James Bond FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about James Bond
This FAQ about James Bond was compiled and written by Michael Reed reed55@core.com with numerous contributions by others.
01 This Newsgroup (alt.fan.james-bond)- If you are checking out the newsgroup, welcome. This is the official FAQ ...
- 02 Other Bond Newsgroups
- alt.fan.james-bond is NOT a binaries newsgroup and you should not post ...
- 03 The FAQ (alt.fan.james-bond)
- David Marsh wrote version 1.0 of the FAQ in November 1994. From there, ...
- 04 The character of James Bond
- James Bond is a fictional British secret agent. He holds the double-...
- 05 The films (James Bond)
- While Ian Fleming's creation began as a pulp fiction hero, there can be ...
- 06 The latest James Bond film
- Die Another Day was released November 22, 2002, the twentieth EON release....
- 07 EON and its trademarks (James Bond)
- EON Productions, Ltd., is the maker of James Bond films, dating back to ...
- 08 List of EON's James Bond films
- Here is the chronological list of EON's James Bond films. Note that ...
- 09 List of other James Bond films
- Some of the films featuring James Bond were made apart from EON. For ...
- 10 The actors who have played James Bond
- A few talented men have gotten to portray James Bond. We start with the ...
- 11 The actors who could have played James Bond
- Besides the men listed above many others have tried out for the role of 007....
- 12 The actors who have played Felix Leiter
- Many of the films have featured CIA Agent Felix Leiter, Bond's ...
- 13 Repeat offenders (James Bond)
- Too extensive to list every example here, is it easy to spot actors ...
- 14 Over dubbing (James Bond)
- Also prevalent in Bond films if you watch carefully is the number of ...
- 15 Specific films FAQ (James Bond)
- Certain questions seem to crop up often regarding things in specific films....
- 16 Casino Royale - the television episode
- This was the first time Bond appeared in the visual media. Not a ...
- 17 Casino Royale - the movie
- Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale was offered for film rights for $...
- 18 Dr. No / Live And Let Die
- Both of these films get fans asking, Where's Q? Q is in Dr. No. ...
- 19 From Russia With Love
- There are two questions regarding this film. The first is about ...
- 20 Goldfinger
- When the bomb is ticking away and Bond is feverously trying to disarm it ...
- 21 Thunderball / Never Say Never Again
- This is the most rancorous debate of anything regarding James Bond. ...
- 22 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Two prevalent questions arise often. The first is explaining why ...
- 23 Diamonds Are Forever
- Two of the three common questions regarding this film arise from editing,...
- 24 For Your Eyes Only
- More frequent questions arise from this film than any other. Here are ...
- 25 Octopussy
- An interesting question concerns Robert Brown appearing as M in the film....
- 26 Licence To Kill
- This is not easy for everyone to discover but it is true that bullets ...
- 27 Tomorrow Never Dies
- There is a large misconception regarding Bond's failure to read the ...
- 28 Die Another Day
- Madonna, in addition to performing the theme song, has a cameo as Verity,...
- 29 List of theme songs & artists
- Here is a list of the films' theme songs, as well as vocal recordings ...
- 30 The James Bond Theme debate
- Every Bond film credits Monty Norman as the composer for the James ...
- 31 Soundtracks & scores (James Bond)
- Ten men have scored a James Bond film. Here are the credits for each. ...
- 32 Bond meets an Oscar
- While the films have been wildly successful with audiences the world over,...
- 33 What's in a name? (James Bond)
- The Bond films almost always work the film's title into the script somehow....
- 34 The latest James Bond novel
- Author Raymond Benson penned the novelization to Die Another Day, ...
- 35 Ian Fleming (James Bond -The Books)
- Ian Lancaster Fleming created James Bond. He was born May 28, 1908, (a ...
- 36 List of Ian Fleming novels
- This is a complete list of Ian Fleming's Bond novels....
- 37 Stories to read in order
- The books follow a chronological sequence, and later books ...
- 38 Who wrote The Spy Who Loved Me?
- Ian Fleming did. The story is the most left-field Bond adventure, with ...
- 39 The Kennedy myth
- One of the things that helped Fleming's books get noticed in the ...
- 40 SMERSH
- SMERSH is a conjunction of two Russian words: Smiert Spionam (Death ...
- 41 SPECTRE
- Fleming had a real affection for this word. He created a Spectreville ...
- 42 Does Bond die in From Russia With Love?
- No, but readers were meant to think so upon its initial release. At the ...
- 46 Post-Fleming periods D - Other Glidrose novels featuring Bond (James Bond - The Books)
- Glidrose, the publishing company with rights to James Bond material, ...
- 47 Post-Fleming periods E - Reference books (James Bond - The Books)
- There are also many reference books about James Bond on screen and in print....
- 48 Fan fiction (James Bond)
- Bond is a copyrighted product and Glidrose, the company who owns Bond'...
- 49 Films and books - links or broken links? (James Bond)
- The newsgroup often notes that Sean Connery's films did not, for the ...
- 50 Explain the names "M" & "Q" (James Bond)
- When Mansfield Cumming was head of the real SIS he would sign documents ...
- 51 What other "00" agents are mentioned? (James Bond)
- In the James Bond films, a number of 00 agents have been depicted over ...
- 52 The Walther and other machinations (James Bond)
- In the Fleming novels, Bond started out with a .25 Beretta. In Doctor ...
- 53 Bright Leiter (James Bond)
- The novels and the films never had the chance to follow a ...
- 54 The websites (James Bond)
- There are many interesting, exciting and grand websites dedicated to ...
- 55 The fan clubs (James Bond)
- There are several fan clubs devoted to Bond. Before joining any of them,...
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