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Original James Bond Movies on Video FOR SALE
I have two copies of the following ORIGINAL releases of James Bond on Video - circa 1991? If you want them I'll give them to you for what I paid for them - about $15 each.  Contact me.


The Bond Movies ... Bond Actors Filmography

Sean Connery Filmography

For more information, see The Films of Sean Connery by Lee Pfeiffer and Philip Lisa (1997)

George Lazenby Filmography

Roger Moore's Film Credits

Timothy Dalton Film & TV Credits

Pierce Brosnan Film Credits

James Bond Film Reviews
(This stuff came off the Internet so I take no credit for it. The English is poor but the content is very good. I did however clean it up a bit. It was really bad.)


DR. NO
(Connery, 1962)
***
Bond’s mission takes him to Jamaica , where mysterious energy waves are interfering with U.S. rocket launches. Working with CIA agent Felix Leiter, Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), and his native guide Quarrel, Bond searches Crab Key Island for the headquarters of Dr. No, a scientist and member of SPECTRE who is implementing an evil plan of world domination. Bond must confront the madman and save the human race from a horrible fate.

This is the first one, it started it all. Not all elements were there yet (no big opening scene with Bond, no "Q"...) Really a low key movie, but done with style. Bond gets his Walther PPK. Sean Connery debuts as Bond, and is as good as usually. The special effects were not very good by today’s standards but still acceptable. The plot is exciting and easy to follow. Dr. No, Bond's first villain, is cool. A good Bond movie, though it is low key.


FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
(Connery, 1963)
****
The SPECTRE organization devises a brilliant plan to steal a LECTOR decoding machine that will access Russian state secrets and unbalance the world order. Bond must go to Istanbul to recover the device first but has difficulty doing so as he realizes he is being lured into a trap. A young Russian agent Tatyana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) thinks she's serving Russia, but is tricked into helping SPECTRE. Tatyana ends up falling in love with Bond. Bond takes Tatyana and the LEKTOR with him and travels by train away from Istanbul with SPECTRE's killer Red Grant (Robert Shaw) following.

Perhaps the most serious of all pre-Dalton Bond movies, but it fit Sean Connery (the producers had to give up the idea of a serious Bond movie when Roger Moore started to play Bond). The movie progresses a bit slowly, but the plot is brilliant. Many cool scenes including a helicopter attack, a gypsy camp gun fight, and a fist fight brawl aboard the Orient Express. The movie also introduced Ernst Blofeld and "Q". A true Bond classic.


GOLDFINGER
(Connery, 1964)
*****
The powerful tycoon and gold smuggler Auric Goldfinger has a plan to raid Fort Knox and destroy the world economy for many years. Armed with his new Aston Martin, Bond must stop the plan by overcoming several adversaries. Luckily, Goldfinger’s personal pilot Pussy Galore develops romantic feelings for Bond which complicate her involvement in Goldfinger’s scheme. Bond ends-up inside Fort Knox, where he has to defuse the bomb and stop Goldfinger's invulnerable mute servant, OddJob.

The movie has a brilliant plot, a lot of great action and many cool characters. Sean Connery is at his best and has gotten Bond down to a real formula. A brilliant Bond classic.


THUNDERBALL
(Connery, 1965)
****
SPECTRE hijacks a NATO plane and steals two atomic missiles. Bond gets a clue as to the hijack and travels to Nassau to locate the missiles. There he meets the beautiful Domino, and a high-ranking agent of SPECTRE, Emilio Largo. The confrontation builds to a climatic battle on the ocean floor off the coast of Miami as Bond and his allies fight to save millions of innocent lives.

Following Goldfinger was no easy task, but Thunderball did it well. Connery is good as usual. A brilliant plot and good action. Largo was a cool villain. This one has always been known as the "underwater one", and sometimes the underwater scenes felt a bit overlong. The movie moves a bit slow at times, but it is a good Bond flick.


YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
(Connery, 1967)
****
Bond's death is faked in Hong Kong. Someone captures an American space ship and a Russian space ship while in orbit. They blame each other and a World War III will break out if Bond can't find them. He travels to Japan and co-operates with "Tiger", the head of Japan's Secret Service. Bond joins a ninja-clan, becomes Japanese and gets married. Bond discovers SPECTRE and Ernst Stavro Blofeld are responsible for the capturings.

A good action movie. The movie has some silliness also. Blofeld was cool. They showed his face for the first time. Donald Pleasence truly set the standard for others who would play Blofeld in future Bond movies. "Little Nellie" was a cool Bond gadget. This movie was to be Connery's last, so they packed everything into it. Lot of action, girls, exotic locations. Also, the only movie in which Bond drinks Vodka Martini "stirred, not shaken"!


ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
(Lazenby, 1969)
*****
Bond is again after Blofeld. He meets Tracy Draco, who's father is a crime boss. He will tell Bond the location of Blofeld, if Bond dates Tracy. Bond falls in love with Tracy. Bond discovers Blofeld has an allergy clinic up in the Alps where he is allegedly curing beautiful girls’ allergies. But actually, Blofeld is subliminally training the girls to deliver his deadly virus. Bond travels to Switzerland and thwarts Blofeld's evil plans again. He happily marries Tracy near the end of the movie, but Blofeld takes his revenge...

The plot is brilliant, moving, touching, exciting and action-packed. A lot of good action; the first Bondian ski chase, for example, is great! The final bobsled battle is another great scene. The theme music (which is playing during the ski chase) is cool. One-timer Bond George Lazenby isn't too bad. Telly Savalas as Blofeld is cool. Diana Rigg plays a perfect mate for Bond. The ending was sad and non-traditional for a Bond movie.


DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
(Connery, 1971)
***
Bond follows a smuggling chain and poses as Peter Franks. He meets another smuggler, Tiffany Case. After awhile, Bond discovers that it's Blofeld who is impersonating Willard Whyte. Blofeld needs lots of diamonds for his satellite which he will use to terrorize the world. Yes, Bond has to stop Blofeld again.

Connery was lured back for one more. The movie has more comical moments than the earlier Connery films. This movie's Blofeld, Charles Gray (who played Mr. Henderson in You Only Live Twice) wasn't as cool as Pleasence and Savalas. Blofeld’s colleagues Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd were ridiculous. Seemed like they were put into the movie for comic relief but they were mostly stupid - not very funny. Some people say the plot isn't realistic or the movie doesn't have much action, but it’s still a pretty good flick.


LIVE AND LET DIE
(Moore, 1973)
****
Three British agents have been killed. Bond is sent after Dr. Kananga. First he heads to New York's Harlem and meets Mr. Big - a drug/crime boss. He also meets fortune-teller Solitaire. Bond then travels to Caribbea and to Solitaire's house. Of course he makes love with her and she loses her powers. Bond discovers Dr. Kananga and Mr. Big are the same person. He ends up at Dr. Kananga's voodoo island, where Kananga has a heroin factory. Kananga's plan is to obtain a monopoly on the supply of heroin.

A good movie with all the voodoo stuff. Roger Moore brought a new, more comical look to Bond. Many good action scenes. The speedboat chase was long but cool. Sheriff J.W. Pepper was funny and worked well in the movie. The theme song by Paul McCartney & Wings is a classic. A great movie all around.


THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
(Moore, 1974)
**
Bond is after Fransisco Scaramanga, a world class hitman, who kills with a single golden bullet at a cost of one million dollars per hit. Scaramanga steels a Solex accelerator which he needs for harvesting solar power. Bond travels to Thailand, ends up at Scaramanga's island, and gets challenged by Scaramanga to a duel.

Not as good as Live and Let Die. The plot is very thin. They brought back Sheriff JW Pepper for a comic relief but that effort fell short. Scaramanga is probably the most kind of all Bond villains. Christopher Lee played Scaramanga well, but his character was more or less stupid. Tattoo from Fantasy Island played Nick Nack - Scaramanga's little henchman. Overall the movie was slow and boring.


THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
(Moore, 1977)
****
Someone captures two nuclear submarines, one Russian and one American. A mad megalomaniac Karl Stromberg wants to destroy two big cities and create a new underwater civilization. Bond is sent to recover the subs. He teams up with beautiful Russian Agent XXX.

By this one, Moore finally had his character down to a formula. A good plot and a lot of good action. Bond gets his Lotus Esprit submarine car. This is also the first movie which has a megalomaniac as the villain. Jaws was Stromberg’s monster sized henchman.


MOONRAKER
(Moore, 1979)
**
The American space shuttle Moonraker is stolen. Bond is sent to investigate and first goes to meet Hugo Drax, the maker of the Moonraker shuttles. He finds Drax is manufacturing nerve gas. Bond teams up with space technology expert and CIA agent Holly Goodhead. Bond learns Drax is the bad guy and is going to kill everyone on Earth with nerve gas and then repopulate the Earth with his super-race. Bond has to stop Drax at Drax's space station.

This one tried to cash with the success of Star Wars. The plot was very similar to The Spy Who Loved Me. Jaws was back but - yuck - he falls in love! Bond goes into space and fights the enemy with lasers. I’m glad Bond didn’t actually operate the space shuttle - they left that up to agent Goodhead. It seemed to make the movie a bit more realistic and acceptable.


FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
(Moore, 1981)
****
The spy ship St. Georges is sunk, along with Britain's top secret naval navigational decoding device, ATAC. The Russians want it. The British want it back. The British send a Greek marine biologist to get it. The Greek is killed before he gets the device. Bond is then sent to recover ATAC. He teams up with the marine biologist's daughter, Melina. Aris Kristatos (the villain) works for Russia, and is going to retrieve the ATAC for them. Bond teams up with Aristatos' arch nemesis Columbo and goes to recover ATAC.

