roger moore

Thanks, that sounds like an excellent thrashing, though it's not the one I was thinking of -- the one I'm thinking of the man takes his girlfriend over his knee on the spot and hand spanks her. But it may not really be a Bond movie after all.

Never happened in a Bond movie, Rosie, not even the unofficial ones like Never Say Never Again and the Woody Allen version of Casino Royale, although David Niven, who played a retired Bond in that did give at least one well known on screen spanking in another film.

Well, the seat-slap in "Goldfinger" was pretty much a playful love-pat in effectively saying good-bye to the girl (Dink), wasn't it?

While he did unethically pressure the spa attendant to have sex with him in "Thunderball," she seemed quite satisfied with the arrangement later on, although I agree that his behavior still was unacceptable. Earlier in the film, he also threatened Miss Moneypenny, the secretary of 'M,' that he would "put you over my knee," which she laughed off.

At the end of the novel Doctor No, James Bond's romantic interest, Honeychile Ryder (portrayed by Ursula Andress in the first Bond movie), welcomed him into her cottage in the Caribbean and told him that "You owe me slave-time," however the implication was that they were headed for a straightforward sexual encounter with no 'slavery' actually involved.

As the character was written in the Ian Fleming novels anyway, I didn't think of Bond as a misogynist...

--C.K.

Such as Felix Leiter's newlywed bride being murdered and Leiter himself being maimed by losing his leg, is that what you mean by "some other stuff happens" at the beginning of "License to Kill"?

Also, in my recollection the young woman's lashing was considerably more severe than she simply "gets her butt whipped" by her brutal drug-lord boyfriend...

--C.K.

And before that Felix and Bond apprehended Sanchez and then arrived at his wedding by parachuting in. Prior to Jeffrey Wright reprising his role as Felix in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, David Hedison was the only actor to have played the role more than once, albeit almost 20 years between films. They kept up the continuity in the Brosnan Bonds by effectively replacing Felix with Joe Don Baker's Jack Wade. Oddly enough Baker was baddie Brad Whittaker in The Living Daylights.

This is the scene I was thinking of. Is that a stingray tail? (Obviously I mis-remembered about it being a hand-spanking, though I think maybe I was conflating it with a scene from another movie I no longer remember.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ3d_DrtVoU

I just found out the Roger Moore is being honoured by showing 4K restored versions of two Bond movies in Great Britain (Odeon), USA (AMC) and Australia (Hoyts). 50% of the cover prize goes directly to UNICEF. Apart from being a good cause, these movies are wonderful and cheesy adventure movies from before Bond became as brutal as other modern action movies.

Don't recall seeing that, Seegee. Which film was it?

There's a Bond short story "The Hildebrand Rarity" in which Bond is not doing any Secret Service stuff but is invited to share a boat with a seeker of rare marine life. Basically the guy with the boat is a sadist who beats his wife with a stingray tail leaving her bedbound for some time. But he gets his rather nasty comeuppance. Ian Fleming loved the Caribbean and its wildlife and James Bond was a real life author of a field guide to the birds of the West Indies.

Phil, for a time the rights of Casino Royale were owned by a number of people. Woody Allen got hold of them and made a film called Casino Royale, it was a spoof of the Eon films. The casting of Niven was a bit of a joke. Fleming had said that when he initially wrote the character he pictured him as looking like David Niven, but by the time they got around to casting Dr. No, Niven was considered too old, he may also have not wanted the role or they were unable to afford him. I think Danielle Bianchi (Tatiana Romanova) may have played the Vesper Lynd role in Allen's film.