Coming in issue #11, out in May, is a special double-page
spread of never-seen-before photos taken at Piz Gloria during the filming of
the battle scenes for the James Bond adventure On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The location served as the mountain top headquarters of SPECTRE mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Photographed by the late John W. Mitchell, the well respected sound recordist,
the images belong to John Murphy, an avid stills and poster collector who is
a subscriber to our magazine. John offered these to us for publication,
and we jumped at the chance to share them with James Bond fans worldwide. The photos were taken in Switzerland
between October and December in 1968, and we have over 70 transparencies
featuring the battle, interior filming, the cast and crew at work, etc. In this
first installment we feature the attack on Piz Gloria by helicopters. In issue
#13 (Jan 2009), we will follow up with a larger article spread revealing the remaining
images which feature cast members George Lazenby, Telly Savalas and director Peter Hunt. These photographs have never been published before.
Since man (and woman) cannot live by Bond alone, here are some other highlights of issue #11:
- Film in Focus tribute to Michael Caine's classic crime movie Get Carter
- Exclusive interview with director Joe Dante
- David McCallum recalls the making of Sol Madrid and Mosquito Squadron
- A look back at the scandalous teen schoolgirl sex drama Baby Love starring 15 year old Linda Hayden
- Inside the making of Gerry Anderson's unheralded sci-fi classic Doppleganger (aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)
- Tribute to original scream queen, Barbara Steele, star of the Mario Bava horror classics
- The Films of Doris Day- Part 2 focuses on her greatest performance, opposite James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me
- The mystery of who really played the villainess Bambi in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever
- The Films from U.N.C.L.E. Part 3- The making of One Spy Too Many
- Raymond Benson's top ten films of 1970
- The Queen's visits to Pinewood Studios
- The Ian Fleming centennary museum exhibition in London
- plus the latest DVD, soundtrack and movie book reviews- and the usual rare stills from the Cinema Retro archive
Note: Issue #11 will be available through subscription only and at select retailers in the USA, Canada and England. We regret Cinema Retro can't spare any issues for individual sale, but our increasing subscription base does not make that possible at this time. Subscribers get three issues for the current season, comprising of #'s 10, 11 and 12. As it stands now, we had hoped to have some of issue #10 available for single issue sales by this point, but it doesn't look like this will be possible as we are almost sold out and need the remaining copies to fill orders for new subscribers and those who are renewing.
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