Ian Fleming’s debonair superspy swaggered his way into icon status
thanks to Terence Young's whip-cracking direction, Monty Norman’s
twanging theme and, most importantly, Sean Connery’s
charisma-oozing, laconic 007. A generation-defining hero, James
Bond's blend of sexy danger and globe-trotting heroics personified
the hip, swinging bravado of the early 1960s. The moment Ursula Andress
slunk out of the ocean in that eye-popping two piece bikini, the world
was literally never the same again. The film is a taut spy adventure
pitching Bond against megalomaniacal Asian villain, the eponymous,
metal-handed Dr No.
