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     "NEVER SAY NEVER 
     
    
   
   
    
     AGAIN" 
     
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     James Bond, British 
     
     Secrect Service Agent 007, 
     
     is dangerous. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In a world dominated by 
     
     computers and buraeucracy, 
     
     he is a man whose greatest 
     
     strenght lies in his own 
     
     intuitions, a man who allows 
     
     his hunches to take him 
     
     straight to the heart of the 
     
     danger and has the courage 
     
     and the skill to face the 
     
    
   
   
    
     gravest of perils -- and 
     
     survive. 
     
    

    
     So when SPECTRE 
     
     (Special Executor for 
     
     Counter - intelligence, 
     
     Terrorism, Revenge, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     Extortion) holds the world 
     
     to ransom witha devastating 
     
     act of nuclear terrorism, 
     
     only Bond is able to cut 
     
     straight through to the 
     
     rotten core of the 
     
     operation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     While recharging his 
     
     batteries at a health 
     
     clinic, Bond's sixth sense 
     
     picks up an early warning of 
     
     SPECTRE'S plan. His 
     
     involvement leads him from 
     
     England to the Bahamas and 
     
     the South of France, pursued 
     
     along he way by the 
     
     beautiful but deadly Fatima 
     
     Blush, a SPECTRE assassin 
     
     who is determined to get her 
     
     man —- in more ways than 
     
     one. 
     
    
   
   
    
     He encounters the 
     
     charming but sinister Largo, 
     
     one of the richest and most 
     
     lethal men in the world, and 
     
     his mistress, the enigmatic 
     
     Domino, who is unaware of 
     
     Largo’s true nature and who 
     
     becomes quite taken with the 
     
     charming Mr. Bond. The 
     
     entire SPECTRE operation is 
     
     masterminded by Bond's 
     
     long-time enemy, Ernst 
     
     Stavro Blofeld. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Against this arsenal of 
     
     evil, Bond is backed up by 
     
     his American pal, Felix 
     
     Leiter (who has the knack of 
     
     turning up a the most 
     
     Oppurtune moments), as well 
     
     as by members of the British 
     
     Secrect Service: "M," the 
     
     adoring Miss Moneypenny, and 
     
     Algy the Armorer with his 
     
     sophisticated and ingenious 
     
     collection of devices. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Stunts, special effects 
     
     and high-speed action abound 
     
     as James Bond follows the 
     
     story to its dramatic 
     
     conclusion, refusing to take 
     
     anything -- well, hardly 
     
     anything -- lying down. 
     
    
   
   
    
     "Never Say Never Again" 
     
     is the film that nobody 
     
     believed could ever be made. 
     
     The cinema history books had 
     
     already recorded actor Sean 
     
     Connery‘s vehement 
     
     assertions that he would 
     
     never again play the role of 
     
     James Bond. There seemed no 
     
     possible chance that the 
     
     much-loved Scottish actor 
     
     would ever be pursuaded to 
     
     resume the role of 
     
     everybody’s favorite secret 
     
     agent, James Bond, 007, 
     
     licensed to kill. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Yet, despite all 
     
     predictions, in September, 
     
     1982 the cameras rolled on 
     
     the_ first day of production 
     
     of "Never Say Never Again," 
     
     a Warner Bros. release with 
     
     Sean Connery starring as Ian 
     
     Fleming’s James Bond. The 
     
     buzz of exitement during 
     
     production reverberated 
     
     around the world and the 
     
     questions on everybody’s 
     
     lips were, of course : Why 
     
     had Connery accepted the 
     
     role and who had managed to 
     
     persude him? 
     
    
   
   
    
     The persuation came 
     
     from an unexpected quarter. 
     
     Jack Schartzman, an American 
     
     film . producer with a 
     
     background in entertainment 
     
     law, had been the man with 
     
     the patience, the courage 
     
     and the skill needed to 
     
     aquire the complex rights to 
     
     the project, to untangle all 
     
     the knots and to present the 
     
     idea to Connery ,in an 
     
    
   
   
    
     appealing way. 
     
    
   
   
    
     According Vto Connery, 
     
    
   
   
    
     his decision to play Bondy 
     
    
   
   
    
     was influenced by his wife 
     
     Micheline. (It was also 
     
     Micheline who later came up 
     
     with the catchy and witty 
     
     title of the film.) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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