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welcome to vintage video where we're

re-watching the 80s so you don't have to

we'll be reviewing every major film

release of the 1980s in real time i'm

patrick o'reilly i'm jesse bayless and

i'm richard wells and today marks the

40th anniversary of the release of

folks aka north sea hijack

on april 18 1980. i'm pronouncing it

folks because

it is two lowercase yeah lowercase

that's the important part

well it's two f's in a row though right

yeah is this a

is this a norwegian thing i think it's a

let's try to be interesting thing it's

also from a book

the book that it was adapted from was

written by jack davies

and it was called esther ruth and

jennifer this was directed by

andrew v mcglaglin or mcleglin

and released by universal pictures uh

somehow imdb trivia says both

that roger moore enjoyed this film more

than any of his bond films

and that he thinks he was terribly

miscast for the role

i was looking at that i was like like i

don't understand well i think

i i think i can see where he's coming

from as far as i was the worst part of

this movie is that what he's saying well

i i

i think that he had been known for james

bond and this is not a very

bond role uh sure

this is this is more of a an m or a q

roll sure q roll

uh q mixes it up uh he doesn't do a lot

of hand to hand stuff

no no no not very tactical um so that's

why i like that's why i both

hate i'm not living daylights but the

second time they don't won the license

kill uh i like that q mixes it up in it

but i

hate that movie yeah no it's uh

i still think both of the timothy dalton

installments are underrated

we're gonna be talking a lot about james

bond yes because i also feel like

half my notes yeah well when you hear

roger moore

saying that he enjoyed this more than

any of his bond films i have a feeling

that was like

during the press for this movie because

that's also like page one of hey so

you've decided you're playing james bond

and you want more money for the next

movie pretend you hate playing james

bond

yeah because the joke has always been

that the only actor who doesn't want to

play james bond is the one who's

currently playing him

and that's because you're required to

pretend you hate it so that you get more

money for the next movie

anyway he's done playing james bond

daniel craig can go away he can go away

two movies ago

oh well i don't blame him for those

movies but

i blame him for everything from casino

royale forward

i believe him because he accepted the

role i just don't like who it's james

bond

well he accepted the role for a lot i

disagree he's not he's not my bond

hashtag not my bond

part of the impetus for taking this role

for roger moore

was that uh he wanted to break the bond

type casting

um and yet the poster for this is very

similar to the poster for diamonds are

forever did you look at them yeah yeah

i have to throw that on the instagram so

the the poster for this movie

is him inexplicably with two bikini-clad

women wrapped around him

junk supposed on top of an exploding oil

rig in the background

there was no bikini women in this movie

at all

but he loves women so much so it makes

sense

throughout the film that he loves women

and being draped in them

and uh the poster for diamonds are

forever is literally sean connery with a

bunch of bikini glad women on him

and an exploding oil rig in the

background it's the exact same thing but

it doesn't make any sense for this movie

because

he hates women and when he says he was

trying to break the type casting of

james bond

like it seems weird that you're like oh

being like a womanizer

is the opposite of being a chauvinist

yeah

it's like no no they're both they're

both not respecting women

like it's like usually i'm very debonair

but here i'm very off-putting

like no also the opposite but i'm also

an alcoholic in both so

right but i have a beard now so it's not

typecast as a guy without a beard

anymore

grizzly adams did have a beard

prior to filming irish newspapers had

reported

that at some point robert mitchum and

then donald sutherland

would be the main villain but anthony

perkins was added to the cast late

oh yeah and i would see like robert

mitchum more as the

folks character sure yeah like he that i

would i would

i would like that i think anthony

perkins is a very weird choice for this

yeah speaking of people trying to break

their typecasting exactly

that was a problem that he dealt with

for a long time um we start this film

about folks uh it was called folks here

it was called north sea hijack in the uk

when it was originally released

which i prefer yeah what north sea

hijacks yeah no it's a better title

i think the only reason they get called

folks here was because they were like

franchise

come on let's do a franchise but it

didn't take off

folks is his last name his first name is

rufus and his middle name is excalibur

yeah which uh is an interesting choice

times three uh at the beginning

folks is lecturing the folks fusiliers

yeah which is the name of his team

both words are double f's and fusiliers

basically means like rifleman

um they're doing a scuba exercise

and they get word that fletcher has a

job for them yeah

it's not a real job yeah and and by the

way they are

civilians right they are not military

they are

an independent contractor is folks

retired military though

um i don't remember if they say

i thought he was but um either way

at this point he is a civilian and he

has this team of

civilian basically mercenaries and

they're just practicing doing

underwater missions because they just

hope that the navy will need them at

some point

right because britain has a notoriously

shitty navy

but uh so fletcher calls them in someone

asks if he'll be staying at his usual

club

when he goes to visit with fletcher and

he says the committee

voted to admit females on the premises

so i

i quit that club so i can't even stay at

that place anymore

it feels like he might just be

never right i'm not gonna go there

he gets on a train to go meet with

fletcher and starts just chugging liquor

in their train car and uh it's it's like

one of those uh

it's a sleeper car but he's sitting

across from these

this couple and the woman takes out a

cigarette and starts smoking he's like

this is a non-smoking car

and she's like well my husband doesn't

care and he's like okay well

i do and it's a non-smoking car so they

get up and leave

um i did think it was funny she she asks

like

do you even have a ticket for this train

like she's that like upset about him

asking yeah

and he says well you're dressed very

weird for a ticket taker but

here's my ticket and i wanted her to

just throw it out the window

because she's just sitting on that side

of the train and have him be like

completely caught off guard like um

just show him like walking along the

side of the tracks trying to find his

tickets so he can get on another train

after he pisses off this woman and gets

her to leave the the cart he goes to

meet with fletcher who says

we need a way to protect oil platforms

that are out in the middle of like

international waters basically

they're not protected by the navy

they're not protected by any air force

they're beyond all those jurisdictions

and something's going to happen at some

point

and they're going to need our help and

so i want you to start practicing now

to take over this oil platform from

pirates basically uh very prescient of

him to just

assume this is something that will

