Today would have been Albert R. (Cubby) Broccoli’s one-hundredth birthday. He is a seminal figure in the creation of James Bond as a movie character; almost as important to the films as Ian Fleming was to the books. In honor of this momentous occasion, Chris Wright of FelixLeiter.com has assembled a collection of tribute articles, including one by me.
This striking collection of authors includes David Hedison—the first man to play Felix Leiter twice—and Richard Kiel (Jaws).
Mine begins:
When Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli and Harry Saltzman began as independent producers, they created, with Dr. No, a low budget masterpiece. Their surprise hit could have gone off in any number of directions, but they stood solidly by a vision that was uniquely theirs.
Click through and read them all!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI read his autobiography,very interesting,,Before moving to Florida I lived in Lake Grove NY,home to the Broccoli family farm,my older son (James) went to grade school which was built on the Broccoli farms property..Happy Birthday Cubby…
Flapflop said,in April 17th, 2009 at 6:21 am I jus bought a fantastic new german James Bond book with an orignal theme: an Atlas
Der große James Bond Atlas Door Siegfried Tesche ISBN 3577073055, 9783577073059
(see for some example pages: http://books.google.nl/books?id=5l_hNpaTm04C&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+bond+atlas)
In this Atlas you can find regional and world maps with all shooting locations: the locations where they really shot, those who are filmed on a place or studio but ar supposed to be elsewhere nad the stock footage etc.
After a couple of pages about Fleming, general story, verhicles, traveling gear (=gadgets) and Bond’s traveling companions (=girls) you first get a part where every movie, inculding QOS, NSNA and bóth older CR’s, is covered with a world map with the locations and textual info about the shooting period inculding photo’s.
The second part is more geographical. You have more detailed regional maps, almost all countries, major cities and/or world parts have pages of there own (see index in example)
In all a very interessing book, also for just browsing. But also very revealing info about locations. Example: the hotel lobby in Venice in CR 06 is really the entrance of a museum in Praque.
Downside for some of you is probably that its German so even some movies have diffrent names, I can read it because i’m from Holland and learned the lanquage at school because Germany is our neighbour, but because its such an original book I like too bring it under your attention.
A little translation with the example legenda (so you can read the maps):
Yellow dot (Reiner Drehort)= where they actually shoot while in the script it stands for an other place.
Green dot (Schauplatz an dem auch gedreht wurde)= where the shot and its really that place in the movie
Red dot (Schauplatz, an dem nicht gedreht wurde)= hard locations the didnt film but the story said they were in (like Afghanistan in TLD)
The url one more time: http://books.google.nl/books?id=5l_hNpaTm04C&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+bond+atlas
From Holland with Love
Flapflop
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