All posts tagged "Sean Connery"

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  Meteor

  The splendid Ronald Neame – of Poseidon Adventure, The Card and The Million Pound Note, amongst many others, fame – was responsible...

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  Time Bandits

  This is how children’s fantasy should be – genuinely fantastic, avoiding (or, where possible, upturning) all the sword and sorcery cliches, and...

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  Wind and the Lion, The

  Sean Connery as James Bond the secret agent? Indubitably. As Malone the Chicago cop? Certainly. As Marko Ramius the submarine captain? Fair enough....

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  Time Lock

  British-made but Canadian-set one-locationer about a boy who gets stuck in a bank’s airtight, time-controlled safe, and the earnest frowning men in...

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  Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  A bewigged Miles “Graham Norton stooge” O’Keefe beheads unjolly green giant Sean Connery in this notorious “just a flesh wound” ’80s Arthurian...

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  Outland

  High Noon in space…apparently. Actually this is really rather good and features Sean ‘Canary’ Connery in all his balding, paunchy glory. With...

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  Hill, The

  Not many films can make the viewer seethe with fury at injustice as much as this one can. The great Harry Andrews...

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  Darby O’Gill and the Little People

  Drunkenness, bar-room brawling, death and love triangles may not be what most people expect from a Disney live-action feature, but they’re all...

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  Avengers, The

  From the panning on release to the fact that its terrestrial premiere took place on Channel 5, the world clearly had it...