Robert Shaw is by far the best Bond villain to me. He is truly scary. Other ones are either theatrical, or downright too outlandish. In general, that's why FRWL is my favorite Bond: a down to earth spy thriller with Connery in top form. And he had a fantastic chemistry with Pedro Armendariz as Kareem.
Funny thing, despite playing a cold blooded KGB/SPECTRE operative, Lotte Lenya was quite gentle. She was both an accomplished opera singer, staring in operas composed by her first husband Kurt Weill, and a trained dancer.
Now as i said on some of the other comments here, you can find Lotte Lenya on you tube singing From May Till September and also done a film with Burt Reynolds,but a great villian and paved the way for other female villians the hench woman
When Weill died in New York in 1950, she was alone. There's a story about Kitty Carlisle Hart going over to visit her after she called to say 'Kurt has died.' When Kitty arrived at her apartment she found Lotte standing in the hallway, holding a piece of sheet music, and saying 'Kurt is dead. Nobody likes me. And I can't read music.' Her 1920-30s voice had been a normal soprano, but with her smoking and her getting older, it had become the raspy voice we now associate with her. She had to develop a way of speaking/singing to perform the Brecht/Weill songs and help to keep them alive.
Countless hours of hand-to-hand and fire-arms training against live targets, untold sessions of indoctrination in SPECTRE's creed, and the final test to see if he's fit to take on his greatest undertaking is...if he can take a punch to the gut?
had he failed in the training, he would have become a live target instead. since he got this far, the only test left is to see if he's gone soft between the training and getting a rub down.
One of fhe top five bind films with the best Bond Connery.At his usual masterful great best can't beat them classics.And this is one of them a great brilliant film.
Kronsteens plan th-cam.com/video/A4Olax0vgns/w-d-xo.html 1.06 time stamp But I see what your talking about Klebbs execution of kronsteens plane was excellent
@@jasonalmendra3823 They used to be an equal opportunity evil organization. They would attack any country or group no matter what. Now they have to have a diversity chart in the planning room when setting up terrorist attacks. It kind of ruins the menacing atmosphere of the room during meetings.
And lose quite handily, despite the advantage of a weapon. She's good at barking orders and having men (ie Kronsteen) take the blame for her incompetence. A legitimate strong woman indeed.
@@chasm671She was fighting a 2v1 against Bond and the Russian girl. Bond had to use a chair to keep her from touching him once with the knife. Bond might have lost to her if he didn't have help.
I don't think Spectre encouraged people to sue for damages.I read somewhere the Waffen SS used live ammunition in all their training.Apparently it was very effective hut you had to accept 5% fatal casualties
@@nihilistcentraluk442 Very true the Waffen-SS did use live ammunition during training and war games, gave recruits a massive edge over their Allied opponents because once SS recruits were sent to the front they were already accustomed to noises of battle.
Yes. I agree. This is the film which launched the Bond franchise to its glorious heights, rather than Dr No because this movie got all the ingredients right
I don't care how much of a trained KGB/Spectre agent she was, the plain fact of the matter is that she's half the f*cking size of Robert Shaw! I'd have been amazed if he couldn't take a punch from her, brass knuckles or not.
@@KoasterKing205 ...but it's fun to trawl through them all, in any case. It's hard to believe that some of them weren't detected before the picture was ready for release: maybe no-one cared if the audience might notice them.
One of the two only Female main villains in the history of the James Bond series (The other being Elektra King, although Klebb was working for Blofeld but she was the main antagonist in that instalment like Dr. Julius No and Emilio Largo for example.)
I love how you cant hear any gunshots as they walk towards the training area from the helicopter, yet when they enter, it sounds like a war zone and the only barrier between the two areas are some see-through silk curtains lol 😂
Spectre invented a lot of cool stuffs, the curtain for example absorbs sound. Also, they invented the first ever reusable rocket in "You Only Live Twice".
@@pmafterdark later she touches Romanowa very gentle... its never mentioned, but lesbian avanced can be noticed.... well acted by Lotte Lenja (her earlier way to write her name, in US she changed to Lenya)
Donald "Red" Grant. It is Grant's masseuse I envy. Oh my aching back and in who's service. Oh and at all times he knows where his towel is. Walter. GoTell? Softly Softly and Home Soil? Didn't I? Go and Tell? Morzeny and Anatol Gogol? RIP Walter GoTell. Wonderful body of work and ahem BACK to lady masseuse. And knuckledusters. Rosa Klebb was the best Bond Woman.
