Carry On Bond, more like. Connery was bribed back to the fray and is
clearly taking the piss. The Las Vegas setting and diamond-smuggling
plot are pure hokum, while Charles Gray’s Blofeld appears to getting
ready for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Girlie assassins Bambi and
Thumper nearly beat Bond up and buxom Jill St John sasses her way through
the whole, sparkly nonsense. The series was clearly ready and waiting
for the super smirk of Roger Moore. Still, Shirley Bassey’s song is a
corker.
