He describes his adaptations as being like noir movies on paper.

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His liver-spotted hands caress the cheap cameras with which he shot his first movies most of them crude but imaginative animated shorts with paper-cutout characters.

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The novels still read thrillingly today (here's a tip: the best of them is "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"), but there is no question that when the movies came along, they overshadowed Fleming's ink-on-paper volumes.

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