Dozens of filmic imitators rushed to compete with the four or five official Bond movies: serious espionage stories, cartoonish escapism, silly comedies, and knock-offs from every country with a film industry. The Beatles may have been the number one sensation but from approximately 1964 to 1969, Ian Fleming's James Bond reshaped the film landscape into big letters reading, '007.' As embodied by Sean Connery, a handsome bruiser with a lady-killing smile, Her Majesty's dashing Cold Warrior held the center of international attention.

If you think we have movie fads now - Indiana Jones, Batman, Harry Potter - they were nothing like the Bond mania that swept the world in the 1960s. 'Charlie Feldman said, 'You've done so much on this picture for me, I'm going to give you an extra credit title: Coordinating Director.' And I said well if you do that Charlie, I'll sue you! 'What do you mean?' I said, people are going to look at this and say, ' This was coordinated?' Feldman, Jerry Bresler, John Darkĭirected by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish Woody Allen, Val Guest, Ben Hecht, Joseph Heller, Terry Southern, Billy Wilder, Peter Sellers Written by Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, Michael Sayers and uncredited, John Huston, Kurt Kasznar, George Raft, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Terence Cooper, Barbara Bouchet, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, Starring: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles,

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