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Dr No and Thunderball
Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond 7) (Country: UK; Year: 1971; Director: Guy Hamilton; Writer: Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz; Stars: Sean Connery, Jill St John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot, Putter Smith, Bruce Glover, Norman Burton, Joseph Fürst, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Leonard Barr, Lois Maxwell, Margaret Lacey)
The super-spy is assigned to a smuggling op.
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Dr No (James Bond) (Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: Terence Young; Writer: Ian Fleming, Johanna Harwood, Richard Maibaum, Berkely Mather, Terence Young; Stars: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Anthony Dawson, Zena Marshall, John Kitzmiller, Eunice Gayson, Lois Maxwell)
When a fellow agent is killed in Jamaica, the super-spy finds himself pitting wits against a mysterious new adversary.
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From Russia With Love (James Bond 2) (Country: UK; Year: 1963; Director: Terence Young; Writer: Johanna Harwood, based on the book by Ian Fleming.; Stars: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya, Vladek Sheybal, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee, Eunice Gayson, Walter Gotell, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewellyn, Anthony Dawson) , Official Site , Trailer
James Bond tries to foil a plot involving a stolen espionage machine, and faces off against a deadly assassin. Enjoying a reissue.
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Goldfinger (James Bond 3) (Country: UK; Year: 1964; Director: Guy Hamilton; Writer: Richard Maibaum, based on the novel by Ian Fleming.; Stars: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton, Harold Sakata, Tania Mallet, Bernard Lee)
Big screen reissue offers another chance to see James Bond take on the man with the Midas touch.
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Thunderball (James Bond 4) (Country: UK; Year: 1965; Director: Terence Young; Writer: Richard Maibaum, John Hopkins, Jack Whittingham, Kevin McClory, Ian Fleming; Stars: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter, Guy Doleman, Molly Peters, Martine Beswick, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Roland Culver, Earl Cameron, Paul Stassino, Rose Alba)
The super-spy hunts stolen nukes in the Bahamas.
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Goldfinger Goldfinger
Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice
You Only Live Twice (James Bond 5) (Country: UK; Year: 1967; Director: Lewis Gilbert; Writer: Roald Dahl, Harold Jack Bloom, based on the book by Ian Fleming; Stars: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsuro Tamba, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor, Donald Pleasence, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Charles Gray, Tsai Chin, Peter Fanene Maivia, Burt Kwouk, Michael Chow)
James Bond heads off to Japan in Roald Dahl's wacky adaptation.
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