Favourite Non Bond Connery Films ?

stumac7stumac7 ScotlandPosts: 295MI6 Agent
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As title suggests - was wondering what everyones favourite non Bond Connery films are??

Mine are in order:

1. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
2. The Untouchables
3. The Rock
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  • Brosnan_fanBrosnan_fan Sydney, AustraliaPosts: 521MI6 Agent
    In no particular order:

    Last Crusade
    Hunt for Red October
    The Untouchables
    "Well, he certainly left with his tails between his legs."
  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    These are done in order of when they were made, rather than any particular preference.

    Hell Drivers. Cracking British thriller with one of the best casts ever, including a pre-Bond Connery, Patrick McGoohan before he was Danger Man, William Hartnell before he became the first Doctor Who, and all led by the seriously tough Stanley Baker.

    Marnie, which for me was Hitchcock's last great movie.

    The Offence Connery as a frazzled cop about to seriously lose his temper with a child abuser.

    Robin and Marian, Richard Lester's lovely elegy for Robin Hood.

    Highlander, cult classic with Connery mentoring Christopher Lambert in the noble art of decapitating your opponent.
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    edited August 2007
    John Drake wrote:
    Marnie, which for me was Hitchcock's last great movie.
    You don't think that Frenzy was Hitch's last great film?

    My favourite non-Connery Bond films are:
    1)Highlander- An absolute classic that combines some terrific sword fights, an original and creative plot, a cool cast and music from my favourite group (Queen) to create IMO Connery's greatest ever non-Bond film and one of the greatest action/fantasy films of all time. This film also proves that Connery does not need to put on an accent to superbly play a non-Scotsman, as he plays a Spaniard with great results. :D

    2)The Rock- A terrific action film and perhaps Connery's last good film.

    3)Marnie- A very underrated Hitchcock film with a young Sean Connery delivering a great performance.

    4)Robin and Marian- Sean Connery opposite Audrey Hepburn. Enough said.

    5)Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade- Although nowhere near as good as Raiders, it is a tremendously fun film in which Connery is brilliant.
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • GeorgiboyGeorgiboy Posts: 632MI6 Agent
    1. The Untouchables - My favorite movie of all time
    2. The Rock
  • arthur pringlearthur pringle SpacePosts: 366MI6 Agent
    Time Bandits was a good one.
  • MoniqueMonique USAPosts: 696MI6 Agent
    Entrapment was great too.
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,988Quartermasters
    I'd have to go with The Untouchables...

    "What are you prepared to do?"

    "You're a treasury officer. Who would claim to be that, who was not?"

    "How do you think he feels now? Better...or worse?"

    "Ah, Mr. Ness. I wish you could have met me ten years...and twenty pounds ago."

    B-)
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  • Tee HeeTee Hee CBT Headquarters: Chicago, ILPosts: 917MI6 Agent
    Dan Same wrote:
    The Rock- A terrific action film and perhaps Connery's last good film.

    I love The Rock Dan, however I would argue that Connery's last good film is in fact The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I was actually hoping there would be a sequel to this film, however as we all know Mr. Connery decided to retire from acting. Shame. :#
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,270MI6 Agent
    edited August 2007
    The League of Extraoridnary Genetleman is supposed to be a stinker, though I quite enjoyed it myself, in a lazy way. Connery nothing spesh in it though.

    The Untouchables. This is how a Bond film should be imo, if feels like Goldfinger updated.

    A Bridge Too Far. Not perfect, but Connery is good in it.

    Can't really think of many others, they do seem a bit flawed. Connery is hard to cast, y'know. He's had some hits and misses. Oh, The Name of the Rose with Michel Lonsdale aka Drax. But that, with Indiana Jones, was the second wind for his career. Sadly it ended in him willingly taking lucrative roles he wouldnt' have touched with a barge pool in the 70s.

    Edit: Ah, The Hlll is very good, as is The First Great Train Robbery and Darby O'Gill. {[]
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  • A7ceA7ce Birmingham, EnglandPosts: 655MI6 Agent
    I quite liked

    The Man who would be King
    Woman of Straw
    The Anderson Tapes
    The First Great Train Robbery
    Murder on The Orient Express
    The Wind and the Lion
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,988Quartermasters
    The Man Who Would Be King and Robin and Marian are both excellent...

    To my mind, he's had many more good films than misfires...

    The Rock certainly deserves Honourable Mention, because---as I've always imagined it---if Connery's Bond had been somehow captured in the Sixties...and somehow held as a prisoner until the Nineties...the character we get in The Rock would be the result.

    I think The Rock is Connery's final great action film.

    I'm also fond of his performance in The Presidio with Mark Harmon...also very good {[]
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  • TonyDPTonyDP Inside the MonolithPosts: 4,280MI6 Agent
    edited August 2007
    The titles mentioned in this thread only go to show what a vast body of quality work Sir Sean has amassed. Lots of my favorites have already been mentioned including Man Who Would Be King, Untouchables, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (unfairly maligned if you ask me).

