Between British clarinetist Acker Bilk's No. 1 Billboard pop-chart hit Stranger on the Shore in early 1962 and the Beatles arrival in America in February 1964, there was James Bond. The sexualized, technicolor action/spy films Dr. No (1962) and From Russia With Love (1963) were a brand new genre, and Sean Connery's Bond was impossibly dashing and daring…
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