Saturday Night at the Movies 7/14/12!

Who cares what picture we see?


There's not a shred of evidence to support it, but I believe Putter Smith most certainly would, so we shall so choose:

After a one movie hiatus, Sean Connery came back to replace the guy who replaced him - but the movie seems geared Moore for the next guy...

This is the 007 movie that probably had the biggest impact on my real life - because it takes place in Las Vegas - and that was where I got married - staying at Circus Circus (which appears in the movie) and going on a bit of a Bond spree while I was there.




As we've been doing with these jumps onto the Bond Wagon, let's throw in a few extras too - here's a teaser trailer which features some very cool shot-for-the-trailer graphics in the opening seconds before switching over to boiling the pre-credits sequence down to about a minute.

I also love that the movie was scheduled for Christmas - which was when all the Big Movies were scheduled to be released back in the day - before Jaws made it all about the Summertime...

Here's a couple of other poster ideas that weren't used:

And because I'm feeling expansive here's a fake trailer - that works hard to show us what this movie might have been like - if George Lazenby had repeated in the role - and the diamond plot had been woven around Bond's revenge on Blofeld for the murder of Tracy.

Lastly, here's another piece of concept art designed for a poster - but not used...

The seventh 007 flick has all the usual action and stunts, but throws in some really witty lines (courtesy screen co-writer Tom Mankiewicz) and does come off as a "Roger Moore Bond starring Sean Connery" but you know I love the dickens out of it, and it resides in the video vault one a fine DVD (awaiting Blu-Ray release in a couple of months) and could be spinning in the player in seconds if you would like to come visit me and watch it!


Until next post, you Can Poke Me With A Fork, Cause I Am Outta Here!