I saw this movie while stationed in Germany, back in 1981. It should have been a walloping success, but didn’t work out that way. The boat chase scene was very well done. Laser effects were so good. Michael Crawford owned the role, even though he was a big ham. Barbara Carrera was lovely, and Oliver Reed was villainous. The special effects were supervised by Colin Chilvers and Art Cruickshank.
I think if they'd have used a regular boat, instead of that whatever that was or at least not painted it an obnoxious yellow color, that scene would have been much better, going into it i expected it to be a lot worse, I think movie makers under-estimate how little it takes to turn people off, just using the wrong lighting, or a bad line of dialog is all it takes to turn a masterpiece into a flop.
@@demon2others ahem, they weren't mentioned by the op, but by TheStevemuhkween. You replied to his comment, you should have been able to read and understand it...
Honestly, loved this movie as a kid. It was budget James Bond, but Bond's stuff generally didn't have lasers going PEW PEW PEW like this! Given, conventional rounds do skip off the water like those lasers do- every time I see tracers bouncing, I honestly think of Condorman.
Condorman! Remember going to the Cinema as a kid and watching this........ couldn't understand how Frank Spencer had suddenly turned in to some sort of low rent James Bond?
The 1980s, when Disney suddenly proved that they could make seriously-cool live-action movies (Tron, Condorman, The Black Hole) FWIW, based on the end of this movie, I've always thought that Disney planned this to be a franchise but funding never emerged. Maybe things have changed enough now. Condorman as part of the post-Thanos Avengers.
@@stevejackson9952 Condorman was camp and remains camp but I think that, with the benefit of time and distance, people are beginning to see the good qualities of The Black Hole in terms of being hard sci-fi.
Condorman ! one fo the best DIsney movies , loved the whole porsche scene ...my oh my so many years have past . this movie with more recent cars would still work.
This movie would probably work MUCH better today than in the 80s... CGI can make so many things cooler and if you look at the Car chase that silly interface or the clearly CG "windshieldramp" they used were so fake, today you could get that look as if it would work in the real world... plus Condorman's Wings with the effects skills people could gather from showing Falcon (like Avengers Civil War or the new Series with the Winter Soldier) or even Iron Man.... yeah i'd dig that. It would need a slight touch up for the "comicbook artist gets sucked into espionage against the evil Eastern Block" storyline, but well... Putin isn't much better than whoever was leader in Moscow in the 80s when this was made and the KGB was believably a villain in 90% of US adventure movies ;) And we already expect any spy agency to have a competent "Q Branch" now that makes ridiculously scifi tech gadgets for the hero... Now that i think about it and have mentioned Iron Man... i'd also love a sequel or reboot of "The Rocketeer"... Another Movie where hte effects haven't quite held up over the last 30 or so years... Wasn't that also a buena Vista (= live action Disney) production? Oh, looked it up and i was close, it was published under the Touchstone brand of Disney.
If the Russians were smart: Wouldn’t chasing after them in our boats put us at an instant disadvantage? Because we’d have to keep pace with them while also going slow enough to keep our shots accurate? And because their boat’s to shallow for torpedoes, I think we should attack from the air! Child me: Haha, baddies go boom!
I now own this film condor man but years back I couldn’t for the life of me remember what it was called, and I only remembered one scene were he is being chased by black Porsches about six of them I think and the hud or bonnet depending on what side of the Atlantic Ocean you live on causes one of the porches to be launched into the air. I couldn’t even remember the actor in it and thought It was someone totally different.
Michael Crawford (,Condor Man) stared as Frank Spencer in the 1970s UK. show " Some Mothers do Have Em" in which he played a clumsy inpet handyman who constantly got himself into hair raising situations and he did all his own stunts.
I first remember hearing this laser sound in Disney's The Black Hole before it appeared here. Not sure if The Terminator uses the same sound, or just something similar.
