The next one to watch is Goldfinger, then Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, License to Kill, Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, A Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and last but not least No Time to Die.
Concur. A must see for any film buff, and especially anyone that is a buff of American films. Top notch score, Oscar winning score for The Sting unless I'm mistaken.
@@rodneybray5827 Don't forget Sean Connery and Robert Shaw fought each other in another movie called ROBIN AND MARIAN (1976). Sean played Robin Hood and Shaw played the Sheriff of Notingham. Their fight turned out differently in that film. It's on DVD and blu-ray and no doubt is downloadable.
@@SpeedbirdConcordeOne I think he was referring to the intense hand to hand on the train between Grant and Bond, which was masterful. But then, I suppose you knew that and was just being smarty with that little tongue hanging out. 😁
@msudlp For me personally, I think one of the greatest fight scenes in movie history was the fight in the corner cafe when Morty beat up Freddie in the superbly suave movie "Layer Cake." It was raw, gritty, brutal, and very realistic. From the soundtrack and lone female cafe owner standing terrified in the corner to Morty walking away and Daniel Craig's character left dumbfounded at what just happened.
“Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes”
5:36 "This is so Doctor Evil!" Absolutely! With the exception of Honey Ryder's swimsuit on the coastline (and Dr. Evil's title), I don't remember anything the Austin Powers takes from Dr. No -- but you'll start recognizing lots of things here.
Dr. Who's clothes, the protective suit, and the radiation cleaning scene are also from Dr. Who. There're probably more, but these are what I've caught.
The first 4 Bond films were all shot rapidly on the heels of one another. 62, 63, 64, 65 release dates. It’s one of the reasons the tones are so similar and they work very well together as a series. They don’t get overwhelmingly silly for a few years.
I'd argue Goldfinger immediately gets silly, the first two films are fairly serious spy thrillers in their own right regardless of the Bond name cos the very early 60s was a fairly serious time (hangover from the 50s still) but by 64, Goldfinger is when it starts getting stupid cos by then Beatlemania, mini skirts and over the top excitement was coming into vogue and that film reflects that in contrast to the first two. It's alot more sensationalist and sets the pattern for the next three decades of what audiences thought of when they thought of Bond. The first two films often get totally forgotten as a result of Goldfinger which is a shame as Goldfinger might've been all glitz and glamour but it lost the serious spy tone of Fleming's original books which Dr No and From Russia with Love maintain.
Idk... they seem pretty silly, right out of the gate. A Chinese-German man with no hands with a secret base on a Jamaican Island guarded by a tank posing as a dragon... I love it, but I wouldn't call it a grounded spy thriller.
@@joshbedford4889that’s because it was the sixth book and Fleming was getting slightly tired of bond so he decided to end it ambiguously on whether bond died or survived in FRWL which was the fifth book. (the movies adapted the novels in non chronological order) so due to pressure from his publishers and complains from his readers, he wrote another but tonally speaking it’s incredibly different from the five previous books. I think from Dr no onwards it started to be slightly more cinematic and fantastical. The most obvious was thunderball which was literally conceived as a screenplay to BE a movie.
Rod Taylor turned down the role in which he regretted it He would have also been just as good as Connery it's sad Rod Taylor doesn't get the reginition he deserves
Fun reaction, Coby! I'm enjoying the younger generations reactions to the classic movies, which I saw when I was a kid. I'm hoping you stay the course and continue the Bond series in order, because next up is "Goldfinger". My favorite Sean Connery, James Bond film. And you'll notice in each Bond movie the practical effects get better and better, and the villains get more creative. Thanks for another awesome reaction, Coby, and I'm always looking forward to your next flick show! 🎥🍿❤️
Ian Flemming worked for British Intelligence during WWII, but he did not do field work. He was not well regarded for at least part of his tenure there. One of his operational plans was stolen and credit was given to someone else. Christopher Lee was a step-cousin of Ian Flemming, and they knew each other well. Christopher also worked for British Intelligence, but he also did field work. Then he became a Nazi hunter after the war. Then he passed up an opportunity to be an opera star to become an actor on stage and screen. Then he was cast as a Bond villain. There is a TV series entitled "Reilly: Ace of Spies" starring Sam Neill. It's a biography of Sydney Reilly, an actual British/Russian double agent during the time of the Bolsheviks. While Ian Flemming was still alive (long before the TV series was made), someone asked him about the similarity between Reilly and James Bond. He said something to the effect of: "Bond is just a bunch of nonsense that I made up. Reilly was REAL." This gets a strong recommendation. Pedro Armendáriz, who played Kerim Bey, was dying of cancer during filming. He died soon after it was completed. Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson took over Eon Productions after Albert Broccoli died. She's Albert's daughter, he's Albert's step-son. In the gypsy fight scene, the girls hated each other in real life. That chemistry added authenticity to the scene. As a fan of Robert Shaw, you MUST see "The Sting". It won multiple Oscars and is an excellent fit for Criminal Content.
Christopher Lee was attached to the Special Operations Executive, also known and the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Lee was Fleming's first choice to play Bond
4:27, the room that you marvelled at, was in actual fact a sound stage at Pinewood Studios in the UK. The room was lit from above. Everything above the pillars and columns was a matte painting. Nice to think that after all this time it still has the ability optically fool the viewer.
The woman playing Spector's, Rosa Glebb, is Lotte Lenya. She was a famous singer in Germany before WW2. She moved first to Paris then to New York after the Nazi's rise. Her husband, Kurt Weill, was a composer who wrote the song Mack the Knife. When Louis Armstrong first recorded it in English, she came to the studio. He changed a lyric to add her name to the song. If you listen to it in English now, you will hear Lotte Lenya.
@@StephenLuke She was also in the original production of "The Three Penny Opera" in Germany from which the song Mack the Knife is taken. She gets mentioned in Bobby Darin's version as well.
But he did visit the set of goldfinger as show in the photograph of Connery in his blue Terry cloth romper and him and Shirley Eaton (who played Jill masterson)
For me, it doesn’t get any better than this. The perfect spy thriller, based on the Ian Fleming novel. There are some great Bond films after From Russia With Love, but there’s a heightened sense of danger and a sense that this could be Bond’s last mission that you don’t get in any other film. The villain and the henchman are excellent too. I find there’s just enough comedy without going overboard.
I agree. This is my favorite Bond film next to Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace ( I know it gets short shrift but I like the low key Bond films the best).
Literary notes. 1) “From Russia” was JFK’s favorite book (and Lee Harvey Oswald’s.) 2) Shaw had an interesting career. He also played Henry VIII in “A Man for All Seasons” and Claudius in the BBC “Hamlet at Elsinore” with Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, and Donald Sutherland. In addition he was a writer - he wrote “The Man in the Glass Booth,” based on the Eichmann trial. 3) The rough draft of “Russia” was written by Len Deighton, author of “The IPCRESS File,” starring Michael Caine, and produced by the same Saltzman-Broccoli team as the Bond series. Let me repeat - you need to see that film as a contrast to the Bond films.
@DanielSchaefer Not just as a contrast to Bond but also as reference to Austin Powers Goldmember. As for the Craig movies, they were attempts to make Bond movies that weren't Bond movies...more like Bourne/Mission Impossible films. I only consider Casino Royale a Bond movie.
The knife in the shoe was used by the Joker some decades later in Batman The Dark Knight. The next Bond movie is the most important in the franchise. Bond became an icon in the pop culture in the 1960s and the third movie had a tremendous influence in the movies like Matt Helm (Dean Martin) and Derek Flint (James Coburn), and mainly in TV shows like I Spy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Maxwell Smart, The Wild Wild West (a Bond in the Old West) and Mission Impossible.
Great reaction Coby! Yes, Ian Fleming was a spy. He was in the British Naval Intelligence Division during WWII. He used some of his experiences to write the original Bond novels
@@davidhuggan6315 Not lost on me. But apparently you missed the times when Coby expressed some confusion, thinking that the opening credits had identified Robert Shaw as the one playing "M".
A bit of Mission Imposible beginning. Yes Ian Fleming was in MI6 during WWII, that is why bond is referred as naval office in the movies. Great Reaction.
Actually no he wasn’t that’s just a common misconception. He said he was in naval intelligence during the war not MI6 and after the war ended he became a journalist. He added many things of his experience in naval intelligence into the background of bond. So what bond likes and dislikes and characteristics is from Fleming himself. A lot of people including those who knew him think that bond is Fleming since he’s writing him so similar to himself. But Fleming repeatedly says that he isn’t. (I don’t know if it’s true or not but who knows) one thing is for sure, Fleming was a much more interesting person than people give him credit for.
