James Bond Coll. Vol.1 (blu-ray)*NEW* Die and 12 similar items

Brand new factory sealed triple disc blu-ray boxed set that is now Out Of Print (OOP) and no longer being manufactured. This is the best of the 3 Bonds portayed by 3 differant actors. Comes in a nice foil slipcase with die-cut and acetate overlay print to create a 3-D down the gun barrel point of view shot that opens all the Bond films. Has little shrink wrap holes on top cover for venting, its part of the factory process. Based on the novel by Ian Fleming, DOCTOR NO was the first in the long-running James Bond franchise. Sean Connery is the template Bond battling against the oriental Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) who has invented an atomic device capable of deflecting US missiles and tries to blackmail America from a remote island fortress/laboratory in the Carribean. Eventually Wiseman is boiled alive by Connery in a pool of water which contains an atomic reactor. Subsequent Bond films became more elaborate and more fantastic, populated by nonentities rather than characters but Dr. No is notable for Connery's bully-boy sadistic interpretation of Bond, clipped in speech and quick on action. And who could forget Ursula Andress as the first Bond girl walking up out of the surf in a bikini. The film's international success produced a gaggle of imitations around the world and several sequels which eventually made Bond (who would later be impersonated by Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan), one of the longest running characters in film history. LIVE and LET DIE: Roger Moore, televisions the "Saint", takes over the 007 role in the 8th film of the series and looks pretty good. This time the villains are all black. The action takes place in New Orleans, Harlem, and Jamaica. Yaphet Kotto ('Alien') is Dr. Kananga, a black mastermind who plans to control western powers with voodoo and flooding the US with heroin. He's aided by psychic tarot-card reading virgin Solitaire (Jane Seymour), who falls to the charms of Bond and ruins her career of fortune telling. The character of J.W. Pepper, a comic redneck sheriff, would fit right in on the "Dukes of Hazzard". Geoffrey Holder is Baron Samedi, a voodoo god. David Hedison of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" TV show, takes the CIA-man role. Paul McCartney and Wings wrote and performed the hit theme song. Former Beatles producer George Martin scored the music. DIE ANOTHER DAY: A badly compromised mission behind enemy lines lands James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) in a North Korean prison cell for 14 months. Upon release he defies orders from his superiors and sets out on a personal mission to discover the identity of the saboteur. His investigation takes him from Hong Kong to Cuba and on to Iceland where it transpires that treacherous entrepenour Gustav Graves (Toby Stepehens) plans to utilise a state-of-the-art satellite weapon named Icarus to decimate the earth. The 20th (official) movie in the series pays homage to the Bonds of yesteryear by sprinkling in dozens of references to previous entries. Pierce Brosnan, arguably the best Bond since Sean Connery, is near pitch perfect. And one of the best Bond baddies in years, Zao (Rick Yune), a bald-headed albino henchman with a diamond-studded face. There's a car chase across a frozen lake, an explosive pursuit through a minefield on hovercrafts, and a punch-up in a lab amidst a zigzagging mesh of laser beams. And here's something no one expected to hear in a Bond flick--The Clash's "London Calling!" Madonna's theme song meanwhile fits the classy fire and ice titles sequence and she turns in an uncredited cameo as a fencing instructress.