0:33 It's so funny how all three of them seems to be dubbed. And the words we hear don't seem to correlate with their lips and what they're actually saying.
The picture was rather carelessly made (see all the continuity errors) and it probably carried over into the redubbing process. Maybe the director was too busy playing cards or playing with himself to keep an eye on such minor matters.
@@None-zc5vg Dr No also had continuity errors. In the very introduction to the Bond character there's blatant errors. Keep watching the cigarette in Bond's mouth and you'll see 😄
As soon as Klebb left Grant: Argh...god, I think she broke a rib.. Trainer: Yeah...wasn't expecting her to punch you with brass knucks..we'll get you right as rain before we send you to Istanbul...I gotta file a complaint to Number 1.
He seems fit enough? Yer think? So why when Bond stabbed him with an itty bitty knife did he allow 007 to turn the tables on him in the train fight? Just asking.
1:14 "Training is useful, but there is no substitute for experience"
"I agree. We use live targets as well."
Implication that the trainee is the target on a pass/fail curve.
Live - Pass
Die - Fail
@@danielhaire6677 "We produce only the best"
literally
😂
Always remember to bring your brass Knucks when you're going to interview someone. It'll save time.
You've worked for subway to huh?
@@stephenle-surf9893 Chuck-E-Cheese.
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I'll remember that when I go to
my job interview with Amazon.
pray to god crying crying like jesus pleading asking help
Klebb, one of the best characters ever in a Bond film. She certainly did have her kicks..
And she could have replaced Tatiana if she was younger. She's smart, down-to-earth and, as you said, she has her kicks.
Kicks? Or do you mean kinks?
I love how active the Bond channel has become.
My favorite Bond film. Klebb is absolutely NO nonsense. Truly memorable.
Robert Shaw is by far the best Bond villain to me. He is truly scary. Other ones are either theatrical, or downright too outlandish. In general, that's why FRWL is my favorite Bond: a down to earth spy thriller with Connery in top form. And he had a fantastic chemistry with Pedro Armendariz as Kareem.
Perfectly put.
Max Zorin surpasses him.
Funny thing, despite playing a cold blooded KGB/SPECTRE operative, Lotte Lenya was quite gentle. She was both an accomplished opera singer, staring in operas composed by her first husband Kurt Weill, and a trained dancer.
Now as i said on some of the other comments here, you can find Lotte Lenya on you tube singing From May Till September and also done a film with Burt Reynolds,but a great villian and paved the way for other female villians the hench woman
That's the whole point in being a thesp, isn't it? Playing what one is not.
She sang Mack the Knife
More Rosa the Knife than Mack the Knife, the song written by Kurt Weill in which she is mentioned.
When Weill died in New York in 1950, she was alone. There's a story about Kitty Carlisle Hart going over to visit her after she called to say 'Kurt has died.' When Kitty arrived at her apartment she found Lotte standing in the hallway, holding a piece of sheet music, and saying 'Kurt is dead. Nobody likes me. And I can't read music.' Her 1920-30s voice had been a normal soprano, but with her smoking and her getting older, it had become the raspy voice we now associate with her. She had to develop a way of speaking/singing to perform the Brecht/Weill songs and help to keep them alive.
Robert Shaw was one of the best villains.
Robert Shaw what a magnificent actor .❤ he was .
Countless hours of hand-to-hand and fire-arms training against live targets, untold sessions of indoctrination in SPECTRE's creed, and the final test to see if he's fit to take on his greatest undertaking is...if he can take a punch to the gut?
You act like you've never been interviewed by a soviet era Russian.
"a punch to the gut?"
Yes - but with a brass knuckleduster: that can make a subtle difference !
If the film was more realistic, the final test would of been to chug back a litre of vodka in one and successfully wrestle a bear into submission
Even with all that training, a punch to the gut with brass knuckle dusters will still fucking hurt.
had he failed in the training, he would have become a live target instead. since he got this far, the only test left is to see if he's gone soft between the training and getting a rub down.
You won't be needing this, OLD MAN!
