No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more James Bond/007 The following 12 lots are from the collection of the late Peter Hunt (1925-2002). Peter Hunt began his distinguished career at Merton Park Studios as a clapper boy. He soon found work as an assistant in the cutting room of the great British director Alexander Korda, and progressed to film editing, working on productions such as The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, A Hill in Korea, A Cry From The Streets, Sink The Bismarck, Call Me Bwana and The Ipcress File. However, he is probably best remembered for his debut as a director with the sixth Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969. The film which also witnessed George Lazenby's first and only appearance as the British agent 007. Previously, Hunt had edited all of the first five Bond films, creating a style of "sharp cutting", as he called it, that is still emulated by editors and directors of action films today.
From Russia With Love, 1963

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From Russia With Love, 1963
Peter Hunt's final draft shooting script for From Russia With Love, dated 18th March, 1963, 125pp. of mimeographed typescript including several pages of script revisions, various dates up to 19th June, bound in black cloth boards, the majority of pages annotated in blue or black ballpoint pen or pencil in Hunt's hand, with his notes on camera directions, observations, additions and deletions to the scenes and script - amendments to Bond's dialogue include:
- p.81, in the train compartment the scene is described as Tatiana stands before him [Bond] in an exquisite revealing brown chiffon nightgown...She turns around slowly, "modelling" it provocatively, Hunt has added in two lines of dialogue, Tatiana: Do you like it?, Bond: Yes, it does rather suit you
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