Scotland's greatest export. The world's first super spy. Voted the
sexiest man on the planet. Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on
screen and off for over half a century.
Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the
harsh streets of pre-war Edinburgh, lay a timeless array of motion
pictures that spanned multiple decades and saw Connery work across the
globe with directors as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg
and Michael Bay. And amongst them his greatest role, whether he liked it
or not - Bond, James Bond.
Author A. J. Black delves into Connery's life for more than mere
biography, exploring not just the enormously varied pictures he made
including crowd pleasing blockbusters such as The Untouchables or
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, serious-minded fare in The Hill or
The Offence, and his strange sojourns into eclectic fantasy with Zardoz
or Time Bandits, but also the sweep of a career that crossed movie eras
as well as decades.
From skirmishes with the angry young men of the British New Wave, via
becoming the cinematic icon of the 1960s as 007, through to a
challenging reinvention as a unique older actor of stature in the 1980s,
this exploration of the Cinematic Connery shows just how much his work
reflected the changing movie-going tastes, political realities and
cultural trends of the 20th century, and beyond . . .