immediately happen fletcher by the way

is a representative of lloyd's of london

uh which is

insuring the platform but knows that

there's no military that would protect

it so

yeah he's basically hiring a private

military i i will say that this fear

isn't entirely

unfounded because i feel i don't know if

this had ever happened yet in the 80s

but

seizing of oil rigs is is a very large

threat right

and this one happens to be worth a lot

of money although the number fluctuates

uh multiple times over the course of the

film and you're really confused when

they talk about thousand millions

yes i think that's actually a mistake

when it gets said the first time and the

second time it's

it's not a mistake so it's very

confusing here he says

that the price check for this particular

oil platform is

200 million pounds pound sterling right

we cut to norway where a group of

journalists

are coming aboard the esther which is

the name of

basically a supply ship yeah it's your

air force one scenario where they're

pretending to be

media right and right away you know that

these are the hijackers because we just

cut from a scene that said

hey hijackers are probably going to get

on the oil rig and they're like here's

six unnamed men coming onto your ship

and apparently also that this is like

sometime later i guess because yeah he's

already

had time to plan for such things

yeah when when fletcher is hiring folks

he says the weather's really bad this

time of year so they probably won't try

anything for another five or six months

and so he's like that's how much time

you have to practice this

so the group of journalists board the

boat as they're being walked through the

boat he brings them up to

the first officer uh mickelson who is

steering the ship and he tells them

about their autopilot function

and they're like yeah we know all about

it and then they kill mickelson i mean

they can just give themselves away like

100 feet from the dock

because it doesn't matter because the

ship's already moving and they're

basically in control of it

yeah so they tell everyone to get into

the same area except for basically the

captain

on the bridge the hijackers announced

that there's a bomb that's already

installed on the ship

and every time they announce a new bomb

they do a crazy reveal

of the like ticker tape uh label

right of this one's on esther

yeah see if you can guess where the next

two are

they're delivering a package to ruth

which is a drilling rig

and these these members of the press

brought a bunch of extra equipment like

at the last second they were like

oh this stuff is all going to ruth so

you have to load this on the ship too

presumably this is all the material they

need for the other bombs that they're

adding right

so as they pull up to the roof

drilling rig they their explosive

experts install mines underneath the

drilling rig

to the support structure and then

they move to install a bomb under the

production platform

jennifer so we have three bombs one on

the supply ship one on the drilling rig

and one on the production platform

and this is when they call in their

threat and make their demands to

jennifer which is

there's a staff on the production

platform that's receiving this code it's

actually a lot of offices it seems like

right like there must be a manufacturing

portion of it but it seems like they

also have like nice offices

and there's hundreds of people working

on this platform but this is

where anthony perkins when he's

saying the price of the when he's

talking about just jennifer

he says this bomb is going to go off at

this time and this bomb is going to go

off at this time and then he says

and if by 1 o'clock you haven't uh

gotten us our money then

down goes jennifer all 2 000 million

dollars of her it's like okay we heard

200 million

pounds but now we're hearing 2 000

million dollars which i have a feeling

that

the only reason they changed from pounds

to dollars is so that people wouldn't

think it was the weight of the thing

yeah for an american audience but he

says 2000 which is clearly 10 times more

than what the other guy said this thing

cost

and if you weren't confused about

currency exchanges wait till he asks for

his ransom to be paid in 5 million

sums of pounds yen marks franks and

dollars

yes which would be constantly

fluctuating and very difficult to keep

track of

the money market is so unstable these

days so i looked it up

uh because i was confused about the say

uh thousand million

and so sometime in the 70s it turns out

that

the way that uh england and america

designated what a billion was was

different

yeah so what what i think and

it seems to have differing accounts

depending on which website you're

looking at but it sounds like the

a what we now call a trillion is what

england call a billion called a billion

interesting and

a thousand million which america called

a billion

then became sometime in the 70s adapted

by

england so that exchanges were more

consistent because they were having

trouble

you know matching that because they were

not talking about the same term

well that's funny because right before

we watched this movie you were watching

an episode of the crown

and i made a note about how the queen

had just said a thousand million on that

show

yeah because they why does she say that

because a billion would have actually

been

a trillion right because they weren't

due because they used thousand millions

instead of billions

before the mid 70s but either way here

tony perkins is clearly accidentally

multiplying the cost of the production

rig by 10

because they would have like 2 billion

dollars is

a very different amount of money than

200 million

at this point the prime minister gets a

call from the guy that's running the

production platform

jennifer and lets her know all the

demands

and she says that

the cost of just the jennifer platform

or what her advisors are telling her

what the cost would be

if this these bombs go off and they say

for just the jennifer platform

renewing it at today's prices would be

in the region of fifteen thousand

million pounds

and they say not counting the pollution

and not counting the other two things

that are gonna sink

the loss of revenue of the oil that

won't be produced right they said just

for this one platform the cost would be

fifteen thousand million pounds

which is now like eight times the number

that

tony perkins just misquoted which was 10

times the original number so this thing

is just getting more and more expensive

by the second it's like made out of

bitcoin basically

the advisors basically recommend paying

the terrorists because

it's not it's not financially

viable to replace this thing and there's

no way that they can get out there and

defend it

without giving themselves away because

they're at sea

and unless they pile a bunch of

commandos into a submarine

they're not going to be able to get out

there and demine all these platforms

she she shuts that down and says i don't

want to pay terrorists

and then they say well there's another

option we could just let lloyds pay the

terrorists

and turn a blind eye to it yeah or

handle it however else they would like

to implying

maybe they want to employ mercenaries to

put an end to this and that's

his implication that they could hire

someone to do something and they also

have a plan to

evacuate ruth since she's out of visual

range right

of uh of this of this jennifer yeah

and and bastard yeah because esther is

basically parked right off

