Sir Sean Connery attends screening of `The Hill`

Sir Sean Connery returned to his beloved home city of Edinburgh to celebrate his 78th birthday, reports Cinema Retro

The previous evening Sean introduced a rare screening of his 1965 masterpiece The Hill at Edinburgh's Filmhouse Cinema. Much to his delight, he was welcomed on stage with the audience singing Happy Birthday. He was interviewed by film writer, producer and director, Mark Cousins. His wife Micheline and son Jason were also in the audience. Sean was relaxed and in good humour as he shared his memories of making of the film as if it was yesterday.

"I was really trying to do something different," recalled Sean. "More testing and original for me. The Bonds were very limiting because they were badly planned and they ran over. So this was a very compact film."

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