Ian Fleming did work in Naval Intelligence, but not as a field agent: But, his work gave him an insider's understanding of the spy world during World War 2 + he met a number of actual spies. So, the 60's movies were based on novels that he wrote in the 1950's, which in turn, based on 1940's spies.
@@danielasuncion9991 British late war technical intelligence secret agents. Essentially their version of the American ALSOS mission, which led to Operation Paperclip. T Force was probably closer to spycraft than ALSOS, which was mostly there to loot Germany from one end to the other whereas T Force had a higher percentage of actual lethal agents, but again they were broadly similar to each other.
Ian Fleming organized some amazing espionage, disinfo, and commando operations during WW2 and the early days of the Cold War. Watch Operation Mincemeat which details one. But he also was behind many commando operations in WW2, including the one detailed in the recent Guy Ritchie movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. There is a lot of Fleming in Bond, especially both being Commanders in the Royal Navy, but there's also a lot of Henry Cavill's real-life character Gus March-Phillips in Bond and Brigadier Gubbins, nicknamed M, who of course is inspiration for M in the films. Also, Fleming's boss Rear Admiral John Godfrey in WW2 was also inspiration for Bond's superior M.
The coffee tray could well have had full cups on it; it's a special design. Notice how the waiter held it: with one finger under a nub at the apex of the handle. The tray is free to swing right-left and front-back. This way, any liquid in the cups will never feel any acceleration except straight up-down (toward the finger). Thus, the cups can never slosh over, as that needs side-side acceleration. It does require a bit of training to use, but it's a neat party trick to spin the tray through a complete 360.
Here we are with the second James Bond film From Russia with Love and it's a good one , by the third one is usually where Bond really comes into his own but that's not to say he doesn't display his suave style here , he does indeed . Awesome job Coby you have a great way of reacting to these films and yes that is The great Robert Shaw as Grant the blond assassin . i 'm so looking forward to Gold ☝ See you then CHEERS . 😀
2:58 - Ian Fleming worked a mainly desk job for Naval Intelligence during WW2. He was in charge of mission planning for a specialist team of secret commandos (special forces) called 30 Assault Unit. He learned all about the top secret intelligence and missions during the war and shortly afterwards, including the KGB and Russian secrets in the early cold war. He used to fantasize about actually going on missions himself, which he never could do, but he did occasionally travel with his work. He based the character of James Bond on various spies and commandos he met during this time, combined of course with chunks of himself and a healthy dose of fantasy. The British government had to filter his books to redact various details under the official secrets act. One better known example was the Russian intelligence meeting scene in the novel From Russia With Love which still contains some genuine details of KGB headquarters and officials etc, but many had to be removed. Another tidbit was that Fleming named his Jamaican house, "Goldeneye" after "Operation Goldeneye" which was a real top secret WW2 naval operation. The later movie and it's famous video game were named after this also.
It's funny you mentioned Tippi Hedren and The Birds. Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren actually starred opposite each other in another Alfred Hitchcock movie called Marnie.
Coby is a fantastic reactor. Enthusiasm, expressiveness and intelligence are a great combination. And of course, despite this being a somewhat serious, still primarily espionage-y, film these Bond films are just going to get sillier and more spectacular as we go - so the reactions should be equally as fun. I hope she sticks it out until my personal favourite - For Your Eyes Only. But well before that there's a classic to come next....
A bit of trivia for you, Ian Fleming got the name James Bond from the Author of a book that he picked up called (Birds of the Caribbean,) as for the character of Bond he was partly based on someone he knew who worked for British intelligence during the second world war as well as partly on his own time working for British intelligence.
The man Fleming supposedly based it on was Christopher Lee, ex-spy turned actor who famously told Peter Jackson (regarding Lee's perfomance as Saruman) something to the effect of "Don't you tell me what it sounds like to be stabbed in the back..." 😱
- Fleming was in British Intelliugence in WWII, and there have been a couple of made-for-TV movies about his life then. Bond was not based on him, although there were aspects of Fleming's personality in Bond. However, there was someone very famous who was even more of a template for Bond, Ian Fleming's cousin by marriage, Sir Christopher Lee (aka Saruman the White and Count Dooku). They were both in Intelligence, and Lee's missions are still so top secret that no one really knows what he did specifically during and just after the war. The funny thing was, he tried to get an audition for Bond, but was turned down...but, he did play a Bond villain, Francisco Scaramanga aka The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) opposite Roger Moore as 007. - In the main credits, It had Robert Shaw over Bernard Lee (who plays M for a majority of the Bond films). Robert Shaw was Irish, and besides being an actor, was a novelist. It was so cool seeing you figure out that Robert Shaw was playing Red Grant. Some other Shaw films to check out: The Sting with Robert Redford and Paul Newman, and A Man For All Season which earned him a nomination as Best Supporting Actor playing King Henry VIII. - Cast members to keep track of Bernard Lee (M), Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny), Desmond Llewellyn (Q, the armorer), and Walter Gotell. Gotell makes his first appearance in a Bond movie here, but in the 1970s returns to the films in a different role, General Gogol, head of the KGB. In this film, he was the one who timed the death of "Bond" in the beginning. Lee played M until he died in 1981 before filming For Your Eyes Only. Lois Maxwell played Miss Moneypenny until 1985 ending her time in her role as Roger Moore ended his run as 007 in A View To A Kill. Desmond Llewellyn played Q until 1999's The World Is Not Enough with Pierce Brosnan as 007, passing the baton to John Cleese (of Monty Python for two films), and getting a lovely send-off scene. He died shortly after the film released. - Barbara Broccolli is the daughter of Albert R. "Cubby" Broccolli, and Michael G. Wilson, her partner in producing the Bond films, is her step-brother. Michael sometimes shows up in the Brosnan and Craig Bond films in small roles, Barbara doesn't.
Great reaction coby the next ones with sean connery are goldfinger and thunderball u will love them glad ur becoming a bond fan like the rest of us take care stay safe ❤❤❤
I genuinely don’t think the franchise would have taken off the way it did if it hadn’t been Connery first in the role. Also this is a great film even if you don’t look at it as being part of the Bond franchise. Like it would make a great stand alone Cold War spy film. So good.
Glad you enjoyed it. The first four Bond films, Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball (and the 6th film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) stick very closely to their respective novels, but From Russia and On Her Majesty’s are probably even closer. The only difference in this film is that they introduced SPECTRE as the main bad guys because the Bond producers didn’t want to portray the Russians as out and out villains (as they were in the novel). You are correct about Ian Fleming. He worked for what would eventually become the British Secret Service, during World War II so was heavily involved in espionage against the Germans. Some of the things he saw (like a card game against some Germans in Estoril during the war) made its way into his first novel, Casino Royale. If you read the novels there’s a lot of information Fleming gives about the day to day workings in the British Secret Service - information so detailed that one can only think Fleming had first hand knowledge of. You’re also correct that the blond assassin Grant was in fact Robert Shaw who, twelve years later, would play Quint in Jaws. Shaw was Irish (though spoke with an English accent) but put on a fake American accent in Jaws. Funnily enough, one year later, after Jaws (in 1976) Connery and Shaw would play opposite each other again in the film Robin and Marion. Connery played an ageing Robin Hood and Audrey Hepburn played an ageing Maid Marion. Shaw played Robin Hood’s nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham and yes, they do have a fight at the end! If you’ve never seen it, I urge you to watch it as it’s a lovely romantic love story and all the cast are so good in their roles. I don’t know if you saw it, but it wasn’t the knife that killed Grant on board the train. When the knife was plunged into his arm, Grant let go of his watch garrotte and that gave Bond time to wrap the garrotte round Grant’s neck and strangle him instead. Did you notice the call back to North by Northwest where Cary Grant was chased by the crop duster? Here it’s kinda replicated with the SPECTRE helicopter chasing Bond over the hills in a pastiche of that Hitchcock film. The end scene in the Venice hotel room is very similar to the last few pages of the novel. In the novel (as in the film) Rosa Klebb (Tania’s boss) tries to kill Bond in a Paris hotel room by trying to stab him in one of his shins with her poisonous shoe blade. Bond tries to get his Beretta out of the shoulder holster he is wearing, but it gets stuck and he can’t get it out. Then the authorities led by Bond’s French friend, Mathis, arrive to take Klebb away but before that happens she manages to stab Bond in the shin with her poisonous shoe blade. The irony in that moment is that Bond has thwarted everything the Russians had thrown at him in the novel, including Grant, only for him to be nearly undone at the end by an old woman who kicks him with her foot blade, and she’s led away, believing she has killed their greatest enemy, James Bond. The novel ends with the poison taking hold of Bond and he crashes to the floor, presumably dead. From Russia with Love was the 5th Bond novel and it’s believed that Fleming ended the book with Bond’s apparent death because he had run out of ideas for more Bond novels, and because he was getting tired of writing Bond. However, the following year, Fleming wrote Dr. No and at the beginning of it Fleming lets the reader know that Bond’s life was saved by Mathis giving him mouth to mouth until a medical team arrived and then getting him to the hospital quickly to save his life. When Bond meets M again, his boss orders Bond to ditch the Beretta (which stuck in his holster) and have it replaced with the Walther PPK (this sequence was put into the film version of Dr. No, when M says about the Beretta “it jammed on your last job and you spent six months in hospital”) which references the From Russia with Love novel, even though that film hadn’t been made yet. I was surprised you rated Dr. No about Russia as I think most Bond fans would say the opposite. It’s probably the last true realistic Bond spy film (though On Her Majesty’s Secret Service comes a close second) but it’s not until the next film, Goldfinger, where the ‘Bond formula’ comes into its own and becomes the blueprint for all future Bond films. Can’t wait for you to watch that as it’s my favourite Bond film and I’d be interested in your take on it.
