James Bond vs Peter Franks

[86am]

what does Swedish House Mafia have to with it? whats the connection?

[MrHoppers002]

if bond was in his prime like in dr. no or from russia with love he would've smoked the guy in no time.

[computermaster]

Oddjob would have killed Bond here.

[WelloDaDon]

slowest elevator ever

[peposo7]

@WelloDaDon I have been in worse...I preferred to take the stairs up/down to a 7th floor.

[seanpatrickcain2]

Bond: Oh, we had an argument. He pulled a knife on me, so I threw him over. LOL

[HeyThereHowItGoing]

Love it! Possibly the finest Bond fight to date. 0:28 is easily the best part of the movie :)

[frankbooth64]

This fight was the best thing in a very lame film, the worst of the official Connery Bonds by far. (I don't even count NSNA.) Jill St. John walking around in her underwear was the second best thing. Both happen in the first half hour. I recommend shutting it off and watching something else after this. Seriously. (Though it's still better than the later Moore films.)

[rematpac]

Best fight scene of the early Connery movies next to the Red Grant fight in From Russia with Love.

[MaxRenn]

"if god had wanted man to fly... he wouuld have given him wings, mr kidd!"

[Butchuk2007]

"Made you feel it did he?"

"Yes -- considerably" {Casion Royale}

Those lines could have been made for this Bond fight.

[MultiUncensored]

best 007 movie ever!!! (my opinion)

[aj1123tke]

hmmm, a key to a hotel ... or motel??? masquerade motel perhaps??? and oh yea... Swedish House Mafia brought me here!

[Maver1ck911]

if i do recall, he was fighting for Pussy Galore

[License2KiII]

FACIAL MOTHAFUCKER!!!!!!!!

[ballstar2]

axwell steve angello sebastian ingrosso

[xXJaCkHXx]

dno about you but swedish house mafia brought me here...

[ucfknights616]

Thumbs up if Swedish House Mafia brought you here.

[Tubewings]

What are they going to do next, have a fight in a telephone box?

[darklord1776]

What is the name of the theme that plays?

[TheGuyThatsAwesome]

"You just killed James Bond!"

"Is that who it was?"

Best line ever.

[Rexcetera]

In real life, Robinson would have destroyed Connery. But this isn't real life.

[swastikausa]

in real life joe robinson who plays franks was a british karate champion for years and Connerys karate instructer.

[LiquidSolidRaiden]

This pales in comparison to Connery's greatest and most brutal fight scene vs. Red Grant in From Russia With Love but I love this film anyway, specifically because it's so campy.

[ssaffo3]

This would make a marvelous anime!

[melosebrainuhoh]

1:58 he's not holding the crowbar. 2:00 he's holding it again.

[charlieiscool1000]

LOL 1:51 what was a random crowbar doing there anyway no flat in the world world wud have one there outside the rooms

[greenroadster]

Well I guessh it goeshh to show you, know no onessh infalible.

[rpq66]

Pretty amazing fight considering how tight that space was and the fact that Connery and Robinson are big fellas as well. They pulled it off quite nicely, though.The fight scenes in the Connery Bonds were always harder edged, among the best in the series if not arguably the best period.

[glenw89]

sean connery is a legend!!

[Blueshark2000]

The very end is aload of bollocks "you've just killed Jame Bond" he is supposed to be a low pofile seceret agent that kills people and everyone knows who he is

[Wierdperson31]

@Blueshark2000

Never once has it been said that he is "low-profile" or "secret"

[88tommyb666]

Best Bond fights:

This one

Train fight (Bond vs Red Grant) in FRWL

Bond vs Chang in Moonraker

Bond vs Trevelyan in Goldeneye

Bond vs Carver's thugs at Carver's party in Tomorrow Never Dies

[supersam1134]

I like the playboy key ID tag xD

[redbrackets]

My name really is Peter Franks !!!

[askskog]

connery would eat brosnan and craig for breakfast.

[LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH]

Daniel Craig just doesn't cut the mustard as Bod IMHO. He looks wrong, more like a hod carrier on a buiding site than sophisticated Mr Bond. Brosnan was a decent Bond, but Connery must surely have been the best. When he throws a punch it looks real & likely to take someones head off! lol Roger Moore with his judo chop was quite amusing also! :)

[RogueRotting360]

Come on. Connery didn't look that sophisticated, as Fleming himself - he looked like a Scottish truck driver. Craig doesn't look much more rugged than Connery -case in point - this scene.

[dcn8933]

@LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH You kidding? Even Connery, Moore, Dalton, and Pierce say he's a great Bond

[monsterboy31]

@askskog And Dalton, Moore and Lazenby

[MGSFan22]

@askskog Dalton would kill all three.

[tcvicesquad]

@MGSFan22 I love Dalton, but based on what? Dark and serious he may have been, but a great physical fighter he was not.

