Tag: Espionage
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Norwegian Ninja takes the real-life espionage case of politician Arne Trehold and imagines the (fake) true story behind it: that Trehold was the leader of a secret squad of special… more ›
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Outside of official James Bond film scores, there was a lucrative cash-in industry of record labels releasing Bond and spy-themed albums not connected to any actual movie—at least not officially. more ›
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Shaggy-haired young author Adam Diment created one of the swingingest spies of the 1960s, the counter-culture answer to James Bond. And then he vanished. more ›
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Kingsley Amis, inspired by a vacation to Greece, continued Ian Fleming’s legacy with “Colonel Sun,” a James Bond novel blending Fleming’s style with modern political undertones. more ›
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Alfred Hitchcock’s original 1935 version of The 39 Steps is one of those films that’s so seminal that when watched today it can seem like little more than a parade… more ›
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Interpol 009 has everything you’d want in a 1960s spy movie, except for a memorable villain, a spectacular crime, and audacious action set pieces. more ›
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Jane Bond films, such as Dark Heroine Muk Lan-Fa, blended martial arts action and James Bond-inspired espionage thrills, became a staple of Cantonese cinema and created a thoroughly entertaining body… more ›
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The Black Rose takes the female-centric swashbuckling of wuxia cinema and the heroics of Chinese folklore and places them in a contemporary setting. It also pays service to the James… more ›
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The Shaw Brothers put a James sexy, psychedelic Bond-inspired spin on the French supervillain Fantomas in this anything-goes caper. more ›
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It tries to walk the line between espionage action and comedy and never quite manages to be very good at either. more ›
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Eurospy films are often regarded as cheap knock-offs of James Bond. But there is cheap, and then there is cheap. And then there is Operation White Shark. more ›
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