Following Dr No, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger, 1965’s Thunderball was set to be even bigger for Sean Connery’s James Bond. The Hollywood star even performed the gun-barrel sequence for the first time on a budget that was more than the last three 007 movies combined. Thunderball, on ITV today, famously features several underwater … Read more
James Bond icon Sean Connery and Miss Moneypenny actress Lois Maxwell (Image: GETTY) There have been 25 official EON James Bond films so far, from Dr No to No Time To Die. Plus, of course, the non-canon Peter Sellers spoof Casino Royal and Sean Connery’s rogue Never Say Never Again. Everyone has their favourite 007 … Read more
Dr. No: Sean Connery stars as James Bond in 1962 David Niven, Patrick McGoohan, James Mason, Rex Harrison, Stewart Granger and Richard Burton. All were approved by James Bond creator Ian Fleming to play the role of his secret agent. All fell through. Producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, meanwhile, actually lined up Cary Grant … Read more
The James Bond legend’s co-star was Pedro Armendáriz, who played Ali Kerim Bey, the head of MI6 Station T in Istanbul. The Mexican actor, who has a substantial role in From Russia With Love with Sean Connery, had sadly been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Back in 1956, he had had a part in John Wayne’s … Read more
Dr No is back on TV screens this weekend. In one of her final interviews before she passed away in 2018, Eunice Gayson, who starred alongside Connery in the 1962 Bond debut, said the movie didn’t just change Connery’s life, it transformed the entire British film industry. But things got off to a bumpy start, … Read more
Last year, Ian Flemings Publications released newly censored versions of the original James Bond novels for the series’ 70th anniversary, after sensitive readers made changes to the text they deemed inappropriate for modern audiences. And now the early 007 movies are facing similar scrutiny as the British Film Institute labels Sean Connery James Bond movies … Read more
Back in the 1970s, Steven Spielberg told George Lucas that he wanted to make a James Bond movie. Instead, the two teamed up with their own action hero in Indiana Jones. But when it came to casting the father of Harrison Ford’s lead in the third movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the director … Read more
Nicolas Cage holds a flare in a scene from the film “The Rock.” Hulton Archive/Getty Images In the 1996 action blockbuster “The Rock,” Sean Connery plays an Alcatraz escapee enlisted by the FBI to defuse a hostage situation on the notorious prison island. “I have a unique knowledge of this prison facility. I was formerly a … Read more
This is gonna be a polarizing take because 1) they don’t actually make cars, so much as heavily modify them and 2) very very few people here will actually agree, but it took me a really long time to get to this point and I have to give credit where credit is due. You’re probably … Read more