Ah, Condorman. As tweens in the early 90's my brother and I saw a preview of this at the start of some other rental VHS. We wanted to see it so bad. We searched for it in every video rental place in our small town, but nobody had it. Then, in college one of my best friends would reference it all the time and said it was his favorite movie as a kid. I eventually ran across a copy of it in my mid 20's I think, at which point it seemed pretty hokey. But watching it all the way through felt like checking something off my bucket list. With Amazon and Netflix these days, the kids will never know the feeling lol.
It travels a long way, but especially in the 1980s it does not stay collimated (bundled tightly together) for long... it would be more a hot searchlight when it went several kilometers than still be a lethal weapon. And it's no worse than any other action movie having them shoot normal guns in populated areas.
At least they didn't choose a design that would draw much attention to them... Henchman: "Is that Condorman's boat?" Evil Genius: "What, the yellow one with the laser?"
Monte Carlo Harbour Controller: "Shouldn't we maybe be intervening in the all-out battle going on out in the harbour crowded with civilian yachts?" Controller's Manager: "Nah. I'm cool"
Tailor: How much leather? The Russians: You seen The Matrix? Tailor: No, it doesn’t exist yet! The Russians: Too bad, give us Matrix levels of black leather!
What kind of idiot on TH-cam is saying this is one of the worst movies on television that is bullshite I absolutely loved watching this on television as a kid 🧒
The most awesome boat in history is the one in the 1967 hit "Come On Down to My Boat, Baby". I was 12 when that was on the radio, and had recently become REALLY interested in what they were doing in the boat. If you know what I mean...
In these times where everything is a reboot/remake/sequel/prequel... what if they made a Condorman sequel w/ all the old janky ass contraptions in this movie? Just so everybody can be all... who the fuck is Condorman?
I saw this actual boat at the Maritime Museum in Liverpool in the year of what will it be in around about 1986 I think. Maybe 85. Teenage me thought it was the bollocks
I saw this movie while stationed in Germany, back in 1981. It should have been a walloping success, but didn’t work out that way. The boat chase scene was very well done. Laser effects were so good. Michael Crawford owned the role, even though he was a big ham. Barbara Carrera was lovely, and Oliver Reed was villainous. The special effects were supervised by Colin Chilvers and Art Cruickshank.
I think if they'd have used a regular boat, instead of that whatever that was or at least not painted it an obnoxious yellow color, that scene would have been much better, going into it i expected it to be a lot worse, I think movie makers under-estimate how little it takes to turn people off, just using the wrong lighting, or a bad line of dialog is all it takes to turn a masterpiece into a flop.
could this be....Condorman?
@@DeanMk1 Indeed!
M@@AKATenn
Agreed. The problem was while there was a lot of action, it was so deliberately placed as to be actually dull. The Rocketeer had the same problem.
Wait... is that Condorman?! I haven't even thought about that movie in years! Wow! Talk about nostalgia!
“Where does he get such wonderful toys?” - Joker
I like how he had to take his eyepatch off to use the phone at 0:41 LOL
It was the 1st Eye Phone.
Real explosion, real boat chase, real action skills. No CGI. This is what I call real movie.
And real lasers! Oh, wait.
And those real lasers even fire real bending light...
@@TheStevemuhkween laser was not mentioned in the comment.
@@demon2others ahem, they weren't mentioned by the op, but by TheStevemuhkween. You replied to his comment, you should have been able to read and understand it...
You think those were real lasers huh? that was CGi buddy. Or an older version of it like drawing on the film.
and despite all the rest, still fake af.
Same here. The 1980s sure did bring some truly memorable movie moments. =)
Honestly, loved this movie as a kid. It was budget James Bond, but Bond's stuff generally didn't have lasers going PEW PEW PEW like this!
Given, conventional rounds do skip off the water like those lasers do- every time I see tracers bouncing, I honestly think of Condorman.
Condorman! Remember going to the Cinema as a kid and watching this........ couldn't understand how Frank Spencer had suddenly turned in to some sort of low rent James Bond?
