RIP, Sean Connery

We lost Sean Connery on October 31. He was 90. He was the first, and best James Bond.

These vidcaps are from Never Say Never Again, which was the last film in which Connery would play Bond. 

 Released in 1983, Never Say Never Again's title was in in-joke on Connery's constant public insistence that he would NEVER play Bond--until he came back one more time for this film.

This was from the opening scene, in which Bond had to rescue a kidnapped woman from terrorists. It takes place in a tropical locale, and the woman (played by Wendy Leech) is barefoot throughout the scene.

She casually watches while Bond fights one of her captors.

Yet while Bond is untying her, she pulls out her own knife and "stabs" him. 

But the whole thing turns out to be just a mock training scenario. Sean Connery went on to make many great films besides the Bond flicks: The Name of the Rose, The Wind and the Lion, The Hunt for Red October, The Untouchables (for which he won a well-deserved Oscar). He was truly a big-screen legend, and shall be sorely missed.