Kersh

http://veehd.com/video/4554120_S-P-Y-S-1974-Irvin-Kershner

Without a doubt he made the best Star Wars film , wish he did a few more, perhaps the prequels would have been  a bit more profound ,No doubt Irving will be remembered most for Empire but here are two of his other films (A kind of Sequel to M*A*S*H and a Sequel to A Man Called Horse (George wasn't the first guy to call on his services to direct  follow ups)
Wish all these cool guys would stop dying that's two heroes dead in a space of  48 hours :(

Leslie

Two episodes of Police Squad ,as a tribute to Leslie Nielsen.

The Men Behind 007

two bond related documentaries , this will be my last spy post(apart from Reily and Tinker ,Tailor etc.. as I'd like to serialise them till there conclussion (which may run into 2011) lord knows if they'll be another Bond film lets hope so I'll have to make do with the computer games until that happens for now.

Reilly Ace of Spies- Part 2

Here's  a pic of the real Sidney Riley , so what you see in these videos were based upon a truth , second episode features his involvement in the storming of Port Arthur the opening act of the Japanese /Russo war which in turn lead to the first Russian Revolution .Not sure why they cast the Poirot guy as a Chinese agent (sure he can act , but not excatly my first choice for someone who's meant to be Asian)
  Here's a few scenes from a Japanese movie that depict The events at Port Arthur . I think the film is called "203  Kochi" or possibly just "Port Arthur" if I can find a version with English subtitles I'll upload it here as The subject interests me as I hope to write and draw a comic (starting from The Boxer Rebellion going through the 1900's  ) I'm going to call it 1900AD (as a tribute to 2000ad .

Tinker ,Tailor, Soldier, Spy -Part 2

Second Part of the 1970's Spy drama

Nick 2

 It's Nick Anniversary today so I thought I'd feature another post about him  here's my first post ..
 http://beatniksbroadcastincompany.blogspot.com/2009/11/nick.html
 first up a documentary about his life and music
  (Sorry about the adverts ..there's no escape from that shite!)
followed by a few cover versions of his songshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpP11qYuhg8
Lucinda Williams -Which Will.
It's strange to hear such personal songs interpreted by others , nobody can do it quite like Nick  though.

Ian

Just before I indulge in Sex and Drugs and Rock N Roll (the dvd only ,just 2 thirds of the reality i'm afraid , it's about time I featured some Ian Dury here , who I met breifly at a ? and Mysrerions gig (sadly I was loaded wish I could of chatted more)  , He was also taught  lllustration by my old tutor Brian ,it's a  small world aint it:?..  the fact  I  grew up with Ians music was a great help, my best memories of a new years eve party are Sex and Drugs and Rock N Roll and  Hit me with a Rhythem  Stick  and the best Top of the Pops appearence ever  for" I Want to be Straight in a Coppers Uniform sadly not featured here thx BBC (not  )So here's to Ian and thanks for all the great stuff you left behind

Cold War Double Bill

 Two movies from the 1980's concerning spying behind the Iron Curtain  , First off A film where John Savage (after he grew his legs back from starring in The Deer Hunter)is shot by both sides on a mission of vengence in Czechoslovakia
http://www.tubemotion.com/media/16710/The_Amateur_1981/
and secondly Clint hotwires a Soviet Superjet

Harry

Micheal Caine's second Harry Palmer movie one I've never seen (having seen Ipcress Files and Billion Dollar Brain a billion times on tv but  I've never seen this one (let alone Harrys two 1990's movies ) This seems to be buffing very slowly though(maybe its my computer) just  hope it's watchable

Reilly Ace of Spies- Part 1

Kind of like an Edwardian 007, I'm in the process of writing a story very much in flavour of these shows seeing as more information has come to light about the early SIS (Secret Intellegence Service) in fact the subject of the next episode Port Arthur was very much in my mind for my story but the rotters beat me to it lol.. I'll be serialising this through the next few weeks. Look out for Sallah and Rumpole also starring Sam Neill as Reilly (who from that point on seems to have starred in every movie under the sun lol)

Espionage Music

A few secret agent related tunes and themes

Anzacs Part 5

F

Final Part.. glad to have  rediscovered this mini series(hope this video works for everybody else ..sometimes these megavids stop halfway through if you watch for over a certain amount of time 72 mins  but its well worth watching the whole of this ..just have a brew or something between the time your allowed to watch the rest of it..well thats what I do anyway)

Tinker ,Tailor, Soldier, Spy -Part 1

TV Spy Drama I never got to see as a nipper as it was on after the 9 oclock  watershed, but I've always been curious to see , has an excellent cast Alec Guinness as George Smiley (soon to be played Gary Oldman in a motion picture version and Ian Richardson (whose performances  I enjoyed in Private Schultz  so his role should be good as story unravels )

Casino Royale (1954)

The very first onscreen appearence of James(or rather in this case Jimmy) Bond , who is American for some reason in this teleplay Barry Nelson stars as JB, also starring my fave slimeball specialist Mr Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre.
First in a week (perhaps a bit longer as I hope to serialise a few videos I have planned for these posts ) of Secret Agent posts

Anzacs Part 4

I hope this works ... 3 episodes were availiable on youtube , but it ended halfway through the story so I couldn't just leave it hanging like this

Great Scots Part 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiiVmV66Qb8&playnext=1&list=PL05CEDB607CA84B26&index=50 
18 Wheeler -Steel Guitars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8CPKrAiMwk
18 Wheeler-Kum Back
My final Caledonian music post for now a kind of mish mash of the best of the rest , but I will feature more Scottish Beat Groups such as The Exploited and The Cocteau Twins at a latter date ..

Anzacs Part 3

The Fourth and Fifth Episode hasn't been uploaded properly yet,  I'll see what I can do over the week to rectify this situation.

Great Scots! Part 5- Associates /Billy Mackenzie

The Associates - Ronnie Scott's - 5 (Even Dogs in the Wild)
Uploaded by spacehopper70. - Explore more music videos.My first memories of Billy is seeing Top of the Pops when I was 9 years old even then I knew he was very special.What can I say he's up there with the greatest singers of all time , very few can compete against his vocals as you will hear..