From Roger Moore with Love
                               
Director: Jack Cocker
Year: 2024
Rating: 6.0
A personal, easy going, gossipy documentary on Roger Moore. Sort of like he is or at least the person he invented. Brought up in the working class, he invented the urbane, well-spoken upper class Moore and eventually became that person. His first two marriages were to women much older than he was and they brought him along. Introduced him to the top shelf people, taught him how to present himself and the second wife took him to Hollywood to start acting.



It didn't work out and back to England he went into TV hell, a couple series that no one has ever heard of. Then The Saint. I love The Saint, own all the TV episodes and still watch one on occasion. The Saint made him. In an interview he is asked how he got it. "Because Sean Connery was busy". And then Bond. After the Saint it was fitting though in truth I have never warmed up to his Bond films. Not because of him but because they just got cornier and cheesier. And time only hurts them.




That is as far in his career as the film goes. It is almost secondary to him. His charm, sense of humor and good friendships. Lots of clips of home movies and people saying great things about him. The oddest thing about the film is that it seems Moore is narrating the film to us. Years after his death. But it is actually Steve Coogan trying to imitate Moore but sounding more like George Lazenby to my ears. It is not a deep film, it doesn't really try to be. He had a wonderful life is the only message and what could be better.