Month: October 2018

“Live and Let Die”: Signed pin-up photo of Roger Moore (SE og HØR 1973)

The eighth James Bond 007 film from EON Productions, "Live and Let Die", was released in Danish cinemas on December 17, 1973. Six weeks earlier the new James Bond star, Roger Moore, passed through Copenhagen on his way to visit Sweden's Princess Christina in Stockholm. The weekly gossip magazine SE og HØR caught up with Roger Moore for a brief chat and an autograph. The signed pin-up photo in which Moore "shoots from the hip" was featured in issue no. 45 on November 9, 1973.

"I swear by heroic parts because that's where the money is. I'd prefer not to elaborate on my financial interests and sex life although there is no doubt whatsoever that I am a hero: I have been married three times."
– Roger Moore

The accompanying text was written by the magazine's royal reporter Mogens "Mugge" Hansen. Three years later he had his own unauthorized James Bond pastiche, "Gun with the Wind", published in paperback in Denmark.

More about Mogens Mugge Hansen's unofficial James Bond novel "Gun with the Wind"

“The Man with the Golden Gun”: Danish VHS rental cover (1983)

The VHS cover below is for the first Danish rental of "The Man with the Golden Gun" (EON 1974) which was released by Metronome Video A/S in 1983. The front cover is adapted from Robert McGinnis' artwork for the international theatrical campaign. The back cover illustration was made by Tom Jung for the US one-sheet teaser poster.

Scan courtesy of Hans-Jørn Reimer.