Ill-fated attempt at creating a sort of amphibious counterpart to Modesty Blaise (whose own attempts at cinematic translation weren’t exactly well-fated to begin with) starring Raquel Welch as an undercover agent – under the cover, and that’s pushing it, of a startling lime green bikini – sent to recover an atomic device from those pesky commies. Unusually for an unashamed Hollywood star vehicle, it is lent some decidedly eccentric ‘Brit’ touches by the deployment of a brass-blaring Johnny Dankworth soundtrack and, somewhat more jarringly, by the presence of a very young Richard Briers as an unlikely ‘handsome’ male sidekick.
Fathom
1967
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Trad Jazz Britannia
Friday, 21.00, BBC4It always amuses us when we see clips of Double Your Money and notice the category board includes both “jazz (traditional)” and “jazz (modern)”, though it is true that at that point trad really was big news, the nascent Pick of the Pops spinning off from Trad Tavern being just one example of its hold on the nation’s teens in the early sixties, despite it being influenced by music some forty years old at the time.
Worth mentioning too the great Clive “Funny, I thought I was in The Empire Strikes Back” Revill as a very strange villain, with a monocle and a ten degrees lower than normal body temperature. He must have been boiling in that Spanish heat all wrapped up like that.
“Hey, Richard! I’m up here!”
“I’ve made my choice.”
Raquel Welch? Felicity Kendal? That Richard Briers has had a tough life, hasn’t he?
It’s on tv (film 4) Sun 19th. Might try and watch them, ….er, it.