The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights.....

A new Bond, a new Attitude. When Roger Moore retired from the Bond series after A View to a Kill, producer Albert R "Cubby" Broccoli was, for the first time in many years, without an Agent 007. The search for a new Bond began immediately, eventually, one candidate clearly stood out from the rest : Welsh-born Shakespearean actor Timothy Dalton. Released in 1987, The Living Daylights the plot concerns a diamonds for opium scheme involving a phony KGB defection and assassination operation. Director Glen opens with a thriller of a teaser as bond, in the midst of a Secret Service exercise on Gibralter, uncovers foul play and engages an assassin in battle aboard a speeding jeep loaded explosives. Shot in Vienna and Morocco, Living Daylights interweaves taut action sequences with intrigue and romantic interludes....

Cast :

James Bond : Timothy Dalton
Kara Milovy : Maryam d'Abo

General Georgi Koskov : Jeroen Krabbé

Brad Whitaker : Joe Don Baker

General Leonid Pushkin : John Rhys-Davies

Kamran Shah : Art Malik

Necros : Andreas Wisniewski

Saunders : Thomas Wheatley

Q : Desmond Llewelyn

M : Robert Brown

Miss Moneypenny : Caroline Bliss

Director : John Glen

Produced by : Richard Maibaum
                       Michael G. Wilson

Music by: John Barry

Bond song : The Living Daylights - a-ha

Bond song : Aston Martin Vantage V8

Bond girl : Kara Milovy

Release date : 29th July 1987

Running time : 131 minutes

A View To A Kill

A View To A Kill

This is the fourteenth film of the James Bond series, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as
James Bond. Agent 007 is in a race against time to stop Christopher Walken who plays Max Zorin a wealthy industrialist with a hidden past who embarks on a plot to destroy the microchip producing Silicon valley. Grace Jones portrays Zorin`s lanky but powerful assistant, May Day, while former "Charlie`s Angel" Tanya Roberts plays Bond girl Stacey Sutton. Patrick Macnee, debonair star of  TV`s Avengers, brings class and a fine touch of humour to the movie in his portrayal of Bond`s
sidekick, Sir Godfrey Tibbett. A View To A Kill marked Lois Maxwell`s final appearance as M`s
ever-dependable secretary, Miss Moneypenny. The actress was the only cast member who had appeared in every Bond film since the first instalment, Dr. No.

Cast:

James Bond : Roger Moore

Max Zorin : Christopher Walken

May Day : Grace Jones

Sir Godfrey Tibbett : Patrick Macnee

Stacey Sutton : Tanya Roberts

Scarpine : Patrick Bauchau

Chuck Lee : David Yip

Pola Ivanova : Fiona Fullerton

Q : Desmond Llewelyn

Miss Monneypenny : Lois Maxwell

Directed By : John Glen

Produced by : Albert R. Broccoli
                       Michael G. Wilson

Screenplay by : Michael G. Wilson
                          Richard Maibaum

Music by : John Barry

Bond Song : A View To A kill - Duran Duran

Bond vehicles : Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II / Renault 20

Release date : 12 June 1985 (U.K)

Running time : 131 mins

Octopussy



Octopussy.....

The film's title is taken from a short story in Ian Fleming's 1966 short story collection, set largely in

Germany and India, this adventure puts James Bond on the trail of a priceless Fabergé egg after British agent 009 is found dead at the British embassy in East Berlin, dressed as a circus clown and carrying a fake Fabergé egg. It leads him to Octopussy's traveling circus, which is being used as a cover for a plot to explode an atomic bomb at a U.S airforce base in West Germany, the first step for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. Maud Adams, who portrays the seductive Octopussy, is the only actress to have starred in two Bond films. She previously played the ill-fated Andrea Anders in The Man With The Golden Gun  (1974 ). Only Agent 007 can stop the nightmarish scheme!

