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Our Man Flint (1966) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Daniel Mann and produced by Saul David.

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James Coburn is Our Man Flint

By Rick29 on Sep 22, 2014 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

It's somewhat of a backhanded compliment to call Our Man Flint the "best James Bond spoof." It is that, but it's also a very clever secret agent film in its own right. Unlike the broadly comedic Austin Powers films or Get Smart, Our Man Flint replicates the elements of a 007 outing and exaggerates t... Read full article


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Quotes from Our Man Flint

Dr. Wu: How often woman's animal nature triumphs!


Cramden: You traveled all the way to Moscow to watch a ballet?
Derek Flint: No, to teach!


Derek Flint: [fingering the coat-of-arms on Rodney's blazer] I wonder what it is that always makes the Rodneys choose the wrong side.


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Facts about Our Man Flint

On the official studio soundtrack album, the song 'Galaxy a Go-Go' was written by a young Randy Newman, who was in fact the nephew of Alfred Newman, the head of 20th Century-Fox's Music Department at that time.
When Flint travels to France, the overhead shot as the plane supposedly approaches is indeed Marseille, more specifically le Vieux-Port de Marseille (the Old Port of Marseille), seen from the east.
The odd, discordant guitar part played throughout the movie, which is used almost note for note nearly 20 years later by an up and coming band, is a testament to the enduring quality of the composer's music. The band, Wall of Voodoo, best known for its early 1980s hit "Mexican Radio", uses that strange note progression in its updated remake of the Johnny Cash hit, "Ring of Fire." Their version, however, is a nearly ten-minute-long experiment in what would later be termed as techno music. Its mechanical programmed background rhythm and synth-heavy adaption paved the way for later bands. But its use of the riff from this film performed nearly musically verbatim, that makes their version so intriguing.
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