One of fhe top five bind films with the best Bond Connery.At his usual masterful great best can't beat them classics.And this is one of them a great brilliant film.
Red Grant aka Robert Shaw- Template for henchmen like Hans, Necros etc.
U forgot stamper.
1:10 I like the tiny fire extinguisher they have at the flamethrower station.
That's the propane tank *for* the flamethrower.
Klebb's plan would've worked if Grant hadn't been too smug to Bond.
Kronsteens plan
th-cam.com/video/A4Olax0vgns/w-d-xo.html
1.06 time stamp
But I see what your talking about Klebbs execution of kronsteens plane was excellent
@@easycheesygaming1015 Right. I didn't know why I wrote Klebb.
this film is really full of good times that lay ahead.
It was only a few years ago that I realised Grant and Quint were the same actor. Brilliant.
Shaw sadly didnt age well, he was an alcoholic
I may recommend you a Best Picture winner which stars Robert Shaw. Entitled "The Sting"
Rumor has it that SPECTRE's occupational health and safety officer recently shut the training area down.
SPECTRE had gone woke.
@@jasonalmendra3823 They used to be an equal opportunity evil organization. They would attack any country or group no matter what. Now they have to have a diversity chart in the planning room when setting up terrorist attacks. It kind of ruins the menacing atmosphere of the room during meetings.
Yes that happened, but after Klebb found out about it, she had him kicked...
@@John-qx1zi Ah, point taken.
"I agree we use live targets as well"
LOLz...Wait What ???
Spectre don’t do things by half
This won’t be allowed nowadays. Tsk the worlds gone soft.
Probably henchmen that screw up. SPECTRE doesn't believe in waste, even they have a purpose.
you see it in the opening section of the film
How do you get the masseuse job? What's the interview process for that?
Well, first you have to sleep with Klebb, and then massage Blofeld's siamese fish.
The one in the book was doing the job with her top off!
Oh my gosh. Is that Robert Shaw! My most favorite actor! JAWS would not have been so great if not for Quint, played by Robert Shaw
Yes, that is Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw got the role after Lee Marvin declined. Good for Shaw...he had 10 kids to support!
Health & Safety would have a field day with that training yard!
But would they ever get out to report their findings ?
. . .it's an EU directive.
who do you think they use as the live targets, haha
@@miked7745 1:08 He looked pretty ‘live’ to me..
1960s were more chilled…
She's actually a legitimate strong woman. She's even tough enough to fight hand to foot against Bond.
And lose quite handily, despite the advantage of a weapon. She's good at barking orders and having men (ie Kronsteen) take the blame for her incompetence. A legitimate strong woman indeed.
@@chasm671 😅
@@chasm671She was fighting a 2v1 against Bond and the Russian girl. Bond had to use a chair to keep her from touching him once with the knife. Bond might have lost to her if he didn't have help.
@@Darthzilla99He had to use a chair because she had a knife on her shoe. What else was he supposed to do?
@@MadlyParrot5345 shoe...i'd like to introduce you to Rosa Klebb's groin.
"He seems fit enough"
One of my favourite lines in all the Bond films.
Another is - "I've got a little itch, down there. Would you mind?"
SPECTRE Island looks like a fun place for paint balling & laser quest
It's like a fun house but literally a dangerous one where injury is quite common
I really wish there was a single streaming platform where all of the movies could be found. Very lame how fractured things are these days.
They're all on Amazon Prime now
@@Bloopbliepbloop all r removed
Yet another reason why sailing the high seas is the best way to watch movies.
ohhh the guy with the leather jacket played the Russian General Gogol in later bond movies
2:02 “Ms. Klebb, imma need at least 72 hours to recover from that colon bleed you gave me.”
Fortunately Mr Klebb punches like a girl 😁
The blond killer looks just like a young Rutger Hauer
Leaked footage from inside club tropical excellent
I can't help thinking that training camp is an accident waiting to happen
I don't think Spectre encouraged people to sue for damages.I read somewhere the Waffen SS used live ammunition in all their training.Apparently it was very effective hut you had to accept 5% fatal casualties
@@nihilistcentraluk442 Very true the Waffen-SS did use live ammunition during training and war games, gave recruits a massive edge over their Allied opponents because once SS recruits were sent to the front they were already accustomed to noises of battle.
