Harry Saltzman

[singing] Linda McCartney was integral to the recording, helping to shape the song's distinctive middle reggae style break that's so cool.

[singing] But many accounts say that 007 producer Harry Saltzman initially dismissed the music as a placeholder, and he pushed for a different kinda singer to record the final version of the song.

People say either Thelma Houston or Shirley Bassey.

Paul said, "No way." The song was the song, and if they liked it, they could have it, but only as is.

right.

It's interesting, isn't it? We know Stephen Saltzman, Harry Saltzman's son, he was involved in the series.

Yeah,

I know there's a guy called Charles Cummings, a spy writer, and he was involved in the writer's room.

Director Terrence Young.

Producers Harry Saltzman and Albert Cubby Broccoli.

Ian Fleming comes along.

And Fleming brings a guest.

Because they...

Coby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman probably would have done Casino Royale early in the 1960s had they had the wants to it, but they didn't.

They wanted to, but then they had to do one of the other novels and they chose Doctor No.

And so Casino Royale, of the two Bond novels that end up being incredibly litigious, the other being Thunderball, This is one that is for years in that nether space of rights.

October 26th, 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me, the third Bond movie with Roger Moore as Bond.

It was the first 007 production after the breakup of the founders of Eon Productions, Albert R. Brockley and Harry Saltzman.

Spy was a big success and kept the series going.

Moore eventually starred in seven movies in the Eon series.

Yeah, absolutely all part of this movement.

One of the Free Cinema Initiative directors, Tony Richardson, along with John Osborne and Harry Saltzman, form Woodfall Film Productions, initially to make a film of Osborne's hit play, Look Back in Anger.

And this film version, directed by Richardson, produced by Saltzman, is released in 1959.

And also in 1959, we get Room at the Top, which is granted an X certificate for

right and also too i mean you know you're gonna have a lot of input i mean everybody's you know it's a james bond movie so everybody has an idea what it should be and how to do it you know and i think that was the um i think that was with um I used to talk about about about Albert R.

Broccoli and Harry Saltzman as those guys were the most part of Saltzman was kind of would come in and interfere once in a while.

But for the most part, they were kind of hands off, you know, and they just they hired the right people and just said, do your job.

And they did.

He's British, the way he was supposed to be made.

And this is the Cubby Broccoli Harry Saltzman franchise that built decades ago.

and several movies that run off of this one.

And it all starts here with Sean Connery.

They wanted that roughness and ruggedness in him.

And they amplified what you just said, that machismo.

The producers, Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, wanted to up that.

Yeah.

had already directed Goldfinger by that point, and after this film he would go on to direct three Bond films in a row, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, which you were on for as a guest, Paul, and The Man with the Golden Gun.

Four Bond films is no joke, but the main reason why this is so important to the legacy of James Bond is this was produced by Harry Saltzman.

who, along with Cubby Broccoli, was one of the producers of the James Bond series from its inception until 1975, when he was forced to sell his share in the Bond franchise.

Anton, we talked about that on a couple of episodes.

Fiz asked Thomas that if a similar film could be made about the Battle of Britain, that showed each side.

Thomas said it would depend upon what the script was like.

Once Harry Saltzman got involved, he went to Paramount Pictures, who passed.

Fizz and Saltzman began to more or less crowdsource funding for the film.