Bond template

Having just watched this movie for the first time I couldn't help but
think how remarkably similar the early Bond movies are to it. It ticks
all of the Bond plot pre-requisites and even has an over-informative,
disfigured, evil mastermind, played, ironically by Bernard (M) Lee.
Bond purists should check it out given the chance, I suspect Fleming
and the early Bond Directors certainly did.