@@josebartoli9921that’s why I omitted You Only Live Twice from the first six films in the series, because it doesn’t stick closely to the novel. It does keep some elements from the novel, such as the setting, Tanaka, Kissy (though she’s not named in the film), Blofeld and there’s a nod to the Garden of Death with Blofeld’s Piranha pool, but it disposed of the revenge factor (the main factor in the last third of the novel) because OHMSS hadn’t been filmed yet. That’s why it was ridiculous to film YOLT before OHMSS because the whole point of OHMSS the novel was that Bond and Blofeld had never met, so Bond had to prove that this so called Count was Blofeld, by meeting him and drawing out from him his real name by going through his family tree. You see nothing like that in the film, and if Bond and Blofeld had been characters in real life, they would have instantly recognised each other from the previous film, YOLT. I suppose some fans would say that Blofeld in OHMSS the film had had plastic surgery to remove his facial scar, so Bond wouldn’t recognise him, but Bond hadn’t changed, so what was stopping Blofeld from killing Bond the moment they met? Would giving Bond a set of glasses and a plummy voice really stop Blofeld from recognising Bond? I’m sure had Fleming lived he would have pointed out to the producers all these facts and we would have got Connery starring in OHMSS in 1967.
@Coby, Sean Connery tossing his hat onto the coat rack in Moneypenny's office was such a common gag as the movies progressed that Daniel Craig did an homage to it in his last Bond movie by tossing his guest badge in her wastebasket w/o looking.
I grew up with this Bond and Colby the movie you need to see is "You Only Live Twice" Dr Evil is fashioned after Blofeld the Bond villan in this movie( as well as his volcano lair)Enjoy your journey with Bond.
Even back in the 60s, Bond was being saved by his girlfriends. Izabella Scorupco - the Bond girl of “GoldenEye” - was correct when she said “Bond girls have always been strong.”
The Bond movies are classic. I love Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice. Shaw was also good in Force 10 from Navarone with Harrison Ford, Carl Weathers, actor Richard Kiel who played the henchman, Jaws in Moonraker.
Original writer Ian Fleming worked for British intelligence during WW2 but the stories are mostly just stories based on other spies and specialized soldiers he met . Still his original writings from mostly the 1950s form a bit of “canon” for the later 007 James Bond films. He also developed a love for Jamaica and used some of its places in the novels which then feature in the films over the decade La (“Goldeneye” was his postwar home in Jamaica but also the first Brosnan 007 film.. fwiw .. 10 yrs after Fleming’s death reggae star Bob Marley owned the home for a year, .. which is now a resort with “James Bond beach” next to it).
When I noticed Coby misreading the opening credits I had no idea it would lead to such delightful confusion about Robert Shaw's assassin character. Shaw is one of my favorite old actors, especially in Jaws, The Sting, and A Man for All Seasons.
12:38 In Casino Royale he flies to the Bahamas. You can see him exiting the plane with other passengers. In Quantum of Solace there's actually a scene during the flight when he's having drinks at the bar and talking with Mathis. Also, later in the movie Bond and Camille "borrow" that older plane and get attacked in the air by another plane. Obviously that last one wasn't a commercial flight. Also not flying commercial, when he again "borrows" a plane in Spectre to attack the villains in their SUV. (In the Alps) ;)
In the novel, Fleming wrote the Red Grant character almost as if he were writing about a serial killer. Very dangerous and twisted individual. Robert Shaw was great in this.
Robert shaw the actor his dangerous enemy in this movie was the fisherman in Jaws, he's also in a pretty good movie called The Deep with Nick Nolte, Jaqueline Bisset and Lou Gossett Jr / John Le Carre was a real spy
Still my all time favorite. More story driven rather than gadgets and novelties. Even the Bond girl was lesser role than we came to know. And the fight on the train was a classic.
@@criminalcontent Great Reaction. On the Cast page,I heard you say "Robert Shaw as "M" " LOL It said "Robert Sgaw and immediately underneath " Bernard Lee as "M" " :) He was the Guy who killed that Man in the spy camp in the opening scene and was being massaged with Colonel Klevbb arrived.
Great job, Coby, you were very sharp on all the nuances, fashion, espionage & intrigue. Very nice, very fun watching with you. Bond killed blondie with his own strangle wire from blondie’s watch. Glad you are liking these 60s Connery movies. Keep watching, please. Goldfinger is next.👍🏻💕
The 2 fighting girls, did not use stunt doubles. The actor who played Kerim Bey., the father of all those sons, was in real life DYING of cancer while filming From Russia With Love! He made the movie while in great pain. He did it so his family would be ok financial after he died. He committed suicide in Los Angeles at the hospital, at age 51. He shot himself in the chest. It was just 4 months before the film was released, in 1963. He was of Mexican descent and had a good career in movies in America, Mexico, and Europe. This is really one of my all time favorite Bond films.
Very sad. You'd never have known how ill he was, based on his appearance and performance in the role; much like Chadwick Bozeman. He is very likeable and charismatic, just like the character in the book. His son had a small role in Licence to Kill.
Robert Shaw was also a World War II veteran , served in Royal Marine Commandos. He kept his fitness afterwards. He was also Quint the Shark hunter in Jaws
Also, you can see Sean Connery fight Robert Shaw again in Robin & Marion with Sean as a middle-aged Robin Hood and Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham! Plus Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marion.
Fleming worked for Naval Intelligence during WW2. He was involved in planning and was privy to too many secrets to risk being captured in the field. He later used his experiences to write what he described as the"spy novel to end all spy novels" which turned out to be "Casino Royale". While Dr.No was a hit around the world, Bond didn't hit it big in the US until President Kennedy mentioned that From Russia With Love was one of his favorite books. Interest in the US began to build and culminated with Goldfinger being a huge box office hit and Thunderball being an even bigger hit. BTW, that scene between Bond and Tatiana in the bridal suite has been used to screen test potential new Bond actors for decades. Some of those screen tests are on RUclips. Including one with Sam Neill from Jurassic Park.
I have a soft spot for Diamonds Are Forever. Not because it's a superior film, but because I go to Vegas a bit due to my wife's work and I always connect with the city and the movie. We did in fact just go into Circus Circus where you can still find the exact water ballon game which was out of order when we were there last week. And I was recalling how I had chanced on the wacky wavy mirror just sitting against the wall in '97 which there was a long time (about 2016 I think) before I made it back to Vegas and I've not seen the mirror since. Though I always look for it when I stop in Circus Circus which isn't every time.
Nice reaction. I like the way Coby references things from other movies, e.g. Tipi Hedron in The Birds, Robert Shaw in Jaws, and #1 and #3 and the cat in Austin Powers.
There's a fan-theory/"legend" that in the scene where one of Kerim Bey's sons is waiting for his father, Bond and Tatiana to get off they train, and they don't, as the train rushes by you briefly see a man in a white sweater standing by the railroad track -- that's Ian Fleming. Fleming was on the set and figure in the white sweater does appear to be Fleming's height and build.
