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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
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Release Date:
3 August 1977 (USA)
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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
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars.
Another 2 wins
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6 nominations
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James Bond Museum Opens in the UK
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Roger Moore rated this as his best Bond film. I don't agree, but it's certainly an entertaining and spectacular one.
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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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Runtime:
125 min | Sweden:123 min (cut version)
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2.35 : 1 more
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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)
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Both the first film and first James Bond film produced solely by Albert R. Broccoli as a single producer. All his previous movies had been co-produced with either 'Irving Allen (I)' or Harry Saltzman or other producers. Saltzman, His former James Bond producing partner, left the series during pre-production of this movie.
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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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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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Referenced in 007 in Egypt (2006) (V)
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Aquarium
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What exotic places does Bond visit in this movie?Is this the movie where we finally learn M's first name?
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Roger Moore has always maintained that The Spy Who Loved Me is the best of his Bond films. Personally I prefer Octopussy and For Your Eyes Only, but this one certainly has its moments. The original novel by Ian Fleming was an odd-one-out in the book series, describing as it did how an off-duty Bond saved a female hotelier from a couple of nasty hoodlums. However, in this film adaptation the novel has been completely jettisoned and replaced with a story about Bond thwarting a megalomaniac from achieving world domination.
Bond (Moore) is partnered with Russian agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach - most beautiful of all the many Bond girls) to solve the mysterious disappearance of two nuclear submarines, one British the other Russian. They follow the clues to the underwater lair of Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens), an elegant and educated psychopath with a plan to destroy the world in a nuclear holocaust and retreat to his undersea empire. To add to their complications, Anya learns that her recently killed boyfriend was eliminated by Bond during an assignment.
The pre-credit sequence is among the better pre-credit sequences in the series, involving an extraordinary ski stunt which many consider to be the most breathtaking stunt ever devised for a Bond film. Moore is good as Bond, Bach stunningly attractive as his partner (though not very convincing as an actress), and Jurgens provides a suitably over-confident villain. The location work in various locations, most notably Egypt, is nicely photographed. Marvin Hamlisch provides the music, marking a change from the usual composer John Barry, and Hamlisch's score is decent enough though it does have a dated '70s quality to it when listened to nowadays. The plot is totally implausible and self-parodic (if they'd stuck to the plot in the book though, it would've been almost impossible to make a Bond movie in the expected sense of the phrase), but director Lewis Gilbert cleverly plays it with tongue-in-cheek so that the absurdness of the on-screen events becomes curiously endearing. The Spy Who Loved Me is silly, entertaining and extravagantly spectacular.