There’s a slew of links to Bond here, from acting talents female lead Lucianna Paluzzi (Thunderball) and Anthony Newley (who co-wrote the lyrics to Goldfinger), plus innumerable technical staff.
Of course, the enemy feel free to break with tradition in violent style, and so does Thatcher, although Kendall is keen to keep him right as the action leads the men from a getaway via a stolen ambulance to a multi-tank battle near Benghazi, shot in Libya. The war was barely a decade old when No Time to Die was filmed, and it’s something of a revelation to hear so much discussion about ‘what soldiering means to the King’s regulations’. He’s joined by the more sedate Kendell (Leo Genn), a Brit keen to educate his American friend as to the ‘rules of war’. So when the British tank crew Thatcher is riding with are captured, Thatcher immediately leads a POW escape for his own sake rather than anyone else’s he’s a one-man army who plays by his own rules a la Bond. WWII was very much were the notions of a gentleman spy were tested No Time To Die features an unusual lead character in David Thatcher (Victor Mature), who is something rather more than a conventional soldier having taken part in the failed assassination of Joseph Goebbels, Thatcher has a sizable bounty on his head and knows that capture means certain death. Having optioned the rights to the Bond adventures, Broccoli was assembling reliable talents this enterprise features Dr No director Terence Young, plus writer Richard Maibaum who worked on 13 of the franchise entries.
Bond was, of course, Ian Fleming’s creation, but it was Broccoli and his family who would go on to create and nurture the cinematic incarnation of the brutish, British super-spy. Albert “Cubby’ Broccoli’s stamp is very much in evidence in testosterone fuelled action/thriller No Time To Die, a expensive dress rehearsal for the James Bond movies with many of the same preoccupations on display in embryonic form.
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