    Another of my favorites is The Hunt For Red October. Connery's turn as Ramius is another solid performance - in the midst of an absolutely fabulous cast - and one I always stop to watch whenever it's on TV.
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    edited August 2007
    Tee Hee wrote:
    Dan Same wrote:
    The Rock- A terrific action film and perhaps Connery's last good film.
    I love The Rock Dan, however I would argue that Connery's last good film is in fact The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I was actually hoping there would be a sequel to this film, however as we all know Mr. Connery decided to retire from acting. Shame. :#
    It is a fun film and so I probably worded my post wrongly. What I meant was that IMO The Rock was Connery's last great film as it is in my view an outstanding action film.
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    edited August 2007
    Loeffelholz wrote:
    I'd have to go with The Untouchables...

    "What are you prepared to do?"

    "You're a treasury officer. Who would claim to be that, who was not?"

    "How do you think he feels now? Better...or worse?"

    "Ah, Mr. Ness. I wish you could have met me ten years...and twenty pounds ago."

    B-)
    I think that Connery was absolutely brilliant in The Untouchables (as was De Niro IMO), and the film has some great moments IMO (any scene with Connery/De Niro, the pram scene, the courtroom sequences) however I have always felt that the parts were much more than the whole. :# Still, some of the elements are truly wonderful. :D
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,270MI6 Agent
    OK. What about his stinkers?

    Meteor must be right up there.
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  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    OK. What about his stinkers?

    Meteor must be right up there.

    How about everything he's done in the last 20 years?
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,270MI6 Agent
    The Avengers, for instance.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    edited August 2007
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    The Avengers, for instance.
    I hate to say it, but I enjoyed that film. ;%
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,218Chief of Staff
    Dan Same wrote:
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    The Avengers, for instance.
    I hate to say it, but I enjoyed that film. ;%

    Couldn't watch it! I lasted about half-an-hour then switched it off. If not Connery's worst, it's near the bottom.

    Near the top:

    The Man Who Would Be King
    The Rock
    The Hunt For Red October
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Dan Same wrote:
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    The Avengers, for instance.
    I hate to say it, but I enjoyed that film. ;%
    Couldn't watch it! I lasted about half-an-hour then switched it off. If not Connery's worst, it's near the bottom.
    It is bad, however I enjoy the start of the film.
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    Dan Same wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Dan Same wrote:
    I hate to say it, but I enjoyed that film. ;%
    Couldn't watch it! I lasted about half-an-hour then switched it off. If not Connery's worst, it's near the bottom.
    It is bad, however I enjoy the start of the film.

    The start's quite good. It's the 70 minutes that come after it that's the problem. :)) I thought Ralph Fiennes did a decent enough job as Steed, but the film is a real missed opportunity. David Fincher was trying to get an Avengers project of the ground in the early 90's with Charles Dance and Nicole Kidman as Steed and Emma Peel. That would have been far preferable to what we ended up with.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,270MI6 Agent
    Everyone was miscast, methinks. Fiennes specialises in repressed emotions, but really Steed was a very amiable, unrepressed English gent. Uma wasn't really English of course. And Connery makes an odious bad guy.

    Trailer was very good, however.

    I understand they pulled it apart and put it back together again but no matter how they did it, it just didn't hold interest.

    Anyone seen The Man With The Deadly Lens?
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • arthur pringlearthur pringle SpacePosts: 366MI6 Agent
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    OK. What about his stinkers?

    Meteor must be right up there.


    Finding Forrester wasn't very clever. I wonder if Connery saw the script (cranky, eccentric mentor with a heart of gold) and started dreaming of another oscar. I think the film was made by the Goodwill Hunting people. Matt Damon is a mathematical genius with a bigger IQ than Mr Spock...but just happens to be a janitor :s
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,218Chief of Staff
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    Anyone seen The Man With The Deadly Lens?

    Yes, many years ago. It wasn't bad; the bit I remember best is Connery pulling off his toupee at the end!
  • Lady RoseLady Rose London,UKPosts: 2,667MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Near the top:

    The Man Who Would Be King
    The Rock
    The Hunt For Red October

    I would go along with this. I love The Man Who would Be King especially.
  • darenhatdarenhat The Old PuebloPosts: 2,029Quartermasters
    You can't mention stinkers without including "Zardoz"
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    Highlander 2 was a massive disappointment, especially since the original was so amazing.
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • AlexAlex The Eastern SeaboardPosts: 2,694MI6 Agent
    Just Cause and Rising Sun were tight little thrillers, not to mention Entrapment.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,218Chief of Staff
    Lady Rose wrote:
    I love The Man Who would Be King especially.

    Did you see the extra called The Man Who Would Be Shaun on Shaun Of The Dead? Nick Frost & Simon Pegg do a scene in spot-on Connery & Caine voices :)).
  • stumac7stumac7 ScotlandPosts: 295MI6 Agent
    I forgot about Time Bandits and Highlander, which were both very good.

    My new list
    1. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
    2. The Untouchables
    3. Time Bandits
    4. The Rock
    5. Highlander
    6. The Hunt For Red October
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