right of jennifer at this point so uh

fletcher has brought in

fletcher from lloyd's and he shows the

prime minister video

of some exercises some that folks has

been staging

uh and she's very impressed and admiral

brinston is there

yeah and that's uh james mason yeah he

is impressed but he wants to meet with

folks before they officially hire him

right

and so he's initially against civilians

doing military action

yeah because he thinks that that's their

job but he but he understands that

they're in a pinch

yeah and he's the he's the admiral of

the fleet

so him and captain phillips go

to see folks which we have we

we've already had in this uh when

they're taking over the ship we did have

a i'm the captain now see

yeah may i speak to captain olefson

please i am

the temporary captain of this tub and

you're going to be taking your orders

from me for the time being

look at me sure look at me sure i'm the

captain now and so now we're actually

introducing a captain phillips uh in

between here is just a quick insert of a

scene of

the crew wondering if they could get

away with poisoning

the the terrorists right it's just a

quick it's just a quick aside nothing

happens it's just

because the girl sauna says off that's

the captain yeah because she doesn't

have a key to the poison cabinet

so they go to meet with folks and uh he

is

actively doing an exercise with his men

he's built like a replica

of the supply ship in the in the form of

like a cage that he has in a lake

outside of his castle

yeah which this is supposed to be in

scotland he he basically lives in a

castle

is this a castle that he has yes and

that's his castle

i'm assuming yeah because he seems to be

heir to some kind of a fortune which he

says

in his will is to be left to his cats he

brings them in to his office

which is just full of cats and

did you guys get any implication that

folks is supposed to be gay

i think that that's maybe something that

jesse was hinting at earlier

yeah i decided not to go there because i

wasn't sure

if that was what they were getting at or

not i feel like there's

at least implications in that direction

i don't i don't know if they're

specifically

making that point well it seems it's a

weird character choice i think to

to hate women so much and to not have

him turn on this character choice

throughout the entire movie

right i think he says he was married

though

right yeah that's not that that means

anything yeah but

i just assume he's a he's a cranky in

cell that has

yeah toxoplasmosis sure yeah he does

have a pile of cats

but then because he says something later

but that won't happen my men know their

way around a man's anatomy

um and so i was just like are they all

gay maybe they're all gay

maybe but who knows uh yeah i like also

there's a running gag

of uh folks ragging on a guy named

harris right

yeah like this is like harris he's

constantly calling out specifically

harris for screwing up

but which which is a joke that plays

pays awfully yeah it really does it's

great

but uh he he tells princeton that his

plan

is that he will pose as the admiral's

flag man

and that they will offer themselves as

additional hostages as the deadline is

coming up

and that his men will be underwater

already like infiltrating the ship

but that when they come to a specific

deadline that he will take out the

target

of whichever terrorist is like leading

this

this whole hijacking and that his men

will disable the rest of the ship and

keep the hostages safe

back on the ship one of the hijackers

tries to take advantage of their the

soul female hostage cena

uh santa but the captain like very

quickly realizes oh wait

i probably shouldn't leave her alone

with that guy yeah so that that it gets

interrupted there but the implication is

still that at some point one of these

guys is going to try to make a move on

her

uh make a move out you mean rape

yeah rape move right move

we're talking about these uh pirates

raping her uh

jennifer tells the hijackers that the

admiral is on route

and uh gets reluctant permission from

tony perkins who's very upset yeah

because he didn't clear any

landing he did he doesn't want to see

any jets because he's afraid that he's

probably going to get bombed

um before he can push a button and

uh santa asks the captain for the poison

key

storm hits the ship just as folks and

the admiral are landing

a woman tries to help folks with his bag

but he freaks out on her because she's a

woman and he's mad that they even let

women

women on the oil platform and she

mentions

oh there's eight of us things are

improving that way a gigantic

step backwards very upset that they let

women do jobs on esther the captain asks

a fellow hostage to police get his pipe

from his room

he gives a very specific location of

where the pipe is located right

and he's also asking for something that

the location should be obvious so that

he knows that what's in this location is

not

what he said so when that when the other

hostage goes down to his room

he sees all the pipes aren't even in a

drawer and then he looks in the drawer

that was specified and that's where the

poison key is which he pockets and then

picks up the pipe

which he brings back to the captain in

the there's

in like the cafeteria like the mess hall

basically and uh they're trying to

decide who's gonna go

get this poison out of the cabinet

and uh they decide that one of the

people that's with them the person who

brought all the press on board

is sick he seems like he's seasick i

don't know if he's actually sick or if

he's pretending to be sick right

but but or if he's actually sick or he's

pretending to be sick we cut the pacman

for a second

hold on there's a gyarados outside

googly i was googling things and i hit

the microphone button

and then i and then i canceled the

microphone button that's good

i don't know if he's actually sick or

pretending to be sick

but uh they decide that he's the person

who would most likely be going to the

hospital on the ship

because there's a whole hospital built

into the ship

yeah i feel like uh the word infirmary

would have been a better choice but

but i feel because this is like a

british production that

they're interchangeable maybe well it's

just like one of those things like that

they they just have

different names for the same thing but

they use the

a different word but what's also

frustrating is that santa is like

on her way out the door to be like i'm

the only person who they would trust

going to the infirmary

and then they're like wait you're sick

why don't you do it and they give

a stranger the key yeah and then

he's like all right cool yeah thanks

guys and he leaves and they're like wow

that went

really smoothly i'm surprised he wasn't

more worried and then they're like oh

god he's

he's one of the bad guys that's that was

really dumb of us yeah and so they go to

intercept him on his way back up to the

bridge and lock him in a closet

and then they basically take the key

back and go to the cabinet themselves

but we hear the james bond theme here

for the second film in a row

as basically uh lou

which is the anthony perkins character

is watching him through the doorway

as he takes the poison out of the

cabinet so he knows exactly what they're

doing

when they get back up to the bridge with

a bunch of tea for lunch or whatever

they try to serve him poison in the

coffee and he says oh you guys should

have some coffee too

and they're like oh no we're good we had

stuff before and he's like yeah you

