Relying on wits: 007's most resourceful moments

Firemass · 2013-01-20 03:05:00

Excerpt from John Glen's book about For Your Eyes Only film: "There is a scene in Fleming's Live and Let Die which sees Bond keelhauled over razor-sharp coral. [...] I was especially pleased that it showed another instance of Bond having to get out of trouble by relying on his wits. Gadgetry will always play a part in the…

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Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,871MI6 Agent

March 2013

Firemass wrote:

Did I already post this great little excerpt from Mark O'Connells' Memoirs of a Bond Fan:

"In A View to a Kill Moore plays a Bond who is still wholly resourceful. This is a 007 who thinks on his feet, throws a gas tank into underwater propellers, uses the air from a car tyre to breathe , improvises in a ligt inferno and saves the girl with a waste paper bin and a canvas fire hose. He even juggles three aliases!"

Wow! A great little quote there, Firemass. I must get that book pronto.

"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).

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