A View to a Kill (1985)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1985
Running Times: 126 mins     131 mins
Format: Metrocolor     Panavision (anamorphic)      35mm
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Dolby Stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Eon Productions / MGM-UA Entertainment
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson
Associate Producer: Thomas Pevsner
Production Supervisor: Anthony Waye
Production Controller: Reginald A. Barkshire
Production Co-Ordinator: May Capsaskis, Nathalie Farjon, Norma Garment, Sally Hayman, Maureen Murphy
Production Managers: Philip Nohler, Serge Touboul, Leonhard Gmur, Ned Nopp and Company, Jon Thor Hannesson
Unit Manager: Iris Rose

SCRIPT
Script: Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson
Characters: Ian Fleming

DIRECTION
Director: John Glen
2nd Unit Director: Arthur G. Wooster
Ski Sequence Director: Willy Bogner
Assistant Director: Gerry Gavigan
2nd Unit Assistant Director: Peter Bennett
Additional Assistant Directors: Edi Hubschmid, Laurent Bregeat, Serge Menard, Terry Madden, Andrew Warren, Simon Haveland, Nick Heckstall-Smith, Barbara Broccoli

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Alan Hume
Additional Director of Photography: Jan D'Alquen, Egil S. Woxholt
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Arthur G. Wooster
Ski Sequence Photography: Willy Bogner
Aerial Photography: David Butler, Peter Allwork, Douglas Milsome
Camera Operator: Michael Frift
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Malcolm Vinson, Robert Hillman
Electrics Supervisor: John Tythe

EDITING
Editor: Peter Dawes
Additional Editor: Peter Davies, John S. Smith

MUSIC
Music: John Barry
Song: Duran Duran, John Barry
Song Performed By: Duran Duran
Song Producers: Bernard Edwards
Orchestrations: Nicholas Raine
Music Editor: Alan Killick
Music Recording: Richard Lewzey

SOUND
Sound Recording: Derek Ball
Sound Re-Recording: Graham V. Hartstone, John Hayward
Sound Editor: Colin Miller, Jack Knight, Nigel Gatt, Stan Fiferman
Sound Effects: Jean-Pierre Lelong

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up Supervisor: George Frost
Make Up: Eric Allwright, Bunty Phillips
Hair Supervisor: Ramon Gow
Costume Designer: Emma Porteous
Costume Supervisor: Tiny Nicholls
Wardrobe For Jones: Azzedine Alaia

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: John Richardson
Special Effects: John Morris, Joss Williams, Kenneth Morris, Andre Trielli, Larry Cavanaugh, Willy Neuner
Computer Effects: Ira Curtis Coleman
Model Director of Photography: Leslie Dear
Front Projection: Charles Staffell, Roy Moores
Titles and Opticals: National Screen Service

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Peter Lamont
Art Director: Fenner
Additional Art Director: Michael Lamont, Ken Court, Alan Tomkins, Serge Douy, Armin Ganz, Katharina Brunner
Set Decorator: Crispian Sallis
Scenic Artist: Ernest Smith, Jacqueline Stears
Main Title Designer: Maurice Binder
Construction Manager: Michael Redding

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: June Randall
Production Accountant: Douglas Noakes
Director of Marketing: Charles Juroe

LOCATIONS
Locations: Amberley Museum, England, UK; Ascot Racecourse, England, UK; Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California, USA; Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA; Oakland, California, USA (Dunsmuir historic estate); Paris, France; San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA; Switzerland; Vatnajokull glacier, Iceland; Amberley Chalk Pits, West Sussex
Studio: Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Location Manager: Nick Daubeny, Agust Baldursson, Stefan Zurcher, Jean-Marc Deschamps, Steve Dunn, Rory Enke
Iceland Advisor: Iceland Breakthrough, Tony Escritt

STUNTS
Action Sequence Arranger: Martin Grace
Stunt Team Supervisors: James M. Arnett, Bob Simmons, Claude Carliez, Jason White, Mike Runyard,
Tracey Eddon, Bill Weston, Elaine Ford, Doug Robinson, Pat Banta
Driving Stunts Arranger: Remy Julienne
Stunts (Driving Team): Michel Julienne, Dominique Julienne, Christian Bonnichon, Jean-Claude Lagniez, Jean-Claude Bonnichon, Jean-Claude Houbart, Robert Blasco
Stunts (Aerial Team - Eiffel Tower): B.J. Worth
Stunts (Aerial Team - Skyship 500): Nicholas T. Bennett
Stunts (Aerial Unit - Pilots): Marc Wolff, Rick Holley, Chuck Tamburro, Robert Liechti, Gerry Crayson
Stunts (Horse Team): Olivier Victor-Thomas, Christian de Lagarde, Marcel Riou, Francois Nadal, Mario Luraschi, Brian Bowes, Anthony Fairbairn
Stunts (Snow Team): Peter Rohe, John Eaves, Thomas Sims, Steven Link, Joe Brown, Andrea Florineth
Title Skiers Supplied By: British Ski Federation

