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[Mister Asterix]

A treat from manfromjapan:

George Lazenby presents... Goldeneye

Paul Rowlands looks at
'Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming'
and its one-time special introduction.

[dodge]

A treat from manfromjapan:

George Lazenby presents... Goldeneye

Paul Rowlands looks at
'Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming'
and its one-time special introduction.

Excellent reading, and thanks for the thread. Who better to host than dear Gorgeous George, our one-time Lion King?

[Mr_Wint]

I would love to see this introduction. Actually, I would sell my own mother for it!

[Methos]

It's funny this article's come up, as I was organizing my old VHS tapes the other day and wondered whether or not this film is available on DVD. Sadly, my VHS copy (which comes in a really nice gold colored VHS case), doesn't include that brilliant intro by Lazenby. I would love to see that intro!!!

[Bond... Raybond]

I remember having this on video when it was first released, not a bad adaption. Charles Dance did a pretty good job of portraying Fleming.

Unfortunately it does not seem to have ever been released officially on DVD - though the Daily Mail gave it away free on DVD a few months ago, which I thankfully managed to pick up. This seems to have been its only DVD release at the moment.

[Single-O-Seven]

I love this movie. I've been oblivious of the Lazenby intro until now. Which I could see it. But now I'm really itching to watch this film again. Sadly, my copy, too, is only on VHS. It would have been a nice treat if, for the centennary, they'd re-released it on DVD wih a few extras, including the intro.

[Major Tallon]

I remember seeing this. Lazenby looked pretty cool. I made a tape, but I don't know if I can find it or what condition it would be in. I'm not promising anything, but I'll take a look.

[TheSaint]

I've got the Lazenby stuff on tape. Unfortunately, I don't have a way of getting it onto YouTube.

[MrMoneypenny]

Wow, I knew this movie existed but after reading this thread, I would love to see it. I actually loved the other Ian Fleming bio film 'Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming' with Jason Connery (son of ...). Although most of the story was pure fiction, it's a lot of fun and very entertaining for any Bond fan.

[Bryce (003)]

I've had my copy for a few years now and it always gets a great reaction from my friends. I've love for it to make it to DVD with GL's intro.

Dance was quite good as Fleming. My only problem with the VHS copy I have is that the sound is less than stellar quality. Good, but not great.

[marktmurphy]

I tried watching this recently when it was on telly- Dance was surprisingly good (and resembles Fleming a lot which I didn't expect) but it tries to portray him as Bond which makes it pretty stupid. Martini shaken-but-not-stirred here, white cat there, 007 door number... ugh; it's all so witless. At least the Jason Connery one was pretty honest about trying to be a BOnd movie on the cheap: this one actually seems to want to be a proper biopic. Silly.

[Single-O-Seven]

I've had my copy for a few years now and it always gets a great reaction from my friends. I've love for it to make it to DVD with GL's intro.

Dance was quite good as Fleming. My only problem with the VHS copy I have is that the sound is less than stellar quality. Good, but not great.

The sound on my copy is the same. It gets a bit choppy at times.

[bonded56]

Actually, if memory is serving me, at a few of the commercial breaks Maud Adams and Tanya Roberts added comments during that USA showing.

[TheSaint]

Actually, if memory is serving me, at a few of the commercial breaks Maud Adams and Tanya Roberts added comments during that USA showing.

You're right.

I just finished re-watching it. I dubbed it for a friend. Charles Dance is the best part of the tv-movie. The rest of it has not aged well. I may not be a Fleming scholar but they screwed up the timeline of when he started writing the books. Here he writes them way before he married Ann Rothmere.

George looks great.