Condor man attended the same weapons training as the storm troopers.
maybe he taught the storm troopers
you try shooting from a speed boat bouncing on waves at other boats doing the same thing, even a small bump will throw your aim off
To be fair, Woody is just a comic book writer, not an actual spy. I'd say he's actually doing fairly well. 😂
Same sound effects, too.
I mean, he's a comic book artist trying to aim with zero training on a wildly pitching boat. Go figure.
I agree. A three man racing hydrofoil is pretty cool, especially with the Condorman paint scheme.
Maybe someone will create a limited edition resin model kit of the Condor an Hydro oat.
It's a Hydro PLANE.
Cool boats, especially the H1's. But nothing special if you grew up around them.
... well special, but not unusual 😊
The 1980s, when Disney suddenly proved that they could make seriously-cool live-action movies (Tron, Condorman, The Black Hole)
FWIW, based on the end of this movie, I've always thought that Disney planned this to be a franchise but funding never emerged. Maybe things have changed enough now. Condorman as part of the post-Thanos Avengers.
Condorman and The Black Hole were generally viewed as bombs.
@@stevejackson9952 Condorman was camp and remains camp but I think that, with the benefit of time and distance, people are beginning to see the good qualities of The Black Hole in terms of being hard sci-fi.
@@benrussell-gough1201Did you know that The Black Hole was the first PG movie Disney made because the use of Hell and Dam
@@benrussell-gough1201 I actually liked it but yeah it is camp. Someone told me Michael Crawford doesn't really like to talk about the movie.
Back when Disney has some balls
Indeed
Now all their movies have women with balls.
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Bloodyhell this brings back great memories of watching this as a 5 year old, damn awesome! Thanks for uploading.
This movie is SUCH a fun part of my childhood. Thank You.
Agreed. Loved this as a kid. And the porche chase scene? Too cool.
Condorman ! one fo the best DIsney movies , loved the whole porsche scene ...my oh my so many years have past . this movie with more recent cars would still work.
Those black Porsches are still just as cool today. And nothing is cooler still than having a Firebird on your front hood
This movie would probably work MUCH better today than in the 80s... CGI can make so many things cooler and if you look at the Car chase that silly interface or the clearly CG "windshieldramp" they used were so fake, today you could get that look as if it would work in the real world... plus Condorman's Wings with the effects skills people could gather from showing Falcon (like Avengers Civil War or the new Series with the Winter Soldier) or even Iron Man.... yeah i'd dig that.
It would need a slight touch up for the "comicbook artist gets sucked into espionage against the evil Eastern Block" storyline, but well... Putin isn't much better than whoever was leader in Moscow in the 80s when this was made and the KGB was believably a villain in 90% of US adventure movies ;) And we already expect any spy agency to have a competent "Q Branch" now that makes ridiculously scifi tech gadgets for the hero...
Now that i think about it and have mentioned Iron Man... i'd also love a sequel or reboot of "The Rocketeer"... Another Movie where hte effects haven't quite held up over the last 30 or so years... Wasn't that also a buena Vista (= live action Disney) production? Oh, looked it up and i was close, it was published under the Touchstone brand of Disney.
Misses 90% of the time
"Nice shootin Woody!"
Probably, he was a stormtrooper XD
@@stenmark3 Or shockwave from transformers (who couldn't hit a damned thing)
Nice shooting...for a comic book artist!
“Nice shootin’, Tex!” 👻
To be fair, it's not so easy to aim from a boat moving at speed across bumpy water. Just saying.
This movie was crazy good! So many tricks and cool gadgets! My favorite when I was a kid. This is the most underrated movie ever!
I love how the laser blasts bounce off the water.
Nice touch!
Condor man what a treat, remember this had all the thrills of the Saturday morning cinema club. Cheesy but great fun 👍😃
Loved this stupid movie when I was a kid. Forgot all about it! This brings back memories.
If the Russians were smart: Wouldn’t chasing after them in our boats put us at an instant disadvantage? Because we’d have to keep pace with them while also going slow enough to keep our shots accurate? And because their boat’s to shallow for torpedoes, I think we should attack from the air!
Child me: Haha, baddies go boom!
