James Bond: The Ultimate Collection (1962-2012) + Volume Collections

[Lyle_JP]

Originally Posted by monwobbbo

seems like new versions are made with every new film release. i expect reissues wil be available when new film comes out

Will they still be MGM or will they be Universal?

[dragon53]

TRIVIA---More James Bond movie trivia.
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS was Timothy Dalton's first movie playing James Bond. Walter Gotell returned as retired KGB Gen. Gogol.
Dalton and Gotell also appeared in the TALES FROM THE CRYPT episode "Werewolf Concerto" with Dalton playing Lokai, and Gotell playing Mr. Hertz.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS was Timothy Dalton's first movie playing James Bond. Walter Gotell returned as retired KGB Gen. Gogol.






Dalton and Gotell also appeared in the TALES FROM THE CRYPT episode "Werewolf Concerto" with Dalton playing Lokai, and Gotell playing Mr. Hertz.

[Dailyan]

RIP Honor Blackman:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hol...-was-94-950932

[dragon53]

TRIVIA---in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, Sean Connery's last official James Bond movie, Norman Burton played CIA agent Felix Leiter. Burton's biggest role was his horseback appearance as the Hunt Leader in PLANET OF THE APES.







In the movie's Las Vegas casino scene, comedian Shady Tree (Leonard Barr, Dean Martin's uncle) has two beautiful companions at his side. On his right was supposedly Valerie Perrine, who was nominated for an Academy Award in LENNY, but Perrine denied it's her. On his left is supposedly Cassandra Peterson, better known as horror queen Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. who claimed it was her on the left. However, 007 MAGAZINE said Pat Gill and Judy Ritsko are the real women in the scene, and Ritsko plays the topless dancer Bond talks to backstage.





In the movie's famous car chase scene, James Bond evaded pursuing police cars by slipping his Mustang through a narrow alley by tilting the Mustang on its right wheels. However, a filming mistake occurred when the Mustang exited the alley tilted on its left wheels. Because it was impractical to reshoot the entire scene, Sean Connery and Jill St. John reshot the film showing the Mustang tilted from its right wheels to four wheels and then to its left wheels---even the alley was supposedly too narrow for a car on four wheels to begin with.

[WJWS Channel 13:Amity]

Originally Posted by Lyle_JP

Will they still be MGM or will they be Universal?

now that fox home video is going away, MGM hopefully has set up their catalog titles to be distributed by Universal in the near future

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by dragon53

In the movie's Las Vegas casino scene, comedian Shady Tree (Leonard Barr, Dean Martin's uncle) has two beautiful companions at his side. On his right was supposedly Valerie Perrine, who was nominated for an Academy Award in LENNY, but Perrine denied it's her. On his left is supposedly Cassandra Peterson, better known as horror queen Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. who claimed it was her on the left. However, 007 MAGAZINE said Pat Gill and Judy Ritsko are the real women in the scene, and Ritsko plays the topless dancer Bond talks to backstage.

[Show spoiler]

That’s the first time I’ve read anyone suggesting that it’s Cassandra Peterson in that scene. It doesn’t even look anything remotely like her. I’m sure the Perrine rumours got started because that does resemble her and she was a showgirl at one time.

Originally Posted by dragon53

In the movie's famous car chase scene, James Bond evaded pursuing police cars by slipping his Mustang through a narrow alley by tilting the Mustang on its right wheels. However, a filming mistake occurred when the Mustang exited the alley tilted on its left wheels. Because it was impractical to reshoot the entire scene, Sean Connery and Jill St. John reshot the film showing the Mustang tilted from its right wheels to four wheels and then to its left wheels---even the alley was supposedly too narrow for a car on four wheels to begin with.

Actually it was originally shot was the car coming out on the correct wheels but it was decided that there was too much of a crowd watching the filming so impractical or not, they did reshoot the scene only that time it was on the incorrect side, necessitating the insert. The original version can be seen on the deleted scenes of the bluray. IMO they should have left it as is, the crowd is less of a distraction than the switching of the sides.

[dragon53]

TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
In Ian Fleming's novels, James Bond was a chain smoker, smoking up to 60-70 cigarettes a day.
In the movies, Sean Connery's Bond smoked cigarettes like the Bond in the novels. Roger Moore's Bond smoked cigars as Moore did in real life. George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton had Bond smoking cigarettes occasionally. Pierce Brosnan's Bond was the first smoke-free Bond. In TOMORROW NEVER DIES, he gives a cigarette to a Russian sentry, then knocks him out and states, "Filthy habit." In reality, Brosnan was a heavy cigar smoker who started at nine years old and got hooked later, "I got hooked onto them when I was doing REMINGTON STEELE." Daniel Craig, a heavy smoker, did not want his Bond to be a smoker, “I don’t wish for [Bond] to smoke. Fleming wrote a Bond who smoked 60 cigarettes a day. I can’t do that and then run two-and-a-half miles down a road, it just doesn’t tie in."
Fleming, like James Bond, was a chain smoker and smoked about 80 cigarettes a day which was a factor in his death at 53 of a heart attack.


In the James Bond movies, Sean Connery was a cigarette smoker like Bond in Ian Fleming's novels.




Fleming, like James Bond, was a chain smoker and smoked about 80 cigarettes a day which was a factor in his death at 53 of a heart attack.

[Petey Parker]

I was watching The Spy Who Loved Me on Sundance yesterday and they had some weird edits. They actually had blurring over the breasts/nipples of the girls in the intro song. I've seen it on basic cable for years and this is the first time I've ever seen that. Weird that Sundance of all places would go that far for something you can barely see.

[nightw1ng]

Has anyone gotten this recently and redeemed the digital code? The expiration says 09/20/2019, but I'm wondering if this one of the cases where it still works after the expiration date.