What are you gonna do, sue the obvious criminal organization?
Some people say "Hello, how are you today?" Others use a knuckle duster!
Louis Armstrong inserted her name in Mack the Knife when he recorded it. Her husband Kurt Weill had composed the song.
Easily one of the best Bond films!
Best Connery era film imo
Actually my favourite.
It's the best one for me.
hands down of one the best!
Yes. I agree. This is the film which launched the Bond franchise to its glorious heights, rather than Dr No because this movie got all the ingredients right
Klebb is the best Bond girl ❤
Not only I find Rosa Klebb's voice funny, but the part where she punches Red Grant (1:57) is truly priceless. 😂😂🤣😂😂
You can see his teeth flash
I don't care how much of a trained KGB/Spectre agent she was, the plain fact of the matter is that she's half the f*cking size of Robert Shaw! I'd have been amazed if he couldn't take a punch from her, brass knuckles or not.
"He seems fit enough!"
At least he didn't fall down like Pvt. Joker after he took a punch like that from GySgt. Hartman.
Shaw: *gets knuckle-punched in the stomach* "Anyway, we delivered the bomb!"
Roy Scheider in the background sheepishly checking himself for a scar.
Who knew Goggel was ex spectre?
Who said he didn't occasionally do field work at his age? Might be undercover. After all, M and Q did too on occasion as we would later see.
The most tension packed scene in any bond film was when kleb fought bond with her spike out
0:58
1:21
Notice a continuity error there?
Heh heh. There is a whole TH-cam video on that one.
The picture is chock-full of the obligatory continuity errors: spend an hour going through them all on (say) IMDB.
@@None-zc5vg Yeah, there's 108 in total from when I last counted. But we're not talking about the whole film, we're talking about this scene...
@@benoitpellet1657 Really?
@@KoasterKing205 ...but it's fun to trawl through them all, in any case. It's hard to believe that some of them weren't detected before the picture was ready for release: maybe no-one cared if the audience might notice them.
One of the two only Female main villains in the history of the James Bond series (The other being Elektra King, although Klebb was working for Blofeld but she was the main antagonist in that instalment like Dr. Julius No and Emilio Largo for example.)
This is by far the best bond movie.
He ate that shit like a boss
I love how you cant hear any gunshots as they walk towards the training area from the helicopter, yet when they enter, it sounds like a war zone and the only barrier between the two areas are some see-through silk curtains lol 😂
Nobody is wearing hearing protection. They are too tough for that sissy stuff
Spectre invented a lot of cool stuffs, the curtain for example absorbs sound. Also, they invented the first ever reusable rocket in "You Only Live Twice".
Which wine to drink with fish was missed off the training program 😂
The masseuse is stupidly attractive my lord.
All those years I watched this as a kid and not notice that that was also General Gogol...and of course Quint from Jaws on the same screen
Connery best bond ever
Fun fact: in Ian Fleming book, Rosa actually hit Bond in the ankle with that kick.😊
When the guy touches Rosa Klebb on the elbow she pulls away in disgust. Don’t think she’s the type to crave male attention !
She was a lesbian in the book I believe.
@@pmafterdark she is. Although extremely implied.
@@pmafterdark later she touches Romanowa very gentle... its never mentioned, but lesbian avanced can be noticed.... well acted by Lotte Lenja (her earlier way to write her name, in US she changed to Lenya)
Such a charming woman...
Robert Shaw as Grant, Arno Breker couldn't have sculpted him better.
Robert Shaw was strong back then must have bin benching around 405 lbs
Klebb walked all the way down to the lake just to punch Grant in the stomach with her brass knuckles. Now that is dedication.
As tough as Klebb is, you can see by her face (@1:44) that she's quite taken with Grant. Maybe that's why she took it "easy" on him?
It would be even worse if she kicked him in the stomach with the knife-shoes on...
0.26 convicted murderer, escaped from prison...... Excellent. I now know what is lacking in my resume.
That was Dartmoor prison it must have a Cat A prison back in the day. Now it's Cat C .
So Quint was a SPECTRE agent who failed the mission then went to Amity Island to start hunting sharks for a living. Makes sense.
In between he was a cheating gambler/mobster in Chicago.
