Friday, October 9, 2009

Thunderball - 1965




Thunderball (1965) is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series after Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), and the fourth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham. It was directed by Terence Young with screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins.
The film follows Bond's mission to find two NATO nuclear bombs stolen by SPECTRE, who holds the world to ransom for £100 million in diamonds, in exchange for not destroying an unspecified major city in either England or the United States (later revealed to be Miami). The search leads Bond to the Bahamas, where he encounters Emilio Largo, the card-playing, eye-patch wearing SPECTRE Number Two. Backed by the CIA and Largo's mistress, Bond's search culminates into an underwater battle with Largo's henchmen.
Thunderball was associated with a legal dispute in 1961 when former Ian Fleming collaborators Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham sued him shortly after the 1961 publication of the Thunderball novel, claiming he based it upon the screenplay the trio had earlier written in a failed cinematic translation of James Bond. The lawsuit was settled out of court and Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman fearing a rival McClory film allowed him to retain certain screen rights to the novel's story, plot, and characters. The film had a complex production, with four different units and about a quarter of the film consisting of underwater scenes.
The film was a success, earning a total of $141.2 million worldwide, exceeding the earnings of the three previous Bond films and breaking box office records on the first weekend of opening in France and Italy. In 1966, John Stears won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and production designer Ken Adam was also nominated for a BAFTA award. Thunderball is to date, the most financially successful movie of the series and adjusting for inflation made the equivalent of $966.4 million in 2008 currency. Although a commercial success, Thunderball received mixed reviews from critics. Some critics and viewers showered praise on the film and branded it as a welcome addition to the series, while others complained of the repetitively monotonous aquatic action and prolonged show duration.

Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger








Pussy Galore is the main Bond Girl in "Goldfinger".Pussy is the owner of a flying circus, the staff of which consists entirely of shapely female pilots. However, she is also part of Auric Goldfinger's plan to rob Fort Knox. Prior to Goldfinger's men moving in, her pilots are to fly over the area, spraying it with knockout gas to immobilize all personnel in the immediate area.Pussy identifies herself as "the outdoors type" and apparently plans to use her cut of the proceeds from the robbery to buy her own tropical island and "go back to nature."A judo expert, she is very tough and not easily moved by 007's charm. In fact, it is hinted that she may be a lesbian. However, she is eventually seduced by Bond, who informs her that the gas Goldfinger intends to use is actually deadly - she had believed it to be knockout gas with no lasting effect on those targeted with it. Pussy then reveals that she does have a conscience, by contacting the CIA to inform them of Goldfinger's plan, and switching the gas for another variety which has no effect at all, allowing the CIA to set a trap for Goldfinger.She does not appear in any other film in the series.

Synopsis of Goldfinger




In the pre-title sequence, James Bond (Sean Connery) infiltrates a Mexican drug lord's base by water wearing a dry suit with a snorkel camouflaged as a seagull. He destroys a hidden building with plastic explosives and defeats an assassin by electrocuting him in a bathtub.
The main story begins in
Miami Beach, Florida, at the Fontainebleau Hotel with Central Intelligence Agency agent Felix Leiter (Cec Linder) delivering a message to Bond from M to watch Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe). Bond foils Goldfinger's cheating at gin rummy by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton). After blackmailing Goldfinger into losing, Bond and Jill consummate their new relationship in Bond's hotel suite. Following an unflattering remark concerning The Beatles (the entire production was filmed and released during the height of Beatlemania), Bond is knocked out by Goldfinger's Korean manservant Oddjob (Harold Sakata), who then covers Jill in gold paint, supposedly killing her by epidermal suffocation.
In London, Bond learns that his true mission is determining how Goldfinger transports
gold internationally. Prior to his assignment he is issued an Aston Martin DB5 from Q modified with several gadgets. He plays and wins a high-stakes golf game against Goldfinger with a recovered Nazi gold bar at stake. Goldfinger, who was caught cheating during the game, warns Bond to stay out of his business by having Oddjob decapitate a statue by throwing his steel-rimmed top hat. Undeterred, Bond follows him to Switzerland, where he unintentionally foils an assassination attempt on Goldfinger by Tilly Masterson (Tania Mallet) to avenge the death of her sister, Jill.
Bond sneaks into Goldfinger's plant and overhears him talking to a
Red Chinese agent about "Operation Grand Slam." Leaving, he encounters Tilly as she is about to make a second attempt on Goldfinger's life, but accidentally trips an alarm. Bond and Tilly attempt to escape, but Oddjob breaks Tilly's neck with his hat. Bond is soon captured and Goldfinger has Bond tied to a table underneath an industrial laser, which slowly begins to slice the table in half. Bond then lies to Goldfinger that British Intelligence knows about Grand Slam, causing Goldfinger to spare Bond's life until he can determine how much the spy actually knows.

