Sean Connery stars as James Bond, 007 - license to kill, in the first adaptation of the thriller by Ian Flemming to the big screen by the then small independent movie company, United Artists.

A nicely paced film, Bond is brought in to investigate the radio silence that took place during a routine radio check-up in Jamaica.

When he arrives he soon discovers his presence is well known, and his life is in constant danger as he attempts to discover what is going on in Jamaica, especially with the Chinese Dr No's private island.

Dr. No is the first movie that Bond switches from a Berretta his firearm of choice, to the now famous Walther PPK.

And what is a Bond film without a gorgeous girl to fall madly in love with Bond? This unmistakeable beauty, Honey Rider (Ursula Andress) meets Bond while hunting for rare shells on the beach of Dr. No's island.

Who is Dr. No? A member of SPECTRE. Special Executive for Counter Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion. Dr. No joined the Tong mafia in China only to extort $10 million dollars out of them before escaping to the Americas. His current project is on a remote island in the West Indies, carefully guarded by soldiers and some say even a fire breathing dragon, all in his aim to assure world domination.

Overall a good take off the original book, independent film so the effects are low budget, in fact at 110 minutes is one of the shorter Bond films, and though the conflict with Dr. No is anticlimactic, the film is enjoyable right up to the end.

Also stars John Kitzmiller as Quarrel, who runs the boat. The first black person to win a best acting award at the Cannes Film Festival, and awarded the Victory Medal World War II.

Sean Connery returns as James Bond, 007 the second and recognized by many circles to be the single best Bond film, and definitive to the series.

Always my favorite Bond title, From Russia With Love is quintessentional Bond.

This time starring alongside Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) Russian spy he discovers believes is doing her country proud, but is really being used. The original Sydney Bristow?

It's a decent movie, well rounded as the first but still somewhat undeveloped... perhaps because at this point the Bond films are an ongoing story, like the stoiry arc of today's popular television shows.

The chess game shown in the movie was taken from a game played between David Bronstein (a former world championship finalist) as black and Boris Spassky (former world champ, the guy who was beaten by Bobby Fischer) as white in 1960. The real "blooper" is that the director took a couple pawns off the board to make the continuation look more devastating and less complicated. The problem is that by removing the pawns, the combination Kronsteen played was unsound and might not have withstood proper responses from MacAdams. If you understand algebraic notation, you may be interested to know that the missing pawns were on the c5 and d4 squares.

To see how the real game ended, go to http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1034110 and click on the box to the right that says "23. Qe4+" . I assure you that there was no hope for Bronstein (MacAdams) and that resignation was fully justified.

e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 Bd6 5. Nc3 Ne7 6. d4 O-O 7. Bd3
Nd7 8. O-O h6 9. Ne4 Nxd5 10. c4 Ne3 11. Bxe3 fxe3 12. c5 Be7 13. Bc2
Re8 14. Qd3 e2 15. Nd6 Nf8 16. Nxf7 exf1=Q+ 17. Rxf1 Bf5 18. Qxf5 Qd7
19. Qf4 Bf6 20. N3e5 Qe7 21. Bb3 Bxe5 22. Nxe5+ Kh7 23. Qe4+ 1-0

Little slow but still great, and definitely the best of the first three Bond flicks.

A lot of Goldfinger is a little slow, but it's still a great movie. The Bond movies didn't just portray Bond as sexist, but portrayed women as independent, so you had the best of both worlds. A man who isn't ashamed to be a man, and a woman unashamed to be a woman.

Goldfinger is a more complex villian. Finally a villian with a personality. A businessman, an egomaniac, and a man who enjoys the art of presentation.

And how could anyone not love the scene in Fort Knox when Bond starts throwing gold bars at Oddjob (Harold Sakata)

Probably the best bit of dialog of any of the Bond films is found in this movie, Goldfinger.

James Bond: Do you expect me to talk?
Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond! I expect you to die!

Also, I always felt Goldfinger has the most enjoyable theme song to sing.

Sean Connery's last Bond film.

George Lazenby's first and only Bond role.

I saw Moonraker in the theaters. I was seven and I thought it was terrific as a kid because so much happens in it, but watching it now and it's beyond silly.

I read the book in second grade at the age of 8 after I had already seen the movie, and though my teacher and peers were perplexed, I thought it was an amazing book, but mostly because of that scene with the girl naked at the swimming pool so graphically and poetically described in detail... but shhh, don't tell my mom I told you that!

Bond took a long break from 1989 to 1995, one could say they restarted the franchise then, and one could also say that the franchise was on a downhill spiral ever since. I think this time they understand where it went off the rails, and are working to get it back on track in the spirit Flemming intended.