One Piece of Trivia in Every Bond Movie

[@annamariaisland1960]

When asked what he was bringing to the Bond series that Connery didn't have, Roger Moore said "My own hair."

[@DutchBondFan]

Brilliant response 😂

[@OSJ81]

He said White Teeth

[@huepix]

Funnily enough, Connery had to have his body shaved when working as a model early in his career

[@CoolMoeDea21]

Another piece of trivia: after Die Another Day came out, Brosnan was visiting a pub in Dublin. A guy comes up and requests a handshake. The man gave him a good laugh when he says "That's about as close as my hand will get to Hally Berry's arse."

[@RocketmanS2K]

Another interesting piece of trivia around For Your Eyes Only is that Cassandra Harris, who played Countess Lisl von Schlaf, was married to Pierce Brosnan at the time of filming.

[@lovepeaceunity1010]

WHAT!?

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@lovepeaceunity1010 - Yes she was, and sadly died aged only 43.

[@clffliese26]

@@lovepeaceunity1010 According to the making of feature or the audio commentary I don't remember which, Brosnan was on set every day she had scenes to film.

[@lovepeaceunity1010]

@@clffliese26 wow that’s incredible, Brosnan is my favorite bond

[@Ijustbeoverthinking]

The irony of her only having 3 weeks of training and wrecking all those dudes with bond is hilarious I love it 🤣

[@frozencloudzzful]

Shows how insanely talented she is

[@henrykujawa4427]

@@frozencloudzzful Better than Nomi!

[@paulwoida8249]

Hopefully they give her a movie of her own. If she is paired with the new Bond, she will overshadow him. Having the new Bond appear at the end of her movie for a cameo would be good.

[@lukevaxhacker7762]

@@paulwoida8249 Ana de Armas kind of already had her own movie - Knives Out. Because of working with her in *that* film, Daniel Craig insisted that she join him in No Time to Die.

[@tonychan8558]

Welsh actor Desmond Llewelyn was asked to play Q as a Welshman in 'From Russia With Love'. He hated the idea, but Broccoli insisted. So he went all out with his Welsh accent... 'you press this button and out comes a knife!'. It sounded ridiculous! Broccoli confessed he was wrong, and Q had an English accent ever since.

[@dapaintbrush6965]

He was the best Q

[@tonychan8558]

@@dapaintbrush6965 Absolutely agree! Paddington Bear has nothing on him!

[@nunopombo846]

Two Pieces of trivia for the man with the golden gun: Christopher Lee Was an MI6 agent before it existed as the MI6, and was also Ian Fleming's distant cousin.

[@moffjerjerrod1579]

@@mpeterll sorry, but Sean Connery played Ramius, Golden Gun was a Roger Moore movie.

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

4:02 You just gotta love how Peter Hunt helped convince George Lazenby that he was INDEED an actor. Plus, he knew how to make people laugh. For example, in the Making of *"From Russia With Love"* Documentary; Peter Hunt talked about how Terence Young visited the editing room one day and asked him if he could see what they did so far. So he showed him the scene where Q taught Bond how to safely open his suitcase, and when he did, it suddenly cuts to an explosion (Crab Key blowing up) and then end credits rolled. This caused Terence to break down in laughter.

[@TalkingHands308]

Ana De Armas is probably one of the most beautiful young actresses right now. But yes, that scene was probably the best scene, her fangirling over bond was kind of adorable.

[@markkershenblatt]

Another piece of trivia about You Only Live Twice: The henchman that Bond fights in Osato's office in the beginning of the movie is played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's grandfather.

[@yrsued]

Did you know that the Arecibo Observatory in Golden Eye actually fell apart after years of disrepair, there are videos of the final moments before the antenna cables snapped and the whole thing came crumbling down. I visited the observatory while I was in High School, in 1977, I lived in Puerto Rico for 21 years.

