Category: Films

“Goldfinger” (1964): From Denmark with Love

In this blog series James Bond•O•Rama.dk will attempt to cover every connection to Denmark seen on-screen in the James Bond 007 film series. If you spot a detail that we have missed, please fill us in!

● Shortly before Oddjob (Harold Sakata) knocks out James Bond (Sean Connery) with a karate chop, Bond opens the fridge at Hotel Fontainebleau to get a suitably chilled bottle of Dom Perignon '53 for himself and Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton). The fridge also contains four golden cans of Danish Carlsberg beer as well as a green can placed upside down.
Time code (Blu-ray): 15 minutes 56 seconds. 

● As James Bond is saying goodbye to Tilly Masterson (Tania Mallet) at a Swiss gas station, the Danish flag is waving in the wind on the opposite side of the road. Thanks to flag spotter extraordinaire Rikart Købke for noticing this detail.
Time code (Blu-ray): 40 minutes. 

● Danish connections in "Dr. No" (1962)
● Danish connections in "From Russia with Love" (1963)

“No Time to Die”: Danish IMAX poster (2021)

THEATRICAL POSTER

 
"No Time to Die", the 25th James Bond film from EON Productions, was also released in the IMAX format in selected Danish cinemas. 40 minutes of "No Time to Die" was shot on 65mm IMAX film which expands the frame vertically when projected in IMAX.

SF Studios produced this Danish version of the international IMAX poster based on the opening sequence from "No Time to Die". The poster image shows James Bond (Daniel Craig) on a Triumph Scrambler motorbike in Matera, Italy.

“From Russia with Love” (1963): From Denmark with Love

In this new blog series James Bond•O•Rama.dk will attempt to cover every connection to Denmark seen on-screen in the James Bond 007 film series. If you spot a detail that we have missed, please fill us in!

● When Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal) are reporting to their leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Eric Pohlmann) on a SPECTRE boat, he is sitting at a desk created by Danish furniture designer Bodil Kjær (born 1932).
Cabinetmakers E. Pedersen & Søn produced the free-standing working table from Pao Ferro wood on a chromium-plated steel frame. Kjær originally designed the desk in 1959 as part of the "Office Units" collection for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This very fotogenic example of Danish Modern later found its way onto the silver screen in "You Only Live Twice" (EON 1967) and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (EON 1969). Allegedly, both Sean Connery and Michael Caine privately owned Bodil Kjær desks. Today a company called Karakter Copenhagen is still manufacturing the Office Desk albeit in oak or walnut with an aluminum frame.

Bodil Kjær's Office Desk at Karakter Copenhagen (external site)

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“Dr. No” (1962): From Denmark with Love

In this new blog series James Bond•O•Rama.dk will attempt to cover every connection to Denmark seen on-screen in the James Bond 007 film series. If you spot a detail that we have missed, please fill us in!

● In this scene from "Dr. No", the receptionist at the Jamaican hotel where James Bond (Sean Connery) is staying hands him a telegramme and a car key. On the wall behind the receptionist (Malou Pantera) you can clearly see the Danish flag known as the Dannebrog. It's the second flag from the left with a white cross on a red backing.
Time code (Blu-ray): 00:41:22

● A year before Marguerite LeWars appeared as the villainous "freelance" press photographer in "Dr. No", the young actress was crowned Miss Cherry Heering in a Jamaican beauty contest. The title was named after a internationally successful Danish brand of cherry liqueur which at the time was produced in the Copenhagen neighbourhood of Christianshavn.


Thanks to flag spotter Rikart Købke.

“No Time to Die”: Final Danish release poster (2021)

"No Time to Die", the 25th James Bond film from EON Productions, is finally getting a theatrical release in Denmark on Thursday September 30, 2021.

Below is the final Danish release poster which amusingly hedges its bets by omitting the exact release date in favour of the vague statement "COMING IN 2021".


● Second Danish main poster for "No Time to Die" (November 2020)

“The World is Not Enough”: Behind the scenes (1999)

VIDEO

 
Around the time of the Danish theatrical release of "The World is Not Enough" in December 1999, local cable channel DK4 broadcast this special in which Michael Sandager talks to Ulrich Thomsen and director Michael Apted. The show also includes B-roll footage from the set of "The World is Not Enough" and footage form the Danish gala premiere at the Imperial theatre in Copenhagen.

Please note that only the Michael Apted interview has English audio (with Danish subtitles). The video has been sourced from a VHS recording.

● Watch more rare James Bond 007 videos at Bond•=•Ramas Vimeo page

“GoldenEye”: PR stunts in Copenhagen (1996)

PHOTO REPORT

 
In 1996 the citizens of Copenhagen, Denmark, were treated to a brief stunt show at the City Hall Square as part of the promotion for the Danish video release of "GoldenEye".

British stunt man and former SAS soldier Terry Forrestal (1948-2000) worked on six James Bond films: "Moonraker", "Octopussy", "Never Say Never Again", "A View to a Kill", "GoldenEye" and "The World is Not Enough". He also contributed to the Danish action thriller "Operation Cobra" in 1995. That film's director, stunt coordinator Lasse Spang Olsen, helped arrange the Copenhagen stunt show where Forrestal jumped from the Palace Hotel balcony and onto an airbag. Nicolas Barbano captured the stunt with his camera:

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