Regardless of actor playing 007, what’s your favourite Bond film? Mine’s got to be From Russia… Good story and great characters. Robert Shaw was just brilliant as Red Grant. And Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb? What was Lenya doing in such a role? She was already a cult figure for her, some would say avant-garde, work with husband Kurt Weill and his mate Brecht. Still, she made Klebb into a cult of her own.
While we’re on the subject, who do you reckon is the best Bond we never had? My money’s on Sam Neill. Aside from acting talents, he even looked like Fleming’s Bond, right down to the “lock of unruly hair over forehead”. Only problem was. when he could have done the role, he was probably too busy with Reilly Ace of Spies.