The BANNED James Bond LaserDisc Commentaries are SHOCKING!

[@ZevStellar]

Want more? Check out PART 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/labUpoCNhs-nbKM

[@Itsmy2cent]

It’s not “shocking” but honest. I’d respect someone who’s brutally honest in his take and views rather than someone who suppress and spins.

[@jeromesanta6307]

yes i want the whole thing !!!

[@Veronica.John10-10]

MORE MORE MORE!!!! Find more commentary on other laserdiscs, too!!! :)

[@drparnassus2867]

Bunch of old guys with no careers to lose, bitching about their former colleagues - I *thoroughly* enjoyed this

[@QuadriviumNumbers]

It's called honesty, you wouldn't understand Little Missy! Today's equivalent would be a bunch of old women b***hing and gossiping and boring us with their equal pay hustle!🥱🥱

[@itisjustacomment]

It sounded like they were truthfully talking about the film to me and the actors or actresses.

[@ZevStellar]

Yep definitely a good listen

[@DollWrestling]

I thought this was on the laserdisk, so they had carreers to lose at the time, but they were just talking the way it was.

[@Showsni]

@@DollWrestling The films came out in 1962, 1963 and 1964. The laserdiscs with the commentary are from 1991 - almost thirty years later.

[@cargoman7045]

In 2003 in my 20's I was buying laserdiscs like crazy. Those three were grails. I paid 600 US for sealed of all three. Ripped the commentary to MP3 and made sure they lived a new life. Your video is a great piece of that history.

[@yommish]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@chasx7062]

update them to flac and torrent them thanks

[@dliston1]

I would choose truth any day over the risk of being "offended".

[@vikingfortiesfaeroes]

@@chasx7062 How can you "update" a lossy file to a lossless one?

[@yommish]

@@dliston1 they weren’t concerned about you being offended. It was pulled because it painted certain people and entities in a bad light (it offended them specifically)

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

this is how audiocommentaries SHOULD be. Spicy, honest and not holding back with facts and the truth. ALL the things corporate suits hate.

[@james87367]

This would never happen in today’s world. Everything is tightly controlled and goes through about 10 different publication agencies before anything gets released. This was made in a completely different world where you could talk openly like this.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

@@james87367 Yup, even with the disclaimer text at the start of every DVD, Blu-ray or UHD, that the license holder and studio does not agree with comments in the interviews and audio commentaries, they still make sure nothing really critical actually makes it into the final audio commentaries.

[@67psychout]

Spending money like drunken indians. Hell no

[@ZevStellar]

I agree, I like the spiciness!

[@trekkiejunk]

For a lot of it, i agree. I don't think most of it is particularly "spicy." I could do without the racist stuff, like "drunken Indians," but most of the stuff in these clips is pretty harmless. And frankly, i've heard stuff that was more cutting in other commentary tracks.

[@djtonylee]

“This guy was the owner of the nightclub… i hope he is not still alive” 😂

[@ZevStellar]

🤣

[@jacketted8069]

Anyone know what he meant by calling him an operator?

[@Pwnulolumad]

@@jacketted8069an operator is usually a trained combatant… special forces operators go on operations

[@jacketted8069]

@@Pwnulolumad ty. That was my assumption but when he said "I hope he is not still alive" I assumed it was some British insult and more derogatory than how we use it now

[@josedeleon1923]

​@@jacketted8069Some kind of manipulator maybe? Like in the song Smooth Operator

[@nothingissimplewithlloyd]

It’s so English to absolutely slag off everyone, but then casually say something nice at the end.

[@playlist9980]

What a ridicoulous generalisation. Thanks for commenting. How very nice of you.

[@thecrazyswede2495]

This is the time in the evening when I remember the Alice Cooper song featuring Vincent Price, about the spider the black widow. She is called so because she eats her spouse at the consummation of the act. In that song Vincent squeals "Delicious!", and then in an undertone, "And I hope he was." Gives me a smile every time.😇 cheers! / CS

[@stephentaylor993]

Don't stereotype me with your pathetic comment.

[@zorantaylor3190]

@@thecrazyswede2495 My perennial Halloween persona is Alice Cooper, and one day I hope to run into someone who has that "Devil's Food" speech memorized and can just launch into that "STUMBLING DEMENTED CHILD KING!!!" monologue without me having to teach it to them word for word. Oh, what fun it would be....

[@thecrazyswede2495]

@@zorantaylor3190 Long enough! I am unfortunately completely harmless.😁😇 cheers! / CS

[@stevouk]

5:17, the biggest understatement of all time. Ian Fleming was not "a bit" of a snob, he was a 100%, total and unambiguous, non-negotiable, out-and-out, complete and utter, 24-carat gold snob.

[@BumpyHumpyDumpy]

Him also mentioning that Ian had little to no interest in writing…almost sounds like an Intelligence Plant, like Tom Clancy.

[@BleedForTheWorld]

Anyone could have told you that. He came from a very wealthy family.

[@ZevStellar]

He even had a gold-plated typewriter!

[@themartianVA87]

@@ZevStellarI was going to say “He had a gold typewriter, if that says anything”, but you done beat me to the punch, haha!

[@alexmay2782]

‘A bit of a…’ is a British understatement. As in ‘The Pope is a bit of a Catholic’

[@abcbatman1966]

DVD commentaries lost popularity because most of them were just banal compliments..”he/she was so great..blah, blah” This is splendid

[@ZevStellar]

Totally agree with you!

[@mikaelbiilmann6826]

Yes, too many of those. I love informative and/or funny commentaries. I want to learn something about the movie, its background and story.