Some great performances. Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb - a great actress and singer, also the wife of the composer, Kurt Weill. The amazing Robert Shaw as Donald 'Red' Grant - surely the best Bond henchman of any Bond film. That marvellous character actor, Vladek Sheybal, as the rather full of himself, Kronstein. In a way, the first true Bond film, with amazing Ken Adam sets and the spectacle (or Spectre-cal) we've come to expect is in the next film, Goldfinger, but this is my favourite as it has elements of being an espionage thriller, not just an action film. Ian Fleming was in British naval intelligence during the war. An interesting fact about the origins of the character of Bond, based partly on Fleming, is that the actor, Christopher Lee, served in British intelligence during the war. Never really talked about it, but knew Ian Fleming, so it's possible that Fleming may have been partially influenced by Lee's exploits. Lee went on to play the Bond villain, Scaramanga, in The Man with the Golden Gun. Fleming's side arm was a Beretta, as dismissively dealt with in Dr. No by the armourer, who suggests that the Beretta is a nasty weapon, "… in a lady's handbag". That scene is based on a gun specialist, Geoffrey Boothroyd, who wrote to Fleming suggesting that Bond should not have such a 'weak' side arm. Desmond Llewellyn's character 'Q', first seen in From Russia with Love', sports the full character name, 'Major Boothroyd', as a nod to Geoffrey Boothroyd, Fleming's advisor on all matters ballistic. Boothroyd suggested instead, that Bond should have a .38 calibre revolver. The famous Walther PPK was a compromise, even though, it never had a "delivery like a brick through a plate glass window", certainly not in its original 7.65mm calibre. Ian Fleming wore a Rolex watch too, something he passed on to Bond who sports a 'Rolex Oyster' watch, exact model never confirmed, in the novels. Connery's Bond, and Roger Moore's in his first two outings, is usually seen with a Rolex Submariner, in keeping with his background as a naval commander.
During WWII, Ian Fleming trained at the top secret spy training school, Camp-X. The school was located east of Toronto, Canada, near Oshawa. Five future heads of the CIA trained there, as well ex-pats from German occupied European countries. It was a premier training camp, first of its kind, for "black ops". It's existence was kept secret up until the 90's. It was at that point both my father (1st Canadian Airborne) and his brother (Canadian/British Navy), admitted to the family they had both done training at the camp. While growing up, both of them took us kids to see the new Bond films when they came out.
38:00. No, it wasn’t the knife Coby. Bond hit Grant in the arm with the knife to incapacitate him. Bond got control of the garrote wire that came out of Grant’s watch and wrapped it around his neck instead and strangled him to death with it. Hard to catch in the train since it was dark.
I was a senior in H.S. in 1964 when "Goldfinger " was released with a lot of publicity from the studio due to the reaction to "Dr. No" & "From Russia With Love". In the 60's going to the movies was a typical date. The increase in budget for each subsequent movie is very obvious. It was such a hit that they doubled down with the release of "Thunderball" (1965). A co-worker from Miami had worked as a "extra scuba diver" in the underwater battle scenes. Those of us who missed 'Dr. No" & "From Russia With Love" when originally released had a good excuse to catch them at the drive-in!
Make a note: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, and Thunderball, the earliest Bond movies, came along BEFORE the onslaught of feminism, birth control pills, and legal abortions, and they adhered to the social norms of the 1950's where author Ian Flemming's world of spies and espionage really existed and was a subject he knew plenty about. So in these films, Bond is a more hardened, ruthless, and masculine character more like he was depicted in the novels rather than what he was depicted in the later movies. These are why the Connery movies are by far the most popular, because Bond is a masculine Bond in these earliest movies, and the scripts do not suck up to feminism. And make another note, Connery was a man's man in these movies, not just good looking but naturally athletic. Both men and women loved Bond's character. One of the reasons is that Bond was normally a refined man, but could instantly fight and even kill in a split-second, a characteristic 99% of men do not actually have.
Mike Myers, creator of Austin Powers, has said that his parody of 007 has to be seen through two other 60s film series that were Bond parodies. Those are the two Flint movies starring James Coburn; and the Matt Helm movies starring Dean Martin. If you ever need a 60s fix those are fun films. The guy who played the western intelligence chief in Istanbul is Pedro Armenderez. He was dying of cancer and legendary film director John Ford called in favors with the Bond film makers to get him the part. He needed a good payday for his family. He died shortly after release of this film.
Coby + Connery -- Round 2 ;)
A young Quint from Jaws
Since you like the chess moves, have you seen The Queens Gambit mini series?
The next one to watch is Goldfinger, then Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, License to Kill, Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, A Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and last but not least No Time to Die.
@@HH-hd7nd You left out Never Say Never Again...Connerys return to the role and final appearance as Bond
I think that the young Bond, or young Connery, for that matter, would have found you very charming.
Robert Shaw is GREAT in The Sting as an Irish Mob Boss. Plus it has Paul Newman and Robert Redford. And a fantastic story.
Concur. A must see for any film buff, and especially anyone that is a buff of American films. Top notch score, Oscar winning score for The Sting unless I'm mistaken.
@@rodneybray5827 Don't forget Sean Connery and Robert Shaw fought each other in another movie called ROBIN AND MARIAN (1976). Sean played Robin Hood and Shaw played the Sheriff of Notingham. Their fight turned out differently in that film. It's on DVD and blu-ray and no doubt is downloadable.
A masterpiece!
From "Russia with Love" has one of the greatest fight scenes in movie history.
Yep. Those Gypsies are feisty. 😛
@@SpeedbirdConcordeOne I think he was referring to the intense hand to hand on the train between Grant and Bond, which was masterful. But then, I suppose you knew that and was just being smarty with that little tongue hanging out. 😁
True, then one of them thought it was more relaxing to fish for sharks. Because he also had problems with him in Sherwood.
and the greatest Theme tune but we, barely,heard it hear...
@msudlp
For me personally, I think one of the greatest fight scenes in movie history was the fight in the corner cafe when Morty beat up Freddie in the superbly suave movie
"Layer Cake."
It was raw, gritty, brutal, and very realistic. From the soundtrack and lone female cafe owner standing terrified in the corner to Morty walking away and Daniel Craig's character left dumbfounded at what just happened.
Can't wait to see Coby's reaction when Honor Blackmon announces her character name in Goldfinger. 😁
Yeah my favourite sean connery bond. Movie
And if she connects the Austin Powers joke
"My name is Minge Mania"
Galore!😮
And the man talk smack
“Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes”
One of the greatest monologues in movie history.
That’s from Jaws written by the late Robert Shaw himself specifically for that very scene. Very effective
@@zulby09Well he wrote one of the many drafts at least.
yes that’s Jaws Robert Shaw. Station Y is Yugoslavia.
Here lies the body of Mary Lee. She lived to the age of 103. For 15 years she kept her virginity. Which weren’t a bad record for this vicinity.
5:36 "This is so Doctor Evil!" Absolutely! With the exception of Honey Ryder's swimsuit on the coastline (and Dr. Evil's title), I don't remember anything the Austin Powers takes from Dr. No -- but you'll start recognizing lots of things here.
Dr. Who's clothes, the protective suit, and the radiation cleaning scene are also from Dr. Who. There're probably more, but these are what I've caught.
Dr. Evil wears the same clear plastic helmet as Dr. No. does at the end of the movie when they are trying to topple the rocket.
The first 4 Bond films were all shot rapidly on the heels of one another. 62, 63, 64, 65 release dates. It’s one of the reasons the tones are so similar and they work very well together as a series. They don’t get overwhelmingly silly for a few years.
I'd argue Goldfinger immediately gets silly, the first two films are fairly serious spy thrillers in their own right regardless of the Bond name cos the very early 60s was a fairly serious time (hangover from the 50s still) but by 64, Goldfinger is when it starts getting stupid cos by then Beatlemania, mini skirts and over the top excitement was coming into vogue and that film reflects that in contrast to the first two. It's alot more sensationalist and sets the pattern for the next three decades of what audiences thought of when they thought of Bond. The first two films often get totally forgotten as a result of Goldfinger which is a shame as Goldfinger might've been all glitz and glamour but it lost the serious spy tone of Fleming's original books which Dr No and From Russia with Love maintain.
They were also all shot by Oscar winning cinematographer Ted Moore. They are some of the best looking films in the series.
Idk... they seem pretty silly, right out of the gate. A Chinese-German man with no hands with a secret base on a Jamaican Island guarded by a tank posing as a dragon... I love it, but I wouldn't call it a grounded spy thriller.
