Tag: Danish connections

Licence to Kill (1989): From Denmark with Love

DANISH CONNECTIONS

 
Carlsberg's product placement deal with EON, which started with "The Living Daylights" (1987), continued in the subsequent James Bond film, "Licence to Kill" (1989).

The Danish brewing group's characteristic logo appears in more than a dozen shots in the five-minute long sequence which takes place around the fictional pub The Barrelhead Bar. Thai Island Restaurant & Sushi Bar in Key West, Florida, USA provided the exterior for Barrelhead Bar, while the interior was built for the film as a set at Churubusco Studios in Mexico City.
Time code (Blu-ray): 0:50:50-0:54:59

The Carlsberg logo is first seen when James Bond (Timothy Dalton) arrives by boat at the Barrelhead Bar, the shabbiest harbor bar in Bimini in the Bahamas.

LTK Carlsberg eksteriør 1

Inside the Barrelhead Bar, both James Bond and Dario (Benicio Del Toro) pass by several green neon signs displaying the Carlsberg logo.

LTK Carlsberg Dalton 1

LTK Carlsberg Benicio 1

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“The Living Daylights” (1987): From Denmark with Love

DANISH CONNECTIONS

 
For "The Living Daylights" (1987), EON Productions set up a product placement deal with the Danish brewery group Carlsberg. A neon sign with the familiar green Carlsberg logo was featured prominently in the sequence where James Bond (Timothy Dalton) meets his contact Saunders (Thomas Wheatley) at the Prater Café in Vienna, only to witness him being killed in a runaway sliding door, rigged by the hitman Necros (Andreas Wiesniewski).
Time code (Blu-ray):  01:03:08-01:06:27

TLD Carlsberg screengrab 1

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“A View to a Kill” (1985): From Denmark with Love

DANISH CONNECTIONS

 
In "A View to a Kill" (EON 1985) a Danish flag can be glimpsed on the bank of the river Seine in Paris, shortly before James Bond 007 (Roger Moore or rather his stunt drivers) drives his stolen Renault 11 taxi onto the roof of a bus.
Time code (Blu-ray):  00:20:03-00:20:04

AVTAK Dannebrog (screengrab)

Thanks to flag-spotter Rikart Olander Købke.

● More Danish connections: "From Denmark with Love"

“Never Say Never Again”: From Denmark with Love (1983)

The Danish contribution to "Never Say Never Again" (1983) is rather modest: Upon arriving at the Nice Côte d'Azur for an appointment with his French contact Nicole (Saskia Cohen-Tanugi), James Bond 007 (Sean Connery) walks past a Scandinavian Airlines desk.
Time code (Blu-ray): 00.56:59-00.57:17

● More Danish 007 connections: "From Denmark with Love""

“Octopussy” (1983): From Denmark with Love

● In the 1983 James Bond 007 film "Octopussy", Denmark is represented in graphic form on the animated map over Europe which adorns the wall of the Soviet Ministry of Defence. Our small kingdom fills up with red on the screen to illustrate the renegade general Orlov's (Steven Berkoff) dream of Communist supremacy over the continent, Scandinavia included.
Time code (Blu-ray): 00:18:03-00:18:17

Octopussy Berkoff 2

Octopussy Berkoff 4

● The German diesel engine which in the film's climax pulls Octopussy International Circus Train towards the US air base in Berlin is actually a Danish locomotive. DSB Litra S 740 was built by A/S Frichs Maskinfabrik og Kedelsmedje in Aarhus, Jutland, in 1928 commissioned by DSB, the Danish State Railways. The S engine was in service on the branch lines on Sealand until DSB phased out their diesel locomotives during the 1960s. S 740 was subsequently used as an excursion train and eventually was handed off to DBS's railway museum in 1976.

Englishman Mike Bradley bought the discarded tender in the southern Danish town of Gedser in 1979 and had it transported to Wansford near Peterborough, England, where the S 740 was renovated for use on the preserved railway line Nene Valley Railway. This is where S 740 got a starring role in the production of "Octopussy" as all train scenes in the film were shot on this English piece of track in late 1982. The train has been painted with German signage and given the number 62 015. Shortly after the end of production, S 740 was taken out of active service. In the 1990s Northsealand Vintage Trains (Nordsjællandsk Veterantog) bought the locomotive with a view to restoring it. According to the club's web paghe S 740 is currently in Rungsted north of Copenhagen.

Additional trivia: In 2017 the Tikøb Foundry produced a DSB Litra S steam engine as a model train.
Tidskoder (Blu-ray): 01:34:24; 01:35:40

Octopussy DSB 1 (Wansford Station)

Octopussy DSB 2A (Orton Mere)

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“The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977): From Denmark with Love

For "The Spy Who Loved Me" (EON 1977), the German-born production designer Ken Adam once more let his interest in Danish furniture design rub off on the film's villain, Karl Stromberg (as played by another German, Curd Jürgens).

The famous designer Verner Panton (b. 1926, d. 1998) is represented for the third time in the EON Bond series. His Pantonova furniture system from 1971 features prominently in the underwater lair Atlantis where Stromberg as well as Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) are seen reclining on the brown-cushioned steel sofa.

Verner Panton's Pantonova in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

The sculptural Pantonova system, originally created by Panton for the restaurant Varna in Aarhus in Jutland, consists of three modules – one linear, one concave, and one convex – which can be used separately or combined in various organic shapes such as a cirkel, an S or a wave. The company Montana Furniture, based on Funen, relaunched Pantonova in 2019. As of January 2023 a module will cost you somewhere between 1.300 and 1.800 €.
Time code (Blu-ray): from 01:06:05

● The Pantonova system at Montana Furniture (external link)

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“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969): From Denmark with Love

For "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (EON 1969) production designer Syd Cain once again furnished the arch villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld's hideout with Danish Modern.

Disguised as the herald Sir Hilary Bray James Bond (George Lazenby) checks in at the Swiss mountain resort Piz Gloria. His room features two pendant lamps created in 1964 by the famous Danish designer Verner Panton (1926-1998). Each of the Fun 0DM lamps (DM is short for the German term "Decken-Montage" meaning ceiling-mounted) consists of a four-ring chrome-plated metal frame with natural sea shells discs. The lamps are clearly visible around the film's 56-minute mark (Blu-ray) as Bond is checking the lamp for hidden microphones. Early versions of the Fun 0DM lamp were manufactured in Switzerland which is also the film's primary location.

OHMSS Panton 1

● Link to the Fun 0DM lamp at verpan.com

In the same sequence (time code 56:20) Syd Cain reused the iconic Bodil Kjær Office Desk from 1959 as part of the furniture in Bond's room. The free-standing table previously featured in "From Russia with Love" (EON 1963) and "You Only Live Twice" (EON 1967).

Around the two-hour mark Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) is seen fiddling with another Verner Panton-designed lamp, the Fun 5DM, in Blofeld's office. Fun 5DM is an extra-large ceiling mounted lamp with two clusters of shells hanging from stainless steel rings.

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