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In 1964, John Connery was removed from two years from his turn as Jamesiyes Bond "D -R NO", which started the most durable franchise in the cinema. After she went by a relative unknown to a global starvet, the Scottish actor had to deliver what would remember as one of Jameseims Bond's best movies ever made with Goldfinger, who debuted in September '64. But before that legendary triumph arrives, Connery was on a criminal drama that was nothing but legendary - at least according to critics at the time, who gave him a thorough drinking "The Woman of the Straw" of 1964. Soon after the release, Connery will take responsibility for the failure of the film, but he may have been difficult for himself.

The film was directed by Basil Deaden, who directed the very successful "League of the Lord" four years ago, one of The best movies of all time. "Woman's of Straw" was one of the two films Dearden made to United artists with his longtime production partner Michael Relf, ​​but failed to match the success of the 1960 film "Heist" of the duo.

The "Straw Woman" Starswoles Connery like Anthony Richmond, the grandson of millionaire Charles Richmond (Ralph Richardson), who should come out and intend to leave his wealth for charity. However, Anthony has other plans. He hires Italian nurse Maria Marcello (Inaina Lolobrigida) and persuades her to marry Charles to inherit her fortune when she dies. The idea is that Anthony will keep the majority, but Maria will get $ 1 million for her problems. Of course, things are not planning, with Anthony doubling Maria by poisoning Charles before trying to put the nurse for the crime. The melodramatic thriller failed to connect with critics, and Connery apparently saw that disappointment, telling Playboy (through The Jameseims Bond file) In 1965, "when it was shot down" Woman from straw ", I wasn't completely surprised." Why? Well, according to the actor, it was all his fault.

"Woman's from straw" seemed to be able to help John Connery prove that he was more than Jamesesheims Bond - something that was of the utmost importance for the actor during the early years of his fame 007. Bond proved to be a two -edged sword for ConneryBut the "Woman's of Straw" saw him playing a bad and schemic villain, which might seem as the actor needed to undermine the public look for him as England's biggest spy. Unfortunately, the thriller of Basil Dearden, who was adapted from the French novel "La Fam De Pail" by Catherine Arley, was considered a step back by most major reviewers, who considered him outdated.

While the critics of the trading press were impressed, most newspaper reviewers and film magazines were not. The Newoux Times"Eugene Archer, for example, wrote:" What could be more archaic than the view of the Jamesesheims Bond himself, John Connery, shaking glittering through the very old -fashioned thriller that he usually ridiculed? " He knew he would lead Duvce - though often the strict Scott seemed a little anxious for a long time anyway.

However, we know that Connery was fully aware of the disadvantages of the film, based on his 1965 Playboy interview, in which the Starwear said: "I was not everything that was thrilled by" Woman from straw ", although the problems were my own. I worked continuously for goodness, knowing how long and trying to propose to process them, while making another movie, which is always deadly. It was an experience. But I will make a mistake again.

Shortly after "The Womann's Straw" made her debut debut, John Connery starred in a similar but much nicer remembered thriller with Alfred Hitchcock. Similarly adapted from the novel (this time Winston Graham's book of 1961 of the same name), the film was not all that was well after its release (a friend of Connery in the Yorkyor Times, Eugene Archer was also rejected by "Marnie" as "Woman of Straw"). But "Marnie" has continued to enjoy a review for the next decades and today is considered a classic Hitchcock.

"Womanic from straw", however, did not receive the same review, though not remembered as many mistakes Archer and his colleagues critics claimed it was. That said, even Connery could say the difference between his two thrillers of 1964 just a year after their release. In his interview with Playboy, the actor was asked if he was happy with the non-linked films he had made in recent years and replied that he was happy with "Marnie" but "with certain reservations". He felt differently about the "straw from straw" and accused the failure of the film - though he was due to pause.

In the book "Cinema of Basil Dearden and Michael Relf", "" Authors Alan Burton and Tim O'Sullivan note that there were reports of "Heavy Shooting", Vasily Dearden's film, with Inaina Lolobrigida reportedly "heavy and temperamental" and tried with Dearden and Connery. In addition to his tumultuous schedule, Connery then seemed to deal with less than the ideal atmosphere of the set. Moreover, the film always had to attract comparisons with Hitchcock thrillers, and critics were in a hurry to do so. According to the monthly review of the film newsletter, the image would benefit from "a touch of Hitchcock to tighten the uncertainty and turn the dog's noise into something inhumane instead of sounds." With critics seemingly ready to dismiss Dearden's film as a pale imitation of Hitchcock from the beginning and reports of controversial recording experience, Connery may not have been guilty.