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James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 4 (Dr. No / You Only Live Twice / Octopussy / Tomorrow Never Dies / Moonraker) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Bernard Lee, Joseph Wiseman, Anthony Dawson, Jack Lord, Zena Marshall
Studio: MGM (Video DVD)
Category: DVD
List Price: $59.98
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 357
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: Danish (Original Language), English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), Russian (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 10
Running Time: 598
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.6 x 1.9
MPN: MGMDM106022D
UPC: 027616060204
EAN: 0027616060204
ASIN: B000ICM5VC
Theatrical Release Date: June 29, 1979
Release Date: December 12, 2006
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Condition: Brand new; still in shrink wrap!!
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Includes: dr no 1962 and bonus disc you only live twice and bonus disc mooneraker and bonus disc octopussy and bonus disc tomorrow never dies Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/13/2008 Director: Various
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img border="0" align=right src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/james-bond/4/doctor-no1_sm.jpg" biDr. No/i/b: Released in 1962, this first James Bond movie remains one of the best, and serves as an entertaining reminder that the Bond series began (in keeping with Ian Fleming's novels) with a surprising lack of gadgetry and big-budget fireworks. Sean Connery was just 32 years old when he won the role of Agent 007. In his first adventure James Bond is called to Jamaica where a colleague and secretary have been mysteriously killed. With an American CIA agent (Jack Lord, pre-iHawaii Five-O/i), they discover that the nefarious Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) is scheming to blackmail the U.S. government with a device capable of deflecting and destroying U.S. rockets launched from Cape Canaveral. Of course, Bond takes time off from his exploits to enjoy the company of a few gorgeous women, including the bikini-clad Ursula Andress. She gloriously kicks off the long-standing tradition of Bond women who know how to please their favorite secret agent. A sexist anachronism? Maybe, but this is Bond at his purest, kicking off a series of movies that shows no sign of slowing down. --iJeff Shannon/ip pbiYou Only Live Twice/i/b: The film boasts the best of the Bond title songs (this one sung on a dreamy track by Nancy Sinatra), but the movie itself is one of the weaker ones of the Sean Connery phase of the 007 franchise. The story concerns an effort by the evil organization SPECTRE to start a world war, but the not-so-super villain behind the plot is the awfully civilized Donald Pleasence. The thin script is by Roald Dahl (shouldn't we have expected a better Bond nemesis from the creator of mad genius iWilly Wonka/i?), and direction is by British veteran Lewis Gilbert (iAlfie/i). But the movie can't hold a candle to iDr. No/i, iFrom Russia with Love/i, or iGoldfinger/i. --iTom Keogh/i/p img border="0" align=left src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/james-bond/4/octupussy2_sm.jpg" biOctopussy/i/b: Roger Moore was nearing the end of his reign as James Bond when he made iOctopussy/i, and he looks a little worn out. But the movie itself infuses some new blood into the old franchise, with a frisky pace and a pair of sturdy villains. Maud Adams--who'd also been in the Bond outing iThe Man with the Golden Gun/i--plays the improbably named Octopussy, while old smoothie Louis Jourdan is her crafty partner in crime. There's an island populated only by women, plus a fantastic sequence with a hand-to-hand fight that happens on a plane--and on top of a plane. The film even has an extra emotional punch, since this time out 007 is not only following the orders of Her Majesty's Secret Service, but he is also exacting a personal revenge: a fellow double-0 agent has been killed. Two Bond films were actually released in 1983 within a few months of each other, as iOctopussy/i was followed by Sean Connery's comeback in iNever Say Never Again/i. The success of both pictures proved that there was still plenty of mileage left in the old license to kill, though Moore had one more workout--iA View to a Kill/i--before hanging it up. And that title? The franchise had already used up the titles to Ian Fleming's novels, so iOctopussy/i was taken from a lesser-known Fleming short story. -- iRobert Horton/i pbiTomorrow Never Dies/i/b: Pierce Brosnan returns for his second stint as James Bond (after iGoldenEye/i), and he's doing it in high style with an invigorating cast of costars. It's only appropriate that a Bond film from 1997 would find Agent 007 pitted against a media mogul (Jonathan Pryce) who's going to start a global war (beginning with stolen nuclear missiles aimed at China) to create