Roger Moore
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Ho Lin and the Big Movie Genius salute Roger Moore by reviewing his lesser known movies (and underrated performances) outside James Bond.
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A View to a Kill (1985, Dir. John Glen): Suddenly Bond caught a trace of movement behind the men. An extra leg showed — a woman’s leg. Bond laughed out…
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Octopussy (1983, Dir. John Glen): As soon as he had walked through into the living-room and seen the tall man in the dark-blue tropical suit standing at the picture window…
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For Your Eyes Only (1981, Dir. John Glen): Now Bond realized why M was troubled, why he wanted someone else to make the decision. Because these had been friends of…
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Moonraker (1979, Dir. Lewis Gilbert): Suddenly Drax looked sharply, suspiciously up at Bond. ‘Well. Say something. Don’t sit there like a dummy. What do you think of my story? Don’t…
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The Man with the Golden Gun (1974, Dir. Guy Hamilton): ‘FRANCISCO (PACO) “PISTOLS” SCARAMANGA’: Known in his territory as “the Man with the Golden Gun” – a reference to his…
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Live and Let Die (1973, Dir. Guy Hamilton): ‘I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a great negro criminal before,’ said Bond, ‘Chinamen, of course, the men behind the opium…
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977, Dir. Lewis Gilbert): When you’re going downhill on skis at forty miles an hour and someone’s trying to put a bullet in your back,…
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We’re dated and categorized by everything — driver’s licenses, birth certificates, college dates of graduation, mortgages, kids — but nothing seems to pigeonhole us, or equate age, quite as much…