Cast :

James Bond : Roger Moore

Octopussy :  Maud Adams

Kamal Khan : Louis Jourdan

Gobinda : Kabir Bedi

Magda : Kristina Wayborn

Vijay : Vijay Amritraj

David Meyer & Anthony Meyer : Mischka & Grischka

Q : Desmond Llewelyn

M : Robert Brown

Directed by : John Glen

Produced by : Albert R. Broccoli

Screenplay by : George MacDonald Fraser

                          Michael G. Wilson
                          Richard Maibaum

Music by : John Barry

Bond theme : All time high - Rita Coolidge

Bond Vehicle : TRS-18 Acrostar mini-jet

                         three wheeled "company taxi"

                         Mercedes-Benz saloon

Bond Girl : Octopussy

Release date : 6th june 1983

Running time : 131mins









For Your Eyes Only

 

 

For Your Eyes Only.....

 

For your eyes only marked the return of the more serious James Bond films. This was the

12th bond from United Artist and Cubby Broccoli ( Saltzman had departed following The Man With The Golden Gun ).It marked the directorial debut of John Glen, who had worked as editor and second unit director in three other Bond films. The story involves Bond`s mission to recover a stolen Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC) a missile-launch transmitter, 007 soon allies himself with a young Greek woman Melina Havelock ( Carole Bouquet ) in a spectacular tale of deceit, treachery and vengeance. Carole Bouquet, had auditioned for the part of  Holly Goodhead in Moonraker. Although she didn`t win that role, the producers recognised that she was ideal for the part of determined Melina in For Your Eyes Only......

 

 

 

Cast :

 

 

James Bond : Roger Moore

 

Melina Havelock : Carole Bouquet

 

Milos Columbo : Chaim Topol

 

Bibi Dahl : Lynn-Holly Johnson

 

Aristotle Kristatos : Julian Glover

 

Erich Kriegler : John Wyman

 

Q : Desmond Llewelyn

 

Money Penny : Lois Maxwell

 

Bill Tanner : James Villiers

 

Fredrick Gray : Geoffrey Keen

 

Directed by : John Glen

 

Produced by : Albert R. Broccoli

 

Music by : Bill Conti

 

Bond theme : For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton

 

Bond Vehicles : Citroën 2CV , Lotus Esprit Turbo

 

Bond girl : Melina Havelock

 

Release date : 24 June 1981

 

Running time : 127 mins

 

 

 

 

Moonraker

Moonraker.....

This is the eleventh in the James Bond series, and the fourth to star Roger Moore. As credits ended
on The Spy Who Loved Me the filmmakers made a promise to their eager audience, "James Bond will return in For Yours Eyes Only." Only a few months later, however, Producer "Cubby" Broccoli
announced that the next 007 film would be based on another book entirely : MOONRAKER.
This time JAWS was back, the giant, unbeatable henchman caught on with moviegoers, Jaws` new
boss, and new adversary, is Hugo Drax, an international tycoon who plans to destroy the human race
from outerspace, then re-populate it with his own perfect specimens. James Bond travels from Venice
to Rio and Space itself in his effort to save the world.

Cast :

James Bond : Roger Moore

Holly Goodhead : Lois Chiles

Hugo Drax : Michael Lonsdale

Jaws : Richard Kiel

Corrine Dufour : Corrine Clery

Frederick Gray : Geoffrey Keen

Manuela : Emily Bolton

Miss Moneypenny : Lois Maxwell

Q : Desmond Llewelyn

M : Bernard Lee


Directed by : Lewis Gilbert

Produced by : Albert R. Broccoli

Written by : Ian Fleming

Music by : John Barry

Bond Song : Moonraker ( Shirley Bassey )

Bond vehicle : Space shuttle

Release date : 26 June 1979 (1979-06-26) (UK)

Running time : 126 minutes

The spy who loved me

The spy who loved me.....

Number Ten in the James Bond series, "It's the Biggest! It's the Best! It's Bond and Beyond!" So
proclaimed the theatrical advertisement for the The Spy Who Loved Me after what had been a
significant gap between Bond films ( Two and a half years ) . Set primarily in Egypt and Italy,
the story finds Bond investigating the disappearance of British and Soviet ballistic-missile submarines and finding himself up against shipping magnate Karl Stromberg, who is orchestrating
the distruction of civilization in order to build life anew beneath the sea.

