<\/span><\/h2>\nClint and Sean. What a class act. Shame they never made any films together. Here\u2019s the thing about Clint though. It\u2019s difficult for contemporary audiences to appreciate this, but to my generation Clint Eastwood was Rowdy Yates, the second lead and comedy relief in the television Western series Rawhide.<\/p>\n
Imagine everyone\u2019s surprise when Rowdy turns up on the big screen as a monosyllabic psychopath with no name who shoots first and doesn\u2019t bother asking questions afterwards. Traumatic is not the word. Apart from possibly James Garner it was an early example of a famous tv personality successfully making the transition on to the big screen \u2013 I don\u2019t count Steve McQueen as his Western show Wanted Dead or Alive wasn\u2019t shown on British tv until many years afterwards.<\/p>\n
The rest, as they say, is history. As for You Only Live Twice, I\u2019d say it\u2019s the last of the better Sean Connery efforts \u2013 Never Say Never Again, anyone? Great John Barry soundtrack, a fairly amusing script by Roald Dahl of all people and of course Donald Pleasance\u2019s Blofeld serving as the perfect template for Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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This is a short celebration of some of those great movie double bills that I remember from the 1960s. Prior to the advent of video \/ DVD, the only way you could watch one of your favourite movies again after their original release was to hopefully catch it on re-release at the local flea pit. If you were lucky the film might come around again as part of a double bill with another film equally as good.<\/p>\n