Becoming Bond
Filmmaker Josh Greenbaum examines the life and career of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), without no acting experience.
26 January 1969, Manchester, England, UK
8 November 1945, London, England, UK
7 April 1939, Tenterden, Kent, England, UK
2 December 1981, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
15 February 1951, Hayes, Hayes and Harlington, Middlesex, England, UK
29 August 1928, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
9 July 1952, Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
2007, Los Angeles, California, USA
April 26, 2017
The result is as slick as it is hilarious, a perfect portrait of an aging ladies' man and irascible rebel agent.
May 17, 2017
A bizarre hybrid of documentary and feature...
May 17, 2017
Intimate, irreverent and at times laugh-out-loud funny ...
March 13, 2017
A film about a guy who did life his own way, and it's an enjoyable ride.
May 20, 2017
[A] rather A&E/TLC treatment of Lazenby's life.
May 19, 2017
There is a potentially interesting film-documentary or fiction-in Lazenby's life and career, but Becoming Bond, despite its ambitions, is not it.
