Pepper from “Live and Let Die” just happens to be in the car with Bond. What Will Make You Cringe: Whatever cool that jump provided is quickly deflated with a slide-whistle. Money Moment: This film’s car chase involves a corkscrew effect as the car jumps over a river –landing cleanly on a bridge. What You Might Not Know: Maud Adams as Andrea Anders may look familiar, because nine years later she’d play the title role in “Octopussy.” Making maters worse, Britt Ekland’s Mary Goodnight isn’t a helpful agent in the field, but rather a bubble-brained klutz.
And the Golden Gun (cigarette and case plus lighter) is cooler than any other gadget used in the film.Ĭons: A flat story doesn’t even have huge set pieces to pump it up. Herve Villechaize (Tattoo from “Fantasy Island”) is a creative variation of the big, silent henchman. Pros: Christopher Lee plays a dignified assassin as Scaramanga. The British are looking for the Solex Agitator, which converts solar power to energy, but Bond is given a golden bullet engraved with the digits “007.” This sends the agent after super-assassin Scaramanga. Noah is kind of creepy as he tries to charm an agent - and not even in the “awkwardly creepy” way from “Bananas” or Take the Money and Run.”Ģ6. What Will Make You Cringe: Woody Allen’s Dr. After sitting through two-plus hours, I feel he was the lucky one. Money Moment: Orson Welles’ character gets killed by his own people … from a television set he’s watching. Ling in “Goldfinger”) are all better known for their EON work. In addition to Andress, Angela Scoular (Ruby in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”), Vladek Sheybal (Kronsteen in “From Russia with Love”) and Burt Kwouk (Mr. What You Might Not Know: The film is filled with 007 crossovers. At the end, an atomic bomb swallowed by Woody Allen explodes and kills everyone - sadly it didn’t happen at the start of the film. Six directors helmed the project and an unnecessarily complicated plot dissolves into a slapstick romp involving Frankenstein’s monster, a posse of cowboys and the Keystone Cops. Noah? Jacqueline Bisset as Miss Goodthighs? Peter Sellers and John Huston? Where could you go wrong?Ĭons: It’s the 1967 version and not the Daniel Craig film of 2006. Pros: Quite a bit of talent on the screen: David Niven as Bond, Orson Welles as LeChiffre and Ursula Andress (the original Bond girl from “Dr. Think “Austin Powers” 30 years before the fact - and nowhere near as successful. Feldman decides to compete with Sean Connery and the “official series” by churning out a 007 parody. Unable to get the official EON producers to pony up for the rights to Ian Fleming’s first book, Charles K. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.