# Which James Bond Movie is this sequence in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174 "2002-04-28T23:04:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/1 "2002-04-28T23:04:19Z")
Okay, I’m a pretty big Bond fan, but haven’t seen them all. I’m pretty sure there is a series of scenes where Bond has to repeatedly escape from different situations, each requiring creative escapes(okay, so that sounds like each movie). Anyway, one of them was this. He was in a small room with a lot of candles. If he blew one of the canldes out, it made a small explosion. Anyway, he took a bunch of the candles and put them by the door. He then took one of those things that you squeeze together to make a fire bigger(and that Billy Crystal used to make Wesley say, “to bleve”) and he blows a bunch of the canldes out and blew the door open. I think he was in a crushing machine for another. Meanwhile, he was watched through cameras by the badguy(Blowfelt?). I also think it’s Sean Connery, so that narrows it to 6 of them. ---
**Author:** ![TheeGrumpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheeGrumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheeGrumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/2 "2002-04-28T23:15:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mahaloth \* > He then took one of those things that you squeeze together to make a fire bigger(and that Billy Crystal used to make Wesley say, “to bleve”)… You mean [bellows](http://www.hearth-side.com/)?? Oh my. Next, the kids will be talking about “those whippy-thingees they use to make the horses pulling those stagecoach doodads go faster.” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/3 "2002-04-28T23:44:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheeGrumpy \* > \*\* > > You mean [bellows](http://www.hearth-side.com/)?? > > Oh my. Next, the kids will be talking about “those whippy-thingees they use to make the horses pulling those stagecoach doodads go faster.” \*\* Yes, yes, I’m a moron. But can anyone answer the question? My father told me he thinks the sequence sounds like a Batman movie. Now I’m wondering if it’s even in a Bond film. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/4 "2002-04-29T00:36:31Z")
I cannot answer your question, but I believe that what Wesley said after Miracle Max used the bellows on him was, “to blathe.” Well, actually that’s not what he said, but that’s what Max said he said. Or something. You know what I mean. Hopefully, now that your OP is sufficently nitpicked to death, someone with some useful information will show up. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/5 "2002-04-29T00:45:11Z")
Hm. I don’t remember exploding candles in any James Bond films. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/6 "2002-04-29T00:54:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheeGrumpy \* > \*\* > > You mean [bellows](http://www.hearth-side.com/)?? > > Oh my. Next, the kids will be talking about “those whippy-thingees they use to make the horses pulling those stagecoach doodads go faster.” \*\* Or how about “Those clickety-clackety things they used to write letters before there were computers?” Morphing the nitpick into a hijack although there is a Princess Bride connection, I have to mention that I recently met a young man who will be graduating from college in May, so I guess he is about 21. I mentioned some scene from “This is Spinal Tap”. He was familiar with them as a band, but was unaware that they had made a movie, and indeed had never heard of it!:eek: Sorry I can’t help with the OP. ---
**Author:** ![ScriptAnalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@ScriptAnalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScriptAnalyst)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/7 "2002-04-29T01:00:14Z")
I’ve seen all the Bond films, and this doesn’t ring any bells. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/8 "2002-04-29T01:06:54Z")
I’ve seen all the Bond movies except the last two, and the scene described doesn’t ring a bell. Is Matt Helm a possibility? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/9 "2002-04-29T01:25:16Z")
Well, it must not be a Bond film. Can anyone tell me what movie this is in? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/10 "2002-04-29T01:39:08Z")
It’s not a Bond movie. The scene you describe is from an episode titled “The Girl Who Was Death” from _The Prisoner_, a British TV series starring Patrick McGoohan. That particular episode was meant to be a direct Bond spoof, so that may explain the confusion. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-james-bond-movie-is-this-sequence-in/106174/11 "2002-04-29T11:46:32Z")
**Bryan Elkers** nailed it. The only thing to add is that McGoohan ap[parently wanted to do thaty show as an episode of **Danger Man** (known in the US as **Secret Agent** ), which would have made it even _more_ of a takeoff on James Bond. McGoohan;'s secret agent Drake eschewed a lot of the Bond traits, including excessive gunplay and sex.