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I kid you not, there was a movie with Sean Connery called "Medicine Man" (1992) with this exact same theme.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104839/?ref_=fn_t_1

In it, Connery finds what looks to be a rare natural cure to all cancer in the Rain Forest (spoiler: not a frog, but equally as weird), and is literally battling the nearby deforesting and bulldozers. For a Sean Connery movie it was bizarre (As a young teen, I saw it in the theaters.. quite a bit less action than a 007 movie but good drama and dramatic Sean Connery acting).

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I've seen the movie several times. In Italian, the title was translated simply as Mato Grosso, which makes it oddly geographically specific. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Connery definitely starred in even weirder movies. Have you seen Zardoz?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmI2NjI2OWYtMzU5NS00...

> Have you seen Zardoz?

Oh, yes! Just once, but Connery, in just underpants and boots, battling some surreal head-shaped apparitions, is something I won't ever forget. I have no idea what the plot was about - but that's OK, because I had no idea about that either during or just after watching :D

A movie so bad it's kind of good - though second-hand embarrassment (at the performances, effects, plot, characters) was a bit hard to bear at points.

>For a Sean Connery movie it was bizarre

Buddy, if you're trying to tell me it's weirder than Darby O'Gill and the Little People, I am going to need more than Sir Connery in a ponytail.

> I am going to need more than Sir Connery in a ponytail

Check out Zardoz: Connery with a ponytail, a pistol in hand, wearing thigh-high boots and a mankini.

And a giant flying stone head that vomits guns.

I am not joking.

Oh, I didn't need you to say more than Zardoz to bring that beautiful memory back.

Yeah, with a movie like that in his credits, it seems a miracle he was ever selected to be James Bond. His radar for picking great movies was equally bad as it was good.

He had to pay his bills

Ha, yeah. Fortunately for him, Connery did James Bond first, then later did Zardoz and Highlander.

I think he was one of those people that was acting to keep the lights on well after he was set for life. It's a mindset, especially depending on how you grew up.

You're the man now, dog!

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