Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0053939560763 Format: Color, NTSC Label: Turner Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1990 Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment Running Time: 96 minutes Sales Rank: 3372 Studio: Turner Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1990
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"All the excitement of a Bond movie" -NY Daily News
Product Description: Plot Synopsis: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies. As a womanizer and a hopeless romantic Fleming got himself expelled from Eton and other prestigious public schools before his mother, fed up, sent to work for Reuters,the news bureau. Whilst covering a show-trial of British engineers in Soviet Moscow, Fleming pulled his first Bond-like escapade, almost losing his life in the process. This caught the interest of Britain's dormant yet watchful military intelligence, later to become the highly acclaimed S.O.E. After Fleming's recruitment into His Majesty's Service, his exploits become increasingly fantastic. It is difficult to believe that this is not fiction! The Secret Life of Ian Fleming goes to prove, once again, the truth certainly is stranger than fiction. One Vodka Martini, shaken not stirred!
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Rating: - Interesting Look At The Life Of The Creator Of the Most Popular Secret Agent
Never had it crossed my mind that Ian Fleming himself was once an agent himself. After viewing this neat TV movie it doesn't surprise me how Fleming was inspired to create his literary hero, soon to become cinematic emblem.
The movie begins with the origin of young Ian Fleming, he was a son of rich parents, he never needed anything, and everything was at his disposal. As we see him transcend to young adulthood we see a very similar persona to that of 007. We see him as a womanizer and a man of wit and class. shortly in the film he is expelled from various private schools due to misadventures ... Read More
Rating: - Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Flemming
I really enjoyed seeing Kristin Scott Thomas in her early years acting, just as good as her later movies. Also thought the performance by Jason Connery was also very well done. It was a little dramatic at times and maybe sort of fictional at times, but enjoyable.
Rating: - The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
I got this from TV years ago. My old copy is falling apart. I worried that I wouldn't be able to find it.
Ian Fleming was a spy in real life. No James Bond collection could ever be complete without this little item. This movie showed how the author of the successful movie series got the inspiration to write the series. It is ironic that the real "James Bond" was a bird watcher and not a spy at all.
Rating: - Fun Movie
This is a movie that Bond fans have to see, and it is a nice collectable to own. Some of the things in the movie didn't happen, and it was more of a nod to the movies more so than the novels. One thing that is a running gag in the movie is a hat always being thrown on the hat rack, which never actually happens in the novels. So, a lot of people would believe that is what inspired it, but it is just a joke to the movie. Still, it is fun to watch and is very entertaining. The sad thing is, I have never heard of Jason Connery doing anything recently, which is a shame.
Rating: - The missing James Bond movie
Only available in VHS and out of print at that, this TV production casts Sean Connery's son, Jason, as Ian Fleming in what may or may not be a biographical portrayal. It has all the action of any of Connery's Bond films, as many beautiful women, and a touching love story on top of all that. Pity it's not available on DVD, but Bond fans are a different lot these days, and the widows haven't made a Bond film even close to Fleming's character in twenty years. This one would top off the Connery Bond set.
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