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Now Playing: The James Bond Movie Retrospective Series

Aug 31, 201275:04TV & Film

They tried replacing Sean Connery once and failed. But with Connery's determination to move his career beyond Bond, United Artists had to once again recast the British spy. With the adaptation of Ian Flemming's second Ja...

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