>If Connery had been in this film it probably would have been the best Bond/007 film<

That's pretty much it, YT. Connery would've matched Rigg chops-to-chops, pushing that side of the plot into the heights. In the film we have, you can see Rigg carrying the scenes they have together.

I wish Lazenby had stayed on board, as I think he might have grown. But his first time out pales very much even next to Sean's "rookie" shot in DR. NO.

Monsterkid since the Kennedy Era