmade third Flint film.

The promotional artwork done for the film by Robert McGinnus (the great artist responsible for the Bond posters) is outstanding. Here are a few examples.




















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PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A cross post from my Blu-ray thread but PROOF, once again, that Yvonne Craig loves me. She said so in writing;




I had the pleasure of meeting Miss Craig at her very first convention appearance in Canada in 2013. It was quite the weekend...a fan convention on the first floor of the Winnipeg Convention Center and THE WORLD OF WHEELS car show on the third floor complete with examples of all Batmobiles. Adam West and Burt Ward were in attendence as well.

IN LIKE FLINT is available on Blu-ray as a limited edition released by Twilight Time and sold through the Screen Archives website. Only about 500 copies remain available (of the original 3,000 issued).

When I had Yvonne Craig sign the insert, she was surprised it was on Blu-ray and passed the insert around to members of her "entourage".
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The most recent episode of Timeless took place in Las Vegas in 1962 with great shots of the strip, showing marquees featuring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. The episode showed JFK in a hotel room with a misstress, and the hotel guests around the swimming pools applauding while they casually watch an A-bomb test create a mushroom cloud about 6 miles away in the desert.

Actual tests were in fact conducted about 65 miles from Vegas, and they lite up the sky at night, much to the delight of the Vegas visitors. I was surprised to learn that when I looked it up during the episode. Shocked

It reminded me just how wild and crazy the 1960s were, and how the Flint films did such a great job of illustrating the madness of that era.



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 7:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We didn't see much of JFK, and only saw Frank Sinatra, singing in the casino, from behind, but the episode did seem to capture the time pretty well... even if it was a bit strange not to have a major historical event being messed about with. One wonders if, after setting up the first two episodes, the writers were given the go-ahead for a whole series, and then decided that they needed to add a new character, Anthony, a trusted co-worker on the time machine project who'd been abducted by Flynn... or was he on Flynn's side all along?

Hmm, Flint, Flynn? I assume the original movie title was based on the amorous-adventure reputation of ol' Errol, as in "In like Flynn"...

In the movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Wikipedia comments, the main character Austin Powers (while being on honeymoon with his new wife Vanessa Kensington) switches on the TV to a scene from In Like Flint. He mentions to Vanessa that it is his favourite movie. The phone in Austin's car has the same ringtone (but reversed) as the Z.O.W.I.E. telephone in the beginning of this film.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 2:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Boy, I remember this movie well! I was in my late teens at the time and this was a complete escapist romp! As much as I realized that this was a complete farce and far from reality-----I thought---- Boy, wouldn't it be FUN to be him!

That in a nutshell is the power of film!

To transport you into a dreamworld of not only the unlikely, but the impossible!

Thankfully....I've also had some of that magic touch my own life!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
When Derek Flint is told that an actor is impersonating the president as part of the plot by the villains, he mumbles, "An actor . . . as president?" as if the idea is preposterous. It's an ironic comment in view of the fact that Ronald Reagan became president 14 years later.

Note from me: Anyone viewing this movie for the first time after 1981 who didn't realize the joke came before Reagan's election would think the film was poking fun at a historical event, rather than predicting the event! But the filmmakers probably based the joke on the actual event described in this next IMDB trivia.

At one point Flint says "An actor? As President?" When this film came out, actor Ronald Reagan - who would in fact later become President - had just been elected Governor of California, and actor George Murphy was two years into his term as a US Senator from California. So actors seeking high political office were very much a topic of the day.

In fact the idea of Ronald Reagan specifically seeking the presidency was very much a topic at the time of this movie.

Reagan's abortive run at the presidency in 1968 is largely forgotten. However, even when he won the governorship of California in '66, he was known to have misgivings about GOP front-runner Richard Nixon. He made it known early on that he was available as a compromise candidate if nobody arrived at the 1968 Republican convention with a majority. So the comment in IN LIKE FLINT was almost certainly a direct and deliberate reference to Ronald Reagan.
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PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2017 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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On an NPR program called "Wait, Wait! Don't Tell Me!" (a quiz show based on events in the news), the host of the show made this amusing remark.

"For years we've said that anybody could become president in America. That used to be a promise about The Land of Opportunity. Now it's more of a warning!"

He was, of course, talking about our illustrious "Con Artist in Chief", the Prince of Prevarication, the Man of a Thousand Falsehoods, that brother-from-another-mother to Kim Jong Un . . . our very own Don John Trump!
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PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2017 12:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe I'm being over-sensitive, but I'm starting to have the suspicion that you don't like Donald Trump... Surprised
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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just think... there was a whole shrubbery of Bushes as president or at least a candidate for the job, and we nearly had a second Clinton... and now at least one member of the current president's clan seems interested in following on. So maybe Donald will not be "the last trump"...
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 6:46 pm    Post subject: Re: In Like Flint (1967) Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
This time he takes on an ambitious group of scheming ladies who plan to dominate the world by substituting look-alikes for world leaders and using electronically rigged hair dryers to brainwash all the women (!).

So did they get the "hair dryers" from Brak?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Here's a few interest trivia items for IMDB, and the original trailer for this enjoyable movie.
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The W.P. Lear Sr. listed in the credits (his character co-pilots Flint's Lear Jet) is William Powell Lear, the inventor of the Lear Jet.

Note from me: I'm impressed. This is certainly not a cameo anyone would have noticed without the title credit! And as Flint is boarding his jet, he asks Lear if he emptied the ashtrays. Lear grins and says, "Naw! I gotcha new plane!"

This was the final film that Twentieth Century Fox produced in its CinemaScope process. Later productions shot in anamorphic widescreen would use Panavision or other optics.

Note from me: This is an interesting fact for devoted film fans!

When Derek Flint is told that an actor is impersonating the president as part of the plot by the villains, he mumbles, "An actor . . . as president?" as if the idea is preposterous. It's an ironic comment in view of the fact that Ronald Reagan became president 14 years later.

Note from me: Anyone viewing this movie for the first time after 1981 who didn't realize the joke came before Reagan's election would think the film was poking fun at a historical event, rather than predicting the event! But the filmmakers probably based the joke on the actual event described in this next IMDB trivia.

At one point Flint says "An actor? As President?" When this film came out, actor Ronald Reagan - who would in fact later become President - had just been elected Governor of California, and actor George Murphy was two years into his term as a US Senator from California. So actors seeking high political office were very much a topic of the day.

Note from me: The fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger also became governor of California makes the joke even funnier!

When Elizabeth (Anna Lee) first meets Flint, around the 76 minute mark, she calls him 'Mr Flynn', then corrects herself. It is unclear whether it was a deliberate in-joke, as the film's title derives from the saying 'In like Flynn' (referring to Errol Flynn), or a Freudian slip, or just a simple mistake.

Note from me: And we'll never know the truth, either! Shocked

This film came out a few months before the launch of the original Star Trek series. While Leonard Nimoy had the idea for the "Vulcan nerve pinch" during the first season, Derek Flint uses the same neck pinch months earlier to paralyze the fake President, which could indicate a subconscious nod to Flint by Nimoy.

Note from me: So, the "Vulcan nerve pinch" is actually the "Flint never pinch"! Wow . . . who knew!? Shocked

Enjoy the original trailer.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 12:54 pm    Post subject: Re: In Like Flint (1967) Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
. . . Good music by Jerry Goldsmith. Lee J. Cobb returns as the head of ZOWIE. Jean Hale is the pretty blonde heroine.



Hmm . . . Jean Hale and Anne Randall (Playboy's Miss May 1967). What do you think -- separated at birth?

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I'm not sure. I'd have to see them both naked, side by side, to be certain. Confused

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