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By Jule Selbo Maybe like any other James Bond movie lover, the question of who will be taking over the role from Daniel Craig (No Time to Die was his swan song) has popped into my mind. A few days ago, in a random wonder-wandering on this topic, I came upon a name - one…
Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale is uncannily like an earlier spy novel, written by his teacher
While critics and audiences thought The Mortal Storm was untimely in 1940, the themes it explores have proved to be timeless as years passed.
Director: Frank Borzage Writer: Claudine West (screen play), Hans Rameau (screen play), George Froeschel (screen play), Phyllis Bottome (based on the book by) Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan Storyline: Interesting to note that the film was made in 1940, 1 year before America's entry into the European war against Hitler. The movie depicts Germany in 1933. In 1938 the 'night of broken glass' took place. Interesting to note the attitudes portrayed in the film, definitely anti-Nazi. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032811/
Fleming, Ian Fleming: How World War II Inspired the Creation of James Bond By the war’s end, Fleming had accumulated a vast store of ideas, impressions, and incidents he was to use in his James Bond novels. Here's What You Need to Know: The adventures of a British Intelligence officer during World War II fueled the creation of the mythical spy James Bond. Some accounts of Ian Fleming’s life make it seem that only at the age of 44, as an antidote to the shock of finally agreeing to get married, did he suddenly commit himself to the unplanned task of creating his James Bond novels. In actu...