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Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Sean Connery, Donald Pleasance
Tagline: Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay? Huh?
The Film: Donald Pleasance is Dr. Evil - I mean, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the SPECTRE leader who has only been seen as a hand stroking a cat until this
film. Bond and the Japanese Secret Service (yeah, right …) team up to stop
SPECTRE from hijacking pre-Apollo space capsules with a giant space capsule
that opens up and swallows the good ones. Look for: the British government
being smarter and more reasonable than the U.S. government. Long for: the
days when international terrorist organizations were this cute and silly.
As a Bond film goes, it’s more coherent but much less fun than “Goldfinger,”
and not nearly as good as “Dr. No” or “Thunderball.”
Rating: 3/5
Rating: 3/5
Easter Eggs: If only …
Five Degrees of Seperation
Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory — What Roald Dahl does best. James and the Giant Peach — What Roald Dahl does second-best. Dr. No — What Sean Connery does best. As Bond, at least.
