Pay attention, 007!
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Some of the most memorable gadgets in James Bond movies were prototypes seen only briefly in the traditional scene-setting tour of the Q Branch laboratory, or on the rare occasions when Q himself accompanied Bond on a mission. Ingenious as they were, not all proved to be an unqualified success.
A missile launcher cunningly disguised as a leg cast and demonstrated by Q to a bemused Pierce Brosnan in ‘GoldenEye’ was one of several bright ideas that didn’t make it into the field.
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The lethal properties of a bagpipe flamethrower and machine gun were seen briefly in ‘The World is Not Enough’.
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Desmond Llewelyn played Q in numerous Bond films and is the actor most closely associated with the character.
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“Experimental model!” is Q’s comment when a mechanised Indian rope trick fails to deploy in ‘Octopussy’.
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An exploding alarm clock “guaranteed never to wake up anybody who uses it” is part of Q’s luggage in ‘Licence to Kill’.
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This deadly umbrella from ‘For Your Eyes Only’ has hooked spikes around the edge that close around the victim’s neck.
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