[@henrykujawa4427]

I remember the first time I saw that film, that dish blew my mind. I had NO IDEA it was a real location. I was so into the story, in the back of my head, I thought, "HOW MUCH did they spend to build this set?" Meanwhile, I also had NO IDEA what Derek Meddings did on the film. The shot of the dish coming up out of the water, of course, was a MINIATURE. But I had NO CLUE! Some of Medding's best work was when you COULDN'T TELL he worked on the film at all. Another example was the deserted warehouse the helicopter flew into in the pre-credit sequence of "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY". Inside the warehouse, the copter was not really flying-- it moved on a track. But outside-- it never did fly into the building. Meddings built a miniature of the building, shot very close to the camera, with the camera focus at the widest distance, so everything was in the SAME focus. The REAL copter flew behind the tiny model. But it looked like it actually flew INTO a building. The irony of this hit me sometime later, when I saw "SHAFT'S BIG SCORE" (1972). That film actually did have a real helicopter flying inside a real warehouse. 9 years before "FYEO" faked it!

[@yrsued]

@@henrykujawa4427 It is a shame the Government abandoned the Arecibo Observatory, they let it go to ruins, the video of the thing falling apart is heartbreaking!!

[@kjamison5951]

I first learned of Arecibo during The X-Files. It’s a shame that such an important piece of our astronomical research was allowed to fall into disrepair.

[@yrsued]

@@kjamison5951 Yes, that was VERY unfortunate, It's been so long since I was there, but I remember what they told us!! Now, IIRC, it was in 76, not 77. I was in High School

[@billcook4768]

When I heard the receiving platform had fallen onto the dish, my first thought was there must have been two 00 agents fighting up there.

[@defiraphi]

Fun fact is that the French title from "A View to a Kill" is named "Dangereusement Vôtre" which was a nod to the show Roger Moore starred with Tony Curtis "The Persuaders" in french it's called "Amicalement Vôtre" .

[@Happymali10]

1:45 They actually moved all his scenes to be shot early in the production, and its said that he only dragged himself through the (for him) grueling schedule because he wanted his family to be more financially secure.

[@MatadorShifter]

Expanding on Tomorrow Never Dies trivia: it's not like Pierce didn't get along with Teri only because he preferred Monica Belluci, but it was due to Teri's unprofessional behavior on the set which antagonized the whole film crew, and this is when Pierce said they should've convinced Monica Belluci to play the part instead My own piece of trivia: I found out that the words Bond, James Bond were improvised by Sean Connery. They wanted him to introduce himself normally but he found it dull

[@henrykujawa4427]

Of course, when Bond first says it, he's replying to the girl in the casino, who just said... "Trench. SYLVIA Trench."

[@tonychan8558]

I thought Brosnan was annoyed with Hatcher because she was constantly late. But it was due to morning sickness and no one knew she was pregnant. When Brosnan found out, he apologised publicly to her.

[@jonathancampbell5231]

@@tonychan8558 Yeah, that's what I heard too. I'm not sure Teri Hatcher even knew she was pregnant either.

[@morphman86]

It was Eunice Gayson that improvised the line. Connery just mimicked it. She introduced her own character as "Trench, Sylvia Trench" and Connery replied "Bond, James Bond", then spent the next 40 years spouting trivia on fan meetups and in interviews about how HE created that iconic line.

[@Siilur]

In Octopussy, one of the female palace guardians was actually portrayed by the daughter of long-time 'Q'-actor, Desmond Llewelyn

[@MrBlazeDevlin]

6:26 an addition to the Octopussy Trivia: In the German version, Moore says to the tiger “Du gehörst in den Tank!” (“You belong in the fuel tank!”). I never understood it when I was younger, but that was a reference to the Esso gas stations, who had the slogan “Pack den Tiger in den Tank” (“put the tiger in the tank”).

[@jameslong3509]

When at Sanchez’s villa in Licence To Kill, listen carefully to the breakfast dialogue between Sanchez and Bond. Dalton, despite being a Shakespearean actor, accent suddenly changes. “You were just in time, things were about to turn nasty” comes out in a regional English accent. From the age of four he grew up in Derbyshire and Lancashire (American mother, English father). This oddly wasn’t changed during looping. Odd slip.

