Sean Connery Movie Guide

Have you ever heard of something brighter than a star? You must have. And the blank space has been filled up with some golden letters spelling the name Sir Sean Connery. Yes, he is the super star till date. Each film of his is like a ray coming out from a source that dazzles the eyes of the viewers and reaches straight into their heart and soul. The handsome hunk attracts the audience initially with his charms and then keeps them glued to their seats with his magnetic performance. Following are some written excerpts from his cream chunk of works.

‘Lilac In The Spring’ was probably his first movie in the year 1954, which was quite a romantic one with a touch of fantasy as well. Its about a young actress who was pushed down unconscious during the British War and dreams of herself being the queen, Nell Gwyn, a senior English actress and even her mother.

‘Time lock’ released in 1957 is a thriller, directed by Gerald Thomas, which portrays a boy who is unexpectedly zapped in the bank locker and was left with 10 hours of oxygen. It is all about the rush to save the boy. Montgomery Tully was the director of his next crime film ‘No Road Back’ in 1957 only.. Some jewel thieves try to pin the misdeed of a murder onto a deaf and dumb girl who is the owner of a nightclub in London. Another 1957 film was ‘Action of the Tiger’ directed by Terence Young with all the essence of crime, mystery, action and drama. Here a smuggler, Carson helps out Tracy, a young blonde to rescue her brother who was held as a political prisoner in Albania. His last film of the year 1957 was ‘A Night to remember’ directed by Roy Ward Baker. This is a semi-documentary movie drama, which has minutely detailed that deadly voyage of Titanic. The casts in the film are significant since they resemble the original photographs of the Titanic passengers. It is based on a novel written by Walter Lord. The ship’s second officer has narrated the whole story.

Lewis Allen was the director of his next movie in the year 1958 titled, ‘Another time, Another place’. This one is with a different taste with a dramatic tint where a Sean plays a journalist, Mark covering the World War II. He falls in love with an American journalist, Lana Turner. Lana comes to his hometown to support his family morally when Mark is killed in the action.

Year 1959 came with a distinctly adventurous movie ‘Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure’ where Sean portrayed a detective who followed 4 British raiders down their track to the diamond mine. John Gullermin directed the film. Next came Robert Stevenson’s ‘Hard Driver’ in 1959 only. It is a drama about the struggle of an ex-con who had to fight for his individuality with his boss and rivals as well. Again in 1959 Robert Stevenson came up with a different film called, ‘Darby O’Gill And The Little People’ which was more of fantasy and adventure starring Albert Sharpe in the lead role. The story is about the capturing of some mischievous elves and discovers their hidden gold. It proved to be a real treat to the youngsters.

1961 brought him a movie, ‘The Frightened City’ from John Lemont with a criminal twist. The story is about a junior executive working for a London crime syndicate who is trapped and had to give in to a rival mob. Sean was rightly recognized by Cyril Frankel in 1961 to play the lead in his first comedy film ‘On The Fiddle’. It’s the tale of two cheats who join the Royal Air Force with a deceiving intention but were themselves amazed to become national heroes.
So we see that Sean Connery had every seed of talent sowed in him, which eventually matured to a multidimensional figure altogether.

Then in 1962 came ‘The Longest Day’ where England was fully prepared to attack France. They targeted the Normandy beaches and the soldiers in the Para suits were dropped in the main towns. The film reflects the scenario of the World War II when Eisenhower, the then American president won over Hitler, the German leader.

The name that gave Sean that immortal image was definitely ‘James Bond’. The first movie of the series is ‘Dr. No’, made in 1962. In this film James Bond, a British agent 007, played by none other than the great Sean follows the wicked Dr.No to his secret den on a Caribbean island. Joseph Wiseman has played Dr. Julius No. On reaching there he meets the lovely lady Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress) who further helps him achieve his goal. Being the first film of the James Bond series this film made deep roots in the box office history and showed the way to some more accomplished ones. Reviews say that the film could be spicier by shaping the ‘Bond’ character with a bit of sense of humor instead of being so much straightforward. But the next of ‘James Bond’ films really crossed all limits of appreciation with a balanced tint of women, gadgets and humor.

