Factual error: When Bond and Donino are rescued by the US Navy from the water at Palmyra, the US submarine uses gunfire to suppress the Arabs. Active US submarines were not fitted with deck guns after the 1950s.
Never Say Never Again (1983)
1 mistake since 14 Nov '24, 07:48
Directed by: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Sean Connery, Max von Sydow, Kim Basinger, Rowan Atkinson
Q: Welcome back, Mr. Bond. I trust there will be lots of gratuitous sex and violence occurring.
Trivia: The title is an "in-joke" as Sean Connery said he would never play Bond again.
Question: Sean Connery took dancing lessons for 11 years in his youth, and he surely knew how to dance when he made this film in his 50s. So, why is his choreographed tango with Kim Basinger in this film so painfully, embarrassingly awkward and heavily edited? Is this perhaps due to the fact that Kim Basinger had virtually no dancing skills?
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Chosen answer: Neither is a professional dancer. Having studied dancing some thirty years before does not mean someone has retained the same level of skills. As you mentioned, Connery was in his 50s by that time.
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