Cast :

James Bond : Roger Moore

Major Anya Amasova (XXX) : Barbara Bach

Karl Strongberg : Curt Jurgens

Jaws : Richard Kiel

Noami : Caroline Munro

General Gogol : Walter Gotell

Minister of defence : Geoffrey Keen

Q : Desmond Llewelyn

Miss Moneypenny : Lois Maxwell

M : Bernard Lee

Captain Benson : George Baker

Captain Carter : Shane Rimmer


Directed by : Lewis Gilbert

Produced by : Albert R. Broccoli

Written by : Ian Fleming

Music by : Marvin Hamlisch

Bond Song : Nobody does it better ( Carly Simon )

Bond car : Lotus Esprits

Release date : 7 July 1977 (1977-07-07) (London)

Running time : 125 minutes

The Man With The Golden Gun

The Man With The Golden Gun...

This is the ninth in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as the MI6 agent James Bond. Christopher Lee Co-stars as Scaramanga, a high priced hitman ( 1 million pound a shot) whose goal is to harness the power of the sun for his own private solar powered weapon. Britt Ekland and Maud Adams are the Bond girls this time out, Herve Villechaize is Scaramanga`s dwarf henchman Nick Nack, Clifton James returns as redneck Sheriff J.W Pepper, a comic role introduced in the last film.


Cast :

James Bond : Roger Moore

Scaramanga : Christopher Lee

Mary Goodnight : Britt Ekland

Andrea : Maud Adams

Nick Nack : Herve Villechaize

Sheriff J.W Pepper : Clifton James

Hip : Soon Taik Oh

Hai Fat : Richard Loo

Rodney : Marc Lawrence

Q : Desmond Llewelyn

Miss Moneypenny : Lois Maxwell

M : Bernard Lee


Directed by : Guy Hamilton

Produced by : Albert R. Broccoli
                       Harry Saltzman

Written by : Ian Fleming

Music by : John Barry

Bond song : The man with the golden gun ( Lulu )

Bond car : AMC Hornet

Released date : 19 December 1974 (1974-12-19) ( UK )

Running time : 125 minutes

Live and Let Die

Live and Let Die...

A new Bond for a new era. When Sean Connery left the series after Diamonds are Forever,
producers Albert R Broccoli "Cubby" and Harry Saltzman launched an intensive search for
another actor who could embody 007`s inimitable charm, sly humour and lethal cunning.
After months of casting calls and screen tests, they selected an actor who had already been
described "An ideal Bond " by no means less than Sean Connery himself : ROGER MOORE, 1st of many. In the film, a Harlem drug lord known as Mr. Big plans to distribute two tons of heroin free to put rival drug barons out of business. Mr. Big, however, is revealed to be the disguised alter ego of Dr. Kananga, James Bond is investigating the death of three British agents, leading him to Kananga, where he is soon trapped in a world of gangsters and voodoo as he fights to put a stop to the drug baron's scheme.


Cast :

James Bond : Roger Moore

Doctor Kananga : Yaphet Kotto

Solitaire : Jane Seymour

Sheriff Pepper : Clifton James

TeeHee : Julius W Harris

Baron Smaedi : Geoffrey Holder

Felix Leiter : David Hedison

Rosie : Gloria Hendry

M : Bernard Lee

Moneypenny : Lois Maxwell


Directed by : Guy Hamilton

Produced by : Harry Saltzman
                       Albert R. Broccoli

Music by : George Martin
                  "Live and Let Die" by Paul and Linda McCartney

Bond car : AEC Double-Decker Bus!

Release date`s :  27th June 1973 ( US )
                          6 July 1973   ( UK )

Running time : 121 minutes

Diamonds are Forever

Diamonds are Forever......

The big news about the movie was Sean Connery was back to the role of James Bond.
Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli tested other actors, but studio United Artists wanted Sean Connery back. In the story Bond discovers that the evil Ernst Stavro Blofield is stock pilling diamonds to use in his deadly laser satellite. The seventh film was an extreme departure from the
tone of the series. Director Guy Hamilton decided to veer away from the "seriousness " of the previous films and instead " go for fun ." Consequently, both humor and action were broadened,
resulting in a more lighter approach of Ian Fleming`s Bond Universe.