I now own this film condor man but years back I couldn’t for the life of me remember what it was called, and I only remembered one scene were he is being chased by black Porsches about six of them I think and the hud or bonnet depending on what side of the Atlantic Ocean you live on causes one of the porches to be launched into the air. I couldn’t even remember the actor in it and thought It was someone totally different.
Condorman had two of the greatest vehicles in movie history, the car and the boat.
Great movie.
Michael Crawford (,Condor Man) stared as Frank Spencer in the 1970s UK. show " Some Mothers do Have Em" in which he played a clumsy inpet handyman who constantly got himself into hair raising situations and he did all his own stunts.
Gotta listen to "Deep Purple" when you watch this scene,......"Smoooke, on the waaater,.....The fire's in the sky,......😁😁😁
CONDORMAN, I watch this movie do much as kid, loved it
I became a comic artist because I was fooled into thinking that I too would get a hydrofoil with a laser gun.
Wish they would put this movie on Disney Plus.
I do have it on DVD.
I loved the car chase scene.
It's s shame that they don’t show it more often or have it on the Disney channel when it's a Disney film?
It’s Condorman.
Deserves a remake! But keeping the original soundtrack.
You know they would woke the shit out of it
The uploader did not lie. That boat is hella cool. So cool.
Love it! Especially the Terminator-style laser "THUP! THUP! THUP!" sound effect
I first remember hearing this laser sound in Disney's The Black Hole before it appeared here. Not sure if The Terminator uses the same sound, or just something similar.
Condorman rocked!
Will somebody please revive this franchise?!
I loved the car chase scenes with the black Porsches in this film ;)
Many waves of nostalgia! Thanks for posting
He is shooting high energy lasers and missing 90% of the time who knows how many untold people he just killed
Dermot McDermott He's aiming at the Bird Men! Or is that a different camp movie..?
But those people indulged the big baddie of the film and let him get away with all of his badness.
That's because he just came from a Star Wars set where he was playing a Stormtrooper.
It's nice that Skynet gave a plasma rifle to Condorman. It's the exact same color and sound effect!
Those were the good o days!When movies were entertaining and a joy to watch!
That lazer was the coolest.... I'd dig having that on my car. 😎
I love it when he blasts the one boat and it splits down the middle. Well done. This movie was great when I was a kid.
Forget sharks with "Freaking lazer beams" this is a boat that shoots light sabers! Woo Hoo!
Ah, Condorman. As tweens in the early 90's my brother and I saw a preview of this at the start of some other rental VHS. We wanted to see it so bad. We searched for it in every video rental place in our small town, but nobody had it. Then, in college one of my best friends would reference it all the time and said it was his favorite movie as a kid. I eventually ran across a copy of it in my mid 20's I think, at which point it seemed pretty hokey. But watching it all the way through felt like checking something off my bucket list. With Amazon and Netflix these days, the kids will never know the feeling lol.
Bat-boat '66 for me.
How far does a laser travel? Makes you wonder how many people in the city back there got hit with all those missed laser shots!
It travels a long way, but especially in the 1980s it does not stay collimated (bundled tightly together) for long... it would be more a hot searchlight when it went several kilometers than still be a lethal weapon.
And it's no worse than any other action movie having them shoot normal guns in populated areas.
"Condorman action figures and sets sold separately!"
I like the laser beam sound effects :)
It was the same effect they used in the old G.I. Joe cartoon
@@JorgeCastro-hz6fm And in "the black hole"
At least they didn't choose a design that would draw much attention to them...
Henchman: "Is that Condorman's boat?"
Evil Genius: "What, the yellow one with the laser?"
lol!
Monte Carlo Harbour Controller: "Shouldn't we maybe be intervening in the all-out battle going on out in the harbour crowded with civilian yachts?"
Controller's Manager: "Nah. I'm cool"
needs a christopher nolan remake
Definitely not!
@@obifuntoknowme that was the joke.
Tailor: How much leather?
The Russians: You seen The Matrix?
