Dr. No (1962)
1962 Terence Young Bond debut with Sean Connery as 007. Ursula Andress emerges from Caribbean surf. The franchise begins.
Richard Maibaum
This archive collects the films written by Richard Maibaum reviewed at Master of Worlds — 13 titles spanning “A View to a Kill (1985)”, “Diamonds Are Forever (1971)”, “Dr. No (1962)”, “For Your Eyes Only (1981)”, “From Russia with Love (1963)”, “Goldfinger (1964)”, “Licence to Kill (1989)”, “Octopussy (1983)”, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)”, “The Living Daylights (1987)”, “The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)”, “The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)”, and “Thunderball (1965)”. Together they form a substantial cross-section of the work, and the reviews approach them as storytelling first. The questions stay consistent across the collection — what the screenplay asks of the audience, how it serves the structure of each film, and what holds up on a second or third viewing. Seeing one name across this many films makes the craft legible in a way a single title cannot: the recurring instincts, the range, the choices that mark the work. The collection is curated rather than exhaustive, built from films reviewed in depth at Master of Worlds, and it grows as further titles are added.
From Russia with Love (1963)
1963 Terence Young Bond film with Sean Connery in Istanbul. SPECTRE plot involving Soviet decoder. Train fight with Robert Shaw.
Goldfinger (1964)
1964 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Sean Connery facing gold-obsessed Auric Goldfinger and silent assassin Oddjob. Fort Knox plot.