 508 - OPERATION DOUBLE 007
Genre: ’60s Spy (1967, Color)
Synopsis: What a great idea: make a James Bond like spy flick that features the people who play
M, Moneypenny, Q, the girl from
Russia with Love, Largo (aka Number Two) from Thunderball, and that also stars Connery... Neil Connery...
Sean’s younger brother........
Okay, maybe it wasn’t such a great idea, but they made the movie anyway.
In this flick, Neil Connery plays “Dr. Connery,” a world famous plastic surgeon and brother to
England’s best agent (I wonder who that might be?) who
also has amazing powers of hypnosis
and can read lips. The bad guy, Thair (played by the Largo guy), lives on a boat with dozens of beautiful women in funny little costumes who take care of everything on board, one even
serves as his TV screen. Thair has some evil plans of some sort that require a recent burn patient of
the eminent Dr. Connery. So, at a meeting where Dr. Connery is showing off his work (he apparently used his amazing powers of hypnosis to keep
his patient’s wounds from scarring), Thair’s henchmen attack and try to kidnap the healed-up burn patient.
Luckily, Dr. Connery uses his amazing powers of hypnosis to hypnotize one of the henchmen to
death and foil the attack. After the fight, Dr. Connery meets a woman who wears funny hats (her trademark) and they hit it off.
Since his brother is too busy, Dr. Connery is recruited by the British government to find out why Thair wanted his healed-up burn
patient. Dr. Connery then goes to some parties and finds out that the patient is carrying some sort of message in her subconscious planted there by another hypnotist.
So he hypnotizes her to find out the message but she is shot and killed before she can finish telling him
everything in the message. Dr. Connery next pretends to be blind in order in infiltrate a rug factory where he discovers that Thair is making radioactive rugs that will destroy all the machines of the world
(okay... so THAT’S his evil plan...). But Dr. Connery is soon caught and taken to
Thair’s boat of
female objects. Luckily, he uses his amazing powers of hypnosis to get his guards to fight each
other so he can escape. And the women on the boat, for some reason, decide to revolt against Thair (Was it the funny looking
outfits that lead to this? Or was it due to being forced to be his TV???).
Thair escapes the boat, though, to his secret compound where he can carry off his nefarious plot.
But Dr. Connery is hot on his trail and he, and an army of archers, invades the compound and set off a
huge bow-and-arrow vs. spear-gun fight. Connery and Thair (or, at least, their stunt doubles) fights it out and have a final bow-and-arrow standoff, which
Dr. Connery – of course – wins.
Don’s Review: What can you say about this flick?
It’s so absurd that I don’t know where to start.
Such as Dr. Connery’s complete invulnerability due to his amazing powers of hypnosis.
It makes you wonder why he didn’t just hypnotize the bad guys to be
good? Or, at least, why he didn’t hypnotize the audience to think this was a good
movie? The riffing on this was
pretty funny, although not quite as dead-on as in some other
episodes. And the host segments were
also very funny – I especially liked Joel’s “I Know” skit which effectively spoofed a scene in the movie.
All-in-all, a good episode that’s a much-see for anyone who is
also a James Bond fan.
Don’s Rating: 
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