Goldfinger about to slice Bond in half with a laser.
Bond is transported by Goldfinger's private
Lockheed JetStar, flown by his personal pilot, Pussy Galore, to his stud farm near Fort Knox, Kentucky. Bond escapes and witnesses Goldfinger's meeting with US mafiosi, who have brought the materials he needs for Operation Grand Slam. At the end of the briefing, one of the mafiosi asked Goldfinger to pay him immediately, rather than wait a few days for the larger return from Operation Grand Slam, as Goldfinger has just outlined. Goldfinger accepts and leads him out of the conference room. The rest of them are killed by poison gas. The dissenting mafioso is escorted to the airport in a Lincoln Continental driven by Oddjob, who kills him before continuing on to a wrecking yard where the car is crushed into a cube with the body inside. Bond is recaptured after hearing the details of Operation Grand Slam, but soon learns additional information from Goldfinger himself. He intends to irradiate the US gold supply stored at the United States Gold Depository at Fort Knox with an atomic device, thereby rendering it useless for 58 years and greatly increasing the value of his own gold. This will also give the Chinese increased buying power following economic chaos in the West.
Operation Grand Slam begins with the women pilots of
Pussy Galore's Flying Circus spraying lethal nerve gas over Fort Knox to dispatch its garrison. However, Bond had seduced Pussy and persuaded her to contact the CIA, who replaced the poison with a harmless gas. The military personnel of Fort Knox convincingly play dead until they are certain that they can prevent the criminals escaping the base with the bomb. They choose this plan because Goldfinger had earlier suggested that if thwarted at Fort Knox, there was no telling where he might explode the device, so the CIA knew their scheme had to trap both Goldfinger and the bomb beyond any reasonable hope of escape.
Goldfinger's Chinese agents gain entry to the vault. Oddjob handcuffs Bond to the atomic device and lowers both into the vault. As Goldfinger and his men prepare to leave, the Army troops surround them and all but wipe them out. Goldfinger has planned for every contingency, however: he takes off his coat, revealing a US Army uniform and kills his Chinese assistant and the troops seeking to open the vault, before escaping.
Goldfinger's henchman
Kisch, forced to retreat to the vault, intends to shut off the bomb but Oddjob throws him off a balcony to his death. Bond retrieves the man's keys and unlocks his handcuffs, but before he can disarm the bomb, Oddjob races down the stairs and attacks. Bond manages to duck under Oddjob's lethal hat, severing a nearby electrical line, and the ensuing fight proves that Oddjob is the superior combatant. Finally, Bond retrieves the hat and tries to throw it himself without success. It wedges in between two of the bars of the vault. When Oddjob tries to recover it, Bond reaches the severed cable and brushes the exposed wiring with the metal gate, electrocuting Oddjob because of the metal in his own hat.
Turning to the bomb, Bond manages to force the lock by hammering on it with a pair of gold bars, but the mechanism inside baffles him. With the clock winding down, Bond tries to yank one of the cables, but an atomic specialist comes over and turns off a switch seconds before detonation, the troops having forced entry into the vault in the meantime.
With Fort Knox safe, Bond is invited to the
White House for a meeting with the US president. He boards a military Lockheed JetStar for Washington, D.C., but Goldfinger has forced Pussy Galore to hijack it and fly to Cuba. Bond and Goldfinger struggle for the latter's gold-plated revolver and accidentally shoots a window, creating an explosive decompression of the aircraft. Goldfinger is sucked out of the cabin. Bond rescues Galore, and they parachute safely from the aircraft before it crashes.

