Originally planned as the first James Bond movie, a long lasting legal dispute pushed Thunderball back to become the fourth entry in the now established genre. Keyed up by the accumulative iconic power of the genre and the high quality of Goldfinger, the film became a break out box office hit.
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Goldfinger is the quintessential James Bond movie. Dr No and From Russia with Love were feeling their way into a new genre, but the third Connery film has a confidence in its tone, its action, its design and its lead performance that would become the gold standard by which all other Bonds would be judged.
Released in 1963 and based on Ian Fleming's 1957 novel, From Russia with Love is the second outing for Sean Connery as James Bond and is a marked improvement on the first film.
Dr. No is the first cinematic foray into James Bond. A lot is missing. No Q, no pre-titles sequence. Even the gun barrel sequence features some chubby chap who is very obviously not Sean Connery. But for all that it is also setting in place a template which will run for better and for much much worse through twenty four more films.
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