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The James Bond we know and mostly love was a creation as much of the movies as of the books by Ian Fleming. Len Deighton, author of the classic espionage novel 'The Ipcress File', knew both sides intimately. An acquaintance of Ian Fleming’s (who had praised Deighton’s debut novel in the 'Sunday Times') Deighton was also close to the man who was to become Fleming’s nemesis – Kevin McClory, a veteran of the British film industry.
The history of Bond’s development under the arc lights becomes, in Deighton’s expert hands, a saga-like story of inflated egos and poisonous vendettas, exotic locations and claustrophobic courtooms, all involving household names. As an eye witness to the protracted disputes that complicated Bond’s depiction both on screen and on the page, Deighton is in a unique position to tell what he saw. Candid, comical, always steely-eyed, this hefty slice of cinematic memoir reads with all the high-powered pace of a Len Deighton thriller.
Len Deighton is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. He is perhaps most famous for his spy novel 'The Ipcress File' which was made into a film starring Michael Caine.
- Sales Rank: #258618 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-12-18
- Released on: 2012-12-18
- Format: Kindle eBook
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating tidbits about the birth of the James Bond films
By J. Chambers
I'm old enough to have seen every James Bond film on its original release, and over the five decades since "Dr. No" was released in 1962, I've read a tremendous amount of Ian Fleming/James Bond lore, some undoubtedly true and some most likely a press agent's fanciful creations. However, Author Len Deighton's recollections are a treasure trove of gossipy tidbits about the principals that I've never read before.
Deighton reveals things that I wasn't aware of about his friend Ian Fleming, including the surprising fact that early on, despite the success of his James Bond novels, Fleming thought seriously about killing off Bond and ending the series. He also describes the relationship between Fleming and Kevin McClory, a man who worked with Fleming to bring the James Bond series to the movie screen, but would end up in a bitter, protracted legal battle with Fleming. McClory had worked in the movie business, but was perhaps best known for saving the large plastic model of the whale used in "Moby Dick" when it blew loose from its moorings!
Interestingly, had everything gone smoothly between Fleming and McClory, "Thunderball" would have been the first James Bond film, not "Dr. No." Exactly how this came to pass is described in this fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the personae involved in the real-life story.
By the way, the subtitle of the book refers to finding the origin of the name "James Bond."
It was great to see Len Deighton writing again after a long absence.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A case even James Bond himself would find challenging
By Joseph P. Menta, Jr.
Most James Bond fans have at least a rough idea that there was a man named Kevin McClory who established in court that he was a co-creator of the story that eventually became both the 1961 James Bond novel and 1965 film known as "Thunderball". That particular claim seems reasonable to myself and many other Bond fans.
Of course, Mr. McClory took things a step further and also claimed that he was the father of the "cinematic" James Bond we all know and love, that Ian Fleming's original creation was just the same old stodgy spy character seen countless times before in countless thrillers before Mr. McClory shaped him up into the suave adventurer that lit up movie screens. That particular claim is more problematic to myself and many other Bond fans.
However one feels, Len Deighton's essay, "James Bond: My Long and Eventful Search For His Father", is a fascinating look at that heady time when James Bond was first making the jump from reasonably popular novels to super popular films (which eventually lead to the novels becoming super popular, too). I especially enjoyed Mr. Deighton's colorful descriptions of Mr. McClory (who I now see as a real person with a passionate, real position, even if I largely don't agree with it), but I also liked learning a little more about the skills, charms, and personal foibles of Ian Fleming, Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, and other notable personalities peppering the James Bond literary and movie landscape.
The paragraphs are a little long and the writing a little dense for what should have been a breezier, lighter reading experience, but the interesting subject matter cut through the thick verbiage and assured that this long essay- which can be completed in one to three sittings depending on your personal reading habits- was never less than a compelling glimpse into a period (beginning in the swinging sixties and extending into the early eighties) when the ownership of James Bond was a hotly-debated topic.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Raw intelligence is often the least reliable...
By John Cork
When it comes to spy novelists of the spymania boom 1960s, Len Deighton ranks in the top three. His companions are still household names: Ian Fleming and John LeCarré. Fleming died in 1964. LeCarré's star has continued to shine. Deighton has been more mercurial. His novels of the era are still wonderful reads, and there is no doubt he knows how to write. Yet, his moves into cookbooks, film producing, travel writing and military history have made him hard to pigeonhole.
Yet, like every espionage writer of his era, Deighton was touched by Bond. His remembrances here are worthy, but trying. Here's the synopsis: Deighton worked on an initial draft of the screenplay for the James Bond film, From Russia With Love. He had lunch once with Ian Fleming (an event recorded in an article at the time). He later visited the set of Thunderball while a sequence was being shot in France. In the 1970s, he worked with Kevin McClory, a neighbor in Ireland, on an attempt to remake Thunderball. He was able to meet Sean Connery at this time. On another occasion, he met McClory's lawyer in a famous lawsuit that had won Kevin the screen rights to the novel Thunderball and the various screenplays and treatments produced prior to Fleming writing the novel.