[@mercatorjubio3804]

@@mikaelbiilmann6826 in that case look for any commentaries by Sylvester Stallone himself, the best I've ever heard. Rocky I (he did two), Rocky Balboa, First Blood, John Rambo, Expendables I

[@beanjm9773]

Any commentary by Italian filmmakers from the 70's and 80's is always gold, they do not give a fuck

[@ZevStellar]

@@beanjm9773 Do you have any good examples I can check out?

[@Cellogrinder1]

I’m 57 years old and I’ve been a fan of audio commentaries pretty much the whole time that they’ve been available. I remember hearing these audio commentaries on the original laser disc, ones I had rented from the local video stores. One word came down that the commentaries were banned, I called the offices of the criterion collection and talked to the audio producer himself. He said all of the facts in the audio commentaries were checked and rechecked, as if they took seriously the attempt to present something accurate. He resented the fact that they have been pulled from the market. Because they had worked so hard to create these entertaining commentaries.

[@alexpetrovich85]

Did he mention restoring the commentaries or did he just give you the runaround over "accuracy" or some other placating deflection?

[@ZevStellar]

Hey thank you for your comment, this is really interesting. I want to add that a couple people have commented here that there are indeed some inaccuracies in the commentaries. For example, the movie with the helicopter incident was YOLT, and then someone improperly attributed the James Bond theme to John Barry... there were a few more things as well

[@alexpetrovich85]

@@ZevStellar Cool, thank you so much for clarifying that.

[@johnnyw525]

@@alexpetrovich85There was no placating. It was out of his control. What didn’t you understand?

[@jerkchickenblog]

@@johnnyw525 people come in with their own narratives, and they're only interested in having those validated. you can repeat clearly that you said the opposite and they will STILL HEAR exactly what they wanted somehow. it's bizarre. the right wingers are most guilty of this but really it happens all the time from any position

[@farmbrough]

Informed and indiscreet, this is exactly what commentaries should be.

[@hajkie]

Wasnt exactly informative though, was a lot of things they said they didnt know.

[@KennethConnally-np9it]

OMG Terence Young is a hoot! Admitting to "stealing" shots from other movies while also dissing them or saying he doesn't remember the movie's name lol

[@ZevStellar]

lol I think he was salty about them not paying him decently to do Goldfinger

[@matty6878]

if nothing else he was honest! i was fully expecting him to say 'i cant remember the name, it was a german film so not worth remembering but i just had to salvage this shot' lol

[@sujimayne]

Copying*

[@tonypine3434]

Referencing * ​@@sujimayne

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

A good artist copies; a great artist steals.

[@Roykirk]

Those commentaries need to be restored. I loved the wild west of the early Laserdisc days, when the commentaries were controlled by the people involved in making them, not the studios.

[@ZevStellar]

Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if artists had control over their art rather than the suits?

[@КурочкаКрашена]

@@ZevStellar These people aren't artists. They're just mediocre men drooling over beautiful women. Seriously this is why a lot of films from this period are so bad - this kind of plopper going off tot he pub for four pints at lunchtime and chasing their next boner.

[@ChuckPenn3]

I created Blu-rays with these commentaries and isolated music and fx tracks edited to confirm to the latest Blu-Ray HD masters. I posted excerpts on you YT.

[@TrekBeatTK]

Criterion owns the commentaries, right? They should just put out a podcast feed with commentaries for titles from the collection that are out of print

[@troywright359]

​@ZevStellar commentaries are seen as an official product, so companies still need to be legally careful with content on them. If they started singing all of a copyrighted song, or saying about which women had drugs slipped into their drink, there could be trouble

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

Also in the Banned Criterion Commentary of *"From Russia With* *Love",* director Terence Young mentioned an infamous deleted scene that involved Bond & Kerim trapping the Bulgarian spy in a car jam, but the reason they had to cut the scene from the film was because Terence's own son asked during the editing: "Wasn't he killed by Red Grant in the Mosque?".

[@ZevStellar]

Hahah yeah, and then people didn't even notice he already died earlier in the movie. Kids are so special

[@johnlee7164]

And then they hired him as a script coordinator?

[@jonathancampbell5231]

To be honest, I wasn't sure that guy was dead until Bond and Kerim mentioned it in the next scene- he could have easily just been knocked out.

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

@@jonathancampbell5231 Bond later did say in the Orient Express: "And it was SPECTRE who killed the Russian agent in the Mosque."

[@jonathancampbell5231]

@@JOSH-lw2jv Yes; my point is that those were lines of dialogue that could easily have been erased, especially since every line was dubbed in post.

[@noahhenson1669]

In the Dr. No segment, there is nothing that could reasonably be classified as "SHOCKING". But three seconds into From Russia, and Young is jabbering blithely about how Lotte Lenya was having orgies at 80... and we're off and running!! Some of this stuff is hilarious. Some of it is, actually, mildly shocking. Most of it is merely frank insight into the production process and the realities of filmmaking in those days. As such it is an absolute GEM, thank you for sharing it with us!

[@ZevStellar]

Hey glad you enjoyed it!

[@MrT79shakeshake]

She was a wild old bitch alright. Her last two husbands were gay and the second last 25 years her junior 😂

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

It is much more about how they say things than the things they are saying.

[@Draknfyre]

Yeah, I was thinking none of this sounds too egregious... and then the FRWL section started and I was like oh...

[@porsche911sbs]

Lotte Lenya was pretty badass.

[@KakashiBallZ]

"Ursula arrived late to the set and couldn't remember her lines, so I slapped her." - Sir Sean Connery

[@Retro-Future-Land]

He slapped the lines into her...

[@kochiyama]

Schlapped

[@Animal_lives_matter]

Fröbe was a member of the Nazi Party during World War II. This fact led to controversy, including a ban on the film “Goldfinger” in Israel for two months. However, a Jewish family publicly thanked Fröbe for hiding them during the war, which helped to lift the ban.

