You Only Live Twice

You Only Live Twice

1967. Great Britain. Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Screenplay by Roald Dahl. With Sean Connery, Donald Pleasance, Mie Hama. According to James Chapman’s License to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films, You Only Live Twice was released two months after the Bond spoof Casino Royale with the tag-line “Sean Connery IS James Bond.” 007 is declared dead in an attempt to bamboozle SPECTRE and its mastermind, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. A plotline about a missing U.S. space capsule reflects a growing fascination with the space race. 116 min.