The next ‘James Bond’ film that came the very next year was ‘From Russia With Love’ followed by yet another one in 1964 titled as ‘Gold finger’. These are the movies that must me watched to know the limits of how remarkably a man can perform. This one was more matured than the previous one and the story line was quite well knit as well. The audience was quite fond of the villain character being a fair blonde girl with a knife in her shoes although the villainous appeal was a shade darker to those whom James usually comes across. ‘Goldfinger’ was probably the best of all the ‘James Bond series. It had all the spices like the gadgets, the girls, the cars, the villains, the humor and the action, all cooked to a tangy taste. The late Gert Fobe played the villainous role of the gold smuggler Auric Goldfinger.

While pursuing his James Bond career Sean came up with a different taste in the film ‘Woman Of Straw’. It’s a crime drama with a thrilling flavor where dictator Charles Richmond gets mentally attached to is beautiful Italian nurse. The nurse is again in love with his idle and worthless nephew Anthony. But this worthless character turns out to be quite sensitive about his uncle and tries to solve a way out. Also in 1964 came ‘Marnie’, the sex mystery with suspense by none other than Alfred Hitchcock. Marnie Edgar is a thief who robs her employers by making use of her killing beauty. But at last Mark Rutland, played by Sean, who was her last employer’s client, spots her but decides to watch instead of turning her in.

Again it is Bond, James Bond. Yes, his next movie in 1965 was ‘Thunderball’ where the SPECTRE agents hijack a British military aircraft. James Bond is sent to convalesce the same before it is blown up by the SPECTRE. His next 1965 movie was ‘The Hill’ by Sidney Lurnet. This is a drama movie about a cruel Sergeant who made the prisoners in the Libyan Desert climb the artificial hill time and again. Sean is a sensible and compassionate subordinate to this brutal staff. The arrival of five new prisoners calls bluster to this dominating sergeant. Sean with all his best makes a good friend of the poor sufferers.

Year 1966 brought a drollery with the comedy drama ‘A Fine Madness’ by Irvin Kershner. A baffled poet and a magnet for women, owes the maintenance defrayals to his previous wife and now lives with a waitress who is quite a sensible one. She sends him to a psychiatrist. At last he dodges the defrayals and gets impertinent about women and manages somehow to complete his unfinished poem. This film added some different taste to Sean’s career life.

The very next year in 1967 we found Sean in and as ‘Shalako’ by Edward Dmytryk. Shalako is a western hunter who saves a group of European hunters from danger.

Year 1970 saw a drama ‘The Molly Maguires’ by Martin Ritt. This film was featured on the coalmines of Pennsylvania where the secret group of Irish emigrants called the Molly Maguires fights against the vicious mining company. Sean (as Jack) is also an Irish emigrant who is hired to solve the problem.

In 1971 came an adventure movie ‘The Red Tent’ is the remembrance of his guilt by a former aircraft officer of the ‘Italia’ warship flight. Mikhiel Kalatozishvili was the director. Sidney Lurnet named the next reel in 1971 ‘The Anderson Tapes’. Sean played a thief who has a 10years jail record again plans for new robbery projects, but is completely unaware of the fact that he is being watched. However, the thief is not sued. The last film starred by Connery as James Bond was ‘Diamonds are forever’. This British agent went to Las Vegas to investigate the missing of Diamonds to eventually discover one of his big enemies. Sean definitely did quite justice to this movie.

‘Offence (1973)’ was his next piece of a thriller movie where a brutal police sergeant discovers the evil within his own self, which was as good as that of the offenders he has encountered till date.

The audience got a fantasy movie next in 1974 called ‘Zardoz’. The Earth in this movie is divided into an excessively civilized group and a scantily civilized one. Sean is one of those barbarians whose crossing over didders the flimsy balance of the world. ‘Murder On the Orient Express’ was another one of his outstanding movies. The story is about a murder in a train stuck in the snow. Ratchett was stabbed and killed brutally. Then investigation is made by our Bond to find out that Ratchett and the rest of the passengers were involved in the ‘Daisy Armstrong’ case where a kidnapped child was dreadfully killed.

