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.

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.