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James Bond: The Legacy
You know the name. You know the number. Now know the rest of the story. Published to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Dr. No, the first James Bond film, James The Legacy is the official, definitive guide to the 007 phenomenon. Loaded with anecdotes, facts, and illustrations, the book provides features on the key actors, from Sean Connery to Pierce Brosnan, directors, costume and set designers, and others working behind the scenes. Without a doubt, this is the book of the Bond World. James The Legacy takes readers through a comprehensive-and fun-history of the movies. The book places the films in the context of their times, showing how producers Albert "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman drew inspiration from the Cold War and from suave, glamorous icons like Hugh Hefner and JFK, and how later world events shaped story lines-and even how closely the series presaged actual technological developments. As the films move into their fifth decade, the
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320 pages, Hardcover
Published August 1, 2006
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June 6, 2015
A beautifully illustrated coffee table book for all James Bond Fans and movie enthusiasts. The book is immensely large in dimensions with high quality art paper and is lavishly spruced up with extremely big high quality rare photographs.
Covering bond movies from 'Dr. No' to 'The world is not enough' this collectable books is choke full of interview excerpts, posters and photographs from movies and sets, trivia and history of each movie etc to make every Bond fan extremely satisfied. It also has a reference section at the end of the book which acts as a ready reckoner for finding facts like release date, box office collection details, awards etc along with interesting trivia's like details of villains, bond women, gadgets, locations etc.
Being a hardcore bond fan this title is one of the jewels in my library.
Covering bond movies from 'Dr. No' to 'The world is not enough' this collectable books is choke full of interview excerpts, posters and photographs from movies and sets, trivia and history of each movie etc to make every Bond fan extremely satisfied. It also has a reference section at the end of the book which acts as a ready reckoner for finding facts like release date, box office collection details, awards etc along with interesting trivia's like details of villains, bond women, gadgets, locations etc.
Being a hardcore bond fan this title is one of the jewels in my library.
October 26, 2012
A fascinating book which looks at how the Bond films reacted to the times in which they were made, suggesting that the political gloom of the early 1970s was a key factor in the 007 scripts getting lighter in tone.
Stunning photos accompany the text.
Stunning photos accompany the text.
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March 26, 2008Yes, it's a coffee table book, yet it is chockful of intimate details of the first 20 Bond movies, as well as the two non-franchise movies.
November 4, 2012
Over sized public library book with some pictures I have not seen before inside other 007 books. Nice anecdotes from other behind the scenes person.
January 7, 2020
I was partway done when I thought there was nothing new. But then I read a part about how Bond-mania caused a riot. It is vignettes like that which made the book a must-read.
It would be interesting to see one in the soon-t0-be-post Craig era.
It would be interesting to see one in the soon-t0-be-post Craig era.
August 17, 2023
An impeccable resource. It's continually grounding you in the historical and political context of the time. A fascinating read for a diehard like myself where I even learned quite a few new things about the making of the franchise!
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