Sean Connery's creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain & its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. This title presents an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. ...

Why is the only non-American on the AFI's prestigious list a Scotsman? Perhaps it's because Sean Connery's career that made him a 'genuine movie star' without any petty disputation, pretension, or pandering to fashion. This book features portraits, colorful posters & lobby cards, rare film stills, & photos showing this star as he really is. ...

Sean Connery's creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain & its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. This title presents both a biography of the star & an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. ...

Box set containing five movies starring Sean Connery. In ' Entrapment' (1999), after the audacious theft of a Rembrandt, insurance investigator Virginia Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) sets out to track down notorious art thief Robert ' Mac' Mac Dougal (Connery). She contacts him & proposes a scheme to steal a Chinese mask worth $40 million. In order to prove that she is trustworthy, ' Mac' asks Virginia to steal a vase from a local antique store. Having done this, she then sets about seducing the villain, in the hope that she will learn more about his next, most devious plan. In ' Rising Sun' (1993), Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) is the LAPD detective investigating the death of a beautiful woman in the boardroom of one of the most prominent Japanese companies in America. Assisted by wise John Connor (Connery), a golf-playing expert in Japanese culture, Smith's investigation takes him into the grey area between big business & organised crime, & sees him deal with both high-tech video manipulation & the occasional outbreak of martial arts action. Tia Carrere & supermodel Tatjana Patitz also star. ' The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' (2003) is Steve Norrington's film, based on the graphic novels of Alan Moore & Kevin O' Neill. It brings together several literary characters from the Victorian era to prevent the Fantom beginning a world war. It is 1899 & Allan Quatermain (Connery) is summoned from Africa by the British government to head a team of men with extraordinary abilities. The team

Includes:: Dr Jekyll (Jason Flemyng), Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), vampire Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), Tom Sawyer (Shane West) & invisible man Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran) to form The League. Their assignment is to track down the infamous Fantom, but the catch is that they only have nine hours before he plans to sabotage the peace conference in Vienna. Will they work as a team & complete the mission or will their egos get in the way? In ' Zardoz' (1974), in the distant future the world is divided between two classes, the Barbarians & the Elite, with the former working in poverty & misery to support the decadence of the latter. The Elite have fashioned a huge flying stone head, the mask of the god Zardoz, & use it to collect grain from the Barbarians & keep them under their power. When one of the Barbarians, Zed, discovers a copy of L. Frank Baum's ' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' in an old library he realises that what he has been told is a lie, jumps aboard the stone head, & begins an odyssey to uncover the secrets of the gods. Finally, in ' Family Business' (1989), Vito (Dustin Hoffmann) has left his father's (Connery) life of crime behind him & started a successful meat-packing business. Vito's son (Matthew Broderick), however, is very much interested in crime & wants to get in on Grandpa's next big score. & it isn't long before Vito finds himself in on it too.

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Triple bill of films starring Sean Connery. In ' The Untouchables' (1987), Kevin Costner stars as Eliot Ness, an idealistic Treasury official who vows to bring an end to Al Capone (Robert De Niro)'s corrupt hold over Prohibition-era Chicago. To this end, Ness puts together an elite team of law-enforcement officers (played by Connery, Andy Garcia & Charles Martin Smith), & begins making bold strikes at Capone's bootlegging operation. Nevertheless, Capone's empire continues to thrive, & Ness realises that he must try a different approach. In ' The Hunt for Red October' (1990), in 1984, Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius (Connery) decides to break away from the military exercises in which he has been ordered to take part & sets a course straight for the American coastline. The Americans believe he is mounting a renegade attack, the Russians believe he is trying to defect, & both nations send their Navies out in pursuit. The one man who seems to have a clear grasp on the situation is C.I.A. analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), but can he make the super-powers see sense before they risk everything in a potential catastrophic naval encounter? Finally, in ' The Presidio' (1988), when a murder is committed on a San Francisco military base, detective Jay Austin (Mark Harmon) finds that he must team up with his old enemy Lt. Col. Caldwell (Connery) in order to investigate. Caldwell's daughter (Meg Ryan) enjoys the antagonism between the two & causes trouble by flirting with Austin. But all personal tensions must be put aside when the two cops realise the killing was part of a larger conspiracy. ...

After discovering her father has Multiple Sclerosis, Payton Gritas' life crumbles. Aiming to save Payton from denial the school counselor gets Payton to write Focus Exercises. But all Payton cansee is the over-sized head of the boy who sits in front of her, Sean Griswold. So why does it suddenly seem so um, gorgeous? ...

The definitive story of Irish cycling champion Sean Kelly, told in two parts. Part one details his amateur career, victory in the Milk Race, & his successes in prestigious meets like the Paris-Roubaix, Milan San-Remo & Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Part two focuses on his Tour de France experiences, including action & insights into all his stage wins & four Green Jerseys. ...