Best Connery film outside of James Bond

[Matt]

My four favorites:
Marnie
*The Man Who Would Be King
Robin & Marian
The Untouchables

*=my favorite

[John B]

The Hill.

This was a major departure for Sean in 1965 (when Bond was at his peak)

[Jimbo]

Time Bandits
The Rock
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

I've got a soft spot for Outland--"High Noon" in orbit around Jupiter!!:agree:

WORST Connery film: The Avengers. There is so much wrong with this film, I wouldn't even know where to begin! It's like they purposely tried to make a bad movie!!:rolleyes: :shake: :help:

[Ken_McAlinden]

My favorite is The Untouchables, but considering tomorrow is March 17th, I'll mention his rare singing appearance in Disney's heavy bit of paddywhackery, "Darby O'Gill and the Little People". :)

I also get a kick out of how he just plain does not do accents. Whether his characters are from England, Ireland, Scotland, or Philadelphia, he just plays them with his standard Scottish speech pattern.

Regards,

[Michael]

THE ROCK! Excellent! The Criterion DVD Set...Rocks!

[Steve Hoffman]

"Outland", dudes!

[aashton]

A Bridge Too Far probably just outscores Outland for me - as an aside I caught Zardoz for the first time on TV about two weeks ago and it wasn't as bad as I had imagined - Michael Moorcock on acid for sure but not as bad as I had imagined :D

All the best - Andrew

[Ed Bishop]

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

Caine and Connery...can't be beat. Followed by OUTLAND, , LAST CRUSADE, THE ROCK, and THE LONGEST DAY.

ED:cool:

[Ed Bishop]

Originally posted by Jimbo


WORST Connery film: The Avengers. There is so much wrong with this film, I wouldn't even know where to begin! It's like they purposely tried to make a bad movie!!:rolleyes: :shake: :help:

And, amazingly, the lead actors still each have something barely resembling a career:rolleyes: in spite of that.

And Jimbo, the filmmakers didn't try to make a bad movie: they succeeded, woefully well!:p

ED:cool: :D

[Jimbo]

Originally posted by Ken_McAlinden

I also get a kick out of how he just plain does not do accents. Whether his characters are from England, Ireland, Scotland, or Philadelphia, he just plays them with his standard Scottish speech pattern.
Regards,

Or even from Russia (The Hunt for Red October). "We shail into hishtory.":laugh:

[The Cellar]

My vote goes to The Offence (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070468), a little-seen 1973 British production featuring Connery as a very unpleasant, unlikeable police detective who displays hints of pedophilic tendencies. If I remember correctly, it was the first film he did after he got out of doing the Bond films; very gutsy of him, I think. An almost unbearably claustrophobic, slow-moving and disturbing film with great acting from Connery, Trevor Howard, Ian Bannen and Vivien Merchant.

[The Cellar]

Originally posted by Jimbo
WORST Connery film: The Avengers. There is so much wrong with this film, I wouldn't even know where to begin! It's like they purposely tried to make a bad movie!!:rolleyes: :shake: :help:

Everyone has a long list of what's wrong with that movie, but the item that tops mine is -- Emma Peel shows fear.

[Ron Stone]

I seem to remember OUTLAND winning a lot of "Most-Gaffes-In-A-Single-Movie" contests.

Things that bugged people that notice such things were: the characters helmets illuminated on the inside (try driving at night with only your interior lights on); the shootouts in space stations, where vacuum breaches didn't seem to matter at times and did at others; stuff like that. I wish I had a copy of that list. It was pretty funny, but I sure didn't notice that stuff while it was happening on screen.

[Gardo]

My favorite non-Bond Connery is a tie between The Untouchables and Robin and Marian. Both of them make me cry. No one dies onscreen with more dignity and pathos than Connery, unless it's Laurence Olivier in King Lear.

Connery is stunningly wonderful in The Wind and the Lion. That's my number three, I think.

Number four has to be Time Bandits.

[Uncle Al]

Even when he does B movies - Sean seems to be the shinning star.

Let's face it - he made Back to the Future III a worthy cap to that trilogy.

[Ed Bishop]

Originally posted by Ron Stone
I seem to remember OUTLAND winning a lot of "Most-Gaffes-In-A-Single-Movie" contests.

Things that bugged people that notice such things were: the characters helmets illuminated on the inside (try driving at night with only your interior lights on); the shootouts in space stations, where vacuum breaches didn't seem to matter at times and did at others; stuff like that. I wish I had a copy of that list. It was pretty funny, but I sure didn't notice that stuff while it was happening on screen.

That's just it: most continuity mistakes hit you when you get the DVD/VHS and start watching multiple times.

Although OUTLAND might have been the screwup king of movies once upon a time, I think between TITANIC, GLADIATOR and the two LOTR films, we very likely have a new champion:D . Films by Cameron and Scott are loaded with mistakes so hilariously inept you wonder if anybody's awake!
Yet they make, on the main, fine films with great visual atmosphere. But when they mess up, boy do they do it a lot...:laugh:

ED:)

[John Moschella]

Zardoz
Marnie
The Man Who Would be King
The Name of the Rose

[-=Rudy=-]

Don't know about "best" since I haven't seen most of these, but my favorite is "Hunt For Red October". In this modern age of sexploitation, overdone special effects and endless violence, it just seemed a well-done picture with a good script and a solid cast.

Wasn't he in a Hitchcock film also? I have yet to see that one.

[njwiv]

Originally posted by Rudy@A&MCorner


Wasn't he in a Hitchcock film also? I have yet to see that one.

Yes, he stars in MARNIE. An underappreciated Hitchcock with a brilliant performance by Tippy Hedren.

[Jack Keck]

I am glad to see that Zaroz was mentioned. That was the first DVD I ever bought. I liked THE ANDERSON TAPES, too. It was about aparolee who was illegally under surveyllance whies he was plotting the robbery of an entire apartment building, but nobody tried to stop him.

[chip-hp]

Marnie
The Man Who Would be King

[Evan L]

Don't know about Outland winning the "Gaffes" award, but it sure was a great flick!

Robin And Marian
The Untouchables
Raiders Of The Lost Ark III

Am looking forward to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, based on the Alan Moore comic, coming this summer!

[Rick Deschaine]

A big vote for The Name of the Rose.

[proufo]

The Man who Would be King definitely. They don't make movies like it anymore.

I also have a weak spot for Zardoz but not because of Connery.

[petzi]

Originally posted by Rick Deschaine
A big vote for The Name of the Rose.

My first choice, too.