You Only Live Twice (1967) - FRAMED
You Only Live Twice has an Australian connection. Dikko Henderson, Bond's hard-drinking contact in Tokyo, was Ian Fleming's portrait of his friend Richard Hughes, the Australian foreign correspondent who had shown him around Japan in 1959 and who also inspired Old Craw in John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy. On screen he is played by Charles Gray, and he does not survive for long. The villainess Helga Brandt, SPECTRE's red-haired Number 11, was played by the German star Karin Dor, who went on to work for Alfred Hitchcock in Topaz, and her end in Blofeld's piranha pool remains one of the series' most memorable exits. The Queen attended the world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in June 1967, and in Japan the film opened under a title that translates as 007 Dies Twice.
The Daybill was Australia's own cinema format, and this original 1967 example shows Sean Connery as 007 in his armed gyrocopter, Little Nellie. Linen-backed and framed, it is an outstanding display piece from a corner of the Bond world few collectors reach.
- Year: 1967
- Nationality: Australian
- Condition: Linen-backed, Framed
- Type: Original Australian Daybill
- Size: 13 x 26 inches
- Product Code: T6871
