Memorable, crazy movie
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
View MoreThrough painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
View MoreGreat example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
View More. . . whose name provides "truth in advertising." After all, when's the last time you saw Bobby Smith of the Spinners shoeing a horse? How many jousts did basketball's Bobby Knight win? Can you even picture world chess champion Bobby Fischer as a London cop? So it's very gratifying to learn from CUBBY BROCCOLI: THE MAN BEHIND BOND that Eon Production's driving force in churning out the initial three decades of Jame Bond Agent 007 flicks, Arthur R. "Cubby" Broccoli ACTUALLY was a broccoli farmer at one point in his life (until he found out that there was more money to be had in secret agents than in green vegetables). Moreover, Mr. Broccoli's immediate ancestors hailed from the part of Italy that invented his namesake dipping stalk, making him one of the most honest people to spend significant time in Tinsel Town (why, just this week we learned that BOTH of the principals in the L.A. Clipper's Sterling\Silver scandal adopted drastically different surnames after leaving high school, just as the vast majority of Hollywood actors have done during the past century). Cubby Broccoli was a great man, and this 41 minute, 24 second biography is well worth your time.
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