[@emperorleachy6435]

I do love Dalton’s delivery of that line though, so I’m glad they kept it in

[@liquidgeorge]

And “Watch the birdie, you bastard.”

[@duncancurtis5971]

One does not simply walk into Mordor?

[@phillipallen8560]

Derbyshire not Lancashire, he grew up in Belper a few miles from where I did.

[@spencerkindra8822]

i think it's great and I'm glad they didn't change it in looping haha. Why can't Bond be a Yonner? Lol.

[@ahha6304]

it's not only Swedish that mistaken "to a kill" to "Tokyo", the original Thai subtitle has that problem too. It's a worldwide problem it seems.

[@ahha6304]

also, in TND, the boat that took Bond and Ling on from the sea has a clear Thai script written "นางนวล" which means Seagull

[@Ellis007Bond]

Another piece of trivia for Tomorrow Never Dies is the number plate on the BMW is BMT 2144 which is the german version of Bond's Aston Martin DB5 number plate BMT 214A (BMT 216A wasnt used in the brosnan era due to not being allowed to use it)

[@sureshot8399]

The World Is Not Enough is not only the name of a movie, it is the Bond family motto......but it was also the motto of the 16th Century King Philip II of Spain - Non Sufficit Orbis

[@Mark-lj1dj]

5:28 thats a nice touch to the movie i never knew that

[@joeyliptapanlop]

For AVTAK, it was the same in my language (Thai). They translated it as "Wow what a view" "it looks like Tokyo"

[@spencerkindra8822]

Videos like this one make me realize how little I actually know about the behind the scenes information of the franchise even though I've read all the novels I've seen all the movies at least 3 times. I need to do more research haha.

[@stevenjoy3537]

Arecibo observatory has now collapsed

[@DutchBondFan]

Yeah Sadly...

[@Visqo1]

These are my favorite videos in your channel. I learn so much from these movies I love. Thanks for the good work!

[@mikeysuzefour]

Here's a bit of trivia you may not have known from "The Man With The Golden Gun": The henchman that the 2 karate-school girls beat up before Bond (Moore) throws him off the bridge into water is none other than a younger Jackie Chan; As the original Bruce Lee made his uncredited cameo in the Macau Casino, Chan showed up with the other Hong Kong stuntmen for their fight scenes with Moore, his oriental sidekick and the 2 gals. 😸

[@jonathancampbell5231]

I think that's a myth. There doesn't seem to be any evidence for that which I camn find. One of Hip's nieces is played by the landlady from the film Kung Fu Hustle though.

[@zacharycollins9485]

Casino Royale trivia: the character Mollaka that Bond is after during the crane chase is Sebastien Foucan, the actual founder of freerunning. 💪

[@Greg87601]

I enjoy hearing Bond Movie Trivia.

[@iowa_don]

10:14 - Sadly there was a partial collapse of the Arecibo telescope on December 1, 2020. The video footage is quite incredible.

[@mr.simplex]

Thanks for compiling all these pieces of trivia! Although I already knew a number of them, it's great to have somewhere to be able to point newer Bond fans if they want a little more info on the films.

[@akagordon]

Pedro Armendáriz's son also played in a Bond film. He portrayed the president of the fictional country of Isthmus in License to Kill. Cubby Broccoli became so ill on that set due to air pollution, that he had fled back to the U.K. The movie also featured the largest explosion on film, a feat Bond films have accomplished two other times, most recently in SPECTRE. The film did not perform well, but even the Bond movies with little critical success have some very interesting trivia.

[@Maldunn]

This is a great series and seems like a lot of work goes into them. I really liked this one and I’m looking forward to the next!

[@imthedaddy3477]

Useless trivia : The first 5 films were released in alphabetical order.

[@duncanidaho2130]

De Armas delivers that line cheekedly perfect.

[@leehenderson349]

Love these videos always keep me entertained on my days off. Keep up the good work.

