Director Guy Hamilton (1922)

The spy film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) is the ninth installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. Starring Roger Moore as the iconic MI6 agent, it loosely adapts Ian Fleming’s posthumously published novel of the same name. In this thrilling tale, an American gangster named Rodney seeks out renowned hitman Francisco Scaramanga with a bounty on his head. However, his attempted assassination takes a turn when he is led into a funhouse section of Scaramanga’s estate and falls victim to the hitman’s golden gun. Meanwhile, ...

Live and Let Die (1973), the eighth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, stars Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent. Based on Ian Fleming’s 1954 novel of the same name, it follows James Bond, Agent 007, as he investigates a string of mysterious deaths of three MI6 agents within 24 hours. The killings occurred at locations around the world including the United Nations headquarters in New York City, New Orleans, and a small Caribbean nation called San Monique. While monitoring the operations of the island’s dictator, Dr. Kananga, ...

The  spy film Diamonds Are Forever (1971) is the seventh installment in the James Bond series, produced by Eon Productions. It is based on Ian Fleming’s novel of the same name and was directed by Guy Hamilton, making it the second of four Bond films he directed. Agent 007, James Bond, is on a mission to capture Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who is creating look-alikes through plastic surgery. Bond eliminates one of Blofeld’s test subjects and eventually takes down the real Blofeld by drowning him in a pool of superheated mud. Meanwhile, as diamond ...

Funeral in Berlin (1966), a British spy film directed by Guy Hamilton, is based on the novel of the same name by Len Deighton. It follows British secret agent Harry Palmer, who is sent to Berlin by his superior Colonel Ross to facilitate the defection of Colonel Stok, a prominent Soviet intelligence officer. To aid him in his mission, Palmer reconnects with an old friend and former criminal associate Johnny Vulkan, who now works for British intelligence in Berlin. Despite his initial skepticism, Palmer finds Stok to be eccentric and likeable when they meet in the Soviet ...

Goldfinger (1964), the third film in the James Bond series, sees Sean Connery reprising his role as MI6 agent James Bond. Based on Ian Fleming’s novel of the same name published in 1959, the film follows Bond on a mission to Latin America where he destroys a drug laboratory and defeats an unnamed adversary by electrocuting them in a bathtub. From there, Bond travels to Miami Beach where his boss M has him observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger at a hotel. While spying on Goldfinger, Bond catches him cheating at gin rummy with the help of his employee Jill ...