Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THUNDERBALL. The slightly faded James Bond formula is brightened by spectacular underwater effects, a few splashy conquests, and Sean Connery, who by now delivers his Jimcracks martini...
...SAMMY DAVIS JR. SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A previous commitment to ABC (see below) keeps Davis off his new show this week, so Actor Sean Connery, who has been crying loudly for a chance to be better than his Bond, gets a break...
Where the Spies Are, true to formula, dares the challenge of trying to keep its tongue in James Bond's cheek. The setting is Beirut this time, and the man of the Are is David Niven, droll indeed as a middle-aged physician and reckless driver. Photoflash rings, trick fountain pens and the transistor in his lower left molar rather embarrass him. Bribed by British intelligence (running short of certified spies, understandably) with the promise of a Cord Le Baron, Niven flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers...
Victim spends most of its time playing with props, mainly to belabor the notion of space-age IBM barrenness. It wields them clumsily, perhaps because it can't decide whether to have fun with them, as James Bond does, or to use them with unnerving and inscrutable dead-pan, as Godard does in Alphaville...
Gimmicks dominate characters. One has the constant sensation of being on a movie set. Where Bond carries a pen-sized aqua lung, Miss Andress calls a crane to kidnap the beach-house Mastroianni is sleeping in. The gimmick is bigger than she is. The whole set, the whole movie, become one tiresome gimmick...