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I think this has never had a video release..filmed in bright color it loses some of the b/w noirish quality of the TV show (of course I've only seen shaky TV versions of it) and your mileage may vary on the recasting of the characters, but it's decent like an extended episode of the show (with extra violence)... But beware, I think somewhere in there is the "Mancini Chorus" with the song made out of the Gunn theme...
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no way the film is as good as that artwork!!
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no way the film is as good as that artwork!! That image of Craig Stevens surrounded by women is similar to the one-sheet of Sean Connery in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, with which GUNN was competing at the box office. The films opened in the U.S. within two weeks of each other in June 1967. Each of them has eight women.
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Were they trying to update Peter Gunn for the 1960s spy genre/aesthetic? I don't know what Blake Edwards had in mind, but of the four contemporary reviews of the film that I read, three of them (Time, Variety, and the New York Times) made no mention of Bond. Only Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice brought up Bond. He concludes his favorable review thusly: "Gunn is a movie of the sixties as Kiss Me Deadly was a movie of the fifties and The Big Sleep a movie of the forties and The Maltese Falcon a hangover from the thirties. Craig Stevens' patented coolness looks a bit worn by now, but the feeling of fleshy corruption is more subtly expressed in Gunn than in the more socially concerned Spades and Hammers of yesteryear. Edward Asner and Albert Paulsen are two actors to keep in mind when anyone asks you what happened to all the good character actors from the good old days of movie-movies. All in all, Gunn makes the Bond series look like child's play."
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No, there aren't any attempts to bring in 60s spy elements in the film itself, but the "mod" main title sequence (it's on YouTube) looks suspiciously Matt Helm-ish to me..
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Mos def looks like the same artist as Bond. Could be Robert Mcginnis..?
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