attention-grabbing headlines for his latest multimedia news channel. It's the information age run amok, and Bond must team up with a lovely and lethal agent from the Chinese External Security Force (played by Honk Kong action star Michelle Yeoh) to foil the madman's plot of global domination. Luckily for Bond, the villain's wife (Teri Hatcher) is one of his former lovers, and at the behest of his superior M (Judi Dench), 007 finds ample opportunity to exploit the connection. Armed with the usual array of gadgets (including a remote-controlled BMW), Brosnan settles into his role with acceptable flair, and the dynamic Yeoh provides a perfect balance to the sexism that once threatened to turn Bond into a politically incorrect anachronism. He's still Bond, to be sure, but he's saving the world with a bit more sophisticated finesse. --iJeff Shannon/i/p img border="0" align=right src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/james-bond/4/moonraker2_sm.jpg" biMoonraker/i/b: This was the first James Bond adventure produced after the success of iStar Wars/i, so it jumped on the sci-fi bandwagon by combining the suave appeal of Agent 007 (once again played by Roger Moore) with enough high-tech hardware and special effects to make Luke Skywalker want to join Her Majesty's Secret Service. After the razzle-dazzle of iThe Spy Who Loved Me/i, this attempt to latch onto a trend proved to be a case of overkill, even though it brought back the steel-toothed villain Jaws (Richard Kiel) and scored a major hit at the box office. This time Bond is up against a criminal industrialist named Drax (Michel Lonsdale) who wants to control the world from his orbiting space station. In keeping with his well-groomed style, Bond thwarts this maniacal Neo-Hitler's scheme with the help of a beautiful, sleek-figured scientist (played by Lois Chiles with all the vitality of a department-store mannequin). Despite Moore's passive performance (which Pauline Kael described as "like an office manager who is turning into dead wood but hanging on to collect his pension"), iMoonraker/i had no problem attracting an appreciative audience, and there are even a few renegade Bond-philes who consider it one of their favorites. --iSean Axmaker/i/p lb p span class="h1"strongBeyond iJames Bond Ultimate Collection - Vol. 4/i/strong/span table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny" td width="33%" img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000BLFI.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V41223781_.jpg" border="0"br James Bond Ultimate Collection - Vol. 1/td td width="33%" img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000BCPF.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V41223786_.jpg" border="0"br James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 2/td td width="33%" img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000ICM5V2.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V40659203_.jpg" border="0"br James Bond Ultimate Edition - Vol. 3/td lb /tr /tablelblb span class="h1"strongStills from IJames Bond Ultimate Collection - Vol. 4/I (click for larger image)/strong/span table border="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%" cellspacing="4"p p tr align="center" valign="top" tdimg border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/james-bond/4/doctorno2_smjpg.jpg"br /tdp tdimg border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/james-bond/4/youonlylivetwice2_sm.jpg"br p tdimg border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/james-bond/4/octupussy1_sm.jpg"br /tdp /td /tr tr align="center" valign="top" td img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/james-bond/4/youonlylivetwice1_sm.jpg"br /td tdimg border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/james-bond/4/tomorrowneverdies1_sm.jpg"br /tdp tdimg border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/james-bond/4/moonraker1_sm.jpg"br /td /tr /table p
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 James Bond Ultimate Edition Vol. 4 December 28, 2008
This box set is completely amazing. They come with booklets that show original movie posters, information on the actors careers, talk about the original books the movies are based on much more. This is my favorite of the bond sets. Even though the books were written in the 1960s cold war of spies, the writer had the for sight to create such stories such as the movie Moonraker is based on with its space station villian and the return of one of my favorite Bond villians Jaws with his metal teeth that can bite through anything. Jaws orignally appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me who I wish was also included in this set. The set also includes Dr. No the first James Bond Movie, Octopussy who also has great villian who use a Yo Yo saw of doom and dozens of beautiful women to look at, Tomorrow Never Dies (one of the best Pierce Bronson Bond Movies) and You Only Live Twice which is one of the few movies where it looks like Bond is actually killed.
