You Only Live Twice

Product Description Agent 007 plays dead, then comes back as an Asian to save the world from SPECTRE's Blofeld. The fifth James Bond movie. Amazon.com The film boasts the best of the Bond title songs (this one sung on a dreamy track by Nancy Sinatra), but the movie itself is one of the weaker ones of the Sean Connery phase of the 007 franchise. The story concerns an effort by the evil organization SPECTRE to start a world war, but the not-so-super villain behind the plot is the awfully civilized Donald Pleasence. The thin script is by Roald Dahl (shouldn't we have expected a better Bond nemesis from the creator of mad genius Willy Wonka ?), and direction is by British veteran Lewis Gilbert ( Alfie ). But the movie can't hold a candle to Dr. No , From Russia with Love , or Goldfinger . -- Tom Keogh