[jonnnyharsh]

@tcvicesquad i dunno, Dalton's Bond in Licence to kill headbutts people and kicks them in the balls that's pretty violent and unexpected

[tcvicesquad]

@jonnnyharsh Ahh yes, I remember now. It's been a while since I've watched License. I still maintain though, that the best fight in the Dalton era didn't involve Bond at all. I am of course talking about the fight in the kitchen between Necros and Green 4. THAT was awesome!

[cuttock]

@MGSFan22 Lazenby would kill them all, he is a serious martial arts expert.

[Ragitsu]

@MGSFan22

Agreed.

[jksonny]

Pretty intense fight for an otherwise silly Bond film.

[luger666666]

"OMG You killed James Bond !" :D

[TheSidney99]

Sean looks hilarious at 1:53 and I like how he says is that who he was

[StoneCooold]

lol 1:53

[Sceptile89]

Close

[Mr007maniac]

yep

[thompsoncolton]

That is some frail glass - it breaks when Connery is winding up the first punch.

[KOHF34]

Lol, he uses his Playboy card.

[58fenix]

The guy who played peter franks taught

sean connery JUDO in real life.

[scottknode]

your right and the actor who played franks was a stuntman in the 70s

[lggriffin]

Wasn't he also the actor that was in Titanic? The older guy that was a retired cop, chasing Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on behalf of her rich fiance'? The looks changed due to aging, but the voice is dead on.

[scottknode]

no cause joe robinson who played franks was mostly a stuntman but was in movies from the 60s til the 1980s.

[lggriffin]

Thanks!

[MegaGuitarhero1994]

Nope. I checked the cast and he wasn't mentioned. (Joe Robinson) is the actor who played Peter Franks.

[lggriffin]

Yeah, scottknode answered that for me about 2 mos ago. I looked it up afterwards and noted that he was right!

Thanks though...

[frankbooth64]

@lggriffin That was David Warner. Look him up, he's been in many, many films, going back to the Sixties.

[lggriffin]

@frankbooth64 Thanks!

[Evilvillager1989]

In this scene you can see that James Bond is not always an Gentleman but an ruthless Killer.

[ElectronicaFan83]

A big thanks to Bob Simmons and Guy Hamilton for devising this brilliant sequence.

[ps123fan]

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

[SaintBlade]

what are these wands for?

[bigjamesbondfan]

Very well choregraphed.

[JollyRodders]

I want to see this fight re-created using Daniel Craig.

[Mark89Poland]

my lovely sequence form DAF is "if at first u don't succeed mr Kidd" - "try, try again mr Wint"

[celaya4ever]

What kind of clothes is Tiffany wearing?

[007VillanFtw]

1:57

[SgArchive]

this was cut to shreads when shown on itv.

[TheJam41]

Easily the best scene in this film. Connery's weakest Bond film.

[fakizer123]

iis this diamonds are forver

[backtoklondike]

This fight is the second best fight in the history of bond. (Best fight is, of course, From Russia with love.)

[merlinbenko]

Interesting aside is that I once found myself giving this Joe Robinson a lift in my car from Castle Cary train station, not knowing who he was. He was wearing a leopard skin shirt underneath an old suit and combined with the glass eye I thought twice when he asked for lift....during the journey he claimed to have been in a james bond and that he had been British Judo champion- at the time I just nodded and was relieved when I had dropped him off!! Little did I know....

[CesMan83]

2:04...Franks' grunt when toppling over the railing always cracks me up!

"UGGHHH-HOOOO!"

[FCer666]

For sure - this is a really badass noise AARRGHHH - UUUUCHAAA :-) Funny fight, best scene in one of the weakest bond movies...

[DarkBee101]

Franks was feeble. This is what it would look like if Sean Connery's Bond fought Roger Moore's.

[mygransbeaver]

Always bugged me how a low level wheel in the Mafia chain knew who Bond was. In the books he was a SECRET agent.

[mygransbeaver]

Do you have a wheel in a chain? knob. Love how the card is Playboy however.

[jpandyaraja]

compare this fight seance with that of

From russia with love in the train ...

one sees how heavily bond had aged...

[HardSpy007]

Best part of the movie.

This landmark of hard-violence and comic is very seducing.

Even if this is not one of the bests James Bond movies, I sincerely love this fight scene.

Thanks to Sean! =D

[spiderfly1014]

LOL at Bond accidently breaking the glass at the start of the fight.

Classic close quarters battle.

Connery rules.

[darkwraith07]

Is it just me, or does Franks marginally resemble Ted Koppel?

[smithx123]

Really annoys me how Bourne films try to take credit for coming up with close quarters, hand-to-hand fight scenes when Connery was doing if before Damon was even born.

[melosebrainuhoh]

And not only that, you can actually tell what's going on in the Connery fights.

[Butchuk2007]

melosebrainuhoh

"And not only that, you can actually tell what's going on in the Connery fights".

---

Yeah there's too much of the camera darting about in modern fight scenes.

[markbart]

I like how Bond just throws the fire extinguisher at him after he falls over the railing.

[HitchcockFan16]

One of Bond's few blunders: Hitting the glass with his elbow.