should have it as a gesture of goodwill

just drink some coffee and they're like

no no we don't we don't want any coffee

drink it

like he freaks out on them um but he

hands some to santa and some too

i forget the other guy's name doesn't

matter doesn't matter it doesn't doesn't

matter drinks the coffee not gonna be

around for a while

uh he doesn't drink the coffee straight

up

when tony perkins loses it and starts

screaming at him he's like okay fine

i'll just drink it

it's poisoned but i want you guys to

drink some of it so maybe you will if i

drink it

and santa freaks out and knocks it out

of his hands because she doesn't want

him to die

and then the two of them sort of skiffle

yeah there's a scuffle and

she goes running out the door they try

and shoot her as she's leaving

uh the bridge and she runs down the side

of the ship to get away from them

uh and pretends to jump overboard or she

throws a jacket

yeah she's yeah she throws something

overboard uh i'm assuming yeah like i

said it's her jacket so that

uh because cause she's freezing yeah

later if she's cold yeah

but uh the guy sees her jacket in the

water and he comes back

uh to uh the rest of the terrorists and

says

oh she she went overboard um and they're

drowning this guy

yeah they're just pouring coffee into

his mouth which is i'm assuming still

very hot

yeah and also poisoned on top of it

insult to injury yeah at least it wasn't

as bad as like hateful eight or just

like just

constant vomiting of blood yeah uh

but he doesn't really even get the

chance to die from the poison does he

because they just throw him overboard

so he probably drowned anyway really

these guys should have just killed all

their hostages right away because

they're never doing anything to prove

that any of the hostages are still alive

correct and and but i assume the only

reason they're not is because they need

the ship to work

because they a couple times they've

given them permission to actually like

work

and go work in the engine room and

whatnot the captain says so look we need

to start

we need to turn the ship into the wind

if we're going to survive this storm

right another thing that's going on here

is on jennifer they're coming up with a

plan

uh because the ruth deadline is coming

up right and they're the only

they can't disable the mines but if they

make it look like ruth blew up

then they might not trigger that they

might not trigger the button which

it should have been a timed explosion

anyway yeah all of these

deadlines would have been set on timers

but they're implying that he's just

watching a clock and then he's going to

push the button when it's time to blow

up ruth

so they decide if we pretend to blow it

up and make it look like

one of our defusal experts screwed up

and we blew up ruth ahead of time

that he's never going to push the button

because he'll think it's gone anyway and

it's too far away to see it

but by now it's night time and it

wouldn't be too far away to see the

explosion

right so uh they're probably

20 minutes from the deadline on roof

when they or maybe it's closer maybe

it's like eight minutes i can't remember

but

they they pull the trigger on that and

uh lou

sees the explosion and freaks out um but

he realizes what probably happened

i i actually really like this part of

this movie in that because brisbane's on

the phone with him

yeah when the explosion happens and he's

like bristol

he hung up i can't say i blame him

yeah i and uh the second in command here

um

what is the guy's name shulman

oh yeah michael parks yeah he's great

and i think there's also

a hint of a relationship between him and

lou

oh is there uh because there's a scene

where he says why don't you go and take

a rest and he puts his hand

on lou's chest and rubs his chest oh

okay and i was like

what was that um and they i don't know

it just it just seemed like a really odd

moment between the two of them okay i

didn't catch that but i would watch this

again

shulman here has an interesting line uh

when they're watching the explosion from

inside their ship

he says if they don't get red adair out

here that could burn for a year

which is actually a reference to another

character from hell fighters

oh which has the same director right

right yeah i remember that

folks is a coaching james mason to do a

cigarette distraction

because when the time runs out he wants

him to

offer a cigarette to anthony perkins and

that while he's distracted that's when

he's going to pop up and shoot him in

the face or whatever his

trick is going to be and then we get

this really obnoxious line

he says oh you know what you should

probably call the hijackers right now

and he's like

why i don't have anything to say why

should i call them right now he says

well right about now is when they would

have blown up ruth so let's just keep

them distracted when that deadline is

passing

yeah it's like okay i guess i'll call

him and then back in the ship

we see anthony perkins with his hand

right over the button he says if it

hadn't already happened

in exactly 12 seconds i'd be doing

this and he goes to push the button when

the phone rings

he just he's like oh phone ring like wow

folks really called that one

yeah he almost just pushed the button as

a joke for no reason

um but the admiral and folks basically

say we're coming over

to meet with you and uh once we've met

with you and decided that it's safe

then we're going to send the money over

all right but they're still waiting on

the money to get delivered to jennifer

and now they have more time anyway

because the deadlines between ruth and

jennifer or

yeah a few hours like six hours or

something like that they have i think

was it 40 minutes

after midnight or two midnight i can't

remember which way the

the the where the money will be ready

right but as soon as they land on the

ship

folks is basically sent back yeah

because

lou the anthony perkins character just

doesn't like his face yeah he's just

like

you need to get out of here i don't like

the way you look i like the way you talk

so you get back on that weird net thing

and

we'll fly you back over to your boat he

was looking mighty

smug yeah yeah it seemed like he was

intentionally getting kicked off

yeah he didn't seem to try to fix that

problem at all

yeah uh at this point herring the

guy who brought all the media he's like

he wants out yeah he wants out of this

what i do like

is that when they earlier it was a

moment when they found him

kramer asked him who else was in on the

poison deal and he doesn't say anybody

he doesn't he doesn't give him up

because they were all in on it

yeah even him but he can't even say one

person because if he says one person and

they didn't know that person was

involved and they'll kill that person

yeah he doesn't say anybody yeah so i

was like okay good anya

like i wondered if that wasn't to imply

that

maybe he's been on this ship for three

or four months working with these people

yeah and that he was supposed to

infiltrate so that they would trust him

ahead of time before these other people

got on

and he even volunteers to forgo his

share right like here

here he's trying to get off the boat

he's like you know what you guys can

split my half and

and i'm just gonna get out of here this

is this is

getting crazy and they're like oh okay

that's great yeah you can quit

he's like oh god no i was just kidding

and he's like trying to hide behind a

pillar like

please don't kill me please don't yeah

[Music]