Goldfinger - 1964






Goldfinger (1964) is the third spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The story has Bond following gold smuggler Auric Goldfinger, who plans a nuclear detonation inside the Fort Knox gold depository.
The film was the first official Bond
blockbuster and made cinematic history by recouping its production costs in record-setting time, despite a budget equal to that of the two preceding films combined. Goldfinger was also the first Bond film to use a pop star to sing the theme song during the titles, a hallmark that would follow for every Bond film since except On Her Majesty's Secret Service.



Goldfinger was originally released on 17 September 1964, in the United Kingdom, and on 21 December 1964, in the United States. To promote the film, the two Aston Martin DB5s were showcased at the 1964 New York World's Fair, and it was dubbed "the most famous car in the world".Sales of the car rose. Corgi Toys began its decades-long relationship with the Bond franchise, producing a toy of the car. It became the biggest selling toy of 1964. The film's success also led to licensed tie-in clothing, dress shoes, action figures, board games, jigsaw puzzles, lunch boxes, toys, record albums, trading cards and slot cars.
The film was both a
critical and financial success. The film's $3 million budget was recouped in two weeks, and it broke box office records in multiple countries around the world. Goldfinger went on to be included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest grossing film of all time. The film grossed a total of $51,081,062 in the United States. At the 1965 Academy Awards, Norman Wanstall won the Academy Award for Sound Editing for his work on Goldfinger. Barry was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score for a Motion Picture. Ken Adam was nominated for the BAFTA for Best British Art Direction. The American Film Institute has honoured the film four times: ranking it No. 90 for best movie quote ("A martini. Shaken, not stirred."), No. 53 for best song ("Goldfinger"), No. 49 for best villain (Auric Goldfinger), and No. 71 for most thrilling film. In 2006, Entertainment Weekly and IGN both named Goldfinger as the best Bond movie, while MSN named it as the second best, behind its predecessor, and also named Pussy Galore as the second best Bond girl as did IGN. In 2008, Total Film named Goldfinger as the best film in the series. An Internet Movie Database poll in 1999, based on 665 votes, named Goldfinger as the most sinister Bond villain. Another poll in 2006, based on 16416 votes also named Goldfinger the best Bond villain. The Times placed Goldfinger and Oddjob second and third on their list of the best Bond villains in 2008.They also named the Aston Martin DB5 as the best car in the films.
Danny Peary wrote that Goldfinger is “the best of the James Bond films starring Sean Connery…There’s lots of humor, gimmicks, excitement, an amusing yet tense gold contest between Bond and Goldfinger, thrilling fights to the death between Bond and Oddjob and Bond and Goldfinger, and a fascinating central crime…Most enjoyable, but too bad Eaton’s part isn’t longer and that Frobe’s Goldfinger, a heavy but nimble intellectual in the Sydney Greenstreet tradition, never appeared in another Bond film.”
Based on 47 reviews which were mostly published after the film's release on
Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of critics gave the film positive reviews only after From Russia with Love, which received a 97%, and Dr. No, with a 98% score.
The distributor
Park Circus theatrically re-released Goldfinger in the UK on 27 July 2007 at one-hundred-and-fifty multiplex cinemas, on digital prints. The re-release put the film twelfth at the weekly box office.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Sean Connery The First Generation of James Bond




Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), best known as Sean Connery, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer.
He is best known for portraying the character
James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such notable films as Marnie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Dragonheart, and The Rock.
Connery has been polled as the "greatest living Scot"and was
knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2000. In 1989, he was proclaimed the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine, and in 1999, at the age of 69, he was voted the Sexiest Man of the Century.

Daniela Bianchi's Autograph


Daniela Bianchi as Bond Girl Tatiana Romanova







Daniela Bianchi, born 31 January 1942, is an Italian actress, whose best known part was Tatiana Romanova in the 1963 James Bond movie From Russia with Love.
Born in
Rome, she was the 1st runner-up in the 1960 Miss Universe contest, where she was also voted Miss Photogenic by the press. Her film career began in 1958. In From Russia with Love her voice was dubbed by Barbara Jefford.
She made a number of French and Italian movies after From Russia with Love, the last being Scacco Internazionale in 1968. One of her later films was
Operation Kid Brother (also known as OK Connery and Operation Double 007), which was a James Bond spoof filmed in English (though Bianchi was again dubbed) and starring Sean Connery's brother, Neil Connery. In 1970, she retired from acting to marry a Genoan shipping magnate, and they have a son.