[@oooBASTIooo]

Doesn't mean much anyways. The NSDAP had 8,5 million members by the end of the war, when Germany had an adult population of about 45 million people. So every 5th German was a member at that point and in many cases you couldn't really stay out of it without risking getting trouble at work. That said, Fröbe actually left the party in 1937, after becoming a member in 1934. I think this in itself means he was not a supporter of Hitler's ideologies, once they became more apparent.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Lots of people were nazis, lots of companies still around today. Like Porche and Addidas. The owners of both were nazis and both helped the Nazi war effort. Yet they are still around today despite not changing anything except Germany lost the war...

[@JeffreyPiatt]

It was a issue with the rules during Operation Paperclip the administration ruled that none of the recruited German people are scientific and other experts be active members of the Nazi Party, unfortunately if they were actually able to hold high ranking jobs becoming a Nazi party member was required as a loyalty oath. So they had to recon their membership to get the people they wanted.

[@tomigun5180]

@@oooBASTIooo And 150 000 Jews served in Wehrmacht during WWII, so it was just the usual lies and hypocricy on Israel's part.

[@BrodyLuv2]

😂😂 I bet he had that arranged hahaa

[@robertgraves8843]

This is what most people like in a movie commentary. Gossipy, behind the scenes stuff. I wish we could hear the lot. I remember the first commentary I heard was an Amicus film and very good it was too. Unfortunately, some since have been a bit tedious to sit through but this very interesting. I haven't heard the term "Screw" in a long time.

[@ZevStellar]

I completely agree. I've never, ever heard any other movie commentary have anything close to as saucy as these three gems. The gossipy secrets are what we listen for!

[@mrques2x115]

@@ZevStellar Cubby killed Ted Healy so I would be careful would I said on his commentaries.

[@johnnhoj6749]

​@@mrques2x115 Not really, according to later research e.g. see: west hollywood history DOT org SLASH what-really-happened-the-night-ted-healy-was-beaten-at-cafe-trocadero/ It's complicated.

[@DarrylRuiz-s1w]

Much more entertaining than the EON approved commentaries

[@ZevStellar]

Definitely!

[@ZachHighwind]

These commentaries remind me of the commentary from "Aliens" on the Alien Quadrilogy box set, very loose and laid back

[@Kacpa2]

​@@ZachHighwind Breaking bad commentaries are like this aswell.

[@PMelling2293]

You’d like the 5th Doctor era commentaries, in which Peter and Janet just roast the show

[@Olya290795]

Terence Young was like a mentor to Connery. Even the statement that Sean loved eating a lot had a slightly joking tone. What a man!

[@ZevStellar]

Yeah I think he had some of the loosest comments in all the commentaries.... well it might be a toss up between him and Peter "He had a bit of a paunch"😂

[@Lunzerland]

I still have 2 working Laserdisc players and a few LDs. Among them are these 3 beauties. I’m a huge Bond fan and will never give these up. Kudos to you for doing this. One thing of note: after these commentaries were scrubbed from the 3 Laserdiscs, Criterion reissued these in the CLV format (the original releases were CAV for those familiar with the formats) and you could also get from them the original banned audio commentaries on CASSETTE TAPE. The idea was you could sync the tape up with the LD and still enjoy the commentaries. Doing it this way allowed Criterion to skirt the legal issues.

[@glengreenman3921]

I still have the CLV Goldfinger with the order form for the commentary cassette. I remember reading somewhere (probably on Compuserve) Criterion were prevented from doing this and returned people's checks.

[@Retro-Future-Land]

Smart moves indeed.

[@bpark222]

The irony is while this kind of commentary would never be commercially released, it’s the only kind of candid commentary anyone would be truly interested in. You pick any movie I love, any all time favorite, I would never be interested in such a release because the comments would be confined to bland flatteries and tropes with no real insight, but, having no, none, interest in any James Bond movies, I’d gladly watch this disk, a lot of real behind the scenes muck and trash, I love that. This was a real entertaining download

[@LeeONardo]

There are a couple of really funny commentary tracks. Jackass the movie is just the guys goofing off and since they are so raw they talk about all sorts of things. Dark Place actually has the actors reprising their roles on the show as if they are the ones doing the commentary.

[@BlackPanther-is8yy]

The editor was obsessed with the fact the women werent nude back then 😂😂

[@SnakeWorksStudio]

Literally as I was reading this comment he started banging on about: "No bra, of course there was no bra" hahahah. He is obsessed.

[@ZevStellar]

Someone in the comments mentioned Peter Hunt was gay as well, so idk

[@msirma0077]

Peter Hunt was Gay.​@@ZevStellar

[@lexc1560]

@@ZevStellarAll my gay friends still enjoy them. They’re universal.

[@5roundsrapid263]

@@ZevStellarI could totally tell he was after hearing him say how hot he thought Sean was… 😂

[@basicfacekick]

Most of these guys on the commentary sound SO casual about everything, it's amazing. Pretty much the embodiment of "unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, focused, flourishing" and giving off a real sense like you're in the room with them and having a brandy while they talk about the films.

[@bestplayeralive]

Yes but they also didnt talk like women.

[@cwbrooks5329]

Too bad, because this commentary is actually interesting, unlike the usual rubbish.

[@ZevStellar]

Such is life

[@michaelhawkins7389]

@@ZevStellar is there any were that sells them? I am guessing ebay? also , how many were made? as I know Lazer disc didn't last long as a format, I would also need to buy a Lazer disc player

[@bazzarr]

That was absolutely wonderful! I'm so glad that you put this up.

[@ZevStellar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kemowasabi551]

Videos like this are the best of what KZbin can offer - thank you Zev!

[@frzstat]

Agreed!

[@ZevStellar]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it.

[@joshuacalkins]

I liked the inclusion of music from the classic video game Goldeneye.

[@Cau_No]

That was probably taken from the movie before, Eric Serra's style is very recognizable.

