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Bond, James
Bond. The signature music, the hot cars and hotter babes, the gadgets,
and the exotic locales are among the intoxicating ingredients that comprise
the ultimate fantasy character. Celebrating over 40 years since the film
release of Dr. No., five actors and 19 adventures later, our bond with
Bond remains strong.
Iron-Cow
Prod. Is pleased to unveil a brand new line of fully articulated, 6-inch
scale James Bond action figures. Wave I features Sean Connery and Roger
Moore, both with paint variants.
James
Bond - Sean Connery, "Dr. No"
Released
in 1962, this first James Bond movie remains one of the best, and serves
as an entertaining reminder that the Bond series began (in keeping with
Ian Fleming's novels) with a surprising lack of gadgetry and big-budget
fireworks. Sean Connery was just 32 years old when he won the role of
Agent 007. In his first adventure James Bond is called to Jamaica where
a colleague and secretary have been mysteriously killed. With an American
CIA agent (Jack Lord, pre-Hawaii Five-O), they discover that the nefarious
Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) is scheming to blackmail the U.S. government with
a device capable of deflecting and destroying U.S. rockets launched from
Cape Canaveral. Of course, Bond takes time off from his exploits to enjoy
the company of a few gorgeous women, including the bikini-clad Ursula
Andress. She gloriously kicks off the long-standing tradition of Bond
women who know how to please their favorite secret agent. A sexist anachronism?
Maybe, but this is Bond at his purest, kicking off a series of movies
that shows no sign of slowing down. --Jeff Shannons.
James
Bond - Sean Connery, "Goldfinger"
Dry as ice,
dripping with deadpan witticisms, only Sean Connery's Bond would dare
disparage the Beatles, that other 1964 phenomenon. No one but Connery
can believably seduce women so effortlessly, kill with almost as much
ease, and then pull another bottle of Dom Perignon '53 out of the fridge.
Goldfinger contains many of the most memorable scenes in the Bond series:
gorgeous Shirley Eaton (as Jill Masterson) coated in gold paint by evil
Auric Goldfinger and deposited in Bond's bed; silent Oddjob, flipping
a razor-sharp derby like a Frisbee to sever heads; our hero spread-eagle
on a table while a laser beam moves threateningly toward his crotch. Honor
Blackman's Pussy Galore is the prototype for the series' rash of man-hating
supermodels. And Desmond Llewelyn reprises his role as Q, giving Bond
what is still his most impressive car, a snazzy little number that fires
off smoke screens, punctures the tires of vehicles on the chase, and boasts
a handy ejector seat. Goldfinger's two climaxes, inside Fort Knox and
aboard a private plane, have to be seen to be believed. --Raphael Shargel.
James
Bond - Roger Moore, "The Spy Who Loved Me"
The best
of the James Bond adventures starring Roger Moore as tuxedoed Agent 007,
this globe-trotting thriller introduced the steel-toothed Jaws (played
by seven-foot-two-inch-tall actor Richard Kiel) as one of the most memorable
and indestructible Bond villains. Jaws is so tenacious, in fact, that
Moore looks genuinely frightened, and that adds to the abundant fun. This
time Bond teams up with yet another lovely Russian agent (Barbara Bach)
to track a pair of nuclear submarines that the nefarious Stromberg (Curt
Jürgens) plans to use in his plot to start World War III. Featuring
lavish sets designed by the great Ken Adam (Dr. Strangelove), The Spy
Who Loved Me is a galaxy away from the suave Sean Connery exploits of
the 1960s, but the film works perfectly as grandiose entertainment. From
cavernous undersea lairs to the vast horizons of Egypt, this Bond thriller
keeps its tongue firmly in cheek with a plot tailor-made for daredevil
escapism. -- Jeff Shannon.
James
Bond - Roger Moore, "A View To A Kill"
007 returns
from the USSR with a new computer chip; one that is invulnerable to the
magnetic pulse of a nuclear explosion. The chip is being manufactured
by Zorin Industries, headed up by a sociopathic businessman named Max
Zorin who is planning to corner the world microchip market by using explosives
to cause an earthquake in the San Andreas fault that will wipe out Silicon
Valley - and the millions who live and work there! Bond must face not
only Zorin himself, but the equally twisted May Day and Scarpine, another
one of Zorin's henchmen. Assisted by San Francisco City employee Stacy
Bond goes after the would-be computer magnate in a series of frightening
confrontations - including fire in the SF City Hall, a wild chase through
the city with Stacy at the wheel of a fire department ladder truck, and
finally in a hand-to-hand fight atop San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
-- Derek O'Cain.
The James
Bond 2005 Action Figure Collection - Exclusively from Iron-Cow Prod.