Murderers' Row

Film Frown

You’ve heard of Bond, but what about Matt Helms? When your friends start taking the Bond movies in a direction you don’t like, you go out and buy the rights to another spy novel, of course. Dean Martin plays the hero in this drunken series of a spy films. They’re like spy film lite. Sean Tilley joins us to talk 8th grade biology, quitting villainy to make toy models, and Bond’s alcoholism problem. Join us in our hovercraft with projected scenes in the windows as we get saucy with Dean Martin.

• Oh look, a misogynist trailer for the film!
• A A Ron!
• Sirius Stuff was falsely arrested before they actually caught Sirius Black.
• Murderers’ Row is the second film in the series, the first was The Silencers.
• This film and You Only Live Twice largely influenced Austin Powers.
• Is this a comedy? Paul says at least he knew Doctor Goldfoot and His Bikini Machine was.
• Sean believes the B.I.G.O. headquarters is something from The Holy Mountain. While Paul thinks set pieces are borrowed from Forbidden Planet.
• “Juicero tried.”
• We get a lesson in Mod.
• Oh hey, Dean Martin’s character “dies” just like Bond in the last movie we watched, You Only Live Twice.
• The bad jokes abound so much that characters seemingly ignore Dean Martin like he’s Al from Quantum Leap.
• Is Karl Malden your Pollyanna villain or Chris’ Jack Klugman.
• Hey, when your dad’s the star of the film you can get your band, Dino, Desi & Billy in the picture.
• Dean Martin’s blocking during scenes, when he’s not talking, is basically the male gaze.
• Ironhead is actually Bender? He blows fire!
• The dancing style has confused us all, including Dean Martin.
• The parade float dress made of flowers with, yet another crazy, crazy dancing scene.
• Is Ironhead Inspector Gadget, perhaps?
• A Knight Rider reference? Yes please.
• Chris shares his love for Mom and Dad Save the World. Behold the light grenade!
• Why do we like Dean Martin more in Cannonball Run?
• Sean thinks this bad film is no The Room.
• Is it Mike Myers or Michael Myers, we always get those two deadpan comedians confused.

That was it for go-go dancing bombs and rat pack references. Thank you for listening and thanks to Sean Tilley for watching this film with us. Will he be back in Our Man Flint?

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