BOND............ JAMES BOND "For your eyes only, darling" ...........................
Welcome to CulTV's Bond page. What can be said that has not been
said a thousand times before. Well, interesting facts that I didn't know
before include.... Tim Dalton being offered Bond in 1971 and The actor
who played Goldfinger could not speak a word of English. When this page
develops it will also include the James Bond books. Most people who have
read the books agree that Timothy Dalton is the closest to Fleming character
and I as an actor all believe his was the best performance. In other words,
there will be no Dalton bashing here. Enjoy the page.
1962 British agent, James Bond, is sent to Jamaica
to investigate the murder of a fellow operative. Bond's enquiries soon establish a connection between
the death, a spate of recent failures in the US space program, and the mysterious Dr. No.
Opening scene: Three "blind" beggars shoot
Strangways Locations: Jamaica, Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Sean Connery Score: Monty Norman Director: Terence Young . 1963 Evil crime cartel SPECTRE seeks revenge for
the death of its operative Dr No and sets a trap to lure British agent James Bond to his death. The
bait is a Soviet encryption machine called a Lektor, which the British Secret Service are desperate to get
hold of.
Opening scene: Bond strangled Locations: Istanbul, Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Sean Connery Score: John Barry Director: Terence Young . 1964 The Bank of England has discovered that someone
is stockpiling vast quantities of gold and suspects international bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger
of being involved. The Bank requests that British agent James Bond be sent to investigate. Bond soon
uncovers an audacious plan to commit "the crime of the century" and bring economic chaos to the West.
Opening scene: Bond blowing up refinery Locations: Switzerland, USA, Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Sean Connery Score: John Barry Director: Guy Hamilton . .
1965 SPECTRE hatches its most audacious plot to
date when its agents hijack a British Vulcan bomber armed with two atomic bombs and hold NATO to ransom
for the sum of #100,000,000. The British send all their "00" agents, including James Bond, to
recover the warheads before SPECTRE carries out its threat to detonate the devices on the UK and US mainland.
Opening scene: Widow disguise/jetpack Locations: Paris, Bahamas, Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Sean Connery Score: John Barry Director: Terence Young . 1967 During a routine US space mission a manned
American rocket mysteriously disappears while in orbit. The Americans naturally suspect the Soviets and
threaten retaliation. However, the British are more cautious after one of their tracking stations indicates
that the space craft may have come down near the Sea of Japan. James Bond is sent to investigate,
but when the Soviets lose one of their space craft in similar circumstances, 007 has only a few days to
locate the launch site and prevent the outbreak of World War III.
Opening scene: U.S. space capsule captured,
Bond killed Locations: Japan, Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Sean Connery Score: John Barry Director: Lewis Gilbert . 1969 Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond
prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful
crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange
he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees
to the deal purely to fulfill his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the
British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty
to his country and his intent to marry Tracy.
Opening scene: Bond rescues Tracy on beach Locations: Switzerland, Portugal, Pinewood
Studios. James Bond: George Lazenby Score: John Barry Director: Peter R. Hunt . 1971 The British Government become suspicious when
large shipments of uncut diamonds begin disappearing reluctant when ordered to investigate believing
it to be a simple case of smuggling, but when a lead points to the involvement of 007's arch nemesis Blofeld,
Bond becomes desperate to uncover his plans and to avenge the death of his wife Tracy.
Opening scene: Bond searching for Blofeld -
mudpack Locations: USA, Germany, Netherlands, France,
Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Sean Connery Score: John Barry Director: Guy Hamilton . .
1973 Several British agents investigating drugs
smuggling are killed in mysterious circumstances. Each murder is linked to a Harlem crime boss, Mr. Big, and
an international diplomat Kananga. The British send agent James Bond to investigate. When 007 arrives
in New York he is nearly killed by one of Mr. Big's hoods, but the attempt gives Bond a lead and he soon
discovers a plot to flood the US main land with a billion dollars worth of heroin.
Opening scene: 3 murders: New Orleans funeral,
voodoo scene, UN rep. getting fried through headphones Locations: USA, Jamaica, Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Roger Moore Score: George Martin Director: Guy Hamilton . 1975 When a golden bullet arrives at the headquarters
of British intelligence with "007" engraved on it, the British believe that James Bond is the next
target for international assassin Scaramanga. 007 is given the assignment to kill Scaramanga before he kills
Bond and collects his $1,000,000 fee.
Opening scene: Carnival Maze Locations: Hong Kong, Macao, Thailand, Pinewood
Studios. James Bond: Roger Moore Score: John Barry Director Guy Hamilton . 1977 The British discover that someone has perfected
a way of tracking submerged submarines and is offering the technology to the highest bidder. An international
crisis breaks when a Royal Navy Polaris submarine equipped with sixteen nuclear warheads disappears
while on patrol. The British send agent James Bond to secure the tracking device and locate the
missing vessel before its missiles are launched at the West.
Opening scene: ski/parachute Locations: Egypt, Sardinia, Bahamas, Canada,
Malta, Scotland, Okinawa, Switzerland, Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Roger Moore Score: Marvin Hamlisch Director: Lewis Gilbert . 1979 A Boeing 747 carrying a US space shuttle on
loan to the UK crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. When the British examine the wreckage they can find
no trace of the space craft and send agent James Bond to the shuttle's manufacturers, Drax Industries,
to investigate.