[@godzillasimpson8357]

The actor in from Russia with love really managed to persevere and acted amazing considering in that film he was slowly dying.

[@TheSegacampGamerandWerecamp]

Awesome little pieces of Trivia for Each Bond Movie DutchBondFan keep it up!

[@Louisejames23]

The traffic warden soaking got the biggest cheer of the whole film for TWINE :)

[@SB111058]

Legendary Bond fx guy Derek Meddings name is captioned on a platform 'Meddings Ltd" in the hangar of the Skyfleet S570 airliner as it exits the hangar doors top right above a foreground security guy..

[@kevindondrea144]

The lion scene made me think of what happened to me. We were at a theme park that had a white lion. I was outside the cage saying, "Here kitty, kitty, kitty.". A little baby girl maybe 1-1/2 to 2 years old was standing there as well with her family. She started saying, "Here kitty, kitty, kitty." Everyone busted out laughing. She was so adorable. 😊😊

[@markhedges1194]

Excellent work, and very fascinating! Thank you!

[@FlyingHangman]

The pushkin/Gogol angle makes so much more sense now when it comes to the whole "I've dealt with him" conversation between bond and m.

[@TheToonMonkey]

Yes, we Brits all got the Barbara Woodhouse joke.

[@dapaintbrush6965]

Such a brilliant channel. Keep these coming ❤️❤️🔥🔥

[@astrocohorsclub]

In the German version of "Octopussy" when the tiger appears, Bond says: "You belong in the tank!" (referencing a gasoline commercial by Esso - "Put a Tiger in Your Tank!" - of the time).

[@mojo4video]

Speaking of trivia: One of the movies has a scene in which 007 is in need of a pistol. While hanging out in an office, he leaves thru a book: "Birds of the West Indies" A book written by the real James Bond.

[@DutchBondFan]

Yes its Die Another Day! And its mentioned in the 'One Easter Egg in everg Bond Movie' video (in the same series).

[@MonsterWayne0511]

10:03 this satellite dish got destroyed I believe not too long ago. one of the cables holding the central thing suspended in mid-air failed, and the whole thing fell down into the dish below destroying a big part of it.

[@Arthur_Hastings]

I like how you have the Bond theme from Agent Under Fire and NightFire in the background! 😄

[@TheVideoScientist-bi7px]

"Wow, what a view..." "Yeah, Tokyo." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thesecondloneranger4458]

One rejected song in every bond film

[@DutchBondFan]

If every single one actually has one, you may have something there !

[@spencerkindra8822]

I think for several movies there were no alternates. I know for Diamonds Are Forever they went straight to Shirley Bassey and didn't ask anyone else.

[@henrykujawa4427]

@@spencerkindra8822 "Diamonds" is by far my favorite Bassey theme! (It's also my favorite part of that film.)

[@DC9848]

Great video and thank you for collecting these. Perhaps there could be a link to a form where users can submit their potential trivia leads for further checkup

[@robertharvey2604]

Great pieces of trivia. I especially liked the Teri Hatcher one, which I had not heard. It might explain why her performance is so lifeless.

[@gamingflixx]

They need to make a new role for Paloma, similar to the role Felix serves. She was brilliant.

[@gregmize01]

More or less.😂 I just love that line❤

[@huepix]

Didn't include the greatest Bond film ever. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

[@b3ans4eva]

Tomorrow Never Dies was supposed to be called Tomorrow Never Lies, but it was a typo on the title page & it stuck.

[@spencerkindra8822]

I don't know if you'd put this as a fact about YOLT or OHMSS but the latter was supposed to be made first which would've been the correct chronological order. Problem was that it was unseasonably warm in Switzerland during the winter of 1966-67 so the producers decided to make YOLT first which screwed up the chronology. Had YOLT been a direct sequel to OHMSS like in the books I wonder how different the movies would've been. They certainly wouldn't have just glossed over Tracy's death the way they did in DAF. Not only that but DAF would most likely have been a more faithful adaptation and Blofeld wouldn't have been involved at all. One of the great What Ifs of James Bond. Great video! Keep these "one in every Bond movie" videos coming!

