Timothy Dalton played James Bond twice, in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill, taking the character back toward Fleming’s colder original, and the audience of the late 1980s largely did not want it.
The approach was vindicated by Daniel Craig two decades later, and both films have been substantially reappraised.
He came from the Royal Shakespeare Company and gave a superb performance in The Lion in Winter at twenty-two. Hot Fuzz gave him a very funny late villain.
Brian BlessedFlash Gordon (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Dino De Laurentiis spent twenty-seven million dollars on a deliberately camp space opera, hired Queen to score it, and produced something no serious film could get near. The…
Jeroen Krabbe1987 John Glen Bond film with Timothy Dalton's debut. Soviet defector plot, Maryam d'Abo as cellist, return to serious tone.
Carey Lowell1989 John Glen Bond film with Dalton's final outing. Bond's personal revenge against drug lord Sanchez.
Anthony HopkinsThe Lion in Winter is one of the great chamber pieces in cinema, written as a stage play by James Goldman and adapted by him for the screen with all the dialogue intact. The film is two hours of family…
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