Cast :

James Bond : Sean Connery

Tiffany Case : Tiffany Case

Ernst Stavro Blofeld : Charles Gray

Willard Whyte : Jimmy Dean

Mr. Kidd : Putter Smith

Mr. Wint : Bruce Glover

Felix Leiter : Norman Burton

Plenty O'Toole : Lana Wood

Professor Doctor Metz : Joseph Furst

Peter Franks : Joe Robinson


Directed by : Guy Hamilton

Produced by Harry Saltzman
                     Albert R. Broccoli

Story by : Ian Fleming

Music by : John Barry

Bond song : Diamonds are Forever  - Shirley Bassey

Bond car : Ford Mustang Mach 1
                 Triumph Stag

Release date : 30th december 1971  ( UK premiere )

Running time : 120 minutes.

On her Majesty`s secret service...

On her Majesty`s secret service......


On her Majesty`s secret service is the sixth entry in the James Bond series and released in 1969.
After the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role a new Bond was found.
George Lazenby does a mixed review of stepping into Sean Connery as 007. While filming ( Lazenby ) decided that he would play the role of Bond only once.The story involves Bonds efforts to track down Ernst Stavro Blofield, who, it is eventually discovered, is about to threaten the world with a new kind of biological warfare from his allergy clinic in the Swiss Alps.

Cast :

James Bond : George Lazenby

Ernst Stavro Blofield : Telly Savalas

Tracy di Vicenzo : Diana Rigg

Marc-Ange Draco : Gabriele Ferzetti

Irma Bunt : Ilse Steppat

M : Bernard Lee

Miss Moneypenny : Lois Maxwell

Sir Hilary Bray : George Baker

Q : Desmond Llewelyn


Directed by Peter R. Hunt

Produced by : Harry Saltzman
                       Albert R. Broccoli

Written by Ian Fleming

Music by : John Barry

Bond song : We have all time in the World - Louis Armstrong

Bond car : Aston Martin DBS

Release date : 18 December 1969

Running Time : 140 minutes

You Only Live Twice

You Only Live Twice

In 1967, Sean Connery announced that he`d had enough of playing 007 and that the fifth bond would be his last. An all out effort was made to pack this one full eg: James will die, James will marry, James will become japanese. 007 will also finally meet his faceless nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld,
head of the organisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E. In the film James Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet manned spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit. With each nation blaming the other.

Cast :

James Bond : Sean Connery

Ernst Stavro Blofeld : Donald Pleasence

Aki : Akiko Wakabayashi

Kissy Suzuki : Mie Hama

Tiger Tanaka : Tetsurō Tamba

Dikko Henderson : Charles Gray

Hans : Ronald Rich

Helga Brandt : Karin Dor

M : Bernard Lee

Miss Moneypenny : Lois Maxwell

Q : Desmond Llewelyn


Directed by : Lewis Gilbert

Produced by : Albert R. Broccoli
                       Harry Saltzman

Written by : Ian Fleming

Screenplay by : Roald Dahl

Music by : John Barry

Bond theme : You only live twice : Nancy Sinatra

Bond vehicles : Little Nellie ( The heavily armed autogyro),
                         Toyota 2000GT

Release date : 12 June 1967

Running time : 117 mins

Thunderball

Thunderball....

The fourth Bond film carries a breezy air of confidence and dare as it pits 007 against S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

Bond`s mission is to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by spectre, which  holds the world ransom for £100 million in diamonds, in exchange for not destroying an unspecified major city in either England or the United States (later revealed to be Miami.).The search leads Bond to the Bahamas,where he encounters Emilio Largo, the eye-patch wearing SPECTRE Number Two.

The title song was a strong follow-up to Goldfinger, and belted out by the great Tom Jones.

Cast :

James Bond - Sean Connery

Emilio Largo - Adolfo Celi

Dominique "Domino" Derval - Claudine Auge

Felix Leiter - Rik Van Nutter

M - Bernard Lee

Count Lippe - Guy Doleman

Q - Desmond Llewelyn

Miss Moneypenny - Lois Maxwell

Vargas - Philip Locke.

