#ffolkes

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Roger Moore in North Sea Hijack (1980)

The film was released under the title ffolkes outside the UK.

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A very happy belated birthday in the afterlife to Anthony Perkins! He will always be Norman Bates, but he was so much more! And yes I wish I still had his action figure from The Black Hole!

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In our previous post, we looked at some of the work that American cartoon artist, Al Hirschfeld, did for Star! The famed ‘Line King of Broadway’ wasn’t, however, the only illustrator to immortalise Julie Andrews in caricatural form. The venerable British periodical, Punch, turned the lens of its celebrated satirical cartoons on Julie quite a few times over the years.

Established in 1841, Punch –– which was named after the knockabout puppet character of Punch and Judy-fame –– was a hugely influential weekly revue of humour and satire that quickly became a British institution. Copiously illustrated with the then new technology of mass print engravings, Punch popularised the modern use of the word “cartoons” –– after the Italian “cartone” or draft sketches –– to describe comical line drawings (Applebaum and Kelly, 14-15). For the next century and a half, Punch was a veritable launching pad for generations of celebrated British cartoonists and illustrators including John Tenniel who did the original Alice in Wonderland books, E.H. Shepherd, the illustrator for Winnie the Pooh, and his daughter Mary Shepherd, who illustrated the original Mary Poppins books (Walasek, 8ff).

In keeping with its primary brief as a periodical of humour focussed on current affairs, Punch routinely included reviews of theatrical productions and, later, films that were opening in London. By the 20th century, these reviews became a mainstay that were typically written by the magazine’s house critic with a corresponding illustration furnished by a resident cartoonist. In the 1950s, most of the magazine’s theatre cartoons were supplied by Ronald Searle, the famed creator of the St Trinian’s comic series (Walasek, 362-63). To mark the London opening of My Fair Lady in April 1958, Searle drew Julie, Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway in caricatural form.

By the 1960s, Searle had moved to France and his position at Punch was taken over by Michael Fffolkes or “ffolkes” as he was commonly called, an artistic pseudonym for Brian Davis (Walasek, 474-75). ffolkes provided the weekly film cartoons and also frequently designed the cover art for Punch for much of the decade and beyond. It was in this capacity that ffolkes drew cartoons for several of Julie’s films during that decade including: The Sound Music, Torn Curtain, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Star!

Even in the 1960s, Punch was losing much of its former market hold as audiences turned to TV and other mass media for news and entertainment. Like other once-booming periodicals such as the Illustrated London News, Punch had to scale back production, moving from weekly to fortnightly issues, before closing operations in 1992. The magazine was briefly resurrected in a ‘modernised’ form in 1996 but it struggled to regain a foothold and, after 161 years, Punch permanently ceased publication in 2002 (Walasek, 13).

Sources:

Appelbaum, Stanley and Kelly, Richard Michael. Great Drawings and Illustrations from Punch, 1841–1901. London: Courier Dover Publications, 1981.

Walasek, Helen. The Best of Punch Cartoons. London: Carlton Books, 2009.

© 2018, Brett Farmer. All Rights Reserved.

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Roger Moore as Rufus Excalibur ffolkes

“North Sea Hijack, Esther , Ruth and Jennifer”

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Ffolkes (aka North Sea Hijack, 1980)

Roger Moore is "ffolkes" the man who loved cats, ignored women and is about to save the world.

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FFOLKES (1980) - ROGER MOORE MOVIE POSTERS (Part 3/10)

Titled North Sea Hijack in the UK, FFolkes is the second movie pairing ROGER MOORE and Director Andrew V. McLaglen (see Part 2 and 7) and is one of Moore’s best as he plays an eccentric billionaire specialized in high sea operations hired by the British government to foil the hijacking of rig platforms by terrorist Anthony Perkins.

Great action and fun and an amazing poster created by none other than Robert McGinnis (see Part 5 and 8).

R.I.P. Sir Roger Moore!

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Rudy Obrero Ffolkes, 1980

Projet d’affiche inutilisé.

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Roger Moore Remembered 'For Your Ears Only' -Special Episode - Spybrary - Spy Podcast

Roger Moore RIP, Roger Moore super fans, Spybrary Host Shane Whaley and Author Jeffrey Westhoff talk about the tributes left for Sir Roger and his legacy.

I was grateful for the opportunity to talk with Shane Whaley about our shared hero, Sir Roger Moore. Nobody did it better.