yeah but they track him down and shoot

him

and that's the end of terry um folks

goes back to jennifer

and he calls the prime minister and says

hey so our plan's not working out

exactly

the way we wanted it to um so you need

to

get a bomb squad together and you need

to bomb esther

because we probably saved ruth but

jennifer's gonna go up unless uh this

guy

is stopped before he can push the button

worst case scenario

we're out the crew of the esther yeah

and he says it's like

six people that are working on the

esther the four terrorists myself and

the admiral will be on the boat and

she's like okay

like i appreciate this plan i understand

that that's the best thing that we can

do

and then he hangs up and he's like you

know i think she's actually very smart

yeah for a woman he mentions a little

bit of

his hatred for women like the

inspiration for it is childhood trauma

basically

yeah if both his parents died in

childbirth

his delivery of that line is just the

only way roger moore could ever

deliver such a dead pan line he's like i

had five older

sisters both my parents died in

childbirth it's like

does that mean during the birth of you

because all of your sisters were older

sisters

but it sounds like he's like like a

berry egan

from punchdrug love like yeah like he

has like all these older sisters that

just picked on him constantly so he just

hates women

it doesn't want to be around them um but

this is where he

explains that his cats are the ear to

his fortune and like everyone

in this in this room is like writing out

their will and like handing off like

their last wishes like

we're all gonna die so just tell our

families this um

even though everyone jennifer's probably

gonna die too um

but folks decides he's gonna sneak onto

esther now yeah

um there's a great nod to james bond

uh thunderball specifically here okay

when he gets the red

the red uh oh great vermillion yeah

because because that's the color that

jean connor you wore in thunderball

in that scene that i hated it's like

crazy awesome

well filmed scene i don't know what

you're talking about crazy or awesome

just because it was difficult doesn't

mean it was good

but there's like 40 actors underwater

all wearing these crazy suits

firing spear guns back that's so awesome

um but anyway he's able to sneak back

onto esther but immediately as he's

getting on the ship i'm like

this is not the uniform that his team

was

gonna see him in yeah so this is gonna

be a problem in the long run

uh as he's sneaking around the boat uh

he's trying to catch

the various hijackers off guard and uh

he sneaks up on one

and knocks him unconscious but when a

second one almost gets him the girl that

had faked

jumping overboard jumps out of one of

the lifeboats and knocks that person

unconscious so his

his life was just saved by a woman yeah

which

uh would make him furious um and uh

basically his team is swarming the boat

at the same time

they're taking out uh the explosive

experts

and a bunch of other people on the main

deck and as they're moving up the ship

one of folks's men harris

attacks him and uh they get in like this

death grip struggle for his life and uh

it seems like at any point here folks

could have said it's me folks

stop yeah but instead he just throws the

guy overboard

um and they're not implying that he

killed him here no right

no no because later he says where's

harris someone threw him overboard

he's like yeah so he threw this guy

overboard

i mean they swam there from presumably

pretty far off anyway

so i i'm sure the guy was fine in the

water

but uh but yeah so he throws this guy

overboard

and uh basically folks's men

make very quick work of all of the

hijackers except for uh shulman

and lou who are in the in the bridge

and uh then they take out the guys on

the bridge

very very unceremoniously yeah briston

does his cigarette trick

yeah and it works exactly how it's

supposed to they shoot like a

dart into yeah torso yeah i like i do

like the lines you got to be careful

those things will kill you

and that's when roger moore shoots him

with a spear

yeah and so he's got this spear in his

chest and they take out shulman too

who is trying to reach for the detonator

right but lou isn't totally dead he's

just kind of like

stunned and dying but he's still easily

within reach of this bomb

right but uh in a um in the rock

site type manner roger moore has to get

off a flare

before this bomb is dropped because

because he called in the explosives

yeah so he launches the flare just too

late the bomb's already been dropped and

the helicopter

has to quick tilt itself to to try to

throw the bomb a little bit off course

right and then it lands in the water

right behind the ship yeah just barely

avoids killing everyone

and uh that's when lou decides he's

gonna start making his move for the

buttons

and it's basically just lou and james

mason

in the ship and lou's hand is slowly

crawling over the display to hit the

button to

to blow up jennifer and probably also

yeah and uh and at the last second

folks's hand grabs his hand and pulls it

back and he kills him

and it's like that why why couldn't that

have been james mason like i get that

the movie's called folks now

anyway but it's like just give james

mason something to do that wasn't a very

specific

instruction um it would have been cool

if he got to actually play a part in

this rescue

but that's the that's the end of this uh

hijacking uh

i guess there were two casualties the

first officer

um and the guy drank the guy that drank

all the poison coffee

but everyone else that died was in on

the hijacking right

um and all the ships were saved so very

little money was lost

we moved back to folks's castle

where the prime minister uh is there but

the imdb trivia points out that the the

car that was

implied to be the prime minister's car

the license plate says rgm which is

roger moore's

uh initials so that was probably

actually his car parked out in front of

the castle

um and they're presenting him with his

award which is in a box

and you guessed it immediately well

because he

he says in the scene there's like you we

know you don't like awards and this sort

of like thing

right and so i'm like oh well of course

they got

cats yeah so he opens it up and there's

there's three like fluffy white persian

cats

and their names are esther ruth and

jennifer and

he seems very grateful for them yeah and

he's like now if you'll excuse me

i have to get these cats into a pot of

boiling water no

uh he's gonna go feed them and that's

the end of the movie yeah um

another part of the trivia i thought was

interesting was apparently

they had to sedate the cats on the set

right

and which james mason did not like yeah

like it's the opposite the situation

here is that

james mason is actually the huge lover

of cats and he was like very angry at

the thought

that they would sedate these cats to get

