Moments Before His Agent Called With The James Bond Part...

Moments before his agent called with the good news that he landed the lead role in some spy movie, Sean Connery was taking test shots for his backup role "Artigan - Mars Commando". Both were promising parts for the rising hollywood hunk, but the Bond movie had a bigger budget, a much more polished script, and set him in several steamy scenes with attractive women. "Artigan", filmed outside Indio, had him wandering a cheesy space-scape by himself with a masturbation scene meant to garner publicity for the low budget Sci-Fi think piece.