Top stunt: Bond escapes the bad guys using a personal jet pack.

Main villain: Eyepatch-wearing SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), who blackmails NATO using their own stolen warheads. Theme song: Thunderball, performed by Tom Jones Memorable for: “No Mr Bond, I expect you to die” – Goldfinger threatening to bisect Bond with a laser henchman Oddjob, with his blade-brimmed bowler hat Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore. Top stunt: In the series’ first iconic car chase, Bond’s Aston Martin comes with all kinds of deadly optional extras. Main villain: Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) who plans an audacious heist in Fort Knox. Theme song: Goldfinger, performed by Shirley Bassey Memorable for: Rosa Klebb going after Bond with a poisoned knife in her shoe. Top stunt: Bond vs Grant train carriage fight.įirst appearance: Desmond Llewelyn as Q Blofeld (uncredited) a pre-credit scene a “Bond will return in…” credit.

Main villain: Donald Grant (Robert Shaw), an assassin hired by SPECTRE to kill Bond in revenge for killing Dr No. Theme song: From Russia With Love, performed by Matt Monro (used over the end titles)

Memorable for: Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder, emerging from the sea the trio of assassins known as The Three Blind Mice a calypso vibe a cool, sci-fi villain’s base. Top stunt: A hard-as-nails fisticuffs between Bond driver, Mr Jones. Main villain: The metal-handed Dr No, who plans to use radio waves to sabotage a US space mission.įirst appearance: M (Bernard Lee) Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) Felix Leiter SPECTRE the gun barrel opening sequence. How to watch all the James Bond movies in order So get your tuxedo on, dig out your license to kill and join us on a multi-movie mission debriefing full of the vital need-to-know facts about each film. The spy movie will no doubt have many familiar elements – stunts, car chases, guns, evil plots, girls, quips, Bond’s stiff-upper-lipped British bosses – but while much has stayed the same for our suave super-spy over the past 60 years, there have been many changes too (and we don’t just mean the lead actor, a more enlightened role for the women, and fewer safari suits). Yet his biggest adversary over the past two years has been a worldwide pandemic, which has seen the latest flick’s release pushed back several times from early 2020 to (currently) September 2021. The secret agent, who first hit cinema screens in 1962 (nine years after Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published), has spent 24 movies defeating supervillains and criminal masterminds. James Bond will return in… No Time to Die, though we’ve had to wait a little longer than expected.

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