SpyHards - A Spy Movie Podcast
A weekly film podcast decoding classic spy cinema. Hosted by Agent Scott & Cam the Provocateur. Featuring the likes of James Bond, Jason Bourne, Derek Flint, Austin Powers, Johnny English, George Smiley and Harry Palmer, plus all your favourite secret agent franchises including Mission: Impossible, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Kingsman, Taken and many more. Which films will make the prestigious N.O.C. List, and cement their place in the canon of all-time cloak and dagger greats? Subscribe today and don’t get left out in the cold as your intrepid agents track down cinema’s very best spy adventures!
Episodes
Agents Scott and Cam welcome legendary Thunderball actress Luciana Paluzzi to the show to discuss her iconic work as Fiona Volpe in the 1965 blockbuster Bond adventure. She also shares stories about influential 007 director Terence Young, shooting Muscle Beach Party, and more!
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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operatives Dr. Llewella Chapman, author of Fashioning James Bond, and David Zaritsky of The Bond Experience YouTube channel, pay tribute to Sir Sean Connery by exploring the legacy of his game-changing 007 era, and its best and worst elements.
The hosts also reunite with past Connery review guests Calvin Dyson, YouTube James Bond expert, Mark O'Connell, author of Catching Bullets - Memoirs o...
Agents Scott and Cam follow Robert Vaughn and David McCallum into a top-secret underground vault in the Swiss Alps while tackling the second Man from U.N.C.L.E. theatrical feature The Spy with My Face.
Directed by John Newland. Starring Robert Vaughn, Senta Berger, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Evans, Sharon Farrell, Fabrizio Mioni and Donald Harron.
Make sure to check out Bill Koenig's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode gu...
Agents Scott and Cam base jump off a high-rise during Chinese New Year while decoding the 2000 Wesley Snipes spy action thriller The Art of War.
Directed by Christian Duguay. Starring Wesley Snipes, Donald Sutherland, Maury Chaykin, Anne Archer, Marie Matiko, Michael Biehn, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Liliana Komorowska and James Hong.
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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Steven Kobrin, author of The Man from Belize, play a high stakes game of ping pong with Gregory Peck while reviewing the 1969 spy thriller The Chairman.
Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Starring Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie, Conrad Yama, Zienia Merton, Ori Levy, Ric Young and Burt Kwouk.
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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Will from the Exploding Helicopter podcast and blog, get devoured by great white sharks while decoding the 1996 martial arts spy comedy Jackie Chan's First Strike.
Directed by Stanley Tong. Starring Jackie Chan, Jackson Lou, Annie Wu, Bill Tung, Yuriy Petrov, Nonna Grishaeva and John Eaves.
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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Henry R. Schlesinger, journalist and author of Honey Trapped: Sex, Betrayal, and Weaponized Love, crash a Costco with Bruce Willis and the gang while taking on the 2013 spy comedy sequel RED 2.
Directed by Dean Parisot. Starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, Brian Cox, Neal McDonough and David Th...
Agents Scott and Cam take up gardening in order to eavesdrop on their enemies as they review the 1939 Boris Karloff WWI espionage thriller British Intelligence.
Directed by Terry O. Morse. Starring Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester, Leonard Mudie, Holmes Herbert and Austin Fairman.
British Intelligence can be streamed on YouTube.
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Agents Scott and Cam welcome actor, comedian, writer and director Dave Thomas to the show to reveal the secrets behind co-writing 1985's Spies Like Us. He also talks about directing the 1989 John Travolta Cold War comedy The Experts and his work on TV's Arrested Development.
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Agents Scott and Cam repeatedly address each other as "Doctor" while tackling the 1985 Chevy Chase/Dan Aykroyd buddy comedy Spies Like Us.
Directed by John Landis. Starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison, Bernie Casey, William Prince and Tom Hatten.
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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Bill Koenig from The Spy Command blog, help Robert Vaughn take down an evil industrialist while decoding the first Man from U.N.C.L.E. theatrical feature To Trap a Spy.
Directed by Don Medford. Starring Robert Vaughn, Luciana Paluzzi, Pat Crowley, Fritz Weaver, William Marshall, Will Kuluva and David McCallum.
Read Bill's writing over at The Spy Command, or join the community on Fac...
Agents Scott and Cam welcome Jeff Kleeman, former Executive Vice President of Production at MGM/UA, to the show to reveal top secret intel from his time overseeing the first three Pierce Brosnan 007 films. Plus, he also talks about his experience co-writing 2015's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. reboot.
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Agents Scott and Cam borrow nursing scrubs from Madeleine Carroll while decoding the 1933 biographical WWI drama I Was a Spy.
Directed by Victor Saville. Starring Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn, Gerald du Maurier, Donald Calthrop, May Agate and Eva Moore.
I Was a Spy can be streamed on YouTube.
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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Daisy Edwards of the W-Rated podcast, receive directions from a top-secret quantum computer as they review the 2023 Gal Gadot action thriller Heart of Stone.
Directed by Tom Harper. Starring Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan, Alia Bhatt, Jing Lusi, Paul Ready, Matthias Schweighöfer and Sophie Okonedo.
Check out W-Rated wherever you get your podcasts, and you can also follow Daisy on Twitter a...
Agents Scott and Cam welcome Mitchell Leib, former President of Music & Soundtracks for The Walt Disney Studios, to the show to talk about producing the hit Mission: Impossible II soundtrack album. Plus, he also reveals top-secret insider intel from his long and successful career in the movie music business.
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Agents Scott and Cam welcome showrunner, screenwriter and producer Brannon Braga to the show to talk about co-writing 2000's Mission: Impossible II. He also shares top secret intel about his work on 24 and Star Trek: First Contact.
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Agent Scott and guest operative Chris Carr of the Secrets & Spies podcast get gravity-defying haircuts while serving up a DECLASSIFIED review of the hotly anticipated new spy action comedy Argylle. Plus, Scott talks to director Matthew Vaughn about bringing this unique adventure to the big screen.
Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Starring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John...
Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Nathan Flynn from the Mission: Impodible podcast, release the doves and engage in a little bike-fu with Tom Cruise while taking on 2000's John Woo-helmed sequel Mission: Impossible II.
Directed by John Woo. Starring Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson and Rade Serbedzija.
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Agents Scott and Cam hijack a rusty barge and embark on a mission to thwart German U-boats with the 1980 star-studded WWII adventure film The Sea Wolves.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Barbara Kellerman, Patrick Macnee, Kenneth Griffith, Patrick Allen and Wolf Kahler.
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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Jeff Quest of The le Carré Cast and Spy Write website, take in a dramatic performance of Edward II while tackling the 1967 John le Carré adaptation The Deadly Affair.
Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews, Kenneth Haigh and Roy Kinnear.
Check out Jeff's writing over at Spy Write.
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