Directed by - Terence Young

Produced by - Kevin McClory

Written by - Ian Fleming

                    Kevin McClory
                    Jack Whittingham

Music by - John Barry

Bond theme - Thunderball - Tom Jones

Bond vehicles : Aston Martin DB5

                         Bell Rocket Belt

Release date - 9th December 1965

Running time - 130 mins

Goldfinger

 GOLDFINGER

Goldfinger premiered. With its high-profile images of a fully-armed Aston Martin DB-5, a nude women painted from head to toe in gold paint. Goldfinger is the third film to star Sean Connery

and was released in 1964.The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger has initiated 

 " Operation Grand Slam " a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. The film also stars Bond girl Pussy Galore and the mute Korean manservant Oddjob

with his steel rimmed bowler hat and don`t forget Gill Masterson.

Cast:

James Bond : Sean Connery

Auric Goldfinger : Gert Frobe

Pussy Galore : Honer Blackman

Oddjob : Harold Sakata

Jill Masterson : Shirley Eaton

Tilly Masterson : Tania Mallet

M : Bernard Lee

Felix Leiter : Cec Linder

Q : Desmond Llewelyn

Miss Moneypenny : Lois Maxwell.

Directed by : Guy Hamilton

Produced by :Harry Saltzman

                      Albert R. Broccoli

Written by : Ian Fleming

Music by : John Barry

Release date : 17 september 1964

Running time : 110 mins

Bond song : Goldfinger : Shirley Bassey

From Russia with love

From Russia with Love. Bond is back !!!

The evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E organisation have hatched a plan to steal a Russian decoder while James Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where S.P.E.C.T.R.E plans to avenge Bond's killing of Dr No. From Russia with Love is the first of the Bond films to introduce spy gadgets with the first appearance of Major Boothroyd-better known as Q the supplier of 007`s gadgets. From Russia with Love is considered to be one the best in the series .......

Cast :


James Bond : Sean Connery

Tatiana Romanova : Daniela Bianchi

Red Grant : Robert Shaw

Rosa Klebb : Lotte Lenya

M : Bernard Lee

Ali Kerim Bey : Pedro Armendáriz

Money Penny : Lois Maxwell

Q : Desmond Llewelyn


Directed by : Terence Young

Produced by : Harry Saltzman / Albert R. Broccoli

Written by : Ian Fleming

Music by : John Barry

Bond song by :  Lionel Bart / Matt Monro

Running time : 115 mins

Release Date`s : 10th October 1963 ( London premier )
                           11th October 1963  ( UK )

Dr No

Dr No was released on the 5th of October, and was the first James Bond film. Sean Connery was given the role of 00 agent Bond. In the film James Bond is sent to the beautiful island of Jamaica to investigate the death of fellow British agent ( John Strangways ). The trail leads to evil genius Dr No, who is ploting to interfere with US missile launches using mysterious energy waves.

Cast

James Bond ( Sean Connery )

Honey Ryder ( Ursula Andress ) voiced by : Nikki van der Zyl

Dr No ( Joseph wiseman )

Felix Leiter ( Jack Lord )

M   ( Bernard Lee )

Quarrel ( John Kitzmiller )

Bond Car : Sunbeam Alpine 1961 series 11


Directed by : Terence Young

Produced by : Harry Saltzman / Albert R. Broccoli

Running time : 109 mins

James Bond theme : Monty Norman Orchestra

James Bond`s profile

Name : James Bond


Height : 183 centimeters


Weight : 76 kilos

Age :  ageless

Occupation : 00 agent

Title : Commander James Bond

Cover Story : works for Universal Exports

Nationality : British

weapon : Walther PPK

Special skills: Expert pistol shot, martial arts


Note : Licence to kill

Intoduction

Welcome to my Bond themed blog. I am a big fan of anything to do with
James Bond and so I decided to set up this blog to share all I know about
007. Please note this is a hobby of mine, I am by no means a professional!
Hope you enjoy, please feel free to leave a comment.