The Battle for Bond deal with Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli: "Thunderball" (1965) that was released at Christmas. McClory's court victory also entitled him to remake "Thunderball" (1965) as "Never Say Never Again" (1983), again with Sean Connery as James Bond, the cinematic competition Broccoli had tried to legally ban. With the remake, McClory attempted to continue with his own James Bond film series, but was stopped after legal action by Broccoli and MGM. In a later unsuccessful lawsuit, McClory went further and now claimed that he created the cinematic James Bond, and demanded a share of the three billion dollars earned by
O.K. Connery contemporary reviews, Bosley Crowther writing for "The New York Times" referred to the film as "a wobbly carbon copy of the James Bond thrillers" "Variety" described the film as so "unbelievably inept", that "many viewers may find it hilarious fun." The "Monthly Film Bulletin" stated that "O.K. Connery" was a "grotesque parody of a parody" noting endless allusions to Neil Connery's brother Sean Connery. The review concluded that "the film as a whole is bad enough to be hysterically funny." "The Cleveland Press" referred to the film as a "dreary and dismal espionage movie" stating that the film lacked the