Becoming Bond
Filmmaker Josh Greenbaum examines the life and career of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), without no acting experience.
2007, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 July 1987, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
5 September 1939, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
21 October 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 September 1960, USA
17 June 1949, Denver, Colorado, USA
18 April 1963, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
25 July 1966, Canberra, Australia
21 January 1922, Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
7 April 1939, Tenterden, Kent, England, UK
28 March 1935, Cudworth, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK
5 June 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 January 1969, Manchester, England, UK
2 June 1955, Missoula, Montana, USA
8 November 1945, London, England, UK
8 September 1997, Santa Clarita, California, USA
10 October 1990, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
11 March 1925, London, England, UK
May 20, 2017
[A] rather A&E/TLC treatment of Lazenby's life.
May 17, 2017
A bizarre hybrid of documentary and feature...
May 17, 2017
Intimate, irreverent and at times laugh-out-loud funny ...
April 26, 2017
The result is as slick as it is hilarious, a perfect portrait of an aging ladies' man and irascible rebel agent.
March 13, 2017
A film about a guy who did life his own way, and it's an enjoyable ride.
May 19, 2017
There is a potentially interesting film-documentary or fiction-in Lazenby's life and career, but Becoming Bond, despite its ambitions, is not it.
