Tuesday, 16 October 2012

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


Saturday, 13 October 2012

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


Friday, 12 October 2012

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