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1950s
North by Northwest (1959) What if everyone around you was suddenly convinced you were a spy? This classic from master director Alfred Hitchcock stars Cary Grant as an advertising executive who looks a little too much like someone else and is forced to go on the lam (helped along by Eva Marie Saint). Hitchcock's sure-handed comic drama pits Grant against a crop duster and lands him in a fight for his life on Mount Rushmore. That's a cliffhanger if ever there was one!
1960s
Goldfinger (1964) The third installment in the 007 series finds uberspy James Bond (Sean Connery) trying to thwart baddie Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) and his elaborate gambit to corner the gold market by contaminating Fort Knox. Naturally, the oh-so-cool Mr. Bond jets to scores of exotic locales and canoodles with a bevy of beauties along the way -- including Pussy Galore, the archvillain's sexy henchwoman. Goldfinger racked up an Oscar for Best Sound Effects.
Ipcress File (1965) It's the height of the Cold War, and ex-thief Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) -- now reluctantly working as a secret agent -- has been called in to investigate a series of strange kidnappings among leading scientists. Widely recognized as one of the best spy thrillers of all time, The Ipcress File marks Caine's first appearance as Palmer, the role that made him a star.
You Only Live Twice (1967) After American and Soviet spaceships disappear, the two countries trade blame for the incidents. As the nations edge toward war, James Bond (Sean Connery) finds himself in the middle of another international mystery. After staging his own death, Agent 007, with Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba) and the beautiful Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi), discovers that the leader (Donald Pleasence) of the SPECTRE crime organization orchestrated the events.
In Like Flint (1967) Suave stud Derek Flint returns in the sequel to Our Man Flint -- and this time, he's up against more than he bargained for! A group of powerful female tycoons have concocted a method of brainwashing women through beauty salon hair dryers; with the women in the world enslaved, these distaff dominatrixes hijack the first U.S. space platform and replace the president with their own surgically reproduced clone.
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