The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1977
Running Times: 125 mins
Format: Eastmancolor     Deluxe      Panavision     Panavision (anamorphic)     35mm
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Dolby Stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Eon Productions / Danjaq LLC
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli
Associate Producer: William P. Cartlidge
Production Manager: David Middlemas
Production Co-Ordinator (Canada): René Dupont

SCRIPT
Script: Christopher Wood, Richard Maibaum
Novel: Ian Fleming
Script Editor: Vernon Harris

DIRECTION
Director: Lewis Gilbert
2nd Unit Director: John Glen, Ernest Day, Willy Bogner
Assistant Director: Ariel Levy
2nd Unit Assistant Director: Chris Kenny
Pre-Production Director: Guy Hamilton (uncredited)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Claude Renoir
Camera Operator: Alec Mills
Underwater Photography: Lamar Boren
Ski Sequence Photographer And Supervisor: Willy Bogner
Underwater Director of Photography: Lamar Boren
Lighting Advisor for Tanker Scenes: Stanley Kubrick (uncredited)

EDITING
Editor: John Glen
Assistant Editor: John Grover
Assembly Editor: Alan Strachan (uncredited)

MUSIC
Music: Marvin Hamlisch
Additional Music: Johann Sebastian Bach (from Air in Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from Andante of Piano concerto no. 21), Frédéric Chopin (Nocturne)
Lyrics: Carole Bayer Sager
Song Performed By: Carly Simon
James Bond Theme: Monty Norman
Song Produced By: Richard Perry

SOUND
Sound Recording: Gordon Everett
Re-Recording: Gordon K. McCallum
Sound Editor: Allan Sones

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Paul Engelen
Costumes: Rosemary Burrows, Ronald Patterson
Wardrobe Supervisor: Rosemary Burrows
Fashion Consultant: Ronald Paterson

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Photographic Effects: Alan Maley
Special Effects: Derek Meddings, John Evans

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Ken Adam
Art Director: Peter Lamont
Title Designer: Maurice Binder

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: June Randall
Production Controller: Reginald A. Barkshire
Production Assistant: Marguerite Green
Naval Adviser: Richard Kennan
Production Accountant: Brian Bailey
Special Assistant To Producer: Michael Wilson

LOCATIONS
Locations: Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, The Bahamas, Canada, Egypt, Malta, Okinawa, Japan, Sardinia, Italy, Scotland, UK, Switzerland
Location Manager (Bahamas): Golda Offenheim
Location Manager (Egypt): Frank Ernst

STUNTS
Action Arranger: Bob Simmons
Ski Stunt: Rick Sylvester
Helicopter Pilot: Captain John Crewdson (uncredited)

CAST
Roger Moore (James Bond)
Barbara Bach (Major Anya Amasova)
Curt Jurgens (Stomberg)
Richard Kiel (Jaws)
Caroline Munro (Naomi)
Walter Gotell (General Gogol)
Bernard Lee (M)
Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny)
Desmond Llewellyn (Q)
Geoffrey Keen (Minister of Defence)
George Baker (Captain Benson)
Michael Billington (Sergei)
Olga Bisera (Felicca)
Edward De Souza (Sheikh Hosein)
Vernon Dobtcheff (Max Kalba)
Sydney Tafler (Liparus captain)
Valerie Leon (hotel receptionist)
Nadim Sawlha (Fekkesh)
Sue Vanner (log cabin girl)
Eva Rueber-Staier (Rubelvitch)
Robert Brown (Admiral Hargreaves)
Marilyn Galsworthy (Stromberg's assistant)
Milton Reid (Sandor)
Cyril Shaps (Bechmann)
Milo Sperber (Markovitz)
Albert Moses (barman)
Rafiq Anwar (Cairo Club owner)
Felicity York, Dawn Rodriques, Anika Pavel, Jill Goodall, Egyptian Folklore Group (Arab beauties)
Shane Rimmer (captain of USS Wayne)
Roy Sherman, Doyle Richmond, Murray Salem, John Truscott, Peter Whitman, Ray Hassett, Vincent Marzello, Nicholas Campbell, Ray Evans, Anthony Forrest, Garrick Hagon, Ray Jewers, George Mallaby, Christopher Muncke, Anthony Pullen, Robert Sheedy, Don Staiton, Eric Stine, Stephen Temperley, Dean Warwick (crew of USS Wayne)
Bryan Marshall (captain of HMS Ranger)
Michael Howarth, Kim Fortune, Barry Andrews, Kevin McNally, Jeremy Bulloch, Sean Bury, John Sarbutt, David Auker, Dennis Blanch, Keith Buckley, Jonathan Bury, Nick Ellsworth, Tom Gerrard, Kazik Michalski, Keith Morris, John Salthouse (crew of HMS Ranger)
George Roubicek, Lenny Rabin, Irvin Allen, Yasher Adem, Peter Ensor (Stromberg crew)
Jack Cooper, George Leech (gunmen in car - uncredited)
Bob Simmons (Russian thug - uncredited)
Victor Tourjansky (man with bottle - uncredited)
Jeremy Wilkin (Captain Forsyth - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

James Bond is assigned to investigate the disappearance, mid-ocean, of a number of American and Soviet nuclear submarines. His investigations lead him to deranged, power-mad billionaire industrialist Stromberg and his insane plans to create a new society under the sea.

