so it's a little unfair to laugh only at Sean Connery for not doing an accent - the decision seems to have been not to put on accents and just allow the script to make it clear who's British and who's not.
It's also unfair because I'm not sure Connery ever does an accent, even for characters where it might reasonably be expected—it's not like he suddenly stopped trying for this one role.
The main hijacker is a young Ian McShane, who seems to be up to Connery's every move...
I don't think I'd realized he'd had such a very pretty phase. I knew him first for Lovejoy, which made it intensely confusing when everyone else I knew discovered him with Deadwood.
Michael Culver is the obligatory decent German
I had no idea that was his late-'70's thing.
and, amazingly, their boss is Sir Curtis Seretse, played by Dennis Alaba Peters, who is a black diplomat, which makes it at one leap the most continually non-racist UK 60s thing I have ever seen.
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It's also unfair because I'm not sure Connery ever does an accent, even for characters where it might reasonably be expected—it's not like he suddenly stopped trying for this one role.
The main hijacker is a young Ian McShane, who seems to be up to Connery's every move...
I don't think I'd realized he'd had such a very pretty phase. I knew him first for Lovejoy, which made it intensely confusing when everyone else I knew discovered him with Deadwood.
Michael Culver is the obligatory decent German
I had no idea that was his late-'70's thing.
and, amazingly, their boss is Sir Curtis Seretse, played by Dennis Alaba Peters, who is a black diplomat, which makes it at one leap the most continually non-racist UK 60s thing I have ever seen.
Nice!