Tailor: No, it doesn’t exist yet!
The Russians: Too bad, give us Matrix levels of black leather!
Excellent theme tune
Woody was lucky the spetsnaz were not after him
i loved this film when i was in my early youth!
Watching this as a kid, I was convinced that I was witnessing what would inevitably be the modern standard for naval warfare in the next decade.
One of the four black boats can be seen in south corsica...
Yes. James Bond, take note.
What kind of idiot on TH-cam is saying this is one of the worst movies on television that is bullshite I absolutely loved watching this on television as a kid 🧒
It’s not great but there are way worse things on TV. Lol.
Tv first, then VHS next DVD now TH-cam! A fantastic progression of different media formats! I love this movie!🤪
Is it Brocknoviach or Droknoviach?? I've argued with my brother about that for years.
lol Frank Spencer's american accent
This could use a remake with modern storytelling and acting,. but I loved it as a kid
Most violent Disney movie ever? Maybe beaten by The Black Hole?
Condorman!!!
4:10 god forgives but Condorman doesnt.
thought this was going to be a music video for the first 2 seconds
I loved this movie when I was a kid.
Wrong. The Q Boat from "James Bond, The World Is Not Enough" is the most awesome Boat in movie history
The most awesome boat in history is the one in the 1967 hit "Come On Down to My Boat, Baby". I was 12 when that was on the radio, and had recently become REALLY interested in what they were doing in the boat. If you know what I mean...
That made sense, everything about it was pure logic.
The boat chase and explosions were very cool.
The laser might as well have been a sling shot!
Nice shooting, Hans.
how fucking epic even after all these years does that pan out @ 1:21 scene look
“He is not an agent of the CIA! He is a writer of comic books!”
Nice shootin’, Tex. 😎
I thought his hat had baked beans on it.
Saw this in a cinema 1000 years ago, maybe North Wales?
"Ooh betty".
Just an F1 racer dressed up with some pods inspired by Ken Warby's "Spirit of Australia" waterspeed record holder boat.
Where's the Coast Guard when you need them? 🤔
RIP James Hampton great actor he was
CONDOR MAN!
Damn, this was back when Disney was taking chances with films.
Such a great film.
Yeah 00:13 to 00:34 is really the best scene. I like this jet engine sound.
What's really corny is the jet sound with an outboard motor clearly visible :D I think the cornyness is what made movies like this so cool.
Best part of the movie.
Not seen this since 1981 I need to find the hole film. (Edit) just thought about it and I was 7, where’s my life gone 😂
Yes. Yes it is.
Погоня получилась по настоящему жесткой😊
@noelht1 don't suppose you could help find out where it went?
In these times where everything is a reboot/remake/sequel/prequel... what if they made a Condorman sequel w/ all the old janky ass contraptions in this movie? Just so everybody can be all... who the fuck is Condorman?
Condorperson
“Nice shooting Woody!”
Great movie, Great FX.
Condor man.. I haven't seen this in years, I was a kid late time I seen this
I saw this actual boat at the Maritime Museum in Liverpool in the year of what will it be in around about 1986 I think. Maybe 85. Teenage me thought it was the bollocks
i still havent seen this on disney+, they should add it
Watched this movie with my dad as a kid. I wanted him to buy me the condor car and the condor boat. ❤
hola, la vi en el cine, tenia 7 años!!
Me gustaría ver la película completa por que me tra recuerdos y la vi de estreno en el cine en la calle gran Vía de Madrid
Condorman! I'm pretty sure the sound effects for the lasers came from The Black Hole.
4:09 did he die?
The black boat starting to look like the hero in this flick.
0:44 What does he say? Sounds like "Shinchass!"
So Lazer beams ricochet off water, apparently. And all Lazer weapons sound like star wars lazers as well.
It's a Disney film! Pretty sure you can't fly into a black hole and emerge on the far side of the universe, but it sure was entertaining
Yes. They do.
condor man.. loved it
WOW! REAL LAZERS! 😮
Waiting for the A-Team theme song to kick in