Word: frobes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), a freelance mastermind operating in today's chaotic Russia, has a dreary back story explaining how he went wrong instead of truly evil elan. Big mistake: we don't want motivation in a Bond nemesis; we want psychosis on a joyous, cosmic scale. Gert Frobe, you are missed...
Just as the stream of self-conscious ness winds down to a thin treacle, the film-and the car-take flight. Caractacus spins a tale of adventure, with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the hero. The car soars and sails, evil Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) covets it and unleashes comic villains to kidnap its owner. Instead, they get Grandpa. Off he goes to Vulgaria, a horrid land where children are forbidden. Underneath the baron's castle, the banished boys and girls have hidden for years, waiting for salvation...
...English granted him a full pardon. The movies, however, have not. In Triple Cross he has been doublecrossed with an overblown, underdeveloped film in which he is misplayed to disadvantage by Christopher Plummer. Surrounding Plummer is a competent cast, including Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider, Claudine Auger and Gert Frobe. But the whole enterprise seems to suggest that a spy does not necessarily improve the more times he crosses his employers. A triple agent can be three times duller than a single...
...group of engineers, scientists and charlatans, headed by P. T. Barnum (Burl Ives), decides to shoot the moon with a rocket ship to be sent up by German Genius Gert Frobe. The pilot: blond, bland Troy Donahue, ideal candidate for the world's first astronaught. Before the plot can get off the ground, two dastardly schemers (Lionel Jeffries and Terry Thomas) bet millions that the trip will fail, then try to sabotage the rocket for insurance. Only after some circuitous antique-automobile and bicycle chases and other mandatory sequences for period comedy does launch time occur-accidentally sending Jeffries...
...years after the murder, the prince will have the pleasure of watching someone else do the job. His recent book, The End of Rasputin, is being filmed near the prince's home in Paris, with English Actor Peter McEnery giving the fatal mugging to Gert (Goldfinger) Frobe...