[@joshuacalkins]

@@Cau_No Is this Eric’s channel? I’m new here, and I don’t know why you think the music is probably from the movie, but the game music is very distinctive. You’d know if you’d played it all through college, as some of us did. If I got that wrong…how embarrassing. I had 64 likes! How appropriate.

[@Graeme_Norgate]

Oh it’s definitely from the game 😉

[@Cau_No]

@@joshuacalkins what do you mean with 'Eric's Channel?' Eric Serra is the composer of the original soundtrack of the movie, he did also work for Luc Besson on Leon, The Fifth Element, etc. I watched all the Brosnan Bond movies in cinemas, when they came out. Serra did score Bond only once, but made it very recognizable. So of course they would reuse his themes for the game. It might be a direct sample from the game, but as this is about the earlier movies, it feels a little too modern. Btw, I played "A view to a Kill" and "The Living Daylights" on Amstrad 8bit, when Goldeneye came out as a game I was already busy studying for my diploma.

[@joshuacalkins]

@@Cau_No Good info! I don’t recognize the composer name, but his soundtrack (along with old Bond themes of course) was certainly the jumping off point for the soundtrack, and yet the electronic compositions that defined the game’s sound were quite distinct, with people like me fondly recalling the pause screen music and such. It’s absurdly modern to hear electronic synth beats in this video, so maybe the creator is a fan. I also saw the Brosnan Movies in the theater! They went downhill in my opinion, from a solid start, just like Craig (except his went off a cliff). Amstrad8bit sounds vaguely familiar, but I can’t place it. The 8-Track of video, perhaps, or did you mean audio files? I first saw Bond movies on Laserdisc, but as a kid I might even have recorded the movie audio on cassette, which it turns out was not a great way to relive a movie. I was a music major, and Bond music even made its way into my compositions and performances. Not in a plagiarism way, but an overt element of a larger project. One was called “Light Bondage” because I thought that was funny, and I think it involved hitting the strings of the piano with a plastic pen…

[@andrewdavid6054]

The bit about Island Records made my jaw drop! 🤯

[@marktracy1721]

Why

[@browngirlinaclownworld2077]

​@@marktracy1721because, like he said, it sold recently for over 400 million. The guy lost a fortune by listening to his wife.

[@Trisket]

If she knew any better she should have been worried if the Jamaicans showed up stone sober.

[@ZevStellar]

@@Trisket This comment is gold

[@eclectic_gamer]

@@browngirlinaclownworld2077 he didn't lose anything, you can't lose something you didn't have in the first place.

[@40stbotolph]

There was a Dr. No commentary I remembered when they came to the scene of Bond firing an extra bullet into the prone body of his attacker. The Criterion version was censored, but the commentator didn't know it and was building up to the scene in his description and when the moment came "Oh damn, they cut it." So much for Criterion completeness.

[@somedeerboi]

How was the Criterion version censored? Was it two shots in the back, or just one?

[@40stbotolph]

@@somedeerboi Been a while since I’ve seen it, but I think they were both cut.

[@johnnyw525]

It was probably always censored, but he just forgot it was cut

[@svensvensson2724]

Criterion has always been hugely overrated.

[@bumbozambumbazebulon6738]

​@@svensvensson2724 begs the question which are the releases superior to the Criterion ones in your kind opinion?

[@edwardalexander2193]

If the commentaries were like this for all the films I’d definitely watch every film from start to end. It’s refreshing hearing a different view of the making of each film. More realistic and honest input of every scene.

[@jerkchickenblog]

if you listen carefully to the criterion of seven... you can almost hear how much morgan freeman was hated by everyone on set. there are digs that are subtle but present - and likely the reason he does his commentary completely alone, away from the others. also they mention some of the lovers of the gay members of the cast, when they come on screen. pay particular attention to when they say 'so and so' was someone's 'friend' in two cases. that's what they are talking about

[@gravesclayton3604]

These are normal things that an audience of normal people can relate to, whether they do these things, or not. It humanizes the characters, the actors & crew, and, in most cases, endears most of us to the whole film as a human story-telling endeavor. There wouldn't be nearly as much 'ruinous scandal' if certain individuals didn't try so hard to be sanctimonious and seemingly 'flawless'. For most of us, we get it, these things are part of life. The honesty of this sort of background gives us an appreciation for what people went through to make any piece of cinema entertainment. It is inspiring when you see relatively ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things.

[@justinklenk]

Quite well stated. And true.

[@grantc61]

Give me a break. Casual sexism, racism, homophobia is NOT "normal". These people were privileged white males of their time, and their comments came from a position of privilege and ignorance. Hearing stuff like this makes me gag at how unthinking these men were.

[@lwzeis]

@grantc61 you’re the one who is not “normal”

[@Ravewolf24]

Don't blame Connery for not wanting to do dangerous stunts. Why should he risk his health when the first two films didn't even pay him much? And even so they admit to nearly hitting him with the helicopter.

[@ZevStellar]

Yeah I mean I don't blame him!

[@ackerjawaka1966]

I heard his toupe even had a stunt double in some of the more dangerous scenes 🍻🍺 yesh mish moneypenny 😜

[@tommylakindasorta3068]

When I heard that my first thought was, "So he's not a reckless idiot like Tom Cruise." Seriously, how is Tom Cruise still alive?

[@thebigpicture2032]

@@tommylakindasorta3068 and still doing stunts.

[@wyganter]

@@tommylakindasorta3068The spirit of L Ron looks over Tom and protects him.

[@erestube]

What they considered "gaining weight" in 1964 looks like an extreme weight goal today.

[@joemunkey]

This is amazing. It's like they didn't know it was being recorded for the public.

[@Beelzeboogie]

One of the best audio commentaries is on This Is Spinal Tap, because in keeping with the mockumentary spirit of the film it's done in character, so its like a second not quite as funny but certainly still funny movie.

