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Lemme see if I can come up with a common element — a theme, so to speak — for the three movies below.

~ The Last Days of Man on Earth is about the only guy on Earth who isn't sterile, and he has sex with the last woman who can have babies. But things don't go well.

~ Live and Let Die is about the most popular movie spy, and he robs Jean Seymour of both her virginity and here clairvoyance.

~ Madame Sin (1971) is a 1972 TV movie in which CIA agent Robert Wagner has sex with Catherine Schell, and then she poisons him.

Okay, so what's the common theme? Hmmm . . . Confused

Ah-ha! I've got it! Sex is more damn trouble than it's worth. (Gee, I sure wish I known that sixty years ago. Rolling Eyes)

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The Last Days of Man on Earth (1974 England)

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[Also released as: "The Final Programme"]

Writer-director Robert Fuest ("The Abominable Dr. Phibes") attempted this screen version of Michael Moorcock's literary hero, Jerry Cornelius, a genetically superior human being.

Set in a post-holocaust future, Cornelius (Jon Finch) is looking for a lost microfilm with information needed to reverse the effects of mankind's sterility. Jenny Runacre has other ideas; she isn't sterile, and she wants to mate with Finch to produce a superman messiah. They try it, but the results are decidedly disappointing.

The plot is fast-paced, but it isn't glued together very well, resulting in a frustratingly episodic narrative. However, there are no complaints with the supporting cast: Sterling Hayden, Patrick Magee, Harry Andres, George Coulouris, and Julie Ege ("The Creatures that Time Forgot", "The Mutations").

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Live and Let Die (1973)

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After George Lazenby flunked his big-budget audition for the role of James Bond, producers Broccoli and Saltzman gave the coveted job to Saint veteran Roger Moore.

Moore is likeable enough, but his portrayal of Bond is markedly different from that of Sean Connery, who played Bond as a very dangerous man who had a taste for culture. Moore played him as a cultured aristocrat who could sometimes be dangerous (with the help of stunt men).

Frankly, Moore isn't overly convincing in either aspect of Bond's two-sided character.

Live and Let Die, as a film, is flawed in much the same way; neither the action nor the exposition are very convincing. The film attempts a few things that really do not fit in with the secret agent genre; Clifton James' redneck sheriff (J. W. Pepper) seems totally out of place — and yet he appears again in the next Bond film.

And the villain of the story is a black drug lord, a character-type done much better on weekly TV cop shows.

But Live and Let Di does possess a totally Bond-quality speed-boat chase through a Louisiana canal system, complete with high-flying jumps. And Jane Seymour is fetching as the Bonb-girl clairvoyant reader of Tarot cards.

David Hedison (The Fly and the TV version of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) plays CIA agent Felix Leiter in the character's third appearance in a bond film. Hedison played Leiter again in License to Kill.

Directed by Guy Hamilton, who also did Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever, two of the better Bond films.

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Madame Sin (1971)

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Ever wonder what Fu Manchu would look like if Christopher Lee looked just like Bette Davis?

Stop wondering, here's the answer.

Ms. Davis plays the evil Madam Sin, an oriental villainess who is plotting world conquest from her Scottish castle, fully equipped with laboratory, sonic weapons, hypnotic drugs, etc.

She abducts Robert Wagner, an ex-CIA man whom she frames as a defector. Then she dupes him into helping her kidnap a naval officer and steal a nuclear submarine. European audiences paid to see this pilot for an unsold TV series. American's had to rent it on video cassette.

Directed by David Greene. Robert Wagner was also served as executive producer.

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~ The Space Children (1958)
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