Sean Connery

He's the original James Bond and many believe he's still the best – but how do Sean Connery's 007 movies rank?

[how to watch the James Bond movies in order](https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-watch-the-james-bond-movies-in-order). But that feels like a harsh assessment of arguably the greatest Bond movie of them all. – the most famous line in the series: "Do you expect me to talk?" From Shirley Bassey’s never-bettered theme, song to Bond’s souped-up Aston Martin DB5 – a car so classic Daniel Craig took it out of storage in Skyfall – this is the movie against which all subsequent Bonds are forever judged. While the film feels sedate by modern standards, there’s a bone-crunching brutality to some of the fist fights, particularly when Bond and Robert Shaw’s unrefined SPECTRE agent Red Grant go at it on a train. There’s also a particularly unpleasant scene in which Bond forces himself on a nurse who quite clearly says no, which obviously tarnishes it in the eyes of many in the 21st century. Bond is the target as SPECTRE agents deploy ambitious young Soviet intelligence officer Tatiana Romanova to seduce Her Majesty’s finest and get her hands on a top-secret code machine. The United Kingdom may still have been in the throes of post-war austerity, but things were about to change. For most of the movie – a dingy trip through deserts, oil rigs, and Vegas casinos – Connery looks like he’d rather be somewhere else. While they don’t hang together quite so neatly – was canon even a thing in the ’60s? By his fifth Bond movie – You Only Live Twice – Sean Connery was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the franchise. No director Terence Young took the then-32-year-old actor to his tailor for a bespoke suit, Connery captured the spy’s debonair demeanor and a legend was born.