[dragon53]

TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
British character actress Valerie Leon played a hotel desk receptionist in two hit movies, the original THE ITALIAN JOB and THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. Leon played a hotel guest in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN.

Valerie Leon played a hotel desk receptionist in the original THE ITALIAN JOB with Michael Caine.




Leon played a hotel desk receptionist in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME with Roger Moore.




Leon played a hotel guest in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN, Sean Connery's last James Bond movie.

[CHASLS2]

Looks like the same woman that was in a episode of SPACE1999.

[dragon53]

MONDAY, MAY 4

TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME is considered to be the best of the Roger Moore James Bond movies, and legendary director Stanley Kubrick and his daughter had key roles in making the movie.
During the filming of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, cinematographer Claude Renoir's poor eyesight prevented him from devising the proper lighting for the massive stage featuring the submarine dock in the supertanker Liparus. Production designer Ken Adam, who worked with Stanley Kubrick on DR. STRANGELOVE, asked Kubrick for advice, "So I called Stanley up and asked him down to Pinewood to give me ideas. At first he said I was out of my mind but eventually he agreed to come on a Sunday when only security were around...He spent three or four hours with me telling me how he would light the stage. And of course the whole thing being in secret appealed to Stanley's sense of drama."
Also, Kubrick's daughter, Katharina Kubrick Hobbs, who worked in the studio art department, designed the steel teeth for Bond Villain Jaws, "My claim to fame is that I designed Jaws steel teeth. It was a throw away job they gave to the art dept junior who could draw...( me). Who knew they would become so iconic?"


James Bond production designer Ken Adam designed the Pentagon War Room in Stanley Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE.




Adam asked Kubrick for help in lighting THE SPY WHO LOVED ME's massive stage featuring the submarine dock in the supertanker Liparus.





Stanley Kubrick's daughter, Katharina Kubrick Hobbs, designed the steel teeth for Bond Villain Jaws.






Jaws's steel teeth on display at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

[chris_s]

Originally Posted by nightw1ng

Has anyone gotten this recently and redeemed the digital code? The expiration says 09/20/2019, but I'm wondering if this one of the cases where it still works after the expiration date.

I was wondering the same thing. Was thinking of picking this up but wanted to make sure the digital code was still working.

[grim_tales]

I read an Amazon review that says the first 3 movies are meant to be 1.85/1? That doesn't sound right (I have the seperate releases rather than this multi-set). I always thought theyre 1.33/1.

I guess THUNDERBALL, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE and DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER must be on Vol. 2

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by grim_tales

I read an Amazon review that says the first 3 movies are meant to be 1.85/1? That doesn't sound right (I have the seperate releases rather than this multi-set). I always thought theyre 1.33/1.

MGM has/had the habit of mastering many early (1955-1964ish) "flat"-widescreen United Artists films in 1.66 because of misinformation thinking it was UA's preferred ratio. The first three Connery films were shot in 1.37 (aka "Academy Ratio") but never intended to be shown theatrically like that and were matted to 1.85 in the States.

[imsounoriginal]

Oh they were shot in Academy and then matted to 1.66:1? Never knew that. Always assumed they were shot natively at 1.66:1.

[grim_tales]

I never knew that, interesting. Can't remember what ratio the individual releases are (I don't have them to hand).

[chriszilla]

The aspect ratio 1.75:1 was fairly common in Great Britain during the time of the early Bond films. When Criterion released DR. NO, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and GOLDFINGER on laserdisc in the early 90's, they were transferred at 1.75:1.

Someone like Bob Furmanek could speak to this with more authority, but I would imagine when those first three Bond films were shown here in the U.S., they were probably matted at either 1.66 or 1.85, depending on the theater's setup. But 1.75 was the original ratio.

[captainsolo]

It's been debated online before but most prints of the first three are all hard matted to a point at say 1.5 and allow for framing at 1.66, 1.75 or 1.85. (Some location work is full 1.33 but intended to be matted off) It is very much likely they were run 1.85 here but looking at composition they seem perfect at 1.66. As long as you properly frame them the first three work perfectly fine at any of those three ratios but the tighter you go I think it starts to affect the picture.

On video they were transferred 1.33 until Criterion did them at about 1.75 and because they were properly framed they looked lovely. MGM then did them in new masters almost at 1.6 and they looked even better and gave even more information on top and bottom. Then for the SE DVDs they adjusted them to 1.78 and while still okay whoever did that managed to crop off some things here and there and they felt more cramped. The one thing Lowry did in 2006 that I was pleased with was to restore the 1.66 framing.

Ironically if you go way back to the early 1.33 video editions of the first three it's interesting to see how well they can work that way without losing or sacrificing very much most of the time!

Live and Let Die and The Man With the Golden Gun are 1.85. They were designed and shot for that ratio which meant that when done in 1.78 for those same special edition DVDs they had framing issues as well and were put back to 1.85 thankfully in 2006.

I wish I could see original documented technical materials but after seeing several iterations of prints over the years and every major video release of Bond going back to 1982 I feel pretty confident that 1.66 is the best overall choice for the initial three. I'm admittedly a bit of an even greater nut for these five non scope Bonds as they have a certain visual quality to them that is so striking that I often wondered what other Bonds would have looked like if shot flat. Ted Moore is one of my all time favorite cameramen and it's a darn shame there was never any sort of interview where he discussed the Bonds.

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by captainsolo

Live and Let Die and The Man With the Golden Gun are 1.85. They were designed and shot for that ratio which meant that when done in 1.78 for those same special edition DVDs they had framing issues as well and were put back to 1.85 thankfully in 2006.

There is no way the difference between 1.78 and 1.85 is enough to create "framing issues".