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Every James Bond movie needs a good villain as a foil to the suave and superb spy. But, who's the best of them all?

Selten haben die Kinofans sehnsüchtiger auf James Bond gewartet. Jetzt ist er endlich da – mit überraschenden Wahrheiten.

Credit: BFI National Archive Appropriately, the first indelible impression that Max von Sydow made on world cinema saw him surrounded by jagged rocks while staring death in the face. Only in his late 20s when he starred in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1956), he already gave the impression of a man who’d witnessed a lifetime of anguish, to the point that when actually confronted by Death (Bengt Ekerot), his gaunt, Crusades-weary knight Antonius Blok reacts with a disarmingly calm “Are you coming for me?” before challenging the white-faced spectre to a game of chess....

BBC News By Hugh Schofield For James Bond aficionados, the boardroom murder of a disobedient member of Ernst Stavro Blofeld's crime syndicate SPECTRE is part of 007 mythology. Less well known is that the brutal scene, as written by Ian Fleming in Thunderball, takes place in the heart of the French capital: on the third floor of number 136 Boulevard Haussmann, to be precise, a short walk from the BBC office. image copyrightAlamy image captionThe famous scene in Thunderball featuring Blofeld With the cabal's 20 members gathered round a large table, Blofeld reaches for a secret switch and send...

In our time, no books, no films, have enjoyed such a dazzling international success as the James Bond stories. But the impact was not instantaneous. When