Synopsis of From Russia With Love




In a mansion garden at night, James Bond is seen alternately stalking and being stalked by a tall, blond assassin. Bond is captured and strangled violently to death by a man named Red Grant, using a garrote wire. Suddenly, floodlights switch on and the dead person turns out to be a man wearing a Bond mask, in a scenario that completes a SPECTRE training exercise.
Kronsteen, a chess grandmaster, and SPECTRE's expert planner, has devised a plot to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets and sell it back to them while punishing MI6 (the British Secret Service) for killing their agent Dr. No. Ex-SMERSH operative Rosa Klebb is put in charge of the mission by the megalomaniac Number 1. She has already chosen a pawn: Tatiana Romanova, a cypher clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul. Klebb departs to SPECTRE Island, the organisation's secret training base, where she assigns Grant to be the assassin.
In London, M tells Bond that Romanova has contacted their "Station 'T'" in Turkey, offering to defect with a Lektor, which MI6 and the
CIA have been after for years. She has said that she will only defect to Bond, whose photo she has allegedly found in a Soviet intelligence file. In fact she is following orders from Klebb, who pretends she is still working for SMERSH and that this is a SMERSH deception.
Bond flies to
Istanbul to meet station head Ali Kerim Bey. He is followed from the airport by an unkempt man in glasses and by Red Grant. The next day, after Kerim Bey's office is bombed, Bond and Kerim Bey spy on the Soviet consulate using a periscope from an underground tunnel beneath the consulate. Seeing rival agent Krilencu, Kerim Bey takes Bond to a rural gypsy settlement, where Kerim Bey plans to lie low while deciding how to deal with Krilencu. While two jealous gypsy girls fight over a lover, the camp is attacked by Krilencu's men. Although he is wounded in the attack, Kerim Bey kills Krilencu the next night with Bond's sniper rifle. When Bond returns to his hotel suite, he finds Romanova in bed waiting for him, unaware that they are being filmed by Grant and Klebb.
The next day, Romanova heads off for a pre-arranged rendezvous at
Hagia Sophia. Bond follows her and stalks the bespectacled man who had followed him at the airport. The man attempts to intercept Romanova's floor plan of the Soviet consulate, but he is killed by Grant. When Bond finds the body, he takes the floor plan. Kerim Bey and Bond set up a plan to steal the Lektor and smuggle it back to Britain. On the appointed day, Bond enters the consulate lobby. Kerim Bey then sets off an explosion under the building, which releases tear gas. In the resulting chaos, Bond finds Romanova and escapes with the Lektor on the Orient Express. Kerim Bey and a Soviet security officer named Benz, who spots Romanova, also board the train, but Grant later kills both of them, making it appear as if they killed each other.
The train crosses southern-central Europe to
Belgrade. There Bond arranges for agent Nash from "Station 'Y'" to meet him at Zagreb. When the train stops, Grant finds and kills Nash. Grant boards the train once again, meeting Bond as Nash. He drugs Romanova at dinner, then overcomes Bond. Grant taunts him, boasting SPECTRE has been pitting the Soviets and the British against each other. He also claims that Romanova thinks that "she's doing it all for mother Russia" when she is really working for SPECTRE. Bond tricks Grant into opening Bond's attaché case, which releases tear gas. In the ensuing struggle, which is considered one of the most epic and realistic fight sequences in the history of cinema, Bond eventually manages to stab Grant with the knife hidden in the attaché case, and strangles Grant with his own garrote. At dawn, Bond and Romanova leave the train, hijack Grant's getaway truck, destroy an enemy helicopter, and drive to a dock, eventually boarding a powerboat.
Number 1 is very unhappy, and summons Kronsteen and Klebb. He reminds them that SPECTRE does not tolerate failure; they blame each other. Number 1 promptly brings in Morzeny to then excecute Kronsteen with a poisoned spike in the toe of his shoe. Number 1 tells a frightened Klebb that she has one last chance.
Klebb sends Morzeny after Bond with a squadron of SPECTRE's boats. When stray bullets puncture several barrels of fuel stored on his boat, Bond throws them overboard. Pretending to surrender, he fires a
signal flare into the fuel, engulfing all the enemy boats in flames.
Bond and Romanova reach Venice and check into a hotel. Rosa Klebb, disguised as a maid, attempts to steal the Lektor. In the climax, Klebb gets the drop on Bond, and holds him at gunpoint but the gun is knocked away by Romanova. Klebb releases her poisoned toe-spike, but Bond pins her to the wall with a dining chair. Romanova grabs the gun and shoots Klebb. Riding in a
gondola, Bond throws the film of him and Romanova into the water, and they sail away.

