THE SPY WHO LOVED ME

Eon Productions 1977
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Produced by: Albert Broccoli
Running time: 125 minutes (2 hrs, 5 min)


Mission Date: 07-13-77
Mission Objective(s): Discover who has captured American and Russian nuclear submarines and find out how.
Mission Status: Stromberg captured the submarines and planned to use them to start World War III between the United States and the U.S.S.R. Plan failed, command stations Atlantis and Liparus destroyed.


PRIMARY TARGET - KARL STROMBERG
STATUS - Fired from his post.

Curt Jurgens plays this megalomaniac with millions. This ocean lover uses his home, Atlantis, as his headquarters for world domination. He uses his large tanker, the Liparus, to capture the two nuclear submarines. His plan for world domination involves nuclear missles being fired at New York and Moscow. He almost succeds, but no one against Bond ever succeds. (Ever notice that?)


SECONDARY TARGET - JAWS
STATUS - Unknown(Living or dead?)

This guy is worse than Oddjob, Grant, and Vargas put together. Richard Kiel makes Jaws a powerful adversary, and almost invincible. Jaws is strong, very big, has high endurance, and...Oh, yea! Has steel teeth. In The Spy Who Loved Me, he was buried under a ton of rock, thrown from a train, dropped off a cliff in a car that exploded, fed to a shark, and trapped in Atlantis while torpedos destoryed the place, he always returned to make 007 and XXX's life a living hell.


ASSOCIATE - MAJOR ANYA AMASOVA
STATUS - Unknown(Last seen with 007)

Code name Triple X (XXX) in the KGB, Anya (Barbara Bach) is Bond's counterpart and more than a match for 007 also, outwitting him on numerous occassions. Working together with 007 after recovering the microfilm, she goes everywhere with Bond, even onto Stromberg's tanker Liparus. Here, though, the two agents become seperated and she gets sent off to Atlantis with Stromberg. She eventually gets freed by 007 and shows her thanks...unfortunatly their superiors find them earlier than expected.


Nobody Does It Better MP3 (409,320)- Written by Marvin Hamlisch, sung by Carly Simon
Bond 77 (James Bond Theme) MP3 (521,424)


Q Branch:

  • Watch with message receiver
  • Shooting ski pole
  • Microfilm reader disguised as a camera
  • Hovering serve tray with decapitating ability
  • Seat with spring inside
  • Cement shooters
  • Machine gun disguised in a hookah
  • Camel saddle that releases a long spike
  • Lotus Esprit
  • Jetski

    LITTLE KNOWN FACTS

  • 1. The first 007 movie where the theme song focuses on Bond, not the villian.
  • 2. First 007 movie to be filmed in Dolby stereo.
  • 3. $1M of the $13.5M budget was spent by production designer Ken Adam on building the largest sound stage in the world: 336'x139'x44'. The set was used for the interior shots of Stromberg's supertanker, Liparus. The tank had a capacity of 1.2M gallons.
  • 4. Fleming was so displeased with his novel that his contract with EON only allowed the title to be used. One storyline had Blofeld returning, but Kevin McClory (co-writer of Thunderball) threatened legal action, claiming he had exclusive use of SPECTRE. At the same time, he begins work on his rival Bond movie, Warhead, (renamed Never Say Never Again).
  • 5. After the film's release, the demand for white Lotus Esprits surged to the point where new customers had to be placed on a three year waiting list.

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