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The James Bond director Terence Young was listening to the wireless in London one day in 1966 when he heard a familiar voice: it was the voice of 007 himself, and to Young’s amazement it was

Sad news that Neil Connery passed away last week at the age of 83.

Neil Who? Well, he was, of course, the younger brother of Sean Connery. Not only that, but he was a dead ringer for his brother back in the 1960s (I’ve seen some more recent photos of him and the similarity continued to the end). Due to him being a lookalike, Neil was cast in what might be the weirdest Bond-related movie of all time, Operation Kid Brother (also known as OK Connery).

In this Italian-made film, the overdubbed Neil Connery plays a plastic surgeon named, uh, Neil Connery, who is also a skilled hypnotist who is recruited by a secret agency when one of their top spies is murdered. Also starring in the film are Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, who are basically playing M and Moneypenny with different names (and with this version of Moneypenny actually being more action-oriented in the spirit of the current film version of the character). The lead villain is played by Adolfo Celi, who played the baddie in Thunderball, and the, er, Connery Girl in this is Daniela Bianchi, who was Sean’s co-star in From Russia with Love. Anthony Dawson, who played Professor “You’ve had your six” Dent in Dr. No as well as Blofeld in From Russia with Love and Thunderball, also appears.

The irony is Neil was cast in part because Terence Young, the director of several early Bond films, knew the director of this film and mentioned to him how Neil sounded just like Sean. The irony continues in that Neil ended up being overdubbed by another actor because he was unable to record the English overdub for medical reasons.

Is OK Connery an OK film? I’ve seen it. It’s fun. And fans of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 are probably familiar with it as it was featured in an episode.

Neil Connery never really took up acting, though he made a few more film appearances over the years, preferring to work as a plasterer. But in a small way he contributed to the Bond mythos and left behind a baffling, but still entertaining, film. RIP.

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1967 (Very Rare THAI Poster ) OK Connery Also Known As (AKA) Operation Double 007 Secret Agent 00 Brazil Operação Irmão Caçula Colombia Operación hermano menor Denmark Operation Lillebror Spain Todos los hermanos eran agentes Finland Operaatio 'Pikkuveli' France Opération frère Cadet Greece (transliterated) Sta ihni tou adelfou tou Ireland (English title) Operation Kid Brother Italy (alternative spelling) O.K. Connery Japan Dokutâ Konerî/Kiddo Burazâ sakusen Mexico Operación hermano menor USA (informal short title) Kid Brother USA Operation Kid Brother West Germany Operation 'Kleiner Bruder' Directed by Alberto De Martino Music by Ennio Morricone & Bruno Nicolai Writing Credits Paolo Levi ... (story) Paolo Levi ... (screenplay) Frank Walker ... (screenplay) Stanley Wright ... (screenplay) Stefano Canzio ... (screenplay) Release Dates Italy 20 April 1967 USA 22 November 1967 (New York City, New York) Japan 2 March 1968 Finland 26 April 1968 West Germany 26 April 1968 UK May 1968 Denmark 29 May 1968 France 28 June 1968 Ireland 12 July 1968 Mexico 17 July 1969 Finland 1 April 2007 (Night Visions Film Festival) Cast Neil Connery Neil Connery ... Dr. Neil Connery Daniela Bianchi Daniela Bianchi ... Maya Rafis Adolfo Celi Adolfo Celi .. Mr. Thai - 'Beta' Agata Flori Agata Flori ... Mildred Bernard Lee Bernard Lee ... Commander Cunningham Anthony Dawson Anthony Dawson ... Alpha Lois Maxwell Lois Maxwell ... Max Yachuco Yama Yachuco Yama ... Yachuko Franco Giacobini Franco Giacobini ... Juan 🎬🇮🇹 #okconnery #operationkidbrother #operationfrerecadet #neilconnery #danielabianchi #adolfoceli #albertodemartino #enniomorricone #brunonicolai #italianspy #spymovie #eurospy #007 #seanconnery #spaghettispy #giallofever #giallo ##spionistico #cultmovies #italiancultmovie

