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. . . though "James Bond" creator Ian Fleming desired that. By the time Sean Connery said "Bond. James Bond." for the first time in DR. NO (1962), Fleming was filthy rich. He would have been able to afford digging up and reanimating Victor Fleming to direct Bond flicks, had he wished. But his "dream team" of actor David Niven playing James under Hitch's direction was not to be, since he had sold the film rights to most Bond stories for peanuts to a broccoli farmer a few years earlier. This man Broccoli (named that because his ancestors invented the vegetable in ancient Italy) had made his own fortune NOT from Green Veggies, but off a series of cheap flicks famous for T & A, along with cheesy special effects (as many people love cheese on their Broccoli). In an attempt to make a silk purse from a sow's unmentionable, his progeny hired a couple of self-styled film "experts"--John Cork and Bruce Scivally--to churn out scores of Bond "bonus features" (as DVD selling points), extolling everyone from Connery and Broccoli to the lowest stunt man and "script girl" to High Heaven as the best things since sliced cheese. NEVER ONCE do they mention Alfred Hitchcock during the many weeks' worth of viewing time it takes to watch ALL of this puffery. How ironic is it, then, to see Cork, Scivally, and nine other "talking heads" here crediting Hitch with inventing the Bond-Style Spy Movie. Broccoli substituted T & A and explosions for character development with suspense. That's about it.