Opening scene: mid air struggle for parachute Locations: Italy, Brazil, Guatemala, USA,
Boulogne/Eclair/Paris Studios, Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Roger Moore Score: John Barry Director: Lewis Gilbert . 1981 A British spy trawler is accidentally sunk
off the coast of a Warsaw pact county. On board is a hi-tech encryption device called an ATAC which the
British use to send launch instructions to their Polaris fleet. The British send agent James Bond to investigate
but once the Soviets learn of the loss the race is on to recover the device at any cost.
Opening scene: Blofeld killed in wheelchair
with helicopter Locations: Greece, Italy, Bahamas, England,
Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Roger Moore Score: Bill Conti Director: John Glen . 1983 When a "00" agent is found dead holding a
Faberge egg, the British are suspicious and send James Bond to investigate. 007 discovers a connection
between the priceless egg, an elaborate smuggling operation and a plot by a renegade Soviet general to instigate
World War Three.
Opening scene: Acrostar fly's through hanger Locations: India, Germany, USA, England, Pinewood
Studios. James Bond: Roger Moore Score: John Barry Director: John Glen . 1985 A silicon chip is captured from the Soviets
and found to be identical to a prototype British design capable of withstanding the intense electromagnetic
radiation of a nuclear blast. The British suspect industrialist Max Zorin of leaking details of the design
to the Russians. When James Bond is sent to investigate he finds that Zorin is stockpiling silicon chips
and, mysteriously, drilling near the San Andreas fault.
Opening scene: snowboard chase Locations: France, USA, Iceland, Switzerland,
England (Amberly Chalk Pits Museum), Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Roger Moore Score: John Barry Director: John Glen . 1987 During a training operation, a "00" agent
is unexpectedly murdered. When British agent James Bond organizes the defection of a top ranking Soviet
general, the Russian divulges a plan by the KGB to kill all its enemy agents. Bond is suspicious of the
plot, but never-the-less is ordered to kill the KGB officer masterminding the operation.
Opening scene: Jeep over cliff Locations: Morocco, Gibralta, Austria, England,
USA, Pinewood Studios. James Bond: Timothy Dalton Score: John Barry Director: John Glen . 1989 Shortly after an important drugs bust, CIA
agent Felix Leiter is married, but when the drug lord he arrested escapes, kills his wife and mutilates
Leiter his old friend British agent James Bond seeks revenge. When "M" orders 007 to drop the matter and
start a new assignment, Bond deserts Her Majesty's Secret Service and embarks on a world wide personal
vendetta to kill those responsible.
Opening scene: helicopter catches plane Locations: Florida, Mexico. James Bond: Timothy Dalton Score: Michael Kamen Director: John Glen . 1995 The story revolves around two Russian military
satellites capable of wreaking havoc from orbit by causing widespread and massive interference with commercial
and military communications, computers and other electronics with the use of nuclear pulse
detonation technology. The satellites can render useless any electronic device. The program discs that
control the GoldenEye satellites are stolen by a secret Russian mafia-like group known as Janus. Natalya is
the only witness to who stole the discs and she meets 007 in an interrogation room. Bond has been sent
to retrieve the discs and find out what Janus is up to.
Opening scene: Bond and 006 penetrating a Russian
nerve gas facility Locations: St. Petersburg, Monte Carlo, the
Caribbean, Switzerland, Puerto Rico. James Bond: Pierce Brosnan Score: Eric Serra Director: Martin Campbell . 1997 Bond is trying to stop media baron Elliot
Carver from starting a war between the British and the Chinese in order
to sell more newspapers.
Opening scene: Bond stops a missile from hitting
a nuclear torpedo. Locations: England, Hong Kong, Thailand. James Bond: Pierce Brosnan Score: David Arnold Director: Roger Spottiswoode
1999 Greed, revenge, world domination through the
power of oil, high-tech terrorism…. These are only some of the ingredients
of the latest 007 adventure which begins outside the Guggenheim Museum
in Bilbao, Spain, continues with a spectacular high speed boat chase up
London's River Thames, and progresses through the highlands of Scotland
before Bond survives an avalanche in the Caucasus Mountains and a potential
nuclear explosion in a vast circular oil pipeline in Turkey. As James Bond
tries to protect Elektra, the beautiful daughter of assassinated oil magnate,
Sir Robert King, from a notorious international terrorist and with nuclear
weapons expert Dr. Christmas Jones at his side, he travels to the Caspian
sea and Istanbul where a former enemy becomes a formidable ally before
the final dramatic confrontation in the claustrophobic confines of a nuclear
submarine beneath the surface of the Bosphorus………
Opening scene: Bond persues an assain down
The Thames in the Q boat. Locations: England, Spain, James Bond: Pierce Brosnan Score: David Arnold Director: Michael Apted
2002
TBA
Opening scene: TBA Locations: TBA James Bond: Pierce Brosnan Score: David Arnold Director: Lee Tamahori
Casino
Royale (1967) Staring Peter Sellers and Never
Say Never Again (1983) Staring Sean Connery were not official UA Bond
films and therefore are not listed in the official section of this page.
Casino Royale was a comedy spoof of Bond and Never Say Never Again was
just a remake of Thunderball. Also in 1954 a one of US tv show of Casino
Royal was made. (It was not good)
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