007 has a licence to kill, but most of the time he appears to be using it on his own stuntmen rather than international criminals. The Bond films are famous for their dedication to actual stunts, rather than relying on CGI (we do not speak of the melted iceberg surfing scene from Die Another Day) (or the invisible car for that matter).Which means that, consistently, the franchise has called for stuntmen to achieve seemingly impossible stunts. One of the most deceptively simple was the corkscrew jump from The Man With The Golden Gun - achieved with miniatures, or by piecing together different shots? Nope, driver "Bumps" Willard filmed it in one take. That's after Jay Milligan, who had actually done a similar jump before, got called away.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
