5:32PM, Jan 28, 2009
We've got a bucketful of Bond to keep you entertained in the build up to the new superspy movie. Here we take a look at the original 007.
Purists will insist there is only one James Bond. And he is Sean Connery.
The onetime Scottish coffin-polisher and lifeguard slipped so seamlessly into 007's Savile Row suits and shoulder-holster that he seemed born to play the role.
And he did...for six outings of the quintessential superspy.
Sean Connery effortlessly stepped into the bespoke shoes of novelist Ian Fleming's James Bond in the first film of what would become the world's most successful cinema franchise. Pitted against pincer-handed megalomaniac Dr Julius No (Joseph Wiseman), Connery established 007's trademarks .
In his second outing, Sean Connery's James Bond is SPECTRE's target as revenge for the killing of Dr No. Robert Shaw is Red Grant, the cold-blooded assassin stalking him across Europe while Lotte Lenya memorably plays Rosa Klebb, the villainess with a poison-tipped shoe.
Three films into the franchise and 007 returns with what many regard as the finest in the whole series. James Bond (Sean Connery) has to thwart the plans of arch-villain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) to manipulate the global gold price with a nuclear attack on Fort Knox.
Sean Connery dons James Bond’s Walther PPK-concealing tuxedo for the fourth time. This time he travels to the Bahamas in search of a Vulcan bomber carrying two nuclear bombs with which SPECTRE mainman Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi) plans to hold the world to ransom.
Sean Connery’s Bond heads east in the fifth film of the series to confront Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s diabolical plan to conquer the world by pitting the American and Soviets against one another. The plot – based around Blofeld’s hijacking of rockets in space from his Japanese volcano lair – was spiced up by a Roald Dahl screenplay.
Sean Connery returned to the role that made his name in the seventh outing of the suave superspy. James Bond has to impersonate a diamond smuggler to uncover a plot by his arch-nemesis Blofeld (Charles Gray) to hold the world to ransom with a giant laser satellite.
