Connection To FOR Y'UR HEIGHT ONLY - These are both inspired by/rip-offing/parodying James Bond.
Neil Connery is the younger brother of Sean, and wasn't an actor, I mean that in the way that he had no such plans to follow into the field like his brother, he seemed to be in the plastering business before an opportune producer - Dario Sabotello - saw him and saw that he resembled his brother enough - and thus was born the eurospy movie O.K. Connery (or Operation Kid Brother) which actually brought along 2 James Bond regulars Bernard Lee (M in the Bond movies) and Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny) as well Daniela Blanchi (From Russia With Love), Adolf Celli (Thunderball) and Anthony Dawson (Dr. No/From Russia With Love), you see what I mean by those resemblances?
Neil Connery (which is the name of the character he plays) is in this film the brother of an important agent and makes little references here and there to who it possibly could be, his skills are not really as a secret agent but rather as a hypnotist but he is good at archery and kung fu. Thankfully the hypnotist scenes are to get information and there is never a icky scene where he seduces a woman into bed because of it.
The film has a pretty good Bond-soundalike score, Ennio Morricone was one of the films composers (along with Bruno Nicolai) and is one of my favourites of all time so I am biased.
Then there is a bunch of showgirls fighting a bunch of soldiers and winning and then turning the truck into something really called - The Wild Pussy Truck - it's a short scene but I loved it/ It was also fun seeing some of the Bond alumni in this, Maxwell gets more to do then she ever did in the Bond films, while Lee as Commander Cunningham might as well have been called M, but he too pops up more then he did in the Bond films.
Overall I found it an enjoyable movie. I think it's because of how much I enjoy Bond movies that it was fun seeing a film have such bare cheek of using the successful name of that franchise for it's own gain, not a good film by any stretch of the imagination though.
Neil Connery (which is the name of the character he plays) is in this film the brother of an important agent and makes little references here and there to who it possibly could be, his skills are not really as a secret agent but rather as a hypnotist but he is good at archery and kung fu. Thankfully the hypnotist scenes are to get information and there is never a icky scene where he seduces a woman into bed because of it.
The film has a pretty good Bond-soundalike score, Ennio Morricone was one of the films composers (along with Bruno Nicolai) and is one of my favourites of all time so I am biased.
Then there is a bunch of showgirls fighting a bunch of soldiers and winning and then turning the truck into something really called - The Wild Pussy Truck - it's a short scene but I loved it/ It was also fun seeing some of the Bond alumni in this, Maxwell gets more to do then she ever did in the Bond films, while Lee as Commander Cunningham might as well have been called M, but he too pops up more then he did in the Bond films.
Overall I found it an enjoyable movie. I think it's because of how much I enjoy Bond movies that it was fun seeing a film have such bare cheek of using the successful name of that franchise for it's own gain, not a good film by any stretch of the imagination though.
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