@@joshbedford4889that’s because it was the sixth book and Fleming was getting slightly tired of bond so he decided to end it ambiguously on whether bond died or survived in FRWL which was the fifth book. (the movies adapted the novels in non chronological order) so due to pressure from his publishers and complains from his readers, he wrote another but tonally speaking it’s incredibly different from the five previous books. I think from Dr no onwards it started to be slightly more cinematic and fantastical. The most obvious was thunderball which was literally conceived as a screenplay to BE a movie.
Rod Taylor turned down the role in which he regretted it
He would have also been just as good as Connery it's sad Rod Taylor doesn't get the reginition he deserves
Fun reaction, Coby! I'm enjoying the younger generations reactions to the classic movies, which I saw when I was a kid. I'm hoping you stay the course and continue the Bond series in order, because next up is "Goldfinger". My favorite Sean Connery, James Bond film. And you'll notice in each Bond movie the practical effects get better and better, and the villains get more creative. Thanks for another awesome reaction, Coby, and I'm always looking forward to your next flick show! 🎥🍿❤️
Ian Flemming worked for British Intelligence during WWII, but he did not do field work. He was not well regarded for at least part of his tenure there. One of his operational plans was stolen and credit was given to someone else.
Christopher Lee was a step-cousin of Ian Flemming, and they knew each other well. Christopher also worked for British Intelligence, but he also did field work. Then he became a Nazi hunter after the war. Then he passed up an opportunity to be an opera star to become an actor on stage and screen. Then he was cast as a Bond villain.
There is a TV series entitled "Reilly: Ace of Spies" starring Sam Neill. It's a biography of Sydney Reilly, an actual British/Russian double agent during the time of the Bolsheviks. While Ian Flemming was still alive (long before the TV series was made), someone asked him about the similarity between Reilly and James Bond. He said something to the effect of: "Bond is just a bunch of nonsense that I made up. Reilly was REAL." This gets a strong recommendation.
Pedro Armendáriz, who played Kerim Bey, was dying of cancer during filming. He died soon after it was completed.
Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson took over Eon Productions after Albert Broccoli died. She's Albert's daughter, he's Albert's step-son.
In the gypsy fight scene, the girls hated each other in real life. That chemistry added authenticity to the scene.
As a fan of Robert Shaw, you MUST see "The Sting". It won multiple Oscars and is an excellent fit for Criminal Content.
Christopher Lee was attached to the Special Operations Executive, also known and the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Lee was Fleming's first choice to play Bond
Probably one of the best 007 moives.
Arguably 😊
If not *the* greatest! This was my boyhood favorite, and I was born in 1994! Even today, only Casino Royale has surpassed it for me.
I disagree
The spy who loved me
Was better
This was the first appearance by Desmond Llewelyn as Q - he would stay in the role through Pierce Brosnan's penultimate film.
4:27, the room that you marvelled at, was in actual fact a sound stage at Pinewood Studios in the UK. The room was lit from above. Everything above the pillars and columns was a matte painting. Nice to think that after all this time it still has the ability optically fool the viewer.
The woman playing Spector's, Rosa Glebb, is Lotte Lenya. She was a famous singer in Germany before WW2. She moved first to Paris then to New York after the Nazi's rise. Her husband, Kurt Weill, was a composer who wrote the song Mack the Knife. When Louis Armstrong first recorded it in English, she came to the studio. He changed a lyric to add her name to the song. If you listen to it in English now, you will hear Lotte Lenya.
She’s from Austria. 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹
@@StephenLuke She was also in the original production of "The Three Penny Opera" in Germany from which the song Mack the Knife is taken. She gets mentioned in Bobby Darin's version as well.
Coby has great eyes, and a pretty smile. This is one of my favorite Bond films.
I didn't like it
It said Robert Shaw, and Bernard Lee as 'M'. Yes it's THAT Robert Shaw.
"Russian clocks are always correct." Boom! The literal bang on time joke. Roger Moore will redo this in Moonraker but say the line as well.
Also this is the the last bond movie Ian Fleming saw before his passing.
Unless I'm mistaken, he had a cameo in this. Wasn't he standing by the train tracks in a passing shot?
@@rodneybray5827 Popular belief, but not true. Fleming didn´t have a cameo here.
But he did visit the set of goldfinger as show in the photograph of Connery in his blue Terry cloth romper and him and Shirley Eaton (who played Jill masterson)
Brilliant. One of my fav bond films..
Continue with Goldfinger and Thundeball. You will be amazed
Thanks for all the Bond films. I hope that you'll watch all of them
Agreed
For me, it doesn’t get any better than this. The perfect spy thriller, based on the Ian Fleming novel. There are some great Bond films after From Russia With Love, but there’s a heightened sense of danger and a sense that this could be Bond’s last mission that you don’t get in any other film. The villain and the henchman are excellent too. I find there’s just enough comedy without going overboard.
I agree. This is my favorite Bond film next to Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace ( I know it gets short shrift but I like the low key Bond films the best).
2:13 Just one year (Dr. No is from 1962, From Russia with Love is from 1963 and the next one, Goldfinger, is from 1964).
32:10 What you saw was Robert Shaw and then below it said Bernard Lee as "M"
Literary notes. 1) “From Russia” was JFK’s favorite book (and Lee Harvey Oswald’s.) 2) Shaw had an interesting career. He also played Henry VIII in “A Man for All Seasons” and Claudius in the BBC “Hamlet at Elsinore” with Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, and Donald Sutherland. In addition he was a writer - he wrote “The Man in the Glass Booth,” based on the Eichmann trial. 3) The rough draft of “Russia” was written by Len Deighton, author of “The IPCRESS File,” starring Michael Caine, and produced by the same Saltzman-Broccoli team as the Bond series. Let me repeat - you need to see that film as a contrast to the Bond films.
@DanielSchaefer Not just as a contrast to Bond but also as reference to Austin Powers Goldmember. As for the Craig movies, they were attempts to make Bond movies that weren't Bond movies...more like Bourne/Mission Impossible films. I only consider Casino Royale a Bond movie.
IPCRESS File is amazing!
The knife in the shoe was used by the Joker some decades later in Batman The Dark Knight.
The next Bond movie is the most important in the franchise. Bond became an icon in the pop culture in the 1960s and the third movie had a tremendous influence in the movies like Matt Helm (Dean Martin) and Derek Flint (James Coburn), and mainly in TV shows like I Spy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Maxwell Smart, The Wild Wild West (a Bond in the Old West) and Mission Impossible.
The knife in the shoe has been in many things over the years.
Great reaction Coby!
Yes, Ian Fleming was a spy. He was in the British Naval Intelligence Division during WWII. He used some of his experiences to write the original Bond novels
Robert Shaw was a hell of an actor--- and he was also a successful playwright. Big time talent.
31:26 Such a great reaction when Coby finally clocked it was Robert Shaw, leaning forward in her chair, squinty eyed 😂👍
The credit you saw read:
with
Robert Shaw
Bernard Lee as "M"
Every Bond movie states who plays M in the opening credits with words "as M"
@@davidhuggan6315 Not lost on me. But apparently you missed the times when Coby expressed some confusion, thinking that the opening credits had identified Robert Shaw as the one playing "M".
@@BouillaBased No, I was just making a comment
A bit of Mission Imposible beginning. Yes Ian Fleming was in MI6 during WWII, that is why bond is referred as naval office in the movies. Great Reaction.
Actually no he wasn’t that’s just a common misconception. He said he was in naval intelligence during the war not MI6 and after the war ended he became a journalist. He added many things of his experience in naval intelligence into the background of bond. So what bond likes and dislikes and characteristics is from Fleming himself. A lot of people including those who knew him think that bond is Fleming since he’s writing him so similar to himself. But Fleming repeatedly says that he isn’t. (I don’t know if it’s true or not but who knows) one thing is for sure, Fleming was a much more interesting person than people give him credit for.
Ian Fleming did work in Naval Intelligence, but not as a field agent:
But, his work gave him an insider's understanding of the spy world during World War 2 + he met a number of actual spies.
So, the 60's movies were based on novels that he wrote in the 1950's, which in turn, based on 1940's spies.
Fleming was also a member of the "Target Force" or "T-Force".
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What was that?
