One of the few movies where the Walther WA 2000 rifle is seen. Always wondered what that weird gun was that Bond had, until IMFDB became a thing.
IMHO, Dalton was one of the better Bonds. Too bad he never really had decent scripts for his talent.
The list of Bonds by height is interesting. Never met any of them in person, but I’ve thought Craig was the most intimidating of the bunch. Always thought it would’ve been interesting if Lewis Collins, who AIUI, was on the short list to be Bond, had been chosen. Decent actor in things like Who Dares Wins.
It wasn’t just cold-blooded, it seemed to me counterproductive. Bond had captured Dr. No’s right-hand man. Surely it would have been better to take him into custody and interrogate him rather than kill him basically for spite. (One could argue that Bond didn’t have time to take him in, and it was better to kill him than take a chance he might escape by tying him up and having others come pick him up, but still it seemed like a screw-up on Bond’s part to kill a valuable informant.)
Bond does essentially the same thing thing to Stromberg. Shoots him twice, even taunting him that he is out of ammo, then moves in closer for two further shots.
By 1977, I think audiences were a bit more used to that sort of thing. Sort of surprising his .380 was able to zip through the breech of that speargun to gut shoot Stromberg, but it didn’t matter after the two to the chest. And it’s a movie, not a documentary, sheesh.
Do we elsewhere see captured members of SPECTRE committing suicide? It’s a commercial criminal organization, not a ideological one. Dent might have committed suicide, but Bond didn’t know that for sure. Basically, Bond just killed him in revenge because he was pissed off that Dent had tried to kill him. He didn’t give any consideration to his possible intelligence value.
I agree with Gray Ghost; Bond had probably got everything he was going to get out of Dent. In fact, the whole point of letting Dent live as long as he did was to keep him talking. Bond deliberately let’s him think he’s got a chance to grab his gun and escape, and Dent answers Bond’s questions as a stalling tactic. It’s brilliant on Bond’s part, but once Dent knows he’s been played, it’s over.
Isn’t the first chauffeur that Bond gets a ride with from the airport an agent for Dr. No? He and Bond fight, he loses, and he kills himself before Bond can get anything out of him? Been awhile since I saw the movie, and I’m going by wiki’s description of the plot.
You’re right of course that killing a source before he can talk is remarkably stupid.
Not to disagree with your thesis, which I support, but #1 in the list has to be him rifling through the pockets of his long-time friend Mathis, just after the latter has been shot dead by corrupt Bolivian police. He takes the cash in the wallet then chucks the body in a nearby dumpster.
Oh sure, what could possibly go wrong with keeping your enemy alive when you had a golden opportunity to permanently dispose of them? Bond doesn’t usually copy the mistakes of his enemies.
Bond doesn’t usually copy the mistakes of his enemies.