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Overview

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Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Writers:
Christopher Wood (screenplay) and
Richard Maibaum (screenplay)
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Release Date:
3 August 1977 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Thriller more
Tagline:
He's Bond. He's Back. He's 007. more
Plot:
James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations more
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Bond Explodes Back To Action more (206 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Roger Moore ... James Bond

Barbara Bach ... Major Anya Amasova
Curd Jürgens ... Karl Stromberg (as Curt Jurgens)

Richard Kiel ... Jaws
Caroline Munro ... Naomi
Walter Gotell ... General Anatol Gogol
Geoffrey Keen ... Sir Frederick Gray
Bernard Lee ... M
George Baker ... Captain Benson

Michael Billington ... Sergei Barsov
Olga Bisera ... Felicca
Desmond Llewelyn ... Q
Edward de Souza ... Sheikh Hosein (as Edward De Souza)

Vernon Dobtcheff ... Max Kalba
Valerie Leon ... Hotel Receptionist
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
125 min | Sweden:123 min (cut version)
Country:
UK
Language:
English | Italian | Arabic
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Ireland:PG | South Korea:15 | Brazil:12 | Portugal:M/12 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Iceland:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (1977) | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (video rating) (1987) | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Argentina:13 | Singapore:PG | UK:A (original rating)
Filming Locations:
Abu Simbel Temple, Abu Simbel, Egypt more
Company:
Danjaq more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Cameo: [Michael G. Wilson]Man in the Audience at the Pyramid Theatre. He is sitting in the row behind Fekkesh and Agent Triple-X at the Pyramid Show. He is also seen as a guard on the Liparus tanker. more
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: When 007 returns to Atlantis to rescue Anya; after he first arrives on the dock, he is asked by Stromberg to board an elevator. As the elevator starts upward, for a split second a member of the crew appears to be walking on a walkway behind the open metal shutters to the left of the elevator shaft. And a split second later his shadow is visible. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
HMS Ranger Navigator: Captain wants to keep 500 feet.
Young officer, HMS Ranger: [over PA] Maneuvering, Control. Come in shallow to 500 feet.
Young officer, HMS Ranger: [to crewman] Keep 500 feet
HMS Ranger crewman: Keep 500 feet, sir.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004) (VG) more
Soundtrack:
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER more

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8 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
Bond Explodes Back To Action, 30 September 2003
Author: Michael Daly (fanstp43@aol.com) from United States

The Spy Who Loved Me put the 007 epic back on truly epic grounds after the bitter disappointment of Diamonds Are Forever and the mixed measure of Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun. Spy adds vast new spectacle to the Bond epic along with strong interplay with some interesting new characters and a major improvement in the series' production values.

The idea of Bond meeting his match is the starting point for The Man With The Golden Gun, but here the match is in a rival and ally from the Soviet secret service, Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach, who admittedly is over her head here but holds her own overall). We see in Anya the direct counterpart to HMSS, complete with omnipresent leader in General Gogol (Walter Gotell, who becomes one of the series' best supporting characters) and a pretty secretary.

The Bond series also revisits the SPECTRE days in a sense, in that the antagonist is a self-contained independent force, shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens). Stromberg owns a vast experimental undersea headquarters, Atlantis, and the world's largest container ship, the Liparus. Stromberg becomes linked to the disappearence of several nuclear missile submarines, through a schematic of a submarine tracking system stored on microfilm. Just what Stromberg's role entails becomes the mission for both James and Anya, and both find allies in the US Navy attack boat USS Wayne, under the command of Captain Scott Carter - here is a rarity in film, a supporting character who steals the show, here thanks to the splendid performance of Thunderbirds' own Shane Rimmer.

Another supporting cast member steals the show as well, and would do so in the next Bond film. Richard Kiel joins Harold Sakata as the most memorable of James Bond's offbeat villainous henchmen - where Sakata's Oddjob killed with a rapier-sharp bowler hat, Richard Kiel's Jaws uses steel alloy teeth as well as his own gigantic height; Kiel even brings back memories of Robert Shaw's Donald "Red" Grant in one of the most memorable stages for a Bond fistfight - the Orient Express.

The film is scored by Marvin Hamlisch rather than John Barry, and Hamlisch adds a surprisingly effective disco touch to the Bond series, one that "modernizes" the series without disrupting the power of the tried-and-true music cues of before.

But the biggest quality in the film is the vastly improved production values. Shane Rimmer was not the only Thunderbirds alumni to work in the Bond universe - SFX master Derek Meddings had worked with John Stears on Man With The Golden Gun, but here he takes over the SFX unit and greatly improves the scope and quality of the effects work, aided greatly by enormous and effective sets at Pinewood Studios that combine the best of Dr. No, You Only Live Twice, and especially Thunderball.

The relationship between James and Anya is the primary drive in the tension of the film. At first both try to one-up each other, such as in decoding the microfilm, identifying an obscure logo on the microfilm, and in the famous Lotus chase sequence when she reveals she stole blueprints for the design years earlier.

But the real strain lies in the film's prologue, when Anya's lover, himself employed by Mother Russia's security service, crosses paths with James - a confrontation James may not live down now. His own feelings for Anya, however, put what is past fully in the past, and it leads to a showdown with Stromberg amid a threat of annihilation.

It all adds up to an enormously entertaining spectacle, a highlight of the Bond epic.

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