[@henrykujawa4427]

Strangely, I have heard MULTIPLE conflicting stories of "why" "YOLT" was made before "OHMSS". This includes someone saying they felt "OHMSS" was "THUNDERBALL on skis", and their being unable to find a proper location for the "fort" in the book. One thing I do know-- while "Piz Gloria" was not exactly the building described in the novel, its location, its look, the fact that it had a TOBOGGAN RUN as part of it, all made it arguably the best Bond location EVER. And it was being built when they found it! The owners agreed to let the film use it in exchange for them furnishing the place, AND, building a permanent heli-pad. For the sake of that location... "IF ONLY" they waited 4 years after "THUNDERBALL". There's also those who have insisted "YOLT" was "unfilmable". See the Kurt Russell film "STARGATE" where his character has virtually the same "character arc" as Bond did in the novel-- a man on the verge of suicide because of the murder of his wife, who goes on a suicide mission and finds out he has a chance to kill the one responsible for the earlier murder. Imagine Connery with a script like THAT!

[@spencerkindra8822]

@@henrykujawa4427 "Thunderball on skis" wow I've never heard that anecdote before. That's a dumb thing to say since Thunderball and OHMSS are pretty different books in terms of the action. And yeah I agree, Connery in a more faithful adaptation of You Only Live Twice is definitely a cool idea. YOLT is my favorite Bond movie and I can see Connery giving a good performance as a suicidal alcoholic Bond. Only thing is in this alternate timeline, does Connery make OHMSS? If so then he's probably phoning it in in YOLT since that would've been his seventh movie so he'd have maybe been even more over it than he was in Diamonds Are Forever.

[@RomanShopa]

@@henrykujawa4427 having never read YOLT, this description is a discovery for me. Arguably, only few films feature Bond experiencing mental issues and almost none develops it into a distinct story. For instance, I consider Vesper's arc the only valuable thing in QoS and a fail at the same time, having not been elaborated to a proper level. Imagine what a brilliant move would have been to mix the original alcoholic breakout you mentioned from YOLT with the Vesper's death.

[@hobbybacker5227]

Your videos are GREAT!

[@joshua775]

Paul Stassino who plays François Derval/Angelo Palazzi is Thunderball appeared in a few episodes of The Saint alongside future James Bond 007 actor Roger Moore.

[@Kristianfreknu]

Norwegian here. The Norwegian movie title for "A View to a Kill" translated to english is "With Death In Sight" (Norwegian: Med døden i sikte) Not the same at all. There is a few more Bond movie titles that also does this.

[@Sauli1032]

The "Tokyo" line also appeared in the Finnish translation. I remember being very confused when watching it in the early 90s.

[@neiltaylor6645]

It’s amazing all the facts you get listening to the audio commentary’s and documentary’s about the history of the bond films

[@henrykujawa4427]

I don't have any Bond films on disc yet, but, this year I have really gotten hooked on listening to audio commentaries on a growing number of discs I've been buying. I'll usually watch a new disc twice in the same week-- once normally, then a 2nd time with the commentary track turned on.

[@dj71162]

@@henrykujawa4427 The "Inside..." ones are the best, narrated by Patrick Macnee.

[@marxyliusp7592]

Did you know.....that I swear the "deleted" hotel scene in LTK with El Presidentes arrival and Bond fiddeling with the lighter and PPK was in the 1989 Dutch cinematic version? Okay, it is my personal "dolly has braces" thing.....still my brain thinks it was there in 1989.

[@DutchBondFan]

I am Dutch. Wasnt born untill 1 year after the movie so I wouldnt know!

[@billcook4768]

May Day: Wow, what a view Zorin: to a kill Roll credits /ding

[@mikeysuzefour]

As for Pedro Armendariz being in FRWL, he also played the role of El Presidente Lopez in LTK and had the terminal cancer shortly after finishing that Bond movie. 😢

[@MA-rf6bu]

That was his son, Pedro armendariz jr in LTK.