[ukfm]

a true inspiration in film acting!

[powersevilgoldmember]

This part of the film was cool! And Franks got pwned badly.

[andell1]

Well of course he did. Peter Franks was a smuggler! True, he had to have some fighting skills...but it's no mistake that he reaches for his gun first chance he gets. Joe Robinson was amazing- a handsome stuntman who also, if I'm not mistaken, was a black belt in judo and trained Connery. He never lost sight of the fact that in this fight, he was to be less skilled and go down in the end!

[Kirok]

Hey, if you go frame x frame in this scene, there are a couple of places where Connery's toupee flies up in the back. Just FYI.

[JasonMyers4657]

can ya give us a exact moment like at what time in the clip?

[ketandev]

Unbelievable music by John Barry.

This guy's music can really get you involved in an action scene!

[willsie22]

what film is??

[ketandev]

Diamonds Are Forever

[royalefreshness]

imagine how much better this scene would have been if lazenby had done this film

[BruceinFalkirk]

Lazenby's movements are nowhere near as good as Sean Connery's.

[VioletSpikeZiggy]

It would be way better.

[Kirok]

Much respect to Connery, Dalton, and Craig, but Lazenby was the ONLY Bond lead who could throw a credible punch. (My omission of Moore and Brosnan was deliberate.)

[VioletSpikeZiggy]

Why Moore?

[JasonMyers4657]

Actually cus Lazenby wasnt a real actor...they wanted to train him to see if he could fight so they had a stunt man train him and Lazenby like fucking nearly broked his noise and put him to the ground....and thats how Lazenby was approved by the producers he'd be a good Bond

[DrArt1]

Connery is the best.

[melosebrainuhoh]

The fight would have been better. Everything else in the movie would have been worse. Assuming that's possible -- aside from this fight, DaF was awful.

[darkpitch1]

This was considered one of the best fights ever shot on film.

[darkwraith07]

In fact, they should have made HIM a 00 after this fight!

[darkwraith07]

This fight was indeed one of the best. In fact, I somewhat wish Franks and Bond continued their fight longer into the hallway, instead of Bond just throwing him off.

Franks reminds me of me at work when he is calmly standing on that elevator. Angry, tired, and just along for the ride.

Franks could have been given an ENORMOUS role as a major Bond villian.

[RonnMosz]

Excellent comment, Peter Franks is an underrated character in the Bond series.

[Wierdperson31]

@RonnMosz

Probably because he appears for less than five minutes in only one film.

[fg441tbs]

I was in the lift the other day.

It's in the MWB meeting rooms, 107-111 fleet street, London. really impressive.

[hanneshopf]

00:10 - Bonds elbow-move always cracks me up... classic fight!

[dergeier117]

You can forget all your CGI, slo-mo backflip fake almost-kung fu crap, THIS is how you make a fight scene.

[Jahkonen]

Theyre like: "no let me push the buttons,asshole!"

[menehunealoha]

I've met Robinson , pleasant man (he also did a judo book with Pussy Galore aka Honor B)

[OettingerCroat]

ramming the guy through the glass at 0:29 is just PAINFUL!!!

[lolilops54]

Peter Franks reflexes are so good that they're stupid at 00.09..

[tinavjohn]

Yeah eye know Like he has eyes in the back of his head. Great fight I like bonds punch at 21 seconds.

[amarsbarr]

the two best bond fights ever, are from Thunderball and From Russia With Love, this one follows up, check em out people :D

[popdaddy]

Gotta agree. I love when Bond says "I sincerely hope so"when asked if the guy is dead. And Jill St. John......... Yum.

[goofeddi]

One of my all-time-favorite bond fights. Thanks for posting.

[alexkrycek21]

Really good fight. Just noticed that before he empties the extinguisher onto Franks, Franks isn't holding the crowbar. But at 1:59 it shows that he is.

[Gekmdal]

it's called "lousy editing". I once saw a movie where a man was being chased while shooting an automatic. when he turned around to shoot at the man chasing him, he suddenly had a revolver in his hand. it happens all of the time. the dvd of season one of "24" is full of flaws. you can see cameramen in the shots, people holding cue cards and people that seem to be directing the actors on their parts. there should be a "bad edit" dvd made public to us. It would be hilarious.

[t55555]

"My God, You just killed James Bond"

classic

[Ian911299]

Did anyone else feel the tension as Franks was holding Bond's head down and it was about to get crushed? I sure did.

[OettingerCroat]

amazing fight scene, one of the best in movie history

[tinavjohn]

The best part of the film and one of the best fight scenes of all the bond films

[tcvicesquad]

You're quite welcome sir! I'll be uploading pretty much every single Bond fight there is so stay tuned ;).

[mrwario1]

dude, then upload scaramanga vs. james bond! i really wanna see that! no, no! upload james vs. baron samedi! no, no darn it! upload red grant v.s. james bond! no, le chiffre! no, renard! i cant choose.... or better yet, upload them all!

[kljmaq]

First one to watch this!! 5/5. Thanks a lot!