Product Details

• Actors: David Janssen
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 7, 2000
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000006QF8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,103 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Narrated by the inimitable Peter Graves, this installment of A&E's Biography series deals as much with Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, as it does with the Bond character himself. Fleming led a colorful and action-packed life, modeling Bond after his own real-life experiences. After a difficult childhood spent in Eton and military schools (Fleming's father was killed in action in World War I), he went on to work for Reuters and eventually became a fixture in the British intelligence community. During World War II, Fleming led his own top-secret commando squad in the British Navy, taking on all types of dangerous assignments. By the 1950s, he decided to turn his energies toward writing, and invented his Bond character: brave, dashing, handsome, good with the ladies, filled with derring-do and adventure. The novels were a hit, but unfortunately Fleming, who died just before the release of Goldfinger, didn't live to see Bond's peak of popularity, as a string of absurdly good-looking and rugged men would embody the martini-swilling, woman-chasing secret agent in the movies. In typical Biography fashion, this is a detailed, slightly tongue-in-cheek look at the superspy man's man that we've all come to know. --Jerry Renshaw

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