CASTING
Casting: Debbie McWilliams

CAST
Roger Moore (James Bond)
Christopher Walken (Max Zorin)
Tanya Roberts (Stacey Sutton)
Grace Jones (May Day)
Patrick MacNee (Tibbett)
Patrick Bauchau (Scarpine)
David Yip (Chuck Lee)
Fiona Fullerton (Pola Ivanova)
Manning Redwood (Bob Conley)
Alison Doody (Jenny Flex)
Willoughby Gray (Dr Carl Mortner)
Desmond Llewellyn (Q)
Robert Brown (M)
Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny)
Walter Gotell (General Gogol)
Geoffrey Keen (minister of defence)
Jean Rougerie (Aubergine)
Daniel Benzali (Howe)
Bogdan Kominowski (Klotkoff)
Papillon Soo Soo (Pan Ho)
Mary Stavin (Kimberley Jones)
Dominique Risbourg (butterfly act compere)
Carole Ashby (whistling girl)
Anthony Chin(Taiwanese tycoon)
Lucien Jerome (Paris taxi driver)
Albert Simono (Paris police sergeant)
Joe Flood (US police captain)
Gerard Buhr (auctioneer)
Dolph Lundgren (Venz)
Tony Sibbald (mine foreman)
Bill Ackridge (O'Rourke)
Ron Tarr, Taylor McAuley (guards)
Peter Ensor (tycoon)
Seva Novgorodtsev (helicopter pilot)
Sian Adey-Jones, Samina Afzal, Celine Cawley, Nike Clark, Helen Clitherow, Maggie DeFreitas,
Gloria Douse, Caroline Hallett, Deborah Hanna, Josanne Haydon-Pearce, Ann Jackson, Terri
Johns, Karen Loughlin, Angela Lyn, Patricia Martinez, Kim Ashfield Norton, Elke Ritschel, Lou-Anne
Ronchi, Helen Smith, Helen Smith, Jane Spencer, Paula Thomas, Paula Thomas, mayako
Torigai, Toni White (the girls)
Maud Adams (extra in San Francisco streetcar - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

James Bond goes up against a megalomaniacal electronics magnate trying to create a worldwide monopoly on microchips by artificially inducing earthquakes along the San Andreas and Hayward faults, flooding Silicon Valley.

Appalling nonsense and just about as low as the James Bond series had sunk thus far. Moore looks ludicrous in the role by now and many of his on-screen appearances are actually taken by stuntmen who look only vaguely like him. Only Christopher Walken's deranged, genetically modified villain and Patrick MacNee's excellent turn as Bond's aristocratic sidekick make it even bearable.

UK
Video Distributor: Warner

USA
Theatrical Distributor: MGM / United Artists

Finland
Rating: K-16

Norway
Rating: 15

Sweden
Rating: 15

Netherlands
Rating: 12

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG

1985
May
24: USA - world premiere

June
12: UK - theatrical release

July
12: Sweden - theatrical release

August
9: Denmark - theatrical release
9: Finland - theatrical release
16: Norway - theatrical release

September
11: France - theatrical release

1990
January
31: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1998
December
26: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

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

Has James Bond finally met his match?

Agente 007, bersaglio mobile - Italian title
From a View to a Kill - early title
Im Angesicht des Todes - German title
James Bond 007 - Im Angesicht des Todes - German 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)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Moonraker (1979)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Octopussy (1983)

SEQUELS
The Living Daylights (1987)
Licence to Kill (1989)
Goldeneye (1995)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Die Another Day (2002)
Casino Royale (2006)

SEE ALSO
Casino Royale (1967)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Goldeneye (1997)
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond (1987)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
The James Bond Story (1999)
Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (2002)

MAGAZINES

Cinefantastique vol.15 no.5 (January 1986) pp.37, 53 (USA)

Cinefex no.33 (USA)

NEWSPAPERS

Daily Mail 12 September 1984 p.15
review

Daily Mirror 1 September 1984 p.5
review

The News 13 September 1984 p.1
review

The Sun 30 May 1984 p.7
illustrated article

Sunday Mirror 20 November 1983 p.13
review

Sunday Mirror 24 June 1984 p.13
illustrated article

Sunday Mirror 29 July 1984 p.13
illustrated article

Sunday Mirror 4 November 1984 p.17
review

Sunday People 2 September 1984 p.11
review

BOOKS

The Incredible World of 007 pp.146
illustrated article

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Last Updated: 15 October, 2008