them on film so they had to do it

secretly

so that he wouldn't know um because

roger moore has alliances i like cats

more than people and i hate people who

don't like cats

more than people yeah was like well you

were talking to the right guy

yeah it's also funny to me that because

i think the folks character is supposed

to be scottish

like when they first show the castle i

mean it's in scotland

but it's also you're getting like a hint

of bagpipes on the air when they first

show the establishing of the castle

and it's a british guy playing a

scottish guy

when you've had sean connery playing

james bond before him yeah it's just

funny how

genuine scott that got swapped around i

wonder if that wasn't a specific joke on

sean connery to have it be scottish at

all

um but like we said before it's directed

by andrew v mclagan

or mcleglen uh who directed health

fighters in 68

he will direct with roger moore again

sea wolves next year

yeah which is still in between two roger

moore james bond movies yeah and i saw

that it was 1980 and i got

super excited because the cast is

amazing yeah and i was like oh i cannot

wait for us to watch this is this this

isn't on the list

yeah and then i was like oh us 1981 damn

it

no that's a good thing richard we have

too many movies this year

um he uh he also directed a tv movie

sequel to the dirty dozen

yeah which was probably terrible he i

think he did like another

sequel zoey boot thing was it was it

called return of the river quan

yeah that is not a sequel oh i saw that

but it's funny like literally the

imdb summary is not a sequel to bridge

over river kwai but

it deals with like pows coming back from

after the war

um but it's essentially it's a spiritual

sequel yeah

he also directed mcclintic uh i haven't

seen that one

john wayne hellfire is john wayne but

this is another john wayne where he's

it's

john wayne and marine o'hara they did a

couple of movies together oh okay like

the quiet man

yeah but uh this is uh actually uh his

dad was in the quiet man the director's

father was

one of the main characters of the quiet

man well that makes sense yeah and the

writer jack davies

uh he was actually nominated for an

oscar for the screenplay to

those magnificent men in their flying

machines yeah

this was his his last feature because he

wrote the book and the script

um and his son played the titular role

in david lean's oliver twist

which i have not seen i've only seen

reeds oliver twist

yeah roger moore was folks he's

obviously bond

uh he plays a character very similar to

himself in cannonball run

which is very funny he's also the saint

right

he's the saint and uh a special nod to

that he was one of the three mavericks

of the

tv series maverick oh okay he was bo

beauregard maverick

i didn't know that um he was also a

voice in cats and dogs 2

the revenge of kitty galore he plays tab

lazanby um

and he was also inspector clouseau in

the 1983

curse of the pink panther so we'll get

that later

uh james mason was admiral brynstein uh

he's obviously professor humbert humbert

and lolita

yeah it's one of my favorite roles um he

was captain nemo in twenty thousand

league yeah he got promoted to admiral

by this time um he's also the third

uh he's the male lead of the third of

five star is born movies yeah he's the

one opposite judy garland

he's also in one of the many adaptations

of the heaven can wait

or yeah which has like a couple other

names yeah there's the one with um

uh dick tracy yeah that's the one he's

in

uh but that movie that movie was like a

short story like in the 30s

right like little miss marker it had

been done a couple of times it doesn't

isn't there a chris rock one uh it's not

called heaven can weight but it's a very

similar story where he gets reincarnated

um uh anthony perkins was lou cramer

here

obviously he was norman bates in all

four psycho films yeah

uh psycho two and three better than you

think

i have never seen anything beyond the

first ones yeah uh like

psycho two is a little bit uh but psycho

three is like

this is actually pretty interesting okay

um he was also dr durant in the black

hole

uh and he plays chaplain tapman in catch

22

which that whole cast is amazing in the

movie uh michael parks

is incredible uh he's shulman here i

know him best for his earl mcgraw

character which he was

in kill bill and kill bill volume 2 and

he's also in uh

planet terror i think he was the same

character walking around in the hospital

um but he also plays esteban vageo in

the second half of kyoto

which is just a remarkable performance

that whole scene is

is incredible say what you will about

the movie tusk

for for just what it is at all

but i'm never going to see that movie he

is amazing in it

well it's funny uh tarantino and kevin

smith basically like just put him back

on the map

um but uh yeah he also the evan cooper

character in red state did you see that

uh i have not oh okay he's like this

insane preacher of this like westboro

baptist church style like

cult uh but it's pretty insane and he

gives it 150 it's pretty amazing um he's

also

jean renault on twin peaks um

david hedison played king in the uh

the guy that was running the the oil

production platform

he plays felix lighter in two james bond

movies

for two different james bond yeah i

don't know how i never noticed that a

felix lighter

carried over across two i know that that

uh obviously

we had uh m carried over from pierce

brosnan to daniel craig right well

and and uh and conrada

moore bernard bernard bernard

played m for a long time that's right he

died and during

morris yeah that was uh the

i think because he played a major part

in his last film which was the

for your eyes only right right yeah

because uh he definitely wasn't spy love

me

um but yeah for your eyes only i think

he died right after for your eyes only

because i don't think he's in octopussy

at all

um but yeah uh but yeah david henderson

he was felix lighter and live and let

die which was roger moore's first film

and license to kill which was uh the

second

and last film for that right it was the

second one yeah

um he also plays captain crane on irwin

ellen's

voyage to the bottom of the sea which is

one of the shows where they

invented the irwin ellen rock and roll

or

rocking sock'em robot whatever you shake

the camera and everyone tilts one way oh

okay

george baker played fletcher um and he

was in on her majesty's secret service

as uh sir hilary bray which is like the

name that

uh james bond takes over for the rest of

the movie right

um he was also yeah he's

stepping on your feet here but he's like

yeah he was also captain benson

in the spy who loved me but also there's

another connection he was

the moon raker in the moonraker

1958. i was going to say it's not called

the moonraker

so there's another movie called the

moonraker yes

and he is the titular moonraker 1958.

