David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 27, 2009, 1:00 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 25, 2009, 7:51 pm
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 25, 2009, 3:00 pm
I can't really know how Simon Dutton felt about his stint as the Saint, but to my mind, he was in someways better off than some of the previous actors who played the character. Rather than being s...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 25, 2009, 1:00 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 24, 2009, 6:55 pm
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 24, 2009, 3:25 pm
The Saint in Manhattan is a Saint for the Magnum PI generation. Actually, its probably a few years too late for Magnum, but this pilot episode for a proposed new series has the same smirk and high liv...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 23, 2009, 1:00 am

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 22, 2009, 4:00 pm
Posted on Youtube by: lesliecharteris Unfortunately it is in French -- that is, if you don't speak French. If you do speak French there's nothing unfortunate about it at all. Enjoy!
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 22, 2009, 2:45 pm
I am a sucker for the old serials from the thirties and forties, whether they are Bulldog Drummond, Mr Moto, Charlie Chan, Michael Shayne or The Saint, they just drag me in. Whereas some people just f...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 22, 2009, 1:00 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 22, 2009, 1:00 am

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 21, 2009, 1:05 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 20, 2009, 4:00 pm
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 20, 2009, 1:00 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 19, 2009, 10:26 pm
As an Australian, giant rampaging pigs are just one of the many things I have to deal with every day. To head over to Teleport City and read my review of the ozploitation classic Razorback, click here...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 16, 2009, 2:46 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 13, 2009, 1:00 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 9, 2009, 6:03 pm
This is the next of my 'cleaning out the closet' reviews. It was written when Farrah Fawcett passed a way a few months ago. I never posted it because my review is pretty thin and I didn't ...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 8, 2009, 12:27 am
Cleaning out the closet. This is the first of my cleaning out the closet reviews. When you visit PTK, you don't see the bare bones underneath. You don't see all the half written posts, sitting...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 6, 2009, 1:00 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 5, 2009, 5:40 pm
For those that missed it, last week on The Rap Sheet, as a part of their ongoing series 'The Book you have to read', Tom Cain presents The Dolly Dolly Spy. I was always intrigued by the blur...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 5, 2009, 2:48 pm
Earlier this year a rumour circulated around the net that Shaw Bros/Celestial Pictures were going to release a whole swag of previously unreleased films on DVD. Among them were a few spy films, Operat...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 4, 2009, 2:52 pm
Your Turn Darling sure is one boozy adventure for Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine). As we meet Caution, he is disgruntled because he was called away from a bar at four in the morning where he had bee...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Nov 3, 2009, 3:30 pm
Passport to Hell is in some ways a hard Eurospy film to review. This is primarily because it is pretty good. It eschews all the silly secret ray-gun weapon and underground lair tropes of the genre (wh...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 30, 2009, 5:00 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 28, 2009, 3:47 pm
COBRAS associate Jeremy Duns has posted a piece about the art of killing characters at the Criminal Minds Blog. Those who enjoyed his debut novel Free Agent, are in for a treat, as Jeremy uses a smal...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 27, 2009, 5:40 pm
To celebrate Halloween, October has been H.P. Lovecraft month at Teleport City. My contribution, which is not strictly Lovecraft, is a review of John Carpenter's unspeakably horrific In the Mouth ...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 26, 2009, 3:08 am
French film director, Claude Chabrol is often credited with starting the "nouvelle vague" French film movement (or the French New Wave as it more commonly called). Prior to his first film, in 1957, Ch...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 25, 2009, 4:36 pm
Rob, over at The Deighton Dossier is running a competition at the moment and the prize is a DVD entitled The Berlin Wall: escape to freedom. The details are below: "Like a skewer through a shish keba...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 23, 2009, 2:00 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 22, 2009, 3:57 pm
Did you hear that? No you didn't -- the COBRAS strike silently -- and our ranks are growing still. The latest addition to the COBRAS is Paul Baack and the team at the HMSS Weblog. Welcome aboard ...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 21, 2009, 5:29 am
Although Farz was among the first Bollywood attempts at making a Bondian spy flick, it was in fact a remake of a Tollywood film called Goodachari 116 (1967). For the un-initiated 'Tollywood' c...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 20, 2009, 5:31 pm
From the amazing TarsTarkas website comes a review of a rather obscure Bond ripoff from Thailand, James Band 007. Now you're really going to have to visit the site to see all the amazing screencap...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 20, 2009, 4:09 am
My excursion into the world of the Bollywood spy film has only just begun -- at this stage having only watched a handful of films -- but so far, and this is bound to change as my knowledge and viewing...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 19, 2009, 8:08 pm
Here's a release I missed. The second in the Joe Hunter series hit bookshelves in the UK last week. I had intended to ask Matt Hilton some tough questions about his latest thriller, but time slipp...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 18, 2009, 9:23 pm
I am running behind on getting the usual Monday Morning Movie Review together (or the 3MR as we say in the trade). In the meantime, here are some bookcover scans from the Man From UNCLE series. These ...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 17, 2009, 2:00 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 16, 2009, 2:00 pm

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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 14, 2009, 10:41 pm
Those of you who who have been regular visitors to Permission to Kill over the past couple of years will have seen this before. This was a little video project I put together for Christmas 2007. The s...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 14, 2009, 3:53 pm
Like the tentacles of an octopus wrapped around the globe, the COBRAS network continues its expansion. Be afraid, the COBRAS intend nothing short of world domination. Look at the person beside you...c...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 12, 2009, 3:40 pm
On a couple of occasions I have said it is far easier to write reviews of bad films, books or CDs, than it is to write about good works. But that doesn’t mean I want to write negative and mean-spiri...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 11, 2009, 4:03 pm
Surakksha really won me over. I was really ready to can it, and say it was little more than a Bond wannabe -- and it is that, but in the second half it raises the bar, and becomes something different,...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 10, 2009, 5:50 pm
The C.O.B.R.A.S. (Coalition Of Blogger wRiting About Spies) network is growing. Today I welcome aboard Rob Mallows and The Deighton Dossier. The Deighton Dossier is the Internet's most comprehens...
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David F. posted an article on Permission To Kill - Oct 10, 2009, 2:00 pm

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