GOLDFINGER (1964)

Monday, May 4, 7 pm

One of the defining entries in the James Bond series, Goldfinger blends sophistication, action, and wit, creating one of the touchstones films of the spy genre. With his suave charm and effortless cool, Sean Connery faces against Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), a gold-obsessed madman whose ambitious scheme to break into Fort Knox threatens global financial stability. Honor Blackman co-stars as Pussy Galore, one of the series’ most popular Bond girls.

LICENCE TO KILL (1989)

Monday, May 11, 7 pm

Timothy Dalton’s second turn as 007 features the spy turning rogue to hunt down a ruthless cartel of cocaine smugglers. When Bond’s friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison) is tortured and mangled by cartel leader Franz Sanchez (an oily Robert Davi), the agent goes undercover, infiltrating the coke ring and battering down every obstacle the despicable Sanchez throws his way. Cary Lowell and Talisa Soto co-star as this entry’s Bond girls while Desmond Llewelyn returns as Bond’s gadget expert, Q. Also starring Anthony Zerbe, Everett McGill (Big Ed from Twin Peaks), Priscilla Barnes, Grand L. Bush, a surprise appearance from Las Vegas mainstay Wayne Newton, and an early role for a young Benicio del Toro, playing a cold-blooded henchman.

ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE (1969)

Monday, May 18, 7 pm

George Lazenby takes over the role of 007 in this entry that sees Bond suffer his first great loss in the series. Ernst Stavro Blofeld (played this time by Telly Savalas) is brainwashing a crew of women he’s dubbed his “angels of death.” Their mission: engage in biological warfare and render the planet’s crops and livestock infertile if Blofeld’s demands for amnesty aren’t met. Bond goes undercover to stop the madman while also meeting and falling in love with Countess Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg). With time running out to stop the angels of death, Bond realizes his mission has put his first real love straight into Blofeld’s crosshairs. Lazenby’s only go as the superspy has aged wonderfully in the years since its release. The actor brings a soulfulness to the story, portraying a Bond who has found himself in a tragedy for the first time in his career. Mixing elements of Connery’s debonair playboy Bond and the eventual darkness that defined the Daniel Craig era, OHMSS showed that 007 was more than just a cool, swinging stud.

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977)

Monday, May 25, 7 pm

Considered Roger Moore’s best 007 entry and featuring Carly Simon’s beloved Bond theme “Nobody Does It Better,” The Spy Who Loved Me saw the franchise return to its roots as a sleek, smart action-adventure that balanced larger-than-life stunts with a Bond who was more human than superhuman. The evil Karl Stromberg (Curd Jürgens) seeks to use his fortune as a shipping magnate to wipe out the “surface world” and create a new civilization underwater in his high tech base dubbed Atlantis. Teaming up with KGB agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach), Bond goes on the hunt for two missing nuclear submarines, discovering Stromberg’s plan to launch the missiles at New York City and Moscow. With all of humanity at stake, 007 and Anya fight to stop the webbed-fingered billionaire from carrying out his scheme, but first they must face off against Jaws (Richard Kiel), Stromberg’s towering assassin who has a mouthful of metal teeth.