This book will provide a Who's Who of every major character and actor who has ever taken part in the Bond phenomenon.
Based on an encyclopaedia format with appropriate cross-referencing, The Essential James Bond lists each film alphabetically, supplying every detail the armchair secret agent delights in, including the actors, main locations, gadgets and vehicles.
With the addition of rare black and white and colour photos from the archives of both the authors and the Bond film producers, Eon Productions, the spectacular world of 007 is brought to life.
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Pfeiffer and Worrall have clearly done their homework. Bond fans will revel in the nostalgia of the early films, get blown away by the budgets and effects of the more recent outings and along the way, discover a few truths and dispel a few rumours about the cast and crew. The wealth of material is great. This is what makes the Bondophile tick; finding out where the name Kananga comes from, where the Diamonds Are Forever story involving Blofeld's kidnapping of Willard Whyte and hijacking of his empire was dreamt up (literally as it happens) and the truth about the Diana Rigg/George Lazenby feud as reported by the British press during filming of On Her Majesty's Secret Service which had Rigg intentionally eating garlic before their love scenes to irritate the new leading man.
The Essential Bond is beautifully presented and literally packed with rare stills and location shots--one of which settles the debate as to whether Ursula Andress was really naked in Dr No's shower. A final section presents Bond in a wider context with literary information, a discussion of the spy's effect on popular culture, an introduction to the Bond "family"--the Broccolis and other great names from the films--and a piece on the "other James Bonds" from cartoon and print. Readers will have to look elsewhere for material on Fleming's Bond--the complex and misunderstood agent of his original conception--but as a history of 007 on the silver screen, this leaves little to the imagination. In The Essential Bond, 007 is shaken, stirred and served up on a plate. --Iain Campbell
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