‘The Wind The Lion’ was his next adventure release in 1975 where an American woman was kidnapped and efforts to absolve her involved both the diplomatic pressure and military intercession. ‘The Terrorists’ and ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ were his next releases in the same year. The former is a crime thriller by Caspar Wrede where Sean plays a pitiless police chief who has been ascribed to rescue a hijacked plane and also to see the terrorists who have ceased the residence of the British ambassador. The other one was an adventure piece, which tells about two explorers who find India to be too small for them and move towards Kafiristan to become the rulers.

The next year brought ‘The Next Man’, an action thriller where Sean (khalil), an Arab diplomat wants a peace treaty with Israel while in the process he is becomes the target for some murder attempts which he somehow crosses by the aid of two of his friends, but he wonders as to whether he should trust them. ‘Robin And Marian’ was a romantic release the same year. Sean played as Robin Hood who fights the Sheriff of Nottingham with his huge force of faithful peasants. Audrey Hepburn is Marian, a nun.

Next year came ‘A Bridge Too Far’ by Richard Attenborough. It is all about the WWII where the Americans and the British make attempts to capture some key bridges along with an armored assail.

After a gap of one year, i.e., in 1979 came ‘The Great Train Robbery’ in which John Simms and a friend of his plan to rob the safe of a train in Victorian England. A rigorous planning is called for in order to make the wax impressions of coffins, keys, dead cats etc. ‘Meteor’ and ‘Cuba’ were the same years’ releases. The former is about an asteroid “Orpheus” which after its collision with a comet is moving towards the Earth. If it does so mankind will perish. But NASA has launched an illegal satellite that can stop the meteor. But to their surprise they found that their weapon was lacking firepower. Now they had no way out but to join hands with the USSR forces who also have launched a same illegal nuclear weapon. ‘Cuba’ was an action thriller, which screened Sean as a British pensionary who is sent to Cuba to train the Basistas in order to fight Castro’s army. Here only the trainer meets his lost love who is already married. But their love somehow renovates at the cost of the battle.

Then came the eighties with ‘Time Bandits’, a fantasy movie where an imaginative child heads to hunt all the treasure of the universe.

‘Outland’ was another 1981 release where Sean plays a futuristic space marshal who discovers the cause of the mass suicides made by the workers to be the drug offered by the owner of the company. He comes across some helping hands of his in the task but the murderers are there to take care of him.

Next in 1982 Sean made no mistake with his role of a TV newsman in ‘Wrong IS Right’. He is there to figure out the thieves of two suitcase-sized nuclear weapons, which have been eventually handed over to the terrorists. He also very minutely untangles the labyrinth of the apparent involvement of the US Government agencies.
Same year saw the film ‘Five Days One Summer’ directed by Fred Zinnemann. Kay Boyle bases the film on the novel ‘Maiden Maiden’. The romantic relation between a young gal and an elderly Scottish doctor takes a different bend when they travel to the Swiss Alps on a short holiday.

‘Never Say Never Again’, an action adventure of the very following year by Irvin Kershner was the next to welcome James Bond once again. Ernst Blofeld sends some SPECTRE agents to pussyfoot a US air force base and steal two missiles. James Bond is on the stage to retake the warheads when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is held to redeem.

Then 1984 saw the ‘Sword Of The Valiant’. It was a mixed pickle of adventure, comedy, fantasy and romance. Gawain played by Sean was a gallant in King Arthur’s court who plays a game with the Green Knight to fend the king’s honor but later comes to know that all of it was a trick.

The year 1986 was in ‘the Name Of The Rose’, which is about the Franciscan monk who unravels the mystery of some cryptic untimely deaths in the Benedictine Abbey. Same year came ‘Highlander’ where a defeated and thought to be dead Connor finds his look-alike Ramirez who teaches the former that to kill an immortal is to take his head. Skilled with proper swordsmanship Connor is supposed to fight to the end to win the ‘Prize’.

The year 1987 was touched by ‘The Untouchables’ where Sean as Jim Malone along with his gang men swore to bring down the crime boss of Chicago who was supposedly the crime boss of his time.

