Dr No Gun: Sean Connery as James Bond without and with his pistol, in Prime Video's reworked promotional image and in the original. Photographs: Amazon MGM
Veteran James Bond experts may recall some controversy about the poster for For Your Eyes Only in 1981. That was the one with a distant gun-wielding Roger Moore framed between the enormous uncovered legs of an otherwise unseen female antagonist.
The publicists had enough sense to direct 007’s aim somewhat to stage right of – how shall I put this? – the point at which the legs meet. But the image remained sufficiently raunchy for such liberal organs as The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times to censor all flesh from the knee up.
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