JAMES BOND: DIE ANOTHER DAY

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Forty years ago, a modestly budgeted thriller called Dr No was shot in Jamaica by a pair of producers and an ex-milkman. The producers, Albert R ?ubby?Broccoli and Harry Saltzman had recently acquired the rights to a series of thrillers written by Ian Fleming, about a secret service agent named James Bond. The milkman, who was infact the star of the film was named Sean Connery. At the time he, and his producing duo, was pretty much a group of unknowns. Forty years on, the significance of that film is huge.

Dr No, then From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice- all started off a film series like no other. It launched Sean Connery as an international star. Then, after he hung up his Walther PPK, came George Lazenby. His name, unfairly branded as a failure, is n ]]>

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