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MI6 brings you the chance to read extracts from
Bond Stars Bond Girls Are Forever souvenir programme
- now available to order online |
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Bond Girls Are Forever Souvenir Programme - Extracts (1)
25th July 2006
MI6 travels back to the making of From
Russia With Love on the Pinewood backlot with Gareth Owen
and writing partner Brian Burford.
From Russia With Love
Dr. No quickly recouped its costs
and was a gigantic success. From
Russia With Love was quickly lined up to follow. One of Fleming’s
finest Bond novels, it became one of the most realistic of the
Bond films. The casting was conspicuously good and the film introduced
the first major pre-credit sequence, or ‘teaser’,
which was to become a fixture of the series. Shot in the park-like
gardens of Pinewood, with the administration building becoming
the villainous SPECTRE
headquarters, production designer Syd Cain augmented the location
with statues and other small touches to create a very atmospheric,
nocturnal setting. It was dubbed the ‘renaissance garden’,
probably because director Terence Young’s handling of the
sequence was inspired by the French film L’Année
dernière.
| For Bond Stars Bond Girls Are Forever Event at
Pinewood on July 2nd, they commisioned a 16 page full
colour programme to celebrate the role of Bond's leading
ladies. The programme was only available at the event
and is sure to become a collectors item highly collectable
item, so get your copy now!
The 16 page programme contains:
- The Pinewood Tour - Take a short tour round the
studios
- Bond Girls Are Forever - An evolution of the Bond
girls
- Maurice Binder - A tribute to the man behind Bond's
ingenius opening titles
- Bond At Pinewood - 6 pages devoted to Bonds residence
at the world famous studios
- A 2 page centre spread of the girls attending
the event
The price of each programme is £10.00
including worldwide postage and packaging.
Order your copy from Bond Stars
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Above: (Page 4) A Tour of Pinewood
Stuidos |
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The gardens played host to other scenes in the film. When S.P.E.C.T.R.E
agent Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya)
arrives by helicopter to inspect assassin Red
Grant (Robert Shaw), the house can clearly be seen in the
background. The training camp was also constructed near the house,
with the gypsy camp sequences set up on the exterior (paddock
tank) lot. The confrontation between Bond
and Grant on the Orient Express remains probably the best fight
sequence in the entire series. It was filmed at Pinewood and virtually
all of it was choreographed by Young. Peter Hunt excelled himself
with the fast-paced editing and also suggested the use of a third
free camera which added an extra dimension to the footage.
Above: (Pages 12 and 13) A look at
Bond's 40 year relationship with Pinewood Studios |