From Russia With Love - 1963



Where were you in year 1963? Are you maniac as others on one of the box office series from Hollywood? Wear like James Bond, post like James Bond?
"From Russia with Love" (1963) is the second spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. In the film, James Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Corporal Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge the killing of Dr. No.
In addition to filming in location in Turkey, the action scenes were shot both in
Scotland and Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire. From Russia with Love was a critical and commercial success, outgrossing its predecessor Dr. No with over $78 million in worldwide box office. It is considered one of the best films in the James Bond series.

Monday, September 21, 2009

The Real First Bond Girl ~ Sylvia Trench


Sylvia Trench, the real first Bond Girl who appeared in Dr.No was starring by Eunice Gayson. Sylvia Trench were appeared in only two films ( Dr.No and From Russia With Love ) as the first bond girl seen. She loves playing games with Bond and picnics with him.


How did she meet Bond?

Bond meets Trench from across a Baccarat Chemin de Fer table at the London club Le Cercle. Her love of games of chance comes to the fore when she later appears in his apartment, playing golf while wearing only his shirt. Her second appearance is in From Russia With Love where she picnics with James Bond before he is paged byMiss Moneypenny, thus making Trench the first Bond Girl to appear in two James Bond films.


Remarkable dialogue:
Bond: "I admire your courage Miss uh..."
Trench: "Trench, Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mr..."

Bond: "Bond, James Bond"


Trivia:
Decades later, Gayson's daughter appeared in a casino scene in the 1995 Bond film,
GoldenEye.
As of this point, Gayson is the only Bond Girl to play the same role in two movies. Several other Bond Girls have appeared in multiple Bond movies, but have played different roles: in main continuity, they include Martine Beswick (
From Russia with Love, Thunderball), Maud Adams (The Man With The Golden Gun, Octopussy, not including a cameo in A View to a Kill) and Tsai Chin (You Only Live Twice, Casino Royale), while several Bond Girls acted both in Bond continuity as well as in the 1967 farce Casino Royale, including Ursula Andress (Dr. No), Jeanne Roland (You Only Live Twice), Angela Scoular (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) & Caroline Munro (The Spy Who Loved Me).


