This should have been a great movie with a stellar cast, good story, and a good director. Instead it never got off the ground.
There was absolutely NO chemistry between Bardot and Connery. You'd think they hadn't been introduced. Two of the most appealing stars of the time, and NO chemistry. That's what killed the film for me.
Good point.
shareCommercial products weren't invented yesterday and that's exactly what this movie is. It doesn't seem to be directed, writtem or acted out with any passion or inspiration whatsoever. It was just another job for everyone involved and no one put in any special effort to improve it. It just relied on the big names involved.
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"There was absolutely NO chemistry between Bardot and Connery."
i disagree. it hard for there to be chemistry when one half of this team (and i must add the most beautiful half) could speak very little English. but even with that being said Bardot is breathtaking even fully clothed and with too much eye makeup.
i'd have to say that their scene with her bathing by the waterhole was worth the price of admission.
Bardot + Connery + H2O = box office GOLD
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OP was correct, there is zero chemistry with Connery & Bardot. I think Honor Blackman would've been better cast, look at the good scenes together in Goldfinger. I don't see what the big deal is about Bardot, between the awful hair and makeup, she just looks bad. Her acting even when she's not speaking is terrible, I know she's the reason I gave this movie a low rating.
You mention it's because Bardot didn't speak much English but what I've read on other sites like TCM, etc. it was more because Bardot was badly miscast and knew she only looked good in still shots, even the director commented about how she looked in filming compared to if a still photographer was on set.
I think this movie is rated poorly simply due to mis-casting.
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hear, hear, honor blackman should've been the star. the dvd edition i got of this seem to have the menu screwed up, the "play movie" is featured at the bottom and above comes less significant features by the order. funny how connery was so resistant to continue in the bond role after "thunderball", yet it seems, to be honest, that the vast majority of his other roles has been completely forgotten with a few real exceptions, these movies made around the same time as bond is not exactly something you see air or hear mentioned, some say the reason he returned as bond once more in the 1980s after a huge time gap was because he wanted to revive his career. i'm not familiar with the co actress but i hear her name a lot, i don't get the actress mentioned in the same sentence as sophia loren, perhaps this isn't one of her more outstanding movies, i think she is overshadowed big time by honor blackman playing a smaller role, i don't see any features, she appears as a doll, while i'm just knocked out by honor blackman, and look at honor blackman's moving performance, one thing that always made me resent this movie since i was a kid is what happens to her, and she is treated so bad throughout, overall the movie gives you a bad taste as it also involves animal cruelty and a lot of violence, the last scene with honor blackman was even more brutal and sadistic than i remembered, i've always wondered, i mean what goes through the mind of people shooting scenes like this, and why does it get released to the public, anyway, i sat through it to see her killers get a bullet in the head. it seems like the smart thing would have been to have her as the leading lady instead, if for no other reason by the simple fact they starred together in one of the most popular bond movies.
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