Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her defection. Woody uses this request as leverage to use the CIA's resources to bring his comic book creation, Condorman, to life to battle the evil Krokov.
Cóndorman, קונדורמן, Condorman: O Homem Pássaro, Человек-кондор
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Cinematic Time Capsule
1981 Marathon - Film #22
”Condorman - vulture of the Western world.”
Have you ever loved a movie you’ve never seen?
As a boy, I picked up the novelization of this movie at a school book fair, and even though I had never seen the film, I must have read that book 5 or 6 times. It also contained cool pictures from the film, and my mind went to work visualizing the coolest, funniest movie ever.
Needless to say that years later when I finally saw the film it was nowhere near the one in my mind, but even watching it today I have total flashbacks to the pages of that book and how much wonderment it…
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Condorman (1981)
Disneys Spion im Himmel.
Action-Abenteuer-Romantikkomödie und Spionagegeschichte.
Condorman ist eine Disney-Actionkomödie aus dem Jahr 1981 mit Michael Crawford in der Hauptrolle.
Harry Oslo: Woody, du bist ein grossartiger Cartoonist und ein grossartiger Comicautor – aber du bist ein lausiger Vogel.
Woodrow Wilkins, ein amerikanischer Comiczeichner, widmet sich mit voller Hingabe seinen Superhelden, die in seinen Heften Millionen von Kindern verzücken. Seine Lieblingsfigur ist aber Condorman, ein Geheimagent, der mit den verrücktesten Fahrzeugen und Hilfsmitteln gegen das Böse kämpft. Woodys Anspruch besteht darin, dass Condorman ausschliesslich Abenteuer erleben soll, die auch in der realen Welt möglich wären...
Ein Comicszeichner wird zum fliegenden Superhelden, das war früher voll mein Ding. VHS Videohit der auf ein jüngeres…
1981 In Review - August
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A cartoonist (Michael Crawford) acting as a CIA courier becomes his comic-strip hero, Condorman, to help a KGB woman (Barbara Carrera) defect.
If this was Michael Crawford’s one and only crack at Hollywood then I feel sorry for him, he’s a great talent and is wonderful and really funny in Some Mother’s Do ‘Ave ‘Em, but this ‘comedy’ is just an awful mess. It’s trying to be too many things at once and succeeds at none of them. But for me it’s it’s handling of Crawford that is the most criminal, why oh why did they feel the need to make him use a terrible American accent, which it also feels like he overdubbed…
Comic book creator Michael Crawford is recruited by his CIA buddy, James Hampton in Paris to do a paperwork exchange with the Russians in Istanbul. Crawford meets smoking hot KGB agent Barbara Carrera and pretends he's a crack agent, codenamed Condorman, named after his newest superhero creation. Saving Carrera from Turkish agents through dumb luck, he impresses her enough for her to ask the Americans for his help to defect. The CIA is very keen to get her, agreeing to Crawford's expensive equipment demands. Soon he meets with Carrera in Yugoslavia and it looks plain sailing, but Carrera's boss and former lover, Oliver Reed, has other ideas, pursuing the pair across Europe.
For some reason this inoffensive Disney live action…
Community-Weekend: Kindheitserinnerungen
Heute sind Superhelden in aller Munde, doch damals hatten wir wenige bis gar keine. Und Disneys CONDORMAN ist eigentlich gar kein Superheld, sondern 'ne Agenten-Parodie.... ja Hauptdarsteller Woody ist nicht mal Agent; die Witzfigur gibt sich nur als einer aus und tritt fürs Erste von einem Fettnäpfchen ins nächste. Aber dessen Aufmachung (im fliegenden Federkleid) ließ mich beinahe glauben er wäre einer! Wenn also Sonntags nicht gerade die Flash-Serie auf RTL lief, die übrigens bis heute meinen DC-Lieblingshero festigte, nahm das Kleinkind was es an bunten Spektakel bekam: und CONDORMAN war in der Hinsicht... Comic!
Wegen der Technik-Spielereien saß ich mit offen Augen und heruntergelassener Kinnlade vorm Fernseher. Schon die fünf schwarzen Porsche (des KGB-Feindes) trieben mir Sternchen…
I was disappointed that they toned down the original John Le Carre novel upon which this is based, and left out all the more outlandish moments. What remains is a meditation on the emotional toll the international intelligence community takes on its agents and the collateral damage it leaves in its wake.
I'm joking, obviously.
I'm not going to deny that Condorman is a pretty infantile take on international espionage, but as it's aimed at kids, who the hell cares?
This was my favourite movie when I was six. I was obssessed with it, to the point of trying to convince my friends that we should start a crime fighting team where we all build flying wing suits like Condorman's.…
Extremely literalist comic creator Woody Wilkins (Michael Crawford) does a favor for a friend (James Hampton) and ends up meeting Russian agent Natalia "The Bear" Rambova (Barbara Carrera). When Rambova wants to defect, she requests Woody bring her in, believing him to be a professional (and competent) spy. The CIA makes a deal with Wilkins, bringing his bizarre comic book devices to life to help him extricate Rambova from the menacing grasp of her handler Krokov (Oliver Reed) and the Prognoviach, the KGB vehicular pursuit squad.
Which makes it a CAR movie. Perfect for today.
I'm not going to try to present a case for Condorman as a good movie. It's goofy, with an odd choice of leading man in…
Have loved this since I was a wee child and was uncontrollably drawn to its stylish clamshell VHS. Somebody get me an “I Brake for the Prognoviach” bumper sticker STAT!
Disney was at its absolute weirdest in the early 1980s. The mostly live-action movies from that era now feel like they were made not just at a different studio, but on a different planet.
Horror movies (The Watcher in the Woods, Something Wicked This Way Comes). Offbeat sci-fi (Tron, The Flight of the Navigator). The darkest G-rated holiday film ever (One Magic Christmas). The coming-of-age S.E. Hinton tale Tex. The college campus scavenger hunt comedy Midnight Madness. Even something that sounds broadly appealing and commercial on paper -- the sequel Return to Oz -- is truly anything but. On the slowed-down feature animation side, The Black Cauldron is as bleak and macabre as anything in the storied canon.
If any…
What’s good everybody🙋♂️only person who’s ever seen Condorman here!
My dad had weird taste in movies as a kid.
Frank Spencer IS Condorman!!
After the best part of a decade in the cinematic wilderness, Michael Crawford returned to our movie screens with this amiable picture combining low-budget comic strip action, knockabout slapstick comedy..... and the opportunity for cast and crew to enjoy themselves in the picturesque European locations!
Oliver Reed is hammylicious - is that a word?! If not, it should be! - as the villain of the piece; a Russky spy trying to prevent the defection of one of his agents.
Great fun..
Já no começo de Condorman, o Homem Pássaro, vemos um maluco fantasiado de ave tentando alçar vôo do alto da Torre Eiffel e quando tudo dá errado (óbvio), ele só não foi de base porque deu sorte de cair dentro do Rio Sena. O lunático em questão é Woodrow "Woody" Wilkins, um cartunista que na sua excentricidade pensa que pode ser uma de suas criações, o tal Condorman. Por ser amigo de um arquivista da CIA acaba se envolvendo numa aventura de espionagem e se apaixona por Natalia Rambova, uma agente russa da KGB que quer desertar. Woody passa por alguns países europeus ajudando sua amada e enfrentando vilões com suas traquitanas financiadas pela CIA (ele tem até um condormobile)…