[@StratsRUs]

Tap operates on a higher level than James Bond

[@robbyv101]

I was just going to comment the same!

[@johnjohnsilver]

I love commentary when they stay in character... I'm Alan partridge dvd commentary was a personal favourite

[@Subo23]

Tania Mallet, who played Tilly Masterson, was Helen Mirren’s cousin. Mirren spoke lovingly of her in her memoirs.

[@TheArtkaw]

Oof, Hunt wasn’t very kind to her.

[@BenjWarrant]

Yeah, she went on to become a model, did a bit of 'glamour' work. Hopefully she did settle down and have a nice family eventually.

[@gchecosse]

Her aunt, according to imdb. It also said she was making far more modelling than acting.

[@j.r.shartzer]

20:33 I legitimately wouldn't have been able to tell you what was wrong with that rear projection other than "it looks fake." When Terence Young comments, "there's no red in it," that is so very fascinating. Those kinds of comments will change the way you watch movies.

[@ThursoBerwick]

I loved the Hitchcock story too.

[@ZevStellar]

Yeah I think you nailed it. It looks bad, but I didn't know exactly why

[@tellyfaulkner3466]

What does 'there's no red in it" mean?

[@ZevStellar]

@@tellyfaulkner3466 It means the color of the image/film doesn't have enough red in it relative to the green or blue in the picture

[@tellyfaulkner3466]

@@ZevStellar Cheers.

[@erikaleksandermoe1634]

I have these three releases, paid only 300 dollars for them second hand, many years ago and I don't recall the commenteries being raunchy or edgy, just people being honest and just talking. What I do remember were the Bond bread commercials in the special features and that the picture quality being much superior to the MGM/UA releases. Now I wish my laserdisc player was working to rewatch them. But thank you for posting this!

[@Neville60001]

Haven't you ever gotten it fixed?

[@ZevStellar]

Bond bread commercials? What are those?

[@haribokart]

@@Neville60001 In the few hours since he posted this?

[@Neville60001]

@@haribokart , since *_@erikaleksandermoe1634_* said his laserdisc player no longer worked.🙄

[@robertfrancois6064]

@@ZevStellarChuckPenn3 has them on his KZbin channel

[@MsMarco6]

Christ, imagine missing on the opportunity to flip £5000 into a sizeable stake in a £400,000,000 company, you'd never live that down. Honestly I'm surprised he was willing to share that, you'd never be able to pry such an embarrassing titbit outta me.

[@RootinrPootine]

Because your wife is a racist

[@ZevStellar]

Hehehe, well it takes a big man to at least admit it!

[@annamariaisland1960]

Funny enough as the story is, but I thought he was going to say that the other fellow was Bob Marley!

[@jerkchickenblog]

that's how you know he did better on other propositions

[@natcliffe7068]

I mean if I was already a famous director I'd probably be alright with sharing some of my losses lol

[@TheChaosLupin]

This is gold! Great thing these commentaries were not lost in the aftermath.

[@redbird1928]

It’s so refreshing to hear this level of honesty come from Hollywood.

[@doit26]

Not Hollywood... Pinewood. British films not American.

[@blakeschreckenbach679]

I liked Peter Hunt offering the censor the opportunity to go through frame by frame on the bush hunt.

[@ZevStellar]

Even funnier once I learned he was gay

[@Capybara_Sloth]

​@@ZevStellarthat makes his comments so much funnier

[@Assimandeli]

Something similar happened with Hitchcock's Psycho. Apparently during the shower scene one of the producers or studio people said he saw a nipple in one of the cuts. Hitchcock had the scene played again and the guy had to admit it was just his imagination. It happens probably a lot in filmmaking.

[@Retro-Future-Land]

@@ZevStellar You couldn't tell by his voice and mannerisms? His effete ways are glaringly there, but charming enough I guess.

[@Norvik_-ug3ge]

It's not remotely shocking. This is how commentaries should be. Honest.

[@ZevStellar]

Truth!

[@grantc61]

@@ZevStellar No. BS. It's unfiltered racism, sexism and homophobia from privileged white males of a past era. It's not shocking, and it ain't "honest" - it's ignorant.

[@randomquentin]

@@ZevStellaryou’re not honest. You’re out here saying truth to this comment when your title says the complete opposite

[@ZevStellar]

@@randomquentin I was referring to the 'them being honest' part... not the part you cherry-picked to construct your false narrative😘

[@simovihinen875]

@@ZevStellar I'd say it's correct to say this is heavily clickbaity, though.

[@paully8123]

I knew Steven J Rubin and even attended his Playboy Club Bond event in 1981.. The Broccolis sued him into forever silence..

[@ZevStellar]

Oh do tell, do tell. The comment is pinned... share with the world we are curious!

[@paully8123]

Going to the Playboy Club in Century City was an experience.. I've ne6seen such beautiful blonde women up that close.. Bruce Glover Mr. Went from DAF was there.. He joked that he was in Chinatown but nobody ever asks him about that.. They want to know about the Scorpions. . Ha ha.. ​@ZevStellar

[@joes9954]

Why would they sue him and not Criterion?

[@ronsmith8424]

This is HILARIOUS !!!

[@SlowLew222]

​@@paully8123 or about his son Crispin?

[@batlin]

Oh my god, I absolutely love this. So rare to hear such refreshing, honest commentary. Also, "that's her wiggling her fanny".

[@ZevStellar]

Haha glad you got a kick out of it!

[@Kerithanos]

Now, I was always under the impression that when the English say "fanny", well, they don't mean it the way Americans do. But he seems to here. Does (or did) it have both meanings over there?

[@batlin]

@@Kerithanos I think here he still means it in the "front bottom" English sense - but of course when that's wiggling, the "back bottom" (as in the US meaning of fanny) is also wiggling.

