10 Legendary Directors Who Would Have Made Great James Bond Films

5. Charlie Chaplin

While remembered for his vaudeville and slapstick silent films, he gave his style an overhaul when the era of talkies began. The most notable of these is 1940's The Great Dictator. In this film, Chaplin showed he was capable of making a movie that had relevance to the modern times (see what I did there?). The Great Dictator was a serious gamble, seeing as it was satirizing a public figure of the time, namely one Adolf Hitler. What followed was 124 minutes of strong political messages, dark comedy, and some surprisingly intense chases as the primary character is pursued by the Gestapo. What could Chaplin have offered to a Bond movie? Well, the above synopsis pretty well describes the 1963 Connery film "From Russia With Love". Drop the vaudeville, and Chaplin could've made one of the most riveting spy capers of all time.