The opening sequence was cool. Bond went to Tracy's grave and then finally stopped Blofeld. The movie includes some very good action. There is another great ski chase. Moore and the plot were both good. This was Bond's return to a lower key from outer space and megalomaniac villains.


OCTOPUSSY
(Moore, 1983)
***
009 is discovered dead in East Germany, dressed as a clown, holding a Faberge egg. Bond goes after Kamal Khan. Russian general Orlov is unhappy with NATO disarmament talks and decides to set off a nuclear device inside a US air base. The US would think it's one of their own, and not blame Russia. NATO would disarm their bombs, leaving them open for attack from Russia. Unfortunately, Orlov does not have his country's approval, so he seeks the aid of Prince Kamal Khan who tricks a jewelry smuggler, Octopussy. Octopussy believes they are smuggling only Russian jewels, when there is actually is a bomb being smuggled. She allows them to use her traveling circus as a cover. The circus is performing for GI's on a US air base. Bond has to defuse the bomb dressed as a clown.

The plot is pretty involved. I was really confused when I saw this movie for the first time. It wasn’t until nearly the end of the movie before I figured out what was going on. The movie has all the good Bond movie elements, it just has a confusing plot. It has some good scenes and a lot of good action, but some really boring moments, too. I actually fast-forwarded through boring parts and rewound during plot-building sequences. Had I been in a theater, I would have been bored, then lost, then bored, then lost, etc. Also, Moore was aging and simply looked tired.


NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
(Connery, 1983)
***
When Connery left Eon Productions, he brought the rights to Thunderball with him. In 1983, he wanted to do another Bond film and he had the means to do so. This time the studio was Warner Brothers. The movie has "Q", "M", Moneypenny and all other characters, but played by no-name actors. The movie is a re-make of Thunderball, so the plot is nearly the same: SPECTRE steals two nuclear missiles from NATO then blackmails. Bond is sent to Nassau to thwart Largo and sweetalk Domino.

The plot was watered down from the original and the special effects were non-too-special. Other than Sean, the actors were non-too-special either. It also is a re-make, so it isn't anything new. Anyway, it has Sean and lots of good action (the opening scene for example). It was great to have Connery back for one last Bond film. He was much older, but still had the charm that makes him James Bond.


A VIEW TO A KILL
(Moore, 1985)
**
Max Zorin, ex-KGB member and psychopath, is producing microchips capable of standing up to electro-magnetic pulse. Bond visits Zorin to investigate why his horse is so fast. Bond discovers the computer chips and steels one. Bond uncovers Zorin’s plan to destroy Silicon Valley so he would have a monopoly in the microchip industry.

The movie has it's good parts. A lot of action and explosions and a couple of cool scenes. The ending struggle on top of the Golden Gate Bridge was great. I’m a little afraid of heights so this scene nearly made me sick. Grace Jones and Tanya Roberts were not very good. Moore was also past his prime. Max Zorin was a cool character, but Christopher Walken didn’t do much for it. This movie has gotten a bad rap over years, but it's not too bad.


THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
(Dalton, 1987)
***
Bond aids the defection of a Russian general, Koskov, who is then recaptured by KGB. Before he was recaptured he told the British of a program run by another Russian general. The program is entitled "Spiert Spionom" ("Death to Spies"). After being recaptured, the British government sends Bond to kill the general. It turns out Koskov invented the whole story and faked his defection so that Bond would kill the other general. This was so that Koskov could keep his money to buy and sell opium.

The plot was pretty good, but very confusing. The movie contained some great action scenes. Bond got a new car, an Aston Martin Volante, with "some extras" of course. The ending battle was also fun to watch. Timothy Dalton, is a very serious version of Bond. Dalton was not well received by Bond fans as the change from Moore’s comic style to Dalton’s serious style was shocking.


LICENCE TO KILL
(Dalton, 1989)
****
CIA agent Felix Leiter gets married. Right before the wedding, he and Bond captured the international drug lord, Franz Sanchez. Sanchez escapes and takes his revenge on Felix. He feeds Felix's legs to a shark and rapes and kills his new wife. Bond argues with “M” and ends-up leaving Her Majesty's Secret Service to seek revenge for his best friend.

This is the most serious of all Bond films. It fit well with Timothy Dalton. The only thing I didn’t like was the idea that Bond was not a British agent in the film but rather an ex-British agent turned common citizen seeking revenge. The plot was strong however and Bond had a lot of help from “Q” throughout the movie. That was cool. This is a good action movie.


GOLDENEYE
(Brosnan, 1995)
****


TOMORROW NEVER DIES
(Brosnan, 1997)
****


 


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