Moore's best film as Bond so far and still one of the best of the series. The astonishing interior set of the submarine docking bay is Ken Adam's best achievement since the volcano set in You Only Live Twice (1967) and the overall look of the film returns the series to the grandiose excesses of the 60s. Huge fun and a major return to form for the series.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: United Artists
Video Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment (16222S - pan and scan, part of the James Bond Collection), 16222W - widescreen, part of the James Bond Collection)
DVD Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment (16222DVD)

Finland
Rating: K-16

Germany
Rating: 12

Norway
Rating: 15

Sweden
Rating: 15

The Netherlands
Rating: 12

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG

1976
December
4: UK - the huge new 007 stage is officially opened at Pinewood by then prime minister Harold Wilson.

1977
July
7: UK - world premiere

August
3: USA - theatrical release
12: Denmark - theatrical release
25: West Germany - theatrical release

September
17: Sweden - theatrical release
23: Finland - theatrical release

1982
March
28: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1983
December
26: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1986
December
26: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1987
December
25: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1990
September
15: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1991
September
21: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1992
July
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1994
May
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1995
December
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1999
July
21: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

2000
February
1: UK - video release (widescreen and pan and scan, as part of the James Bond Collection)

November
27: UK - DVD release

2002
March
30: USA - television broadcast (on ABC)

It's the BIGGEST. It's the BEST. It's BOND. And B-E-Y-O-N-D.

Nobody does it better.

Das neue große James Bond abenteuer: 1000 neue gags - 10000 PS tempo - 100000 volt spannung

È il piû spettacolore. È il piû bello. Va al di sopra di ogni vostra aspettativa!

Den är störst. Den är bäst. Det är BOND!

A kém, aki szeretett

1977
Academy Awards
Best Song (nomination)
Best Score (nomination)
Best Art Direction / Set Decoration (nomination)

Agente 007, la spia che mi amava - Italian title

James Bond 007 - Der Spion, der mich liebte - German title

L'Espion qui m'aimait - French title

Engem James Bond 007 - ?

Ãlskale spion - Danish title?

La Spia che mi amava - Spanish title

SEQUEL TO
Dr No (1962)
From Russia with Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

SEQUELS
Moonraker (1979)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Octopussy (1983)
A View to a Kill (1985)
The Living Daylights (1987)
Licence to Kill (1989)
Goldeneye (1995)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Die Another Day (2002)

SEE ALSO
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Jaws (1975)
The Cannonball Run (1981)
True Lies (1994)
Free Enterprise (1998)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
High Anxiety (1977)
Zuijia paidang zhi nuhuang miling (1984)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond (1987)
The James Bond Story (1999)
Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (2002)

MAGAZINES

American Cinematographer v.58 (May 1977) pp.487-489 (USA)
illustrated articles (Behind the Scenes of The Spy Who Loved Me (p..486, 550 - 554 (includes About Pinewood Studio's new 007 stage (pp.488 - 489, 545 - 547)

American Cinematographer v.60 (February 1979) pp.186-188, 193-196 (USA)
illustrated articles (British Entry Wins Uniatec Film Technology Grand Prix (pp.186, 188 - 193), Creating mechanical models and miniatures for The Spy Who Loved Me (pp.187, 193 - 196))

Entertainment Weekly n515 (3 December 1999) pp.40 - 42, 44, 46 (USA)
illustrated article (And the Bond Played On by Andrew Essex)

Film Review Special no.16 (1999) pp.46-51 (UK)
illustrated credits, interviews with various cast and crew (by Howard Maxford)

Films and Filming v.23 n. 12 (September 1977) p.32 (UK)
illustrated review (by Gordon Gow)

Hollywood Reporter 11 June 1976 p.10 (USA)

Hollywood Reporter 7 July 1977 p.5 (USA)
review

The Hollywood Reporter v.241 n.44 (11 June 1976) p.10 (USA)
production notes

The Hollywood Reporter v247 n15 (7 July 1977) p.5 (USA)
review (by Arthur Knight)

The Hollywood Reporter 12 April 1982 p.9 (USA)
interview with Albert Broccoli (by Robert Osborne)

Monthly Film Bulletin v.44 n523 (August 1977) p.176 (UK)
review (by Tim Pulleine)

Photoplay v.28 April 1977 pp.30-31, 54 (UK)
illustrated interview (This is the noisiest Bond film ever! - interview with Roger Moore by Roy Pickard (pp.30-31, 54)), illustrated preview (Bond's Bosom Pals (pp.32-33))

Screen International n.52 (4 September 1976) p.12 (UK)
credits

Screen International n.66 11 December 1976 pp.16-17 (UK)
illustrated news item (Sir Harold opens massive new 007 stage by anonymous)

Screen International 16 July 1977 p.16 (UK)
review

Sight and Sound v.3 n.6 (June 1993) p.70 (UK)
note about UK video release (by Peter Dean)

Starburst n.212 April 1996 p.55 (UK)
illustrated note about UK video release (by Lawrence McIlhoney)

TV Times 27 March 1982 p.35 (UK)
article

Vanity Fair n471 (November 1999) pp.136-141 (USA)
illustrated article (Bond Girls Are Forever by Bruce Feirstein)

Variety 6 July 1977 p.17 (USA)
review (by Pit)

BOOKS

The A-Z of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films p.247
review, some credits

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