isn't there also a short animated film

where a kid is raking on the moon and

collecting stars

it's another moon raker

what's that movie called

i feel like uh i watched it at the it's

a disney short

and it was in front of that does sound

familiar

it was like a henry selick thing i can't

remember anyway

that's another thing that could be

referred to as a moon raker yeah

um or even uh oh you're tired

is it luna la luna

technically i guess sam rockwell's

character is a moon right here because

they got all those uh

let's just do this instead of reviewing

the movie let's just talk about

different

people who could be referred to as

moonrakers uh faith brook played the

prime minister here

uh i didn't recognize a lot of credits

but she played luisa bradley which is

the name of isabelle's mother in the

razer's edge have you guys seen the

racers

i still haven't seen the razer scene i

love the razer's edge um it's actually a

legitimately good movie that has just a

terrible undeserved rap um i read the

book

oh okay um philip o'brien played webb

which i guess is one of the other

hijackers would be my guess yeah so

there's a bunch of hijackers that i just

could not

keep straight yeah the only reason i

included this guy is because he plays

the mater d

in batman like the tim burton batman

he plays the american coach in chariots

of fire

and in who framed roger rabbit he plays

earl the trolley man who gets fired

right he's drunk in the bar he has no

lines he's just playing

drunk there's a couple times in this

movie where uh i'm always surprised by

names so like i saw a name named brook

williams

okay and it was helicopter pilot i was

like oh that's going to be a big thing

because he doesn't like women and

there's gonna be a female helicopter

finally it's just a guy this is a brand

name

i was like uh uh anthony pullenshaw

uh didn't know much about him but he was

a

uh in the spy who loved me as one of the

crew members of the submarine that is

going down

oh that's funny it's not going down it's

being captured but anyway right

uh uh and then uh

another actor uh who played harris uh

tim bendt benton bentonic bent enoch

uh was in

he plays james bond in

the world doesn't bring up the video

game

oh really yeah uh so i don't remember

who harris was but he played james bond

in the world it's not enough the video

game that's funny wait harris isn't that

the guy that gets thrown over the side

of the ship

oh that's right harris of course yeah

yeah so he plays james bond

so he plays james swan and was thrown

off a ship by jane swan

uh i can't remember uh one of these

actors

uh was in star wars but it's not um but

getting back some more james bond stuff

there was a lot of james bond stuff uh

most of the like the rest of this cast

kind of were a lot of stunt people

uh but one of two of the stunt men

i'm gonna go for the first one first

george leach who played

magnuson uh was the stunt man in

dr no goldfinger thunderbolt casino

royale the terrible one

the 67 one yeah uh under managed to

secret service diamonds are forever spy

who loved me for your eyes only octopus

he never said never again and view to a

kill

he was a stunt man on all of those is he

not the one that got hurt on the set of

octopussy i'm not sure okay but he

needed to work because we interviewed um

a bond girl on our macgyver podcast and

she talked about one of their stunt men

getting hurt i'm pretty sure it was him

oh there's another stunt man who was in

this the uh richard grayden who played

rasmussen

uh was a stuntman in from rush with love

goldfinger thunderball he only lived

twice managed to seek her service buy

you love me moonraker for your eyes only

octopus and view to again so these are

just people that

roger moore brought along i feel like

that

he worked with these dumb people and

he's like i have a guy for that

yeah he was basically focusing it and he

was like i have a whole team

at my disposal well two of these guys

were they were probably his stunt

doubles

yeah i'm sure they were some of it

should be

it should be pointed out that very

little action in this film

i mean we get a fake explosion on a

horizon but aside from that it's mostly

dialogue

yeah and people trying to outsmart each

other there's not a lot of like

hand-to-hand combat

yeah the only time that we is and it's

mostly cutaways of hand-to-hand combat

of a hand wrapping around someone's face

and then pulling them down and then yeah

never see them

everybody's trying to be very stealthy

the biggest fight

is between his own men that's true like

when he's fighting harris

yeah okay so the guy that was hurt on

the in octopussy his his name was

uh martin grace who was roger moore's

stunt double

oh okay apparently there was a stunt

between a helicopter

and a train train that's what she told

us yeah and and

they lost communications and so he got

pinched between

the train cars or something like that um