[@mikeysuzefour]

@@MA-rf6bu TY For the clarification M.A.

[@jeffwalker7185]

Strange that Lazenby put so much effort into getting the Bond role and then chose to only do one movie.

[@johnmcglinchey]

He wanted to do another but his agent asked for too much money

[@sonnysantana5454]

the character silvia trench was supposed to be a steady figure in bonds life alas it was never meant to be but in her 2' quick appearances she was awesome

[@johncorcoran2569]

Love it! Great video!!

[@bradfry5403]

You can always find at least one copy of Quantum of Solace DVD in every charity shop in the UK not a great reference .

[@Ulgarth]

Poloma was a better character than Nomi. I truly believed she could perform as an operative, where Nomi was just attending the party.

[@mmfairhill]

The guy who played Karim Bey had a son who later appeared in Licence to Kill also the Governor of Florida at the time where part of the film took place had won a walk-on role as a DEA agent

[@kevindondrea144]

George was one of my favorite Bond actors.

[@kevindondrea144]

I could tell Gold Finger was dubbed. I thought it was quite easy to tell because the background sounds didn't seem to match. I didn't know it was because he didn't speak English though. So his voice must have also been dubbed in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang too.

[@SomePeopleCallMeWulfman]

@7:10 I'm from Norway, and my first reaction was like "did he just say Tokyo?"

[@anthonylewis2080]

Julian Glover was considered a replacement for Sean Connery when he departed from 007 - of course it went to Roger Moore - ironically both actors were featured in the 1981 episode "For Your Eyes Only" : long after they were in the TV show "The Saint".

[@clffliese26]

I'm an American and I got the "Sit" command to the tiger. I'd seen some show on PBS about Barbara Wodehouse.

[@dj71162]

My favourite piece of trivia is that the actress playing Dolly in Moonraker originally had braces but they were digitally edited out of later versions of the film.

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

Also, if you look carefully at the harbor scene in View to a Kill, Maud Adams has a cameo in the background.

[@dj71162]

@@doctorlolchicken7478 And also Ian Fleming himself definitely makes a cameo in FRWL.

[@adamp2029]

There are people who actually believe that braces one! 😂

[@spencerkindra8822]

​@@doctorlolchicken7478 Calvin Dyson did a video on that and came to the conclusion that it's most likely an urban legend. Maud Adams was in fact visiting the set that day but she's wearing different clothes than the woman that's supposedly her in the scene. Plus if they were gonna put her in the movie why have her be an extra in the background? Why not give her a full on cameo so we know who she is?

[@spencerkindra8822]

@@dj71162 Is that one true? I thought that was one of the Bond tidbits that everyone thought was 100% true but now it turns out it might not be.

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

The Gert Frobe fact - I don’t think it was his lack of English. He knew English, he just had too strong of an accent.

[@henrykujawa4427]

You know what gets me... ALLEGEDLY, Mie Hama was supposed to play Aki, but her English wasn't good enough, and she threatened suicide when she heard they wanted to replace her. But, this story doesn't make sense to me, because of HOW MANY ACTORS in the films got dubbed! (Ursula Andress, Gert Frobe, Adolph Celi, Tetsuru Tamba, Gabrielle Ferzetti) They decided to swap her with Akiko Wakabayashi, because "Kissy" had SO LITTLE screen time. Which, by the way, I CANNOT consider "Kissy" the main girl in that movie. "Aki" was in 3/4ths of the movie, was a wonderfully developed character, and did NOT deserve to be killed off so cold-bloodedly. It only happened because the producers stupidly told fill-in writer Roald Dahl to have 2 girls, and kill the first one off midway in. The more I watch the film, the more, as a writer, I resent this happening. Mie Hama was dubbed in "KING KONG ESCAPES", and I don't think anybody was bothered by it.