@@danielasuncion9991 British late war technical intelligence secret agents. Essentially their version of the American ALSOS mission, which led to Operation Paperclip. T Force was probably closer to spycraft than ALSOS, which was mostly there to loot Germany from one end to the other whereas T Force had a higher percentage of actual lethal agents, but again they were broadly similar to each other.
Ian Fleming organized some amazing espionage, disinfo, and commando operations during WW2 and the early days of the Cold War. Watch Operation Mincemeat which details one. But he also was behind many commando operations in WW2, including the one detailed in the recent Guy Ritchie movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. There is a lot of Fleming in Bond, especially both being Commanders in the Royal Navy, but there's also a lot of Henry Cavill's real-life character Gus March-Phillips in Bond and Brigadier Gubbins, nicknamed M, who of course is inspiration for M in the films. Also, Fleming's boss Rear Admiral John Godfrey in WW2 was also inspiration for Bond's superior M.
Fleming also worked during the war with Roald Dahl and Christopher Lee.
The coffee tray could well have had full cups on it; it's a special design. Notice how the waiter held it: with one finger under a nub at the apex of the handle. The tray is free to swing right-left and front-back. This way, any liquid in the cups will never feel any acceleration except straight up-down (toward the finger). Thus, the cups can never slosh over, as that needs side-side acceleration. It does require a bit of training to use, but it's a neat party trick to spin the tray through a complete 360.
My favorite James Bond movie of all time.
The book was president John ,F Kennedy,s favourite, partly while they made it after DR No
Here we are with the second James Bond film From Russia with Love and it's a good one , by the third one is usually where Bond really comes into his own but that's not to say he doesn't display his suave style here , he does indeed .
Awesome job Coby you have a great way of reacting to these films and yes that is The great Robert Shaw as Grant the blond assassin .
i 'm so looking forward to Gold ☝
See you then
CHEERS . 😀
2:58 - Ian Fleming worked a mainly desk job for Naval Intelligence during WW2. He was in charge of mission planning for a specialist team of secret commandos (special forces) called 30 Assault Unit. He learned all about the top secret intelligence and missions during the war and shortly afterwards, including the KGB and Russian secrets in the early cold war. He used to fantasize about actually going on missions himself, which he never could do, but he did occasionally travel with his work. He based the character of James Bond on various spies and commandos he met during this time, combined of course with chunks of himself and a healthy dose of fantasy.
The British government had to filter his books to redact various details under the official secrets act. One better known example was the Russian intelligence meeting scene in the novel From Russia With Love which still contains some genuine details of KGB headquarters and officials etc, but many had to be removed. Another tidbit was that Fleming named his Jamaican house, "Goldeneye" after "Operation Goldeneye" which was a real top secret WW2 naval operation. The later movie and it's famous video game were named after this also.
It's funny you mentioned Tippi Hedren and The Birds. Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren actually starred opposite each other in another Alfred Hitchcock movie called Marnie.
on the list of things to watch !
Very hard and controversial movie these days. R*p* and animal death on film before the law came into place.
Coby is a fantastic reactor. Enthusiasm, expressiveness and intelligence are a great combination. And of course, despite this being a somewhat serious, still primarily espionage-y, film these Bond films are just going to get sillier and more spectacular as we go - so the reactions should be equally as fun. I hope she sticks it out until my personal favourite - For Your Eyes Only. But well before that there's a classic to come next....
Robert Shaw plays the role of a squadron leader of Spitfire fighters in movie 'Battle of Britain', a wonderful movie from 1968.
He played South African Squadron Leader "Sailor" Malan, a real pilot from the battle.
If you're interested, Connery and Shaw clash again in Robin and Marion. A very underrated movie about Robin Hood
-43:38 Robert Shaw is Red Grant, Bernard Lee is M
Number One was played (but dubbed) by Anthony Dawson, who played Professor Dent in Dr. No.
Oh yeah, classic Bond with Sean Connery.
*Goldfinger* was the one that launched the Bond films into the stratosphere, and set the standard for all the familiar “Bond” things we came to love.
A bit of trivia for you, Ian Fleming got the name James Bond from the Author of a book that he picked up called (Birds of the Caribbean,) as for the character of Bond he was partly based on someone he knew who worked for British intelligence during the second world war as well as partly on his own time working for British intelligence.
The man Fleming supposedly based it on was Christopher Lee, ex-spy turned actor who famously told Peter Jackson (regarding Lee's perfomance as Saruman) something to the effect of "Don't you tell me what it sounds like to be stabbed in the back..." 😱
- Fleming was in British Intelliugence in WWII, and there have been a couple of made-for-TV movies about his life then. Bond was not based on him, although there were aspects of Fleming's personality in Bond. However, there was someone very famous who was even more of a template for Bond, Ian Fleming's cousin by marriage, Sir Christopher Lee (aka Saruman the White and Count Dooku). They were both in Intelligence, and Lee's missions are still so top secret that no one really knows what he did specifically during and just after the war. The funny thing was, he tried to get an audition for Bond, but was turned down...but, he did play a Bond villain, Francisco Scaramanga aka The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) opposite Roger Moore as 007.
- In the main credits, It had Robert Shaw over Bernard Lee (who plays M for a majority of the Bond films). Robert Shaw was Irish, and besides being an actor, was a novelist. It was so cool seeing you figure out that Robert Shaw was playing Red Grant. Some other Shaw films to check out: The Sting with Robert Redford and Paul Newman, and A Man For All Season which earned him a nomination as Best Supporting Actor playing King Henry VIII.
- Cast members to keep track of Bernard Lee (M), Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny), Desmond Llewellyn (Q, the armorer), and Walter Gotell. Gotell makes his first appearance in a Bond movie here, but in the 1970s returns to the films in a different role, General Gogol, head of the KGB. In this film, he was the one who timed the death of "Bond" in the beginning. Lee played M until he died in 1981 before filming For Your Eyes Only. Lois Maxwell played Miss Moneypenny until 1985 ending her time in her role as Roger Moore ended his run as 007 in A View To A Kill. Desmond Llewellyn played Q until 1999's The World Is Not Enough with Pierce Brosnan as 007, passing the baton to John Cleese (of Monty Python for two films), and getting a lovely send-off scene. He died shortly after the film released.
- Barbara Broccolli is the daughter of Albert R. "Cubby" Broccolli, and Michael G. Wilson, her partner in producing the Bond films, is her step-brother. Michael sometimes shows up in the Brosnan and Craig Bond films in small roles, Barbara doesn't.
Michael G. Wilson is Barbara Broccoli's half-brother. They have the same mother.
Great reaction coby the next ones with sean connery are goldfinger and thunderball u will love them glad ur becoming a bond fan like the rest of us take care stay safe ❤❤❤
Barbara Broccoli is indeed Cubby Broccoli's Daughter! She produces the Bond Movies now! 👍
And Michael G Wilson is Cubby’s step-son
I genuinely don’t think the franchise would have taken off the way it did if it hadn’t been Connery first in the role.
Also this is a great film even if you don’t look at it as being part of the Bond franchise. Like it would make a great stand alone Cold War spy film. So good.
Number One aka Ernst Stavro Blofeld was played by Max von Sydow who later played him again in the 1983 Bond film Never Say Never Again.
Max was in NSNA but was NOT in FRWL.
Glad you enjoyed it. The first four Bond films, Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball (and the 6th film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) stick very closely to their respective novels, but From Russia and On Her Majesty’s are probably even closer. The only difference in this film is that they introduced SPECTRE as the main bad guys because the Bond producers didn’t want to portray the Russians as out and out villains (as they were in the novel).
You are correct about Ian Fleming. He worked for what would eventually become the British Secret Service, during World War II so was heavily involved in espionage against the Germans. Some of the things he saw (like a card game against some Germans in Estoril during the war) made its way into his first novel, Casino Royale. If you read the novels there’s a lot of information Fleming gives about the day to day workings in the British Secret Service - information so detailed that one can only think Fleming had first hand knowledge of.
You’re also correct that the blond assassin Grant was in fact Robert Shaw who, twelve years later, would play Quint in Jaws. Shaw was Irish (though spoke with an English accent) but put on a fake American accent in Jaws. Funnily enough, one year later, after Jaws (in 1976) Connery and Shaw would play opposite each other again in the film Robin and Marion. Connery played an ageing Robin Hood and Audrey Hepburn played an ageing Maid Marion. Shaw played Robin Hood’s nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham and yes, they do have a fight at the end! If you’ve never seen it, I urge you to watch it as it’s a lovely romantic love story and all the cast are so good in their roles.
