USA TV: `Thunderball` and `O.H.M.S.S` on Encore, Saturday afternoon

29-Jan-2005 • Media Alert

Film: "Thunderball" (1965)
Channel: Encore
Date: Saturday 29th March 2004
Time: 12:00 EST/PST

In his fourth outing as James Bond, Sean Connery comes up against the evil Emilio Largo, who holds the world to ransom with a nuclear bomb stolen from NATO. 007 promptly packs his bags and heads for the Bahamas armed with a devastating array of gadgetry and surrounded by the usual bevy of beauties.

Directed by: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter, Martine Beswick.

Film: "On Her Majesty`s Secret Service" (1969)
Channel: Encore
Date: Saturday 29th March 2004
Time: 17:30 EST/PST

This is the James Bond everyone forgets, mainly because it is missed by most TV channels and it stars the Australian George Lazenby, who went from chocolate commercial to big-screen career disaster. Wittily written (by Richard Maibaum and Simon Raven) and pacily directed (by Peter Hunt), it has excitement galore. Yet the chemistry between Diana Rigg and Lazenby is nonexistent.

Thanks to `JP` for the alert.