This "single" contains Deighton's memories of these events and much, much more. Here's the bottom line: if you are interested in Deighton, buy this. If you are well-versed on the history of 007's journey to the screen, buy this. If you are looking for a good, factual over-view of this story, read Raymond Benson's The James Bond Bedside Companion or Andrew Lycett's biography of Ian Fleming. Or, if you are looking for an even less time-consuming operation, one can order the Collector's Edition of the 2006 version of Casino Royale and watch two documentaries from the supplements: The Road to Casino Royale and Ian Fleming: The Secret Road to Paradise (I directed both of these). One thing that would be unwise is to read Deighton's book as an accurate history.
Below is an incomplete list of some of the historical problems with Deighton's article (or Amazon Single, as it is designated here). Please, read these with the understanding that the background Deighton gives is in many cases repeated from those who have not researched the subject adequately or in some cases seem to have come from memories that have clouded over the 50-years since Deighton first became involved in the world of 007.
Deighton proposes that Ian Fleming wasn't much of a fan of the sea. This is untrue. Fleming was an avid snorkeler in Jamaica, creating a catalog of the marine life there before he ever began writing a Bond novel. Deighton opines that Fleming was afraid of sharks and barracuda. Fleming delighted in trying to catch sharks and barracuda in Jamaica. He was no deep-sea fisherman, but he was fascinated by deadly creatures. Deighton implies that Fleming didn't know Nassau (or, more exactly, New Providence Island). Quite the contrary. Fleming had spent a goodly amount of time in the Bahamas in the 1950s. His mother had lived there, and, later, his good friend Ivar Bryce had begun spending significant time there after his marriage to an heir to the A&P fortune.
Deighton worked closely with Harry Saltzman, but he gets the story of the creation of Eon Productions (the company Harry formed with Cubby Broccoli to produce the Bond films) all jumbled up. He states that both men had the rights to a Bond novel and approached United Artists separately. This didn't happen. He appears to be mixing this story up with Wolf Mankowitz introducing the two men. At the time, Cubby Broccoli wanted to produce Bond films, but he did not have the rights. Harry controlled the screen rights to most of the Bond novels under a complex option agreement.
When talking about the production of Thunderball, Deighton makes it sound like Kevin McClory was running the show. This was not the case. McClory certainly had an impact on the production, but the film was produced under the Eon Productions banner with a core creative team members cobbled from the previous three Bond film adventures. One can understand Deighton having the impression that it was a "Kevin McClory" film based on later having spent so much time with McClory, but McClory's role in the production was limited in many ways by Broccoli and Saltzman's track record with the Bond series.
Deighton writes of the origins of the Thunderball story as though Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory just stumbled upon each other, and that McClory had coincidentally worked with Fleming's best friend, Ivar Bryce. The order of events was far different. It was Bryce who sold Fleming on McClory. Bryce, using his wife's wealth, had financed McClory's first (and only) feature film as a director. Bryce and a mutual friend named Ernest Cuneo devised a plan to produce films in the Bahamas where favorable tax rates could attract US filmmakers. To launch this, the pair approached their friend and successful novelist, Ian Fleming. Only after both Cuneo and Fleming had produced outlines of a story did Kevin McClory become involved.
Other bits of Bond history get mangled, but of note is Deighton's reporting of the court case that was settled with McClory getting the screen rights to Thunderball. The settlement terms McClory reached with Ivar Bryce are unnecessarily merged together with McClory's later agreement with Eon Productions.
Most frustrating is what is not here. Deighton does paint a portrait of McClory, but it is far from complete. He mentions the temper, the bluster and the string of unpaid bills. He makes some wonderful observations, but the portrait lacks depth and complexity. The same is true for Harry Saltzman, and, in many cases with Ian Fleming, the telling is just inaccurate.
Many Bond fans have wondered for years about Deighton's work on From Russia with Love. Deighton admits that he can't shed much light on the subject.: he never kept his draft of the script, and he never saw the film.
Enough of the criticism, here are the reasons to buy the book: Deighton was there. Even if his memories might be flawed, and his sources for his information beyond his personal memories are, with one exception, not cited, Deighton rode not just the wave of his own success, he rode the wave of Bond's success for a while. One can glean a lot from memos, script drafts, newspaper reports and the ilk. Yet even when an eyewitness is unreliable on certain facts, they look an event in the eye. If you love Deighton, this is a great chapter in his life. If you simply love Bond read this like an unedited interview transcript, unvarnished, flawed, yet filled with a few hidden gems.
The article begins by speculating on James Bond's "father." Is it Fleming? McClory? Saltzman? Ken Adam? For years, Deighton heard McClory say he created the cinematic James Bond, so this story skews in that direction every-so-slightly. I'll leave Deighton's conclusion to the readers, but there is no real doubt for those who have read the Bond novels: James Bond was created by Ian Fleming, and Ian Fleming alone. Everything that has followed is like different orchestrations of a Mozart symphony; it doesn't matter if it is played by the London Philharmonic or on a kazoo, it's still Mozart.
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