Roger Moore

Steve Coogan

Deborah Moore

Christian Moore

Geoffrey Moore

Pierce Brosnan

Christopher Walken

Joan Collins

Gloria Hendry

Jane Seymour

Steven Berkoff

David Walliams

John Glen

Evie Bricusse

Stefanie Powers

Nanette Newman

Dick Cavett

Johnny Tudor

Annette Andre

Michael Feeney Callan

Barbara Broccoli

Michael G. Wilson

Tony Curtis

Kirk Douglas

Dorothy Squires

Jack Cocker

Gabriel Jagger

Janet Lee

Karen Steyn

Documentary

From Roger Moore with Love

Dartmouth Films

Whynow

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

...or maybe from Roger with Moore love? If you saw the recent "Mad About the Boy" documentary on Sir Noël Coward, you'll recall the use of a voice actor to impersonate the subject of the story as he narrates it. Well that's the technique used here as the late Sir Roger takes us on a whistle stop tour of his own ninety year life. This film benefits from him being of a generation where the archive is a little more readily available as he rises to stardom, marries a few times, makes his name in the "Saint" (after a bit of tonsil hockey with Lana Turner in 1956) before he takes over from Connery as "007" and the rest, as they say. It appears he was himself an avid film maker so there are plenty of home movies as he entertained the great and good at his Swiss home, and with contributions from his children and a few closer to him than the usual panoply of talking-head movie journalists, this is quite an interesting look at a man who made a career from being a bit of a chauvinist, but who actually comes across as really anything but. Aside from one Golden Globe in 1980, more in the heartthrob category, his industry never really recognised that glint in his eye nor that eyebrow above it with a mind of it's own, so it's nice to reflect on a star who oozed charisma on screen small and large, was under no illusions about his own foibles and certainly didn't take him self seriously at all.

English

Official Trailer