James Bond August 26, 2008
The other three sets were given to us during the holidays and the cheapest I could find the final box set was Amazon. We are very satisfied with our purchase.
Bond as Usual !!!!!!!!! August 10, 2008
These are some of the best of bond as long as you also have the first three boxes of this set-they are all GREAT!!!!!!!!!
 Not as great as the others July 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Welcome to the fourth and final set in this stellar collection!br /br /Sadly, for this set, the selection of movies is not great. Oh, "You Only Live Twice" is fine, I suppose. But the others are a real let down.br /br /You can get these movies seperately in single-disc form, or you can do what I did and buy this collection! Not only do you get all the movies in pristine new transfers, along with 5.1 surround, but you also get a second disc for each movie loaded with more extras than you can imagine. Behind-the-scenes stuff, rare outtakes, radio ads, trailers, etc. It's pretty comprehensive for each movie.br /br /And as for the movies? Ugh. Well, "You Only Live Twice" is the only really good one in the bunch. "Octopussy" is ok. "Dr No" is worth seeing for the novelty of it, but "Moonraker" is flat terrible and "Tomorrow Never Dies" is pretty forgettable (though it is the first Bond movie I saw).br /br /Sadly, I can only really award this set two stars for the films, but the usual five stars for the extras. A decent boxed set, but not great.
The Ultimate Sets are the way to go! Dump the Special Editions when you can! May 14, 2008
After waiting for a very long time to acquire the Bond Ultimate Edition sets at a reasonable price, I finally ditched my Special Editions in favor of the new ones. I, perhaps like many others, was always reluctant to give up my Special Editions because frankly I spent a lot of time and money putting the original, Special Edition set together. br /br /After watching the Special Edition and Ultimate Edition of "Dr.No", I finally realized how "ultimate" the new discs are. Gone are the film scratches, imperfections and faded colors that plagued most of the Bond early films such as the Connery some of the Moore films. The new Dolby DTS 5.1 surround sound are fantastic! The 1962 "Dr. No" looks like it was filmed yesterday. The special features on "Dr. No" includes a segment on the outstanding work put into the frame by frame restoration. A truly tremendous effort and much appreciated!br /br /I like the slim-line cases for the new sets. My entire Bond collection now only takes up less than half the space on my shelves than it did before. Although I tend to agree with other reviewers that it's kind of cheesy how the booklets for each film are stored in the box and not the individual cases, the overall quality of the DVD's negate any negatives. I spend more time watching the films than browsing the booklets. Forget buying any of the Ultimate Editions individually which are single discs because the DVD's in the Ultimate Edition box sets are double-disc sets. One disc for the feature film for optimized quality and one disc for the special features. br /br /I'm not bothered in the fact that all films in all four volumes are not packaged chronologically, since I went through the same process when I purchased the Special Edition box sets. I understand the studio's logic for "mixing it up", since a chronological DVD order would mean more popular sales for the Connery sets and lower sales for the Moore/Dalton sets. I'm a fan of all the Bond films as I appreciate all of the different actors from Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Bronson to Craig and for what each one of them has contributed to the Bond Legacy. Many thanks to Daniel Craig for resurrecting this franchise with his outstanding debut in "Casino Royale". Looking forward to "Quantum of Solace" later this year. br /br /VOLUME 4; This is my third favorite volume, but "Dr. No" (the Bond Connery debut film) is a classic containing one of the most, iconic moments in Bond film history. Ursalla Andress in the white bikini walking in the beach from the ocean. Somehow I never get tired of that scene? Connery's other effort "You Only Live Twice" features some exotic Japan locations. Love that volcano base set! "Moonraker" is one of the most campiest Bond films for Moore, but having Jaws in it entertains. "Octupussy" should have been Moore's last film and I think it would have been a great send off film for Moore because it was quite good. "Tomorrow Never Dies" is a decent effort for Bronson featuring the acrobatic, martial arts, superstar Michelle Yeoh.
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