Rated: The Best James Bond Films – and The Ones That Die Another Day

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian Unlimited: Film
Fri, 10/23/2015 - 3:56pm

As cinemas gear up to release the latest 007 film, Spectre, the Guardian’s film critic looks back at how its predecessors measure upSean Connery’s first outing in the Bond role. It gave us the gun-barrel titles and the Monty Norman theme. There was Ursula Andress in the bikini and the exotic Johnny Foreigner villain with an outrageous island lair.

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