In ‘The Presidio’, the next year, Sean plays Colonel Caldwel, a commanding officer with whom a civilian police and a former police detective has to work on a case of serial murders. The latter one dates the daughter of the senior personnel but the relationship is not working out.

‘Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade’ of 1989 is about a famous archeologist in the occult who along with his father tries to find out the holy grail and again the German followers of Hitler, the Nazis are after them. Another release of the same year, ‘Family Business’ reflects the attachment of all the three generations to the crime world, which never makes them ashamed of the same. Rather the grandpa and father of Adam are not at all surprised to learn that he is planning a burglary while having a totally clear past unlike his elders.

The new decade brought Sean a thriller ‘The Russia House’ from Fred Schepisi. Sean plays here a seamy British publisher who is appointed to dig into the matter as to whether the Russian military secrets penned in a book that somehow came into the hands of the British were genuine at all. Another blockbuster in the same year, 1990 was ‘The Hunt For Red October’ where ‘Red October’ is a nuclear submarine of the Soviet Union skipped by Ramius who is none other than Sean himself. This is a techno thriller although the skills were technically not very sound. The captain of the ship ditches his country and Jack Ryan of CIA also wants to help him out.

In 1991 came ‘Highlander II: Renegade Version’. It is about the depletion if the ozone layer which is supposed to be completed by the year 2025. Sean (Ramirez) along with his colleague McLeod tries to take care of the whole thing.

‘Medicine Man’ came in 1992 where Sean plays a freakish scientist, Dr. Robert Campbell who is very close to the invention of a cancer drug. In the due course of his project he falls in love with his lady assistant.

Next ‘Rising Sun’ actually rose during his later phase of work, in the year 1993 only. This film is about a retired foreign expertise in Japanese culture that carries on his investigation against all that resistance caused by a group of Japanese only.

‘A Good Man In Africa’ came in 1994, which is entirely a comedy work done by Sean (Dr. Alex Murray) who wants to make up for his being caught with the wife of a corrupt politician.

Then came ‘First Knight’, a romance drama in 1995, where a lady swings with her decision as to whom to marry, the king whom she promised or the knight whom she fell in love with. The crown is also what matters a bit to her!

‘Just Cause’ in 1996 had actually no cause to collapse, as this mystery thriller was a perfect one to screen Sean a potent lawyer who somehow could not prove a murderer of a young girl to be innocent. ‘Dragonheart’ was another release of the year. Sean only gave his voice to a Draco in this movie and it was greatly liked by the audience. The third release of the same year was ‘The Rock’, an action thriller where Sean plays a member of the SEAN, an FBI supported team, which fights a group of terrorists to save 81 tourists before time flies off.

A year later, i.e., in 1998 came ‘The Avengers’ which is a adventure comedy where Sean plays a villainous role who plans to rule the whole world with his weather control machine! ‘Playing By Heart’ was another 1998 movie, which was really played by heart by the superstar. It is a romance drama where a number of young people juggle up the relationship of love and sex and lastly come to the same point in the weekend.

The year 1999 was a real happening one for the Sean lovers as it brought a hair-raising crime thriller with the sexy Catherine Zeta-Jones as his loyal partner, who has been trained rigorously before the operation of a theft of an odd sum of eight billion dollars! - Entrapment

The new century, 2001 gave us another masterpiece of Sean’s work through the ‘Finding Forrester’ where a college boy Jamal Wallace finds his best friend who happens to be a withdrawn writer, William Forrester and later he discovers a new writer in his own self. It is a totally different kind of a movie.

Lastly came in 2003 ‘The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ which tells about the extraordinary powers of some men and women whom Sean (Allen Quatarmain), a renowned adventurer actually leads to fight ‘The Fantom’! Sean in this movie was as graceful as he was in his very early ones.

Thus we find Sir Sean Connery as a never tiring actor throughout his long film life. The way he delivers his dialogues, the manner he interacts with the opposite sex on the screen and all the more his attitude has been greatly savored by the audience till date and we are eagerly waiting for some more happening projects from this very legend.