But scammed of half a million dollars in a sting.
Then Jaws sank his boat 🛥️ and ate him looks like he failed as a shark 🦈 hunter too!
Hang on, is that not Benz ('not mad about his tailor, are you?') between Morzeny and Klebb who got on the train later on?
The best
Donald "Red" Grant. It is Grant's masseuse I envy. Oh my aching back and in who's service.
Oh and at all times he knows where his towel is. Walter. GoTell? Softly Softly and Home Soil? Didn't I? Go and Tell? Morzeny and Anatol Gogol?
RIP Walter GoTell. Wonderful body of work and ahem BACK to lady masseuse. And knuckledusters. Rosa Klebb was the best Bond Woman.
1:50 what is that thing behind her? some kind of robot?
The rowing machine?
Reminds me of my honeymoon
I want to get a poison shoe switchblade for my 87 year old mother. I just don't know how to make one.
Rosa: (hits Grant with knuckle duster) he seems fit enough have him report to me in Istanbul in twenty four hours
Grant: (quietly) ow
And we never saw Spectre island again
She reminds me of my 5th-grade teacher, Mrs. Davidson. A tough no nonsense woman, heck if she could've hit the kids with brass knuckles, she would've.
The training room is so cheesy, it reminds me of the training room from X-Men 😅
Robert Shaw had a solid physique.
In my imagination, I always hear a male body falling to the ground at 2:06 :D
How can they talk with the rotor running?
This dialogue is dubbed! You can even hear the studio ambiance.
He passed the gutpunch test..
I wish he didn't...
Fun fact: Frau Farbissna in Austin Powers was based on Rosa Klebb
The yell came from the SS woman in Indiana Jones Last Crusade.
She has her leather gloves on, just in case...
she may have destroyed some guts before, wise choice!
GRANT 🤗
ローザ・クレッブはシリーズ全ての中で最もリアルな「キャリア・ウーマンらしいキャリア・ウーマン」。高い地位の有能な女性、キャリア・ウーマンはこんな「おばちゃん」じゃないとおかしい。
若くて美人でかわい子ちゃんのキャリア・ウーマンなど非現実的。
How did Robert Shaw and all them not bust out laughing here? The bald guy on the left almost did. True pros.
YEAH RIGHT , AS SOON AS THAT CAMERA TURN AWAY, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
0:33
It's so funny how all three of them seems to be dubbed. And the words we hear don't seem to correlate with their lips and what they're actually saying.
The picture was rather carelessly made (see all the continuity errors) and it probably carried over into the redubbing process. Maybe the director was too busy playing cards or playing with himself to keep an eye on such minor matters.
@@None-zc5vg Dr No also had continuity errors. In the very introduction to the Bond character there's blatant errors. Keep watching the cigarette in Bond's mouth and you'll see 😄
0:19 - That’s General Gogol!
Am I the only one who heard Donald Trump instead of Donald Grant?
As soon as Klebb left
Grant: Argh...god, I think she broke a rib..
Trainer: Yeah...wasn't expecting her to punch you with brass knucks..we'll get you right as rain before we send you to Istanbul...I gotta file a complaint to Number 1.
charming Lady lol
That same punch if landed by the Hulk would have caused Grant to land far far away from that area!!!! Lol!!!!🤣🤣🤣
Rosa Klebb could probably take the Hulk.
Well that's one way to cut the bullshit out of the interview process!
He seems fit enough.
Always get a kick out of watching Kleb
We're going to need a bigger boat.
A gut punch from a grandma equals fit for being a agent for spectre? Sign me up!
😂😂😂😂😂
very quiet comrades...
Генерал Гоголь ещё не тот.
The guy with the mustache is hot.
He seems fit enough? Yer think? So why when Bond stabbed him with an itty bitty knife did he allow 007 to turn the tables on him in the train fight?
Just asking.
I think you underestimate how much of a force multiplier knives are.
@@theregalproletariat Agreed, I'd rather be punched than stabbed.
You're gonna need bigger brass knuckles...
1927 ?
Yeah 1927. Because this was made in 1963.
General Gogol
Col. Klink's grandson makes good (or bad).
If that punch had been a bit lower he'd still be on the floor now.LOL
Later, Grant was scammed by Newman & Redford.
I thought she said “Donald --“