I don’t know if you saw it, but it wasn’t the knife that killed Grant on board the train. When the knife was plunged into his arm, Grant let go of his watch garrotte and that gave Bond time to wrap the garrotte round Grant’s neck and strangle him instead.
Did you notice the call back to North by Northwest where Cary Grant was chased by the crop duster? Here it’s kinda replicated with the SPECTRE helicopter chasing Bond over the hills in a pastiche of that Hitchcock film.
The end scene in the Venice hotel room is very similar to the last few pages of the novel. In the novel (as in the film) Rosa Klebb (Tania’s boss) tries to kill Bond in a Paris hotel room by trying to stab him in one of his shins with her poisonous shoe blade. Bond tries to get his Beretta out of the shoulder holster he is wearing, but it gets stuck and he can’t get it out. Then the authorities led by Bond’s French friend, Mathis, arrive to take Klebb away but before that happens she manages to stab Bond in the shin with her poisonous shoe blade. The irony in that moment is that Bond has thwarted everything the Russians had thrown at him in the novel, including Grant, only for him to be nearly undone at the end by an old woman who kicks him with her foot blade, and she’s led away, believing she has killed their greatest enemy, James Bond.
The novel ends with the poison taking hold of Bond and he crashes to the floor, presumably dead. From Russia with Love was the 5th Bond novel and it’s believed that Fleming ended the book with Bond’s apparent death because he had run out of ideas for more Bond novels, and because he was getting tired of writing Bond.
However, the following year, Fleming wrote Dr. No and at the beginning of it Fleming lets the reader know that Bond’s life was saved by Mathis giving him mouth to mouth until a medical team arrived and then getting him to the hospital quickly to save his life. When Bond meets M again, his boss orders Bond to ditch the Beretta (which stuck in his holster) and have it replaced with the Walther PPK (this sequence was put into the film version of Dr. No, when M says about the Beretta “it jammed on your last job and you spent six months in hospital”) which references the From Russia with Love novel, even though that film hadn’t been made yet.
I was surprised you rated Dr. No about Russia as I think most Bond fans would say the opposite. It’s probably the last true realistic Bond spy film (though On Her Majesty’s Secret Service comes a close second) but it’s not until the next film, Goldfinger, where the ‘Bond formula’ comes into its own and becomes the blueprint for all future Bond films. Can’t wait for you to watch that as it’s my favourite Bond film and I’d be interested in your take on it.
I disagree. The You only live twice book novel was almost completely different from the movie
@@josebartoli9921that’s why I omitted You Only Live Twice from the first six films in the series, because it doesn’t stick closely to the novel. It does keep some elements from the novel, such as the setting, Tanaka, Kissy (though she’s not named in the film), Blofeld and there’s a nod to the Garden of Death with Blofeld’s Piranha pool, but it disposed of the revenge factor (the main factor in the last third of the novel) because OHMSS hadn’t been filmed yet.
That’s why it was ridiculous to film YOLT before OHMSS because the whole point of OHMSS the novel was that Bond and Blofeld had never met, so Bond had to prove that this so called Count was Blofeld, by meeting him and drawing out from him his real name by going through his family tree. You see nothing like that in the film, and if Bond and Blofeld had been characters in real life, they would have instantly recognised each other from the previous film, YOLT.
I suppose some fans would say that Blofeld in OHMSS the film had had plastic surgery to remove his facial scar, so Bond wouldn’t recognise him, but Bond hadn’t changed, so what was stopping Blofeld from killing Bond the moment they met? Would giving Bond a set of glasses and a plummy voice really stop Blofeld from recognising Bond? I’m sure had Fleming lived he would have pointed out to the producers all these facts and we would have got Connery starring in OHMSS in 1967.
@Coby, Sean Connery tossing his hat onto the coat rack in Moneypenny's office was such a common gag as the movies progressed that Daniel Craig did an homage to it in his last Bond movie by tossing his guest badge in her wastebasket w/o looking.
I grew up with this Bond and Colby the movie you need to see is "You Only Live Twice" Dr Evil is fashioned after Blofeld the Bond villan in this movie( as well as his volcano lair)Enjoy your journey with Bond.
Even back in the 60s, Bond was being saved by his girlfriends. Izabella Scorupco - the Bond girl of “GoldenEye” - was correct when she said “Bond girls have always been strong.”
By far the best line of this reaction.
"Is THAT Robert Shaw???????'
and he was in the opening shots,as well:)
You're a natural. You're fun to watch. Good reaction.
Bernard Lee will go on to play "M" in many future Bond films.
Another fun reaction. Thanks Coby
Glad you enjoyed it
The Bond movies are classic. I love Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice. Shaw was also good in Force 10 from Navarone with Harrison Ford, Carl Weathers, actor Richard Kiel who played the henchman, Jaws in Moonraker.
And Barbara Bach, agent XXX from The Spy who Loved me (AKA Mrs. Ringo!)
Shaw was brilliant in The Sting.
Lots of fun, re-watching some of my favourite Bond’s with you! 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Original writer Ian Fleming worked for British intelligence during WW2 but the stories are mostly just stories based on other spies and specialized soldiers he met . Still his original writings from mostly the 1950s form a bit of “canon” for the later 007 James Bond films. He also developed a love for Jamaica and used some of its places in the novels which then feature in the films over the decade La (“Goldeneye” was his postwar home in Jamaica but also the first Brosnan 007 film.. fwiw .. 10 yrs after Fleming’s death reggae star Bob Marley owned the home for a year, .. which is now a resort with “James Bond beach” next to it).
When I noticed Coby misreading the opening credits I had no idea it would lead to such delightful confusion about Robert Shaw's assassin character. Shaw is one of my favorite old actors, especially in Jaws, The Sting, and A Man for All Seasons.
Yes Coby Goldfinger is where Bond takes off and has the best theme song.❤your reactions.👍🇬🇧
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In Casino Royale he flies to the Bahamas. You can see him exiting the plane with other passengers.
In Quantum of Solace there's actually a scene during the flight when he's having drinks at the bar and talking with Mathis.
Also, later in the movie Bond and Camille "borrow" that older plane and get attacked in the air by another plane. Obviously that last one wasn't a commercial flight. Also not flying commercial, when he again "borrows" a plane in Spectre to attack the villains in their SUV. (In the Alps)
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Robert Shaw, who played Captain Quint in Jaws with Rob Schneider, plays the blonde henchman
Robert Shaw. Amazing actor, and one of the best Bond Adversaries.
No !!! Richard Kiel aka Jaws was better
Your reaction to the gypsy fight scene. Those ladies were wild
One of the ladies is Martine Beswick, Paula in Thunderball
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In the novel, Fleming wrote the Red Grant character almost as if he were writing about a serial killer. Very dangerous and twisted individual. Robert Shaw was great in this.
Robert shaw the actor his dangerous enemy in this movie was the fisherman in Jaws, he's also in a pretty good movie called The Deep with Nick Nolte, Jaqueline Bisset and Lou Gossett Jr / John Le Carre was a real spy
Good call on Shaw...
Still my all time favorite. More story driven rather than gadgets and novelties. Even the Bond girl was lesser role than we came to know. And the fight on the train was a classic.
15:05 Captain of a ship bound to take on the big fish... The Orca in Jaws.
James Bond is absolutely magnificent!! Thanks for watching this!! Long live based England, love from Los Angeles
Glad you enjoyed it!
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@@criminalcontent Great Reaction. On the Cast page,I heard you say "Robert Shaw as "M" " LOL
It said "Robert Sgaw and immediately underneath " Bernard Lee as "M" " :)
He was the Guy who killed that Man in the spy camp in the opening scene and was being massaged with Colonel Klevbb arrived.
@halfvader8015 Absolutely, cool friend! Classic and irreverent England is amazing.
@@criminalcontentI really did. James Bond movies are way too awesome. I look forward to more cool reactions. Cheers!
Great job, Coby, you were very sharp on all the nuances, fashion, espionage & intrigue. Very nice, very fun watching with you. Bond killed blondie with his own strangle wire from blondie’s watch. Glad you are liking these 60s Connery movies. Keep watching, please. Goldfinger is next.👍🏻💕
The 2 fighting girls, did not use stunt doubles.
The actor who played Kerim Bey., the father of all those sons, was in real life DYING of cancer while filming From Russia With Love! He made the movie while in great pain. He did it so his family would be ok financial after he died. He committed suicide in Los Angeles at the hospital, at age 51. He shot himself in the chest. It was just 4 months before the film was released, in 1963. He was of Mexican descent and had a good career in movies in America, Mexico, and Europe. This is really one of my all time favorite Bond films.
