O.K. Connery

O.K. Connery
Italian film poster
Directed byAlberto De Martino
Screenplay by
  • Paolo Levi
  • Frank Walker
  • Stanley Wright
  • Stefano Canzio[1]
Story byPaolo Levi[1]
Produced byDario Sabatello[2]
Starring
CinematographyGianni Bergamini[3]
Edited byOtello Colangeli[2]
Music by
Production
company
Produzione D.S.[2]
Distributed byTitanus[1]
Release dates
  • 20 April 1967 (1967-04-20) (Italy)
  • 22 November 1967 (1967-11-22) (United States)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryItaly[2]
LanguageItalian

O.K. Connery, released in America as Operation Kid Brother, is a 1967 Italian Eurospy comedy film shot in Technicolor and Techniscope and directed by Alberto De Martino. The spy-fi plot involves the brother of the British spy James Bond, played by Neil Connery (the actual brother of Sean Connery, star of the Eon Productions Bond films), who is obliged to take the lead in foiling a world-domination plot. The film's cast included several actors from the Eon-produced James Bond film series: From Russia with Love's Daniela Bianchi, Thunderball's Adolfo Celi, Dr. No's Anthony Dawson, Bernard Lee (M), and Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny), as well as the producer's wife Agata Flori, Gina Lollobrigida's cousin Guido Lollobrigida, and Yasuko Yama (aka Yee-Wah Young[4] and Yee-Wah Yang, then in the publicity spotlight due to her relationship with James Mason;[5][6] she appeared as a bath girl in You Only Live Twice under the name Yee-Wah Yang[7]).

The film received generally negative reviews from the New York Times, Variety and the Monthly Film Bulletin. The film was featured on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1993.

  1. ^ a b c "O.K. Connery (1967)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano On-Line.
  2. ^ a b c d e Cite error: The named reference mfb-review was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Mavis 2011, p. 234.
  4. ^ p. 13 Anderson Daily Bulletin from Anderson, Indiana January 11, 1967
  5. ^ p. 31 Sweeney, Kevin James Mason: A Bio-Bibliography Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999
  6. ^ p. 146 Morley, Sheridan James Mason: Odd Man Out Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1 Apr 1989
  7. ^ p. 8 "Oh No, Say Mason and the Bond Girl Yama The Straits Times, 18 December 1966