jess what would you say for this one up

or down it wasn't my cup of tea

i i know you guys really enjoy these

films but wasn't my thing i would say

down

um i i give it an up

but it's a reluctant it's a reluctant up

it's like right on that

that fence line of up and down so but i

give it

more towards the up i think i'm gonna

give this an up also

just because uh no part of the plot

sounded entirely unbelievable to me i

felt like it was a very researched

plot off from both angles from the

terrorist angle and from

yeah the rescue angle and uh but you'd

really recommend somebody watch this

movie

yeah if i mean i'm a james bond fan if

you want to familiarize yourself with

more of roger morris uvra i would say

that this is one to check out

i would say that it wasn't so bad that i

would say you can you can skip that one

i think if i were talking about friends

though i wouldn't be like yeah you

should definitely see folks

well this this isn't like what would be

in your top five movies to recommend to

people yes

if this movie came up in conversation

would i say oh yeah check it out and i

think i would in this case

all right it just felt like a tv movie i

think that's

it did that's what what throws me from

it a little bit

i think yeah the production value

suffers from uh

a very heavy reliance on handheld camera

work

which i think is to accentuate the fact

that they're at sea most of the time

but it does cheapen it a lot yeah and i

feel like

with a higher budget this could have

looked like a james bond movie it just

would have needed some bigger action

sequences than it had yeah

but yeah i think that's about it for

this one um actually letterbox we got to

do letterboxed

uh richard you started off this time uh

letterbox i would put this

um i'm gonna put this just below tom

horn

uh and which was it just above midnight

madness

okay i have it in a similar

position uh

it is it is actually below both of those

but it's uh i

i have it making the windows threshold

which it has made

made richard's windows threshold as well

uh so i have it above windows and blow

saturn three okay

i'm gonna put this below saturn three

and above last married couple

so that's where it lands on my list

which is actually not

too bad that's in like my top 10 i think

oh no it's very close though

um yeah for the year so far there's many

many many more movies to come

no this is the last one we're good oh

thank god we're done

guys um i wonder if this is

episode 36 of like 180 or something like

that

um but yeah i think that is about

everything for this one

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next time when we'll be discussing

heartbeat which according to imdb

is about the life and friendship between

icons of the beat generation

neil cassidy carolyn cassidy and jack

kerouac

stay tuned we leave you now with the

trailer for heartbeat

after world war ii we all thought we

knew who we were and where we were going

according to the experts what each of us

wanted most in the world

was a house in the suburbs two cars

our own barbecue pit and exactly 3.2

children

looking back i wasn't much different

than anyone else

i took it for granted that mr wright

would show up someday and sweep me off

my feet

that was before i met jack and neal boy

did i have it wrong

[Music]

jack kerouac was a struggling novelist

he wrote stories in his mother's kitchen

about the jazzed up lives of the artists

and musicians he knew in new york

[Music]

neil cassidy was the son of a denver

wino he'd grown up on skid row

but had spent most of his youth in

reform school for stealing cars

the day he got out of jail the first

thing he did was steal another car

and head straight for new york

[Music]

jack and neal were friends with a wild

young poet named iris tyker

it was ira that introduced them in

greenwich village

[Music]

neil thought jack was kind of square

until he began to read his work

jack wrote out words like they were

notes to a saxophone solo

it was the same kind of music that went

through neil's mind

in no time the two were friends

when neal decided to drive to san

francisco he asked jack to go with him

jack didn't even know how to drive but

he figured it would be a good chance to

learn

i don't understand why you're doing this

i don't either but i know i want to do

it but i thought you always wanted to be

a writer i do that's why i want to do it

i want to get him down on paper

can he get himself down on paper

mother it'll be all right

[Music]

they traveled with neil's girlfriend

stevie

a runaway teenager he picked up in iowa

you know what i mean he buick iowa

oh a lot of good looking girls come from

iowa you know they're all corn fed

little girls

beautiful little things and uh so anyway

i'm sitting there on the bus

and uh this little thing is such a

beauty jack

she's home it might be there with some

little ritz crackers waiting on the

table