Very sad. You'd never have known how ill he was, based on his appearance and performance in the role; much like Chadwick Bozeman. He is very likeable and charismatic, just like the character in the book. His son had a small role in Licence to Kill.
Rumors are, he got exposed to radiation during an atomic bomb test while filming another movie.
Robert Shaw was also a World War II veteran , served in Royal Marine Commandos. He kept his fitness afterwards. He was also Quint the Shark hunter in Jaws
-16:20 Robert Shaw, Quint in Jaws
Also, you can see Sean Connery fight Robert Shaw again in Robin & Marion with Sean as a middle-aged Robin Hood and Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham! Plus Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marion.
@@paulcunneen3519 yes, that film was filmed in my country
Fleming worked for Naval Intelligence during WW2. He was involved in planning and was privy to too many secrets to risk being captured in the field. He later used his experiences to write what he described as the"spy novel to end all spy novels" which turned out to be "Casino Royale".
While Dr.No was a hit around the world, Bond didn't hit it big in the US until President Kennedy mentioned that From Russia With Love was one of his favorite books. Interest in the US began to build and culminated with Goldfinger being a huge box office hit and Thunderball being an even bigger hit.
BTW, that scene between Bond and Tatiana in the bridal suite has been used to screen test potential new Bond actors for decades. Some of those screen tests are on RUclips. Including one with Sam Neill from Jurassic Park.
His long distance cousin Sir Christopher Lee was the real
James Bond in WW2 amazing Career
and long life
The late great Robert Shaw😂😂, The Captain of the Orca in Jaws😎😊👍✌️🇺🇸
Connery is the reigning Bond-King on Film!
Robert Shaw was listed in the credits above Bernard Lee as "M".
Among the Connery's Bond movies, i choose this one
I have a soft spot for Diamonds Are Forever. Not because it's a superior film, but because I go to Vegas a bit due to my wife's work and I always connect with the city and the movie. We did in fact just go into Circus Circus where you can still find the exact water ballon game which was out of order when we were there last week. And I was recalling how I had chanced on the wacky wavy mirror just sitting against the wall in '97 which there was a long time (about 2016 I think) before I made it back to Vegas and I've not seen the mirror since. Though I always look for it when I stop in Circus Circus which isn't every time.
"Exactly 1 minute, 52 seconds"...very good...=))
(37:57) Bond used Grant's own garotte wire (out of the watch) to strangle Grant. It wasn't just a _knife in the arm_ that killed him.
Nice reaction. I like the way Coby references things from other movies, e.g. Tipi Hedron in The Birds, Robert Shaw in Jaws, and #1 and #3 and the cat in Austin Powers.
Kerim Bey is one of the most iconic Bond allies. A variation of his character typically shows up in later Bond films as a foreign ally.
The actor who played Kerim Bey sadly didn't live to see the film. 😢💔
There's a fan-theory/"legend" that in the scene where one of Kerim Bey's sons is waiting for his father, Bond and Tatiana to get off they train, and they don't, as the train rushes by you briefly see a man in a white sweater standing by the railroad track -- that's Ian Fleming. Fleming was on the set and figure in the white sweater does appear to be Fleming's height and build.
That was Connery running from the helicopter, not a stuntman. He noted he was almost clipped by the helicopter's skids.
Some great performances. Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb - a great actress and singer, also the wife of the composer, Kurt Weill. The amazing Robert Shaw as Donald 'Red' Grant - surely the best Bond henchman of any Bond film. That marvellous character actor, Vladek Sheybal, as the rather full of himself, Kronstein. In a way, the first true Bond film, with amazing Ken Adam sets and the spectacle (or Spectre-cal) we've come to expect is in the next film, Goldfinger, but this is my favourite as it has elements of being an espionage thriller, not just an action film.
Ian Fleming was in British naval intelligence during the war. An interesting fact about the origins of the character of Bond, based partly on Fleming, is that the actor, Christopher Lee, served in British intelligence during the war. Never really talked about it, but knew Ian Fleming, so it's possible that Fleming may have been partially influenced by Lee's exploits. Lee went on to play the Bond villain, Scaramanga, in The Man with the Golden Gun.
Fleming's side arm was a Beretta, as dismissively dealt with in Dr. No by the armourer, who suggests that the Beretta is a nasty weapon, "… in a lady's handbag". That scene is based on a gun specialist, Geoffrey Boothroyd, who wrote to Fleming suggesting that Bond should not have such a 'weak' side arm. Desmond Llewellyn's character 'Q', first seen in From Russia with Love', sports the full character name, 'Major Boothroyd', as a nod to Geoffrey Boothroyd, Fleming's advisor on all matters ballistic. Boothroyd suggested instead, that Bond should have a .38 calibre revolver. The famous Walther PPK was a compromise, even though, it never had a "delivery like a brick through a plate glass window", certainly not in its original 7.65mm calibre.
Ian Fleming wore a Rolex watch too, something he passed on to Bond who sports a 'Rolex Oyster' watch, exact model never confirmed, in the novels. Connery's Bond, and Roger Moore's in his first two outings, is usually seen with a Rolex Submariner, in keeping with his background as a naval commander.
During WWII, Ian Fleming trained at the top secret spy training school, Camp-X. The school was located east of Toronto, Canada, near Oshawa. Five future heads of the CIA trained there, as well ex-pats from German occupied European countries. It was a premier training camp, first of its kind, for "black ops". It's existence was kept secret up until the 90's. It was at that point both my father (1st Canadian Airborne) and his brother (Canadian/British Navy), admitted to the family they had both done training at the camp. While growing up, both of them took us kids to see the new Bond films when they came out.
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Yea, Coby! I was worried you might not recognized Robert Shaw. It's a damned shame he died at age 51 of a heart attack.. Benard Lee played M.
38:00. No, it wasn’t the knife Coby. Bond hit Grant in the arm with the knife to incapacitate him. Bond got control of the garrote wire that came out of Grant’s watch and wrapped it around his neck instead and strangled him to death with it. Hard to catch in the train since it was dark.
Fun fact this movie is based on the fifth novel in the James Bond book series.
I was a senior in H.S. in 1964 when "Goldfinger " was released with a lot of publicity from the studio due to the reaction to "Dr. No" & "From Russia With Love". In the 60's going to the movies was a typical date. The increase in budget for each subsequent movie is very obvious. It was such a hit that they doubled down with the release of "Thunderball" (1965). A co-worker from Miami had worked as a "extra scuba diver" in the underwater battle scenes. Those of us who missed 'Dr. No" & "From Russia With Love" when originally released had a good excuse to catch them at the drive-in!
36:00 Robert Shaw's accent in Jaws could best be described as Transatlantic, but like blue collar Transatlantic.
My 2nd favourite after You Only Live Twice. YOLT is my fav because it is the first Bond film I ever saw, one Xmas in the 80’s
Make a note: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, and Thunderball, the earliest Bond movies, came along BEFORE the onslaught of feminism, birth control pills, and legal abortions, and they adhered to the social norms of the 1950's where author Ian Flemming's world of spies and espionage really existed and was a subject he knew plenty about. So in these films, Bond is a more hardened, ruthless, and masculine character more like he was depicted in the novels rather than what he was depicted in the later movies. These are why the Connery movies are by far the most popular, because Bond is a masculine Bond in these earliest movies, and the scripts do not suck up to feminism. And make another note, Connery was a man's man in these movies, not just good looking but naturally athletic. Both men and women loved Bond's character. One of the reasons is that Bond was normally a refined man, but could instantly fight and even kill in a split-second, a characteristic 99% of men do not actually have.
Coby is so captivating and genuine. Impossible to not fall in love. Thanks for the reaction!
thank you !
Mike Myers, creator of Austin Powers, has said that his parody of 007 has to be seen through two other 60s film series that were Bond parodies. Those are the two Flint movies starring James Coburn; and the Matt Helm movies starring Dean Martin. If you ever need a 60s fix those are fun films.
The guy who played the western intelligence chief in Istanbul is Pedro Armenderez. He was dying of cancer and legendary film director John Ford called in favors with the Bond film makers to get him the part. He needed a good payday for his family. He died shortly after release of this film.
Really enjoyed this watch and reaction to this great Bond. Look forward to the next one when the movies really come of age. See you then Coby.
From Russia with Love was Connery´s favourite of all his Bond films.