Sir Sean Connery dies aged 90

[jayne lee wilson]

He was memorable as Jimmy Malone, in De Palma's wonderful take on The Untouchables alongside Costner as Eliot Ness. That was one hell of a death scene to an operatic soundtrack.......

Malone's St Jude Medallion, salvaged from the murder scene by Ness, is movingly used near the end of the film when he gives it to George Stone, the only other detective left alive from his team.

[LezLee]

My favourite performance of his was as an aging Robin Hood with Audrey Hepburn in 'Robin and Marian'. Lovely film with an equally lovely score by John Barry. Worth seeking out if you don't know it.
I also enjoyed 'The Anderson Tapes', good cast and very well written.

[kernelbogey]

The Hill made by Kubrick knocked me out (almost literally) when I saw it circa 1965. Connery as a Squaddie, acting his socks off, and in a totally non-Bond way.....

Anybody else know, and admire him in, The Hill?

[kernelbogey]

The Hill made by Kubrick knocked me out (almost literally) when I saw it circa 1965. Connery as a Squaddie, acting his socks off, and in a totally non-Bond way.

RIP...

Oops it was directed by Sidney Lumet.

[LHC]

Oops it was directed by Sidney Lumet.

Yes, the Hill was a great film, and Connery is superb in it. He seemed to work well with Lumet, who also directed him in the Offence, in which he plays a violent and disturbed policeman, with Ian Bannen as a suspected child rapist who is interrogated by Connery. Its one of his finest performances, and an intense and unsettling film.

[kernelbogey]

Yes, the Hill was a great film, and Connery is superb in it. He seemed to work well with Lumet, who also directed him in the Offence, in which he plays a violent and disturbed policeman, with Ian Bannen as a suspected child rapist who is interrogated by Connery. Its one of his finest performances, and an intense and unsettling film.

Thanks LHC: I don't know The Offence. I found The Hill deeply disturbing when I saw it, aged 20! Haven't seen it since.

[LezLee]

Oops it was directed by Sidney Lumet.

I saw 'The Hill' in German when I was on holiday in Austria in the '60s. We only knew 'O' level German but I remember it as very powerful and Sean playing a blinder.

[muzzer]

My favourite performance of his was as an aging Robin Hood with Audrey Hepburn in 'Robin and Marian'. Lovely film with an equally lovely score by John Barry. Worth seeking out if you don't know it.
I also enjoyed 'The Anderson Tapes', good cast and very well written.

Yes, Robin and Marian is a proper old style tearjerker. Richard Lester directed. Well worth seeking out, another vote here.

[johncorrigan]

Thanks LHC: I don't know The Offence. I found The Hill deeply disturbing when I saw it, aged 20! Haven't seen it since.

My Mum used to go to the cinema in Paisley every Tuesday evening with my Aunt Sadie when I was growing up...get away from the kids for a while...have a wee snooze. I remember her coming back from seeing 'The Hill' and when I asked her what she thought of it she said: 'It was rubbish, Son. There were no women in it!'