# ffolkes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 23, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513 "2010-05-23T22:37:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513/1 "2010-05-23T22:37:39Z")
I’m watching _ffolkes_ (aka _North Sea Hijack_ now. Roger Moore as a bearded, woman-hating, counter-terrorism expert; and Anthony Perkins as a terrorist. (Or, as he angrily asserts, not a terrorist.) Perkins and his team hijack a North Sea oil rig, and it’s up to Moore to save the platform. I haven’t seen this film since the '80s, but I remember it as a fun – though not great – film.
Say, David Heddison is still alive. Who knew?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513/2 "2010-05-23T22:50:19Z")
[After James Mason suggests it’s ‘a bit early’ for a drink:] ‘It’s four hours since breakfast. That’s late!’
‘We drink Scotch here the way it should be drunk. Neat!’
‘I like cats. And I don’t like people who don’t.’
It’s amazing how many of lines this movie has, that I still remember and occasionally use.
Although I don’t personally say ‘My men know their way around a man’s anatomy.’ I just think it sounds funny.
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513/3 "2010-05-23T23:57:39Z")
You occasionally see it under the title _Assault Force_, usually when you are channel-surfing late at night . I like it simply because Roger Moore is playing the Anti-Bond.
Pierce Brosnan’s Anti-Bond film is _The Taylor of Panama_.
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### Author:  [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513/4 "2010-05-24T00:04:12Z")
> [@mbh](#):
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> You occasionally see it under the title _Assault Force_, usually when you are channel-surfing late at night . I like it simply because Roger Moore is playing the Anti-Bond.
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> Pierce Brosnan’s Anti-Bond film is _The Taylor of Panama_.
I agree with\*\* ffolks\*\* being Anti-Bond, but I have always felt that **The Tailor of Panama** was more of a Non-Bond.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513/5 "2010-05-24T00:08:17Z")
Just ended.
‘My god, you are a girl! Even so, a lot of people owe you a great deal.’
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513/6 "2010-05-24T00:49:18Z")
> [@](#):
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> Say, David Heddison is still alive. Who knew?
I did. He even has his own website:
> **[David Hedison.net](http://www.davidhedison.net/)**
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> Official Website of David Hedison, Captain Lee Crane of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Felix Leiter of two Bond films
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### Author:  [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513/7 "2010-05-24T02:03:56Z")
I’ve always remembered it as being a fun film; I think I even have it on VHS somewhere.
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513/8 "2010-05-24T02:19:38Z")
> [@TV\_time](#):
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> I agree with\*\* ffolks\*\* being Anti-Bond, but I have always felt that **The Tailor of Panama** was more of a Non-Bond.
Well, when Bond drinks, smokes, and chases women, it’s glamorous.
When the guy in _The Tailor of Panama_ drinks, smokes, and chases women, it’s sleazy.
Same behavior, opposite audience reaction.
That’s why I consider it to be Anti-Bond.
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513/9 "2010-05-24T06:14:10Z")
> [@mbh](#):
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> You occasionally see it under the title _Assault Force_, usually when you are channel-surfing late at night . I like it simply because Roger Moore is playing the Anti-Bond.
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> Pierce Brosnan’s Anti-Bond film is _The Taylor of Panama_.
The Tailor of Panama (which of us is wrong with the spelling is not important) was a very enjoyable movie. Brosnan did another anti-Bond called The Matador that was also very enjoyable. Frankly, with those and The Thomas Crowne Affair, his non-Bond work is much better.
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### Author:  [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ffolkes/540513/10 "2010-05-26T21:33:22Z")
This was based on a novel named “Esther, Ruth and Jennifer” (three of the involved ships). Alternative titles for the movie were “North Sea Hijack” and “ffolkes”.
I doubt that “ERJ” would have been an effective title for an action movie.(nor ‘ffolkes’) for that matter.🙂