[@johanmard5043]

'Both shots showed her best developments.' Now, that's classy.

[@ZevStellar]

🤣

[@hansjuker8296]

I don't have a problem with a single thing said. You can be truthful snd respectful.

[@ZevStellar]

Well, I don't know if saying people throwing around money like drunken Indians is respectful but I get your point. Thank you for your comment!

[@adamkane7513]

@@ZevStellar That is the only thing that I found to be "questionable". The rest is just normal observations & chatter. I am 49 and British though.

[@ConstantineFurman]

Are we not talking about how Terence Young intimates in the opening titles of "Dr. No" that it was John Barry who wrote the James Bond Theme and not Monty Norman, who just wrote a "Three Blind Mice" motif that they didn't think was acceptable for future movies? No? Alright...

[@ZevStellar]

Yeah that's a good point. I originally had that in but took in out because my interpretation of that was that Terence had an incorrect assumption that John Barry wrote it more so than alluding to John Barry being the true author. Maybe I should have just kept it. Good catch, very astute!

[@SpyHardsPodcast]

Bravo, this is a very well put together deep dive. It’s always fascinating to hear the opinions of those that worked on Bond that haven’t gone through the EON filtration system…

[@ZevStellar]

Hey thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it!

[@LowellLucasJr.]

I'm glad this was shared and not lost to time...or hoarded like some Coveted Gold! Thank you!🤘🎸

[@Buckdawg]

These are fantastic little tidbits! This is what commentaries SHOULD do, spill the beans, dish the dirt, be honest and transparent. Doesn't take away from the movies, everyone knows these things don't go without hitches. But sharing such insights is refreshing and almost educational!

[@anotherjamesbondpodcast0073]

Great Stuff! Hardly clickbait! Pfft. This was great. It is very easy to see why Cubby lost his Chubby at some of these comments. There are sone gems in here for sure! I especially laughed at Sean gaining weight around FRWL filming, as Bond fans most of us didn’t notice until Diamonds Are Forever haha. Thanks for this!

[@ZevStellar]

"Cubby lost his chubby?" Hahahahaha

[@maryhaddock9145]

Yeah, that's the bit I liked too. Connery looked superb in Goldfinger though and that was after Russia With Love. I also thought Bianca's foot playing was very revealing.

[@maryhaddock9145]

Splaying

[@Neville60001]

Connery also looked a lot like Walter Matthau in some scenes.

[@obsoletebutneat]

On the DVD commentary for 'The Sum of All Fears', Tom Clancy opened with "Hi, I'm Tom Clancy, and I wrote the book they ignored." It was right after that that commentaries all seemed to start carrying the disclaimer for what might be said in them.

[@ZevStellar]

Hahahah I'll have to check that out.

[@DNF81]

If memory serves, Nicholas Meyer has claimed that he's responsible for interview/audio commentary disclaimers on DVDs etc because Paramount Pictures didn't want to be seen endorsing his claim, made in supplements recorded for the DVD of STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, that he wrote the film's final script sans credit (i.e. contrary to the official byline). Meyer refused to retract his assertion that he wrote the film and so Paramount slapped a disclaimer to disavow responsibility for what he said. According to Meyer, anyway!

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

Clancy showed himself to be arrogant, lacking any self-awareness and filled with bitterness on his DVD commentaries.

[@AJR-zg2py]

lol I remember this commentary vividly.

[@davemurphy9468]

I remember the Director's commentary on 'The Usual Suspects'. Were Bryan Singer jokes about a stunt that almost went wrong, he said 'i thought i was going to need John Landis's lawyer'.

[@filmnobelpreis]

Maibaum calling Fleming a "snob" who isn't interested in the writing is perfectly accurate.

[@ZevStellar]

The movies are better than the books, hard agree.

[@rooty]

Every single one of these guys embodies James Bond beautifully

[@KarazolaX]

If all commentary tracks were this wild, they’d mute the film audio and play the commentator tracks in the theaters

[@rileykaiseeker4294]

I don't see the title as click bait, I see the title as a joke, sarcastically mocking Cubby Broccoli for calling these commentaries 'shocking', which they clearly aren't. That's the joke. They're actually very interesting commentaries. Thanks for uploading :)

[@ZevStellar]

Thank you, I'm happy you enjoyed seeing the clips!

[@brettpritchard265]

​@theboofinWhy? It's just a bit of fun.

[@sidvicious332]

This would get you cancelled today. Also, racism and sexism is always shocking, no matter how comfortable to it you are.

[@rileykaiseeker4294]

@theboofin That's because today is worse and the world is turning to shit.

[@rileykaiseeker4294]

@@sidvicious332 "This would get you cancelled today" That's because today is filled with pathetic, weak people that would rather see a black trans lesbian play James Bond than a strong white man. If you find anything in this commentary "shocking", i feel for you.

[@Daniel__Nobre]

This is a piece of cinematic history. Great service you are doing by sharing, really! People should see this to understand how Hollywood and movie production has always been like this.

[@misantropology]

Incredible. I guess this is why all the “behind the scenes” commentary we get today sounds like people reading a script about how much they love their bosses and colleagues.

[@ZevStellar]

Hey glad you enjoyed it!

[@cboehm24]

The commentary from the edition of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid DVD is similarly insane.

[@kallelaur1762]

25:40 "the censor was really trying to close the stable door long after the horse had ..." hahahaha

[@jpotter2086]

Primary sources can be so inconvenient to nostalgia LOL

[@ZevStellar]

Never meet your heroes!

[@frgreg62]

This commentaries are brutally honest, not politically correct at all. I love it! 🤩🤩🤩

[@tomigun5180]

Yup, the good old days before "repressive tolerance" (1984 style far-left censorship) and "forcing behaviors" became the norm.

