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[Bud Brewster]

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A steamy romance between two master spies, a problem earthworms which are electrified and hungry for humans, and a mad scientist who things human can be improved by mixing reptilian DNA.

Gee, why didn't we think of that before?
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)



It took Roger Moore three movies to wiggle his feet firmly into the legendary shoes of James Bond, but Moore makes the wait worthwhile.

He still spends too much time arching one eyebrow and delivering cutesy puns after performing clever maneuvers, but the lavish production values, fine music, and gigantic sets endow "The Spy Who Loved Me" with a very Bond-class feel.

Both the plot and the villain are worthy of 007: Curt Jurgens (who, ironically, played the captain of a German submarine in "The Enemy Below") uses a customized oil tanker to scoop up atomic submarines so he can employ their missiles to destroy both Moscow and Washington, thereby triggering World War III.

Bond teams up with a luscious Russian agent (Barbara Bach). Together they take on the chrome-toothed "Jaws" (Richard Keil) and other bad-guy henchmen, including a lovely henchwoman (Caroline Monro). The car-versus-helicopter battle between Moore and Monro is a true beauty. The film's climax is a fine shoot-em-up between Jurgen's forces and the liberated crews of the captured British and American submarines.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert.

Moore's next film, "Moonraker", is the most overtly science fiction oriented story of all the Bond film's, complete with a space station and a rip-roaring space battle. For some reason, however, it didn't please the critics.
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Squirm (1976)



Neither radiation nor environmental abuses were invoked to explain the carnivorous earthworms that surface in a small Georgia town -- just plain old electricity.

When a couple of power lines fall to the ground on a rain-soaked night, the electricity brings up these nasty people-eaters who threatened Don Scardino, R. A. Dow, Fran Higgens, Patricia Pearcy, Jean Sullivan, and Peter MacLean.

Critics vary in their opinion of this thriller by writer-director Jeff Lieberman. Reportedly he used 250,000 earthworms (a trivia fact guaranteed to make you the hit of any party).

The poster for this one is a real winner. It reminds me of the one done for "The Bat People".


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Sssssss (1973)

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Mad scientist Strother Martin strives to develop a reptilian human that combines the most advantageous attributes of both species.

Several guinea-pig humans suffer a poor fate because of his experiments. A circus side show is allowed to display the freakish failures. Martin's next victim is his daughter's boyfriend (Dirk Benedict of "Battlestar Galactica" and "The A Team").

Unfortunately for Dirk, Martin's experiment finally succeeds — although the resulting cobra-man doesn't seem to be much of an improvement over man or snake.

Heather Menzies plays Martin's daughter. Directed without much skill by Bernard Kawalski. The makeup by John Chambers isn't particularly notable.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)