Detailed Synopsis of Dr.No


The section chief for Station J (Jamaica), Strangways, is murdered by the Three Blind Mice after playing cards at the the Queen's Club in Kingston. Soon after, his secretary, Mary Prescott, is also killed, and when the pre-arranged check-in time goes overdue, MI6 is alerted, and Agent 007, James Bond, is called in to investigate, interrupting an evening of Chemin DeFer at the gaming tables, where he met one Sylvia Trench.007 is briefed byM about the Jamaican situation, linking it with some suspicion of "toppling" American missile launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, informing him that the CIA already has a man, Leiter, investigating. 007 is then issued a Walther PPK pistol and holster by the Armourer at M's insistance. Though Bond tries to smuggle his favorite Beretta as he leaves, M spots the ruse, and Bond, chastised, leaves the firearm on his boss' desk.
Bond's intoductionBond returns to his room and prepares to go to Kingston when he walks in on Trench playing golf. After the customary Bond treatment, Bond heads to Jamaica. He arrives at the airport and is approached by a chauffeur named
Mr. Jones who appears to be there to take him to Government House. Bond phones Government house and they tell him that they didn’t send a chauffeur to pick him up. While trying to lose a tail, the chauffeur pulls off down a side road and Bond confronts him. As Bond is asking Jones who his employer is, Jones swallows a cyanide-laced cigarette and dies.
Bond arrives at Government House and is told by the head, Pleydell-Smith, that the last people to see Strangways were himself, an ex-general, Potter, and a metallurgist,
Professor Dent. Bond asks to meet the other men socially and the Pleydell-Smith arranges for him to join them at the Queen’s Club that night. Bond goes to Strangways house and finds a receipt from Dent’s lab and a picture of Strangways with a local fisherman. Bond returns to his room and secures his attaché case with talcum powder, the doors with a strand of hair, and then heads out to Queen’s club. When Bond meets with Pleydell-Smith, Dent, and Potter, he finds out that Strangways latest hobby was fishing, and that he frequently hired a native Jamaican named Quarrel. Bond heads to the docks and questions Quarrel but he offers no help. Bond follows Quarrel to a beach-front bar, where he’s ambushed by Quarrel and the bar tender, Puss-Fellar. As Bond turns the tables on Quarrel and Puss-Fellar, Felix Leiter arrives and explains that the two men are working with him. As Leiter and Quarrel debrief Bond about Strangways work, a photographer, Freelance, who took Bond’s picture at the airport tries to take his picture at the bar. Quarrel grabs her and Bond asks her who’s employing her. She won’t tell, so Bond takes the film and lets her go. After talking for a bit, they decide to go to Crab Key because this is where Strangways got the rock samples that he gave to Dent for analysis. Quarrel tells of how some friends of his went fishing off of Crab Key and were never seen again. Leiter tells bond that Crab Key is a mystery, except that it contains a Bauxite mine and is owned by a man named Dr. Julius No.
The following morning, Bond goes to see Dent to inquire about the samples he analyzed for Strangways. Dent tells bond that the samples were worthless and that they couldn’t have come from Crab Key because it was geologically impossible. Once Bond leaves, Dent boards a fishing boat and heads to Crab Key. When Dent arrives, he’s escorted to a large room with a skylight and a solitary chair. He is chastised by Dr. No via loudspeaker for visiting the key during the daytime and for not having Bond killed. He’s instructed to kill bond with a large spider that’s sitting on a table in the corner. Dent leaves the island. Bond returns to his room to find that his attaché case and closet door were tampered with. He pours himself a drink and then heads to bed. While sleeping, the spider appears under his covers and makes its way to Bond’s head. Once the spider moves onto his pillow, Bond flicks the spider off and kills it with his shoe. The following morning, Bond visits Fleydell-Smith and asks about Dr. No. According to his secretary,
Miss Taro, the files on Dr. No and on Crab Key were last checked out by Strangways and they’re missing. Fleydell-Smith apologizes and gives Bond a package that came from London. As Bond is leaving, he catches Miss Taro listening at the keyhole and invites her to dinner that evening.
Bond meets up with Quarrel at the docks and opens his package, which turns out to be a Geiger counter. He tests the spot in the boat where Strangways laid his rock samples and figures out that they were radioactive contra to what Dent told bond. When Bond asks Quarrel to take him to Crab Key, Quarrel tells him he’s afraid because there’s
a dragon there, but reluctantly agrees.Bond returns to his hotel and phones Miss Taro. She asks him to pick her up at her apartment at the top of the mountain. As Bond is driving to her apartment, he’s chased by another car. Bond loses the other car with some fancy driving and arrives at Taro’s apartment. Taro is surprised that Bond has made it to her apartment, but they bed down as Taro tries to keep bond occupied for a few hours. Bond tells Taro that they should go out to eat and phones a taxi. When the “taxi” arrives, it’s actually the police and they take Taro away. She spits in Bond’s face as the car is pulling away. Bond returns to Taro’s house and makes the bed up to appear like he’s sleeping in it. In the middle of the night, Dent shows up and shoots at the bed. Bond is waiting for Dent and kills him.
Bond meets Honey
Bond heads down to the dock and meets up with Quarrel and Leiter. They leave for Crab Key. When they get close to the island, Bond and Quarrel leave Leiter with the power boat and take a canoe the rest of the way to the island. Once on the island, Quarrel covers the canoe and they get some sleep. Bond awakes to a beautiful woman collecting shells. He finds out that her name is
Honey Rider and that Dr. No probably spotted her coming up to the island. As they’re walking on the beach, a powerboat arrives and shoots at them. The men in the boat announce that they’ll return with dogs. Honey leads Bond to a small pool where they use reeds to hide under the water to and wait for the dogs to pass.
Honey leads Bond and Quarrel to a hiding place. As Quarrel takes the first watch, Honey tells Bond that she thinks Dr. No killed her father who was a marine biologist. Quarrel spots the “dragon” which turns out to be a tank, armed with a flamethrower and painted to look like a dragon. As Bond and Quarrel are shooting at the tank, the flamethrower opens up on Quarrel and he’s burnt to death. Bond and Honey surrender to the men driving the tank and are taken to Dr. No lair. When they arrive at
his lair, they’re forced to shower in order to wash the radiation off them. Bond and Honey emerge from the decontamination chamber to a modern room and are greeted by Sister Rose and Sister Lily. Lily and Rose show Bond and Honey to their room. Bond and Honey drink the coffee, which turns out to be laced with a sedative.When Bond and Honey awake, they dress with the clothes provided by Dr. No and prepare to meet him for dinner. At dinner, Dr. No tells Bond that he was an unwanted child and worked for the Tongs, one of the Chinese mafias, from which he stole 10 million dollars to buy Crab Key and build his lair. The guards take Honey away and Dr. No reveals that he works for SPECTRE. After dinner, the guards beat up Bond and take him to a cell. Bond escapes the cell through a ventilation shaft and makes his way to the control room for the facility's nuclear reactor. Bond steals a hazard suit and impersonates one of Dr. No's technicians. Bond alters one of the reactors which causes it to begin to lose containment as a rocket is fired from Cape Canaveral. Bond and Dr. No fight over the boiling reactor cooling tank and Dr. No slides into the tank to his death.
Bond locates Honey who’s chained down in a room that’s flooding. Bond and Honey steal a boat and escape the island before it explodes. The boat runs out of fuel before they make it back to Jamaica which provides the perfect opportunity for… you guessed it… Bond to get the girl before Felix shows up to tow them back to land.

