{"id":84448,"date":"2022-05-28T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T06:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=84448"},"modified":"2022-09-25T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T02:03:06","slug":"once-before-i-die-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=84448","title":{"rendered":"Once Before I Die (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;We should be able to do everything &#8212; to see everything in this beautiful world &#8212; at least once, shouldn&#8217;t we? That&#8217;s right, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Poster-195x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Poster-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Poster-83x128.png 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Poster-176x270.png 176w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Poster.png 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen a beautiful young Swiss woman (Ursula Andress) flees through the jungles of the Philippines with her lover (John Derek) after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she watches a sadistic lieutenant (Richard Jaeckel) become increasingly invested in killing the Japanese, and befriends a young virgin (Ron Ely) hoping for a sexual experience before he dies.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Refugees<\/li>\n<li>Richard Jaeckel Films<\/li>\n<li>Ursula Andress Films<\/li>\n<li>World War II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary writes, &#8220;John Derek directed and starred with his onetime wife Ursula Andress in this peculiar WWII action drama,&#8221; a &#8220;bleak and brutal&#8221; film in which it&#8217;s &#8220;hard to tell what&#8217;s going on at times.&#8221; He points out that at least &#8220;Andress (more sensitive and vulnerable than usual) is always watchable&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Youre-Asking-Me.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Youre-Asking-Me.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"941\" height=\"728\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Youre-Asking-Me.png 941w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Youre-Asking-Me-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Youre-Asking-Me-128x99.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Youre-Asking-Me-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Youre-Asking-Me-349x270.png 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 941px) 100vw, 941px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;Richard Jaeckel is perfectly cast as a bald, psychopathic soldier&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Jaeckel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Jaeckel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"733\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Jaeckel.png 979w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Jaeckel-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Jaeckel-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Jaeckel-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Jaeckel-361x270.png 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;and, surprisingly, Derek&#8217;s direction (so awful in his films with Bo) is often interesting, particularly when using superimposures and freeze frames.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Superimposition.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Superimposition.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"937\" height=\"697\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Superimposition.png 937w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Superimposition-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Superimposition-128x95.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Superimposition-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Superimposition-363x270.png 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 937px) 100vw, 937px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in his debut film, Derek seems to be having plenty of creative fun with all sorts of cinematic tricks, making this a visually intriguing outing above all else. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creative direction<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Angle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Angle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"733\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Angle.png 979w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Angle-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Angle-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Angle-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Once-Before-I-Die-Angle-361x270.png 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s actually worth a one time look. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059539\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We should be able to do everything &#8212; to see everything in this beautiful world &#8212; at least once, shouldn&#8217;t we? That&#8217;s right, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; Synopsis: When a beautiful young Swiss woman (Ursula Andress) flees through the jungles of the Philippines with her lover (John Derek) after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she watches a sadistic lieutenant (Richard Jaeckel) become increasingly invested in killing the Japanese, and befriends a young virgin (Ron Ely) hoping for a sexual experience before he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=84448\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87664,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84448\/revisions\/87664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}