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1967 OK Connery Also Known As (AKA) Operation Double 007 Secret Agent 00 Brazil Operação Irmão Caçula Colombia Operación hermano menor Denmark Operation Lillebror Spain Todos los hermanos eran agentes Finland Operaatio 'Pikkuveli' France Opération frère Cadet Greece (transliterated) Sta ihni tou adelfou tou Ireland (English title) Operation Kid Brother Italy (alternative spelling) O.K. Connery Japan Dokutâ Konerî/Kiddo Burazâ sakusen Mexico Operación hermano menor USA (informal short title) Kid Brother USA Operation Kid Brother West Germany Operation 'Kleiner Bruder' Directed by Alberto De Martino Music by Ennio Morricone & Bruno Nicolai Writing Credits Paolo Levi ... (story) Paolo Levi ... (screenplay) Frank Walker ... (screenplay) Stanley Wright ... (screenplay) Stefano Canzio ... (screenplay) Release Dates Italy 20 April 1967 USA 22 November 1967 (New York City, New York) Japan 2 March 1968 Finland 26 April 1968 West Germany 26 April 1968 UK May 1968 Denmark 29 May 1968 France 28 June 1968 Ireland 12 July 1968 Mexico 17 July 1969 Finland 1 April 2007 (Night Visions Film Festival) Cast Neil Connery Neil Connery ... Dr. Neil Connery Daniela Bianchi Daniela Bianchi ... Maya Rafis Adolfo Celi Adolfo Celi... Mr. Thai - 'Beta' Agata Flori Agata Flori ... Mildred Bernard Lee Bernard Lee ... Commander Cunningham Anthony Dawson Anthony Dawson ... Alpha Lois Maxwell Lois Maxwell ... Max Yachuco Yama Yachuco Yama ... Yachuko Franco Giacobini Franco Giacobini ... Juan Ana María Noé Ana María Noé ... Lotte Krayendorf Guido Lollobrigida Guido Lollobrigida ... Kurt Francesco Tensi Francesco Tensi ... Auctioneer Margherita Horowitz Margherita Horowitz ... (credit only) Enzo Consoli Enzo Consoli ... Sitting Man at Lecture (as Vincenzo Consoli) Mirella Pamphili Mirella Pamphili ... (as Mirella Pompili) Nando Angelini Nando Angelini ... Ward Jones Lanfranco Ceccarelli Lanfranco Ceccarelli ... Assassin (as Franco Ceccarelli) Aldo Cecconi Aldo Cecconi ... Wilson Antonio Gradoli Antonio Gradoli ... Monte Carlo inspector Fajda Nicol Fajda Nicol ... Henchwoman (as Faida Nicol) Caterina Trentini Caterina Trentini ... (as Kathleen Trentini) Leonardo Scavino Leonardo Scavino ... Ben AHmed (as Leo Scavino) Rest of cast : Mario Soria Mario Soria ... Gamma (uncredited) Kitty Swan Kitty Swan ... Co-agent on ship (uncredited) Pietro Torrisi Pietro Torrisi ... (uncredited)

Movie Review | Operation Kid Brother (De Martino, 1967)

I assume that the James Bond franchise was big enough that there were a number of obvious cash-ins alongside the Eurospy genre that it no doubt inspired. I'm not familiar with those to make any broad sweeping statements, but my guess is that none of them fall into as neat a proto-Bruceploitation template as this one. A lead actor who resembles the real deal? Check. A bunch of peripheral actors from the actual movies? Check. Discount versions of the same thrills? Check. Crazier and sometimes more fun? Sadly no.

But instead of Bruce (Lee), the guy we're ripping off here is Connery, and to this movie's credit, it does have a real Connery. Neil Connery, brother of Sean. What's interesting is that it doesn't try to pass him off as the original, but as the brother of the more famous secret agent, who in the universe of the movie, would be going by his real last name. (Although one must point out that Bond does as well, making him a pretty lousy secret agent in most respects.) Neil plays a plastic surgeon who also can read lips and has the power of hypnosis. Apparently he was a plasterer in real life, and I assume the screenwriters got confused and wrote in the plastic surgeon job in an attempt to make him feel more at ease onscreen. I also assume the hypnosis angle, which bears limited fruit in the pursuit of the mission, was an excuse to give the star a bunch of dramatic closeups in an effort to wring a better performance out of him. Neither is successful. If anything, the movie demonstrates the classic Bruceploitation lesson that you can't fake star power, no matter how much your actor looks like the real deal.

The movie is also not remotely thrilling, and this is an area where it compares unfavourably to Bruceploitation. It's still possible to do entertaining martial arts sequences on the cheap, but the more elaborate set pieces of the Bond movies are harder to replicate when you're pinching pennies. To be fair, the movie doesn't look impoverished, and we do bounce around different locations, although whatever travelogue qualities the movie might have attempted were not done justice by the awful transfer I watched on YouTube. But making up for that is a pretty nice Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai score, including a theme song replete with lush instrumentation and sometimes breathy, sometimes soaring vocals, as well as the actual Bond actors in the cast. (I assume there was nothing in their contract stopping them from acting in rip-offs.) We get Adolfo Celi and Bernard Lee doing more boring versions of their actual roles. But the ladies fare better, with Daniela Bianchi wearing any number of red or orange outfits that proved retina-scorching in the copy I watched, and Lois Maxwell, who is normally stuck behind a desk in the Bond movies, actually getting to go out into the field and get in car chases and shootouts. Now if we had a Moneypenny-centric rip-off, we'd be on to something.

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Posters for Danger: Diabolik and Operation Kid Brother, two of the more gloriously campy movies scored by the great Ennio Morricone, dead today. Listening to my soundtrack to Danger: Diabolik today in his memory.

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