[@jonathancampbell5231]

@@henrykujawa4427 Could be less an issue of dubbing, and more an issue of her inability to understand the director and the crew

[@davestevens4193]

Sir Roger walks like he has a stick up his behind cuz he didn't do any stretching

[@Solidsnake999]

Q : Now pay attention 007 I want you to use all the gadgets before the ending of the film

[@heavygamer93]

As a Norwegian, I've never heard of the Tokyo error in "a view to a kill". Everytime I've seen the movie, the subtitles have been pretty straightforward

[@COPPAS70]

The same for the the Swedish subtitles. Can’t recall that I ever saw any mentions of Tokyo so this information is probably a hoax.

[@heavygamer93]

@@COPPAS70 If you want bizzare translation from the Norwegian side, the Norwegian title for "You only live twice" is basicly "Bond in Japan"

[@COPPAS70]

@@heavygamer93 That is indeed peculiar. In Sweden the translation was quite true to the original title and read… “Man lever bara två gånger”.

[@heavygamer93]

@@COPPAS70 Yeah, that does sound pretty much what the Swedish title would be.

[@ASChambers]

Brilliant. Really enjoyed that :-)

[@henrykujawa4427]

At the end of "WRONG IS RIGHT"-- my very favorite Sean Connery movie-- just before he jumps out of the plane with his TV camera, Connery yanks off his toupee. (In the 1977 DC comic-book, "Secret Society of Super-Villains #7", con-man villain "Funky Flashman" does the same thing at the end of the comic. A year later, Gene Hackman did this at the end of "SUPERMAN". Ever since I saw the comic, I've been convinced the film-makers got the two bad guys CONFUSED, since Lex Luthor-- the real one-- is also in that comic. In effect, Gene Hackman was REALLY playing "Funky Flashman" in the movies. If they had really wanted to do "Lex Luthor" properly, they should have cast TELLY SAVALAS... who happens to be my favorite Bond movie villain.) I've always liked the idea (never confirmed) that General Gogol was a former member of SPECTRE, who went back to Russia after the 2nd Bond film (heh). The scene with the girl in Cuba is "NO TIME TO DIE" was so good, it really deserved to be in a completely-different and far-better Bond movie.

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

Well there’s a reason Ana only had three weeks training. They realized they needed a pretty girl to show alongside Bond in the trailers, because “the same girl who was in Spectre - the one you all thought was meh.” doesn’t sell tickets.

[@henrykujawa4427]

@Greg Elchert I remember a lot of people saying that Connery looked younger in "NSNA" than he did in "DIAMONDS". Just had a thought. Henry Silva might have made a good Bond villain! I think the sickest, nastiest role I ever saw him play was the hit man in "SHARKEY'S MACHINE", a movie with a lot of likable characters where the story was just WAY too nasty and viscious for its own good.

[@Funhaus_Ryan]

Would love that "Lazenbee" video.

[@evilpickle67]

Another great video. Thank you. ❤️‍🔥

[@heracliteanflux1]

The ass-kicking niece that you reference in "Man with the Golden Gun" is Yuen Qiu, a HK actress. Being that she is HK Chinese, how exactly would she be "the real-life daughter of the head of the Japanese Secret Service?" Citation needed.

[@DutchBondFan]

Found it on a trivia website, the citation was: Trivia: "One of the two schoolgirls (the one with the shorter hair) who help Bond beat-up the bad guys at the karate school, was the real-life daughter of the head of the Japanese secret service at the time." - I never knew about this myself so thought it would be an interesting addition, not knowing she's actually Chinese. Who knows!

[@heracliteanflux1]

@@DutchBondFan She also plays the formidable landlady in the great Steven Chow classic "Kung Fu Hustle."

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

He was just a really good Japanese spy. Joking. My daughter is a different nationality than I am. Although it’s more likely the facts are wrong.

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

Fun Fact: In a deleted scene, featured only in the workprint of *"The Living Daylights",* Admiral Hargraves/"M" reveals to General Gogol that Kamran Shah is now the new Afghan foreign minister and after Kara went to her dressing room, Gogol tells Kamran that now they can be friends.

