The world will once more stream to the theaters for another dose of Bond. In November 2012, SkyFall, the 23rd movie in what is seen as the authorized line of Bond films, is released worldwide, with Daniel Craig (the sixth Bond) again in the lead role. LIFE has published a nice collector's item: a hardcover book with 170 pages of 50 years of James Bond.įifty years (and five billion dollars in ticket sales) ago, the dashing Scottish actor Sean Connery declared suavely that he was 'Bond, James Bond.' Thus began a cinematic series unlike any other.
