BE LIKE MIKE? NO, I WANNA BE JAMES PLEASE...

LARGER THAN LIFE...

I recall back in May of 1963 sitting in the Reseda Theater on Sherman Way
in the Valley and watching a matinee about some spy...

Some spy?  It was friggin' JAMES BOND...

"Dr. No" was a swiftly paced thriller and got this 13 year old's attention real quick...















Lots of pretty ladies, car crashes, flaming dragons and more pretty ladies...

PLUS as a bonus this guy can kill anyone 

because he was an "OO" operative...

Next came "From Russia With Love"...

The film is loaded with rich characters and tons of suspense and action...

 I think this was the BEST of the BOND films for several reasons...

A good, tight story...Fine actors...

and a fight scene in a train car that beats anything shot before or after for just plain intensity...

Next up was the one that guaranteed the franchise for decades to come...

Original 1964 trailer....

The granddaddy of the BOND flicks, "Goldfinger" with Gert Frobe as the dastardly villain...






"No Mr. BOND, I expect you to DIE" is one of the top movie lines of all time...

I vividly recall watching that scene...let me say this...

guys REALLY got involved with this quick few minutes on celluloid...

Why?  Because BOND was gonna have his nuts fried off!

OUCH!

Then in 1965 it was "Thunderball"..

One of my top BOND movie quotes here...
"Switch on the UNDERWATER landing lights"...

One of the classic BOND boners is almost SHOWING one as this calm dog takes a whizz right in the middle of the huge chase scene in the film...When you watch it next time you'll see
the pooch peeing center screen...

Almost as good as the kid masturbating at the end of "Teen Wolf"...

They made a few more good ones with Sean Connery...

I can still see him with all the dancing little guys in one of his earlier flicks..."Darby O'Gill And The Little People"...

One thing more about him...My Mom said this the first time she saw Sean on screen...

"My, he has a nice toupee"...

Blew me away...I thought those wavy locks of hair belonged to Mr. BOND himself...

Once more Mom knocks down another sham of Hollywood...







More and more BOND flicks arrived...

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" 

had a one time BOND actor, George Lazenby...

I did not know until a few years ago that he was over dubbed less than a week before the film was released...
Actor George Baker laid down that VO work...

He is well remembered as Number Two in "The Prisoner" series...

The producers did not think his voice could carry the film so they brought in a VO actor (who played a sub commander in a much later BOND film with Roger Moore) and that was that...

How did the opening BOND theme happen?

Watch this CNN piece...Amazing...

Then there were the stunning opening sequences for each BOND film...

We were always watching for the nude babes
and a chance to see a silhouetted nipple or two...

Those were big things for young MALE teens back then...

FYI:  All the BOND films are listed right here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films

...and THIS is the BOND we all love...

 I have reams of more  BOND material to hit on but not today...

Time for me to move on...

So see ya later M and have a "Nice Day"...

Pip, Pip all!