[@Professor_Fate]

Probably just a piece of studio "hype," but the Rank Organization put out a press release that two of their young stars, LOIS MAXWELL and CHRISTOPHER LEE were engaged to be married.

[@henrykujawa4427]

I just learned the other week that Christopher Lee's very 1st movie in the early 50s featured Lois Maxwell and was directed by Terence Young. The more I learn about Lee, the more I wish he'd been cast as BOND, back in the 1950s.

[@nashf5925]

Mr Wint (Bruce Glover) was played by George McFly's father (Back to the Future). So does that make Michael J Fox his granson?

[@jaysauer7324]

Negative Nash F....Bruce Glover's Son...Christian Glover played Marty McFly's Father in BTTF.

[@nashf5925]

@@jaysauer7324 ok Jalloping Jay or is that cApTaIn ObViOuS?

[@kenchristie9214]

LIke the best Bond that never was (Lewis Collins) George Lazenby were the closest to Fleming's Bond character. Both Lazenby and Collins passed the rigorous SAS training. Both were members of the most elite service regiments (SAS) in Australia and United Kingdom. George taught unarmed combat. When George audtioned for the Bond role he bought a rolex watch that was the same as those used in the films, and wore a suit that was tailored for Sean Connery Lewis joined the Army after appearing in the TV series The Professionals. After his passing out parade he was told he was too famous to be a SAS soldier. When Lewis auditioned for the role Cubby Boccoli thought he was "too aggressive". The obviously Cubby wanted a Bond who was in touch with his feminine side. Lewis's role in Who Dares Win illustrates what a great Bond he would have been.

[@andyjay9346]

Derek Meddings did all the special effects for puppet show The Thunderbirds prior to his effects with the Bond Films.

[@DutchBondFan]

Yes! No bigger sentiment in this world compared to Thunderbirds

[@ricardolorrio8228]

@11:03 I saw this scene being filmed from Canary Wharf

[@Samirah_al_ifaf]

George Lazenby broke a stuntman‘s nose on accident on set

[@TheMrTraynor]

I'm English and I always thought Zorin said 'Tokyo' until recently when I watched the scene with subtitles.

[@Bran-Chi]

As a Puertorrican I'm sadly to say that the Arecibo Observatory from Goldeneye no longer exists. They couldn't get the funds for the maintenance and the antenna fell. But I read recently that NASA is planning on rebuilding it.

[@josephradley3160]

On Thunderball. It wasn't a mafia job. The 18 "operational" member of SPECTRE included three mafia members and three Corsican union members. All had left their own organisations to become members of SPECTRE.

[@perolavhavik2585]

In Norway the translation of Max Zorin's line is correct. Of course it's possible the translators made a mistake in the cinema version and corrected it for the VHS/DVD release.

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

Hi DBF....great little video...I'm hoping we can look forward to a Diamonds Are Forever novel review soon?

[@DutchBondFan]

Yes about midway through the novel (admittedly going a bit slower than the first three)

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

@@DutchBondFan yeah it's deffo not the best book by a long way but soldier on my friend...From Russia With Love awaits on the other side. Probably the finest Bond novel of them all (in my opinion) thanks for taking the time and effort. best wishes and take care

[@howardweber5813]

Howard Weber says > When I lived in Los Angeles , there was a Bond convention in 1994. On one of the days , they had a Stump the Panel - Bond trivia contest. On the panel was Graham Rye and 4 others. Well , I`m proud to say I was the only one that stumped the panel. Now remember , this was in 1994. Here`s the question I asked > " Not including the 1967 Casino Royale film , name everyone that has appeared in a Bond movie that has an Oscar ". They named them all except one. They forgot about John Barry`s appearance at the end of The Living Daylights. He has an Oscar. Remember , I didn`t say name every " actor ". What I said was name " everyone " that has appeared in a Bond movie that has an Oscar. I got a nice applause from the audience.

[@InvictusLifts]

I remember dutchbudokaifan what happened to all the gta videos you could have been the best gta KZbinr man

[@vinnieh9557]

Most fascinating video my friend