[@Dagger-Deep]

​@@tomigun5180 Red states are banning books left and right

[@Ben_Kirkham]

I have these commentaries and I love how loose and honest they are.

[@ZevStellar]

You got some treasure on you! Their sauciness is the best thing about 'em I agree

[@Superflight777ge]

Thank you Zev. These commentary reels of gold are the reasons why I still enjoy youtube after nearly 20 years.

[@ZevStellar]

Glad you like them, more on the way!

[@user-tm8jt2py3d]

this is the stuff that used to be so interesting because the only people bothering to listen are complete nerds who aren't going to write articles spazzing out about some uncouth comments. you feel lucky to hear it. everything is sanitized and triple checked now, completely soulless.

[@misteral1083]

12:27 "..a very pretentious film..." Last Year In Marienbad is considered one of the jewels of French New Wave, a truly remarkable film which is still studied today.

[@octagonseventynine1253]

James Bond movies are bottom of the barrel crap so I wouldn’t expect the directors to have good taste.

[@ThursoBerwick]

I'm afraid I agree. It is pretentious. It reminds me of the worst of Thomas Mann.

[@quite1enough]

and look how these James Bond movies are aged compared to "Last year in Marienbad" even when I was a kid I thought these older James Bond movies felt really unnatural, plasticky even

[@ThursoBerwick]

@@quite1enough They may well do, but they are also a lot more entertaining than Last Year at Marienbad. LYAM feels like a series of still images or tableaux and has little dialogue other than a group of strangers pretending that they had encountered each other before. There is a dreamlike quality to the film and a distinct lack of pace or urgency to it

[@quite1enough]

@@ThursoBerwick that's for me far more entertaining than the wooden plastics of James Bond movies

[@thenodfather]

80 and still screwing? Bravo.

[@mattdavis9601]

Thank you for sharing this. I'm a big James Bond fan, yet, this was all new to me. I really enjoyed it.

[@ZevStellar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@WizardOfAtlantis]

This is wonderful. It's like sitting down with them and just listening to their stories over a drink or something. Fantastic.

[@SaltStorm007]

I worked at a theater and the manager collected these. HE LITERALLY HAD THEM ALL💯I watched the bond movies but didn’t watch the commentary….

[@vintagebroadcastingsystem8028]

:43 "On the infamous monster film, King Kong." There's nothing really "infamous" about the movie given that infamous means, 'well known for some bad quality or deed.' The movie is famous, not infamous. "Infamous" is routinely misused. 2:10 "A compilation of the most salacious comments.."? Salacious means 'having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters'. That is hardly the correct word for the comments being referred to. 'Sensational' is the word that would have been more appropriate. Having said all that, it was great fun to hear such frank commentaries. Thank you for posting this!

[@waynealexander1615]

I loved all these wild commentaries. Thanks for posting them.

[@ZevStellar]

Hey glad you got a kick out of them!

[@tom_k35]

I had these LDs with the banned commentaries years ago. I did make separate recordings of them. These were the early days when commentaries were candid. But nowadays people have to guard what they say for fear of losing work. Ask about what people think of a director or star and they practically say they fart Chanel

[@litreland764]

Imagine how much better the world would be if all commentaries were this honest.

[@peanutbutterjeff5364]

It’s nice to hear some good commentaries that aren’t just the crew saying “that was a good shot, wasn’t it?” They should be equal parts informative and candid, but that honesty about what production was like is so rare. Thanks for sharing these

[@christoph404]

Peter Hunt's bitchy comments towards the females in these films is hilarious, totally offensive and inappropriate , but listening to him utter them in his queeny bitchy tones is quite funny. 😂

[@ZevStellar]

He is definitely entertaining!

[@Abefroman-lq3md]

Hunt was a well known self loathing turd burglar. George Lazenby didn’t get along with the limp wristed Nancy.

[@cube2fox]

I didn't perceive his comments as mean spirited at all.

[@HandsUpforThePanther]

​@@cube2foxthey definitely sexist but I gave benefit of the doubt as he wanted absolute perfectionism in the movie

[@cube2fox]

@@HandsUpforThePanther I don't think they were "definitely" sexist either.

[@ItsTimePictures]

Had all three! A friend of mine recorded the commentaries to wave files and when the films were released on BluRay he added those commentaries. So I’m Gold.

[@davidstrickler5362]

Perhaps you could post them in their entirety on KZbin?

[@ValentinGiebel]

I‘d also be very curious to get those. Is there a way to upload them to a cloud folder or something?

[@ZevStellar]

I think that might be against copyright on KZbin, otherwise I would do it. Idk if there is an allowance for historical records or somethin.

[@ZevStellar]

Scour the internet archives my friends, you may find what you are looking for!

[@ZevStellar]

Nice, that's some valuable gigabytes!

[@jezt42]

Haha, how fabulous was that? As others have said, this is how commentaries should be: honest! Thanks for the upload, really enjoyed it 🙂👍.

[@ZevStellar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@killer1one1]

Sean Connery was 33 while shooting Goldfinger and to this day I will never understand how that's possible. Aging 50-60 years ago is unrecognizable to aging today! Must be all those microplastics we have in our balls now lol

[@ZevStellar]

They smoked and nuked their skin with sun exposure, that did a lot of that

[@bobrew461]

most people back then were lucky if they made it past 50! now its no big deal.

[@AightTrack]

The people back then were still damaged by the Second World War, did hard physical work, the dangers of smoking were unexplored, and medicine was not at the same level as today.

[@teetoo3790]

The men back then looked more manly.

[@andy86i]

People age in stages. He looked older for his 30s, but he is looking fantastic for his age in The Rock ect. He hardly aged in those 30 years.