Honey Ryder ~ The First Bond Girl




Honey Ryder ( played by Ursula Andress )


Honey Ryder is the Bond Girl in "Dr. No", the first official Bond film.She meets Bond on Crab Key, Dr. No's island, having managed to sneak in under No's radar to collect sea shells. When her boat is destroyed by gunfire from No's guards, she teams up with Bond to defeat No.

Dr.No ~ First James Bond Movie


In 1962, Dr. No was the first James Bond novel cinematically adapted by EON Productions. It introduced Sean Connery as the first actor to portray James Bond on the big screen; Joseph Wiseman portrayed Dr. No.
Although the story follows the same general arc there are significant number of changes. These include: Dr. No's physical appearance changes in the film. Bond has a sexual encounter with one of Dr. No's operatives in the movie but not in the book. Honey Rider is never seen nude; when Bond first sees her she is wearing a bikini. In the book she is pegged out to be eaten by beach crabs; in the film, she is tied to drown in a water pool. Bond's fight with a giant squid is excluded from the film. Felix Leiter, Sylvia Trench, and Professor Dent were introduced to the story and the film series (Leiter had appeared in previous novels). In the novel, No's hands were cut off by "tong" hit men; in the film his hands were destroyed by radiation, and his island fortress is nuclear-powered. The specific method in which Dr. No is killed is also changed significantly: in the movie, the villain is killed in heavy water rather than buried alive in guano like he would have been in the book. Furthermore, Dr. No in the movie is an operative of
SPECTRE rather than the Soviet Union. Fleming did not introduce SPECTRE until Thunderball in 1961.

Ian Fleming - The Man Who Created James Bond


Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author and journalist. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling Bond's adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. With over 100 million copies sold worldwide, the Bond novels are in the list of best-selling book series [1] Additionally, Fleming wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two non-fiction books.