[@brianmcguire5175]

Love the Goldeneye 64 music throughout. Nice touch

[@geoffredrup9616]

Highly entertaining. The saddest part of the Bond Franchise is that the casting of Ursula Andress set the bar so high, no one else got close. All from a photo on a table amongst hundreds.

[@VonMagXL]

In your opinion. I found both girls from Goldeneye more interesting, but Carey Lowell from License To Kill was the best. I also preferred Barbara Bach in The Spy Who Loved Me and Jill St John in Diamonds are Forever to Ursula, but then these things are subjective.

[@ThursoBerwick]

Kind of... But Ursula was not a good actress and had such a heavy accent she had to be redubbed. It is fair to say Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg were much more skilled at their trade, as well as looking good.

[@geoffredrup9616]

@@ThursoBerwick To clarify, my comment was regarding her looks and stature. Definitely not the best actress!

[@cmmm-p1b]

yes her coming out of the ocean was like watching venus rising. that was the whole point tho. the movies needed gorgeous women and she fit the role

[@justinsayin3979]

@@cmmm-p1b Your comment is problematic for its sexist undertones.

[@colinsvideoarchive]

Thankyou for putting this together! Hilarious!

[@monsieurdel]

I fell in love with Bond in 1982 when I saw Moonraker on the ABC Sunday Night Movie. These commentaries are what I so appreciate about the century I was born in… a free spirit of unbridled humor and openness that this current corporate culture so despises. You have my eternal admiration for bringing these to life!

[@Holdtheline07]

Thank you so much for compiling these. There's so much going on beneath the surface of every single commentator. Seems they weren't "hollywood-trained" in the same way that new filmcrew are. In fact, listening to many of these, remind me a great deal of how they used to speak in those days. Miss it.

[@MitsuSC]

Gold. Thanks for uploading/editing!

[@ZevStellar]

Thank you glad you liked it!

[@MAMoreno]

I appreciate that the filmmakers themselves have some of the same gripes with their own work that I do. (I still love these three films, though.)

[@ZevStellar]

For sure, definitely humanizing and relatable. I imagine no artist is ever 100% satisfied with their work. But as Voltaire said: "Perfect is the enemy of good"

[@lostalone9320]

If you ask the editor, none of these women were anything like naked enough.

[@cliffedward]

Spielberg stole the rat scene for Indiana Jones.

[@ZevStellar]

Oooh nice connection! They are definitely quite similar

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Last Crusade is basically his From Russia With Love.

[@wescandela116]

I remember downloading these films about 15 years ago to get the audio commentaries, when you listen to them full on throughout each of the three films , the commentaries in their entirety, they are completely raw uncensored and awesome because, right or wrong, what you’re hearing is the truth. Uncensored honest commentary . Thank you for posting this because these are jewels highly offensive, sure, but they are jewels of history.

[@ZevStellar]

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed them.

[@jamesdenofantiquity]

I have to say that I really enjoyed hearing this, as many others have said, refreshingly honest, open about the real ideas behind the scenes, and totally crass. Wish streaming movies had commentary tracks.

[@Pointlesshandle48]

That Island Records background story 😂 Damn that’s crazy! I didn’t expect that at all.

[@QuicksilverSG]

These were men of The Greatest Generation, who grew up to fight in World War II. Their attitudes, particularly toward young women, reflect the prevailing mentality of those times, a decade before Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond novels in the 1950's. These three Bond movies starring Sean Connery were filmed in the early 1960's, at the cusp of the Boomer-driven youth revolution led by The Beatles. To Boomers, James Bond was a randy establishment rogue, a company man who maintains the outward trappings of respectability while breaking the rules as he pleases. This was the core philosophy of the Greatest Generation, and it's well represented in the uncensored, off-the-cuff remarks heard in this recording.

[@ThursoBerwick]

We don't have "boomers" or "the greatest generation" in the UK. Those are American concepts relating to their culture.

[@ThursoBerwick]

What you call "Boomers" would have remembered rationing into the fifties, and grew up under socialised medicine. Very different from the US experience.

[@cmmm-p1b]

moneypenney was a good female character tho. bond respected her .

[@Retro-Future-Land]

@ThursoBerwick We absolutely do because the UK became Americanized and incorporated them into the culture a decade or two later. I'm not a fan of it, but the comparisons are dried and clear-cut.

[@erichb4530]

The irony is, the commentary talked about how people had become less prude and sensitive to nudity in movies, much like a more European attitude to nudity, but that's only reversed since as everyone in liberal Hollywood thinks it's so horrible to ask an actor/actress to be nude anymore.

[@Retro-Future-Land]

The 1970s sexyness and early 80s bleedover was peak nudie times. The prudishness is back with a vengence now.

[@mick2d2]

"That's her waggling her fanny" 😂😂😂

[@ZevStellar]

I don't know why he just randomly said that haha

[@WalterBurton]

😂😂😂 @ 12:38 . "That's her waggling her fanny."

[@FilmCram]

Ah that wonderful time where bonus behind the scenes extras and commentaries were a genuine insight into the making of a film instead of just an extension of the contractual marketing campaign!

[@draginfly3000]

This is what makes KZbin worth watching. Great work.

[@ZevStellar]

Thank you so much. Glad you got a kick out of it.

[@Dark_Jaguar]

King Kong isn't infamous, it's famous. People love it. You reminded me of that Three Amigos bit.

[@TheRightRoast]

omg so authentic and refrehingly honest. Such great information given without any filters or mediocre answers from media trained people. A real gem!

[@ZevStellar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@redadamearth]

This is one of the reasons why I have a huge collection of physical media, from laserdiscs to early DVD's, as all of those things are part of film history that the studios just wouldn't put out again today. You can learn so much more from the early commentaries (and as mentioned, interviews in genre mags) and docs, as the ones done today are just fluff and carefully edited. I have all of the early Bond laserdiscs, like these three and they're great to listen to.