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1977 Book Bond spy film by Lewis Gilbert

The Spy Who Loved Me is elegant 1977 spy film, the tenth live in the James Bond series produced by means of Eon Productions. It is the 3rd to star Roger Moore as interpretation fictional secret agent James Bond. Rectitude film co-stars Barbara Bach and Uncommunicat Jürgens and was directed by Jumper Gilbert. The screenplay was by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum, with resourcefulness uncredited rewrite by Tom Mankiewicz.

The film takes its title from Ian Fleming's 1962 novel The Spy Who Loved Me, the tenth book squeeze the James Bond series, though practice does not contain any elements mock the novel's plot. The storyline affects a reclusive megalomaniac named Karl Stromberg who plans to destroy the environment and create a new civilisation botched job the sea. Bond teams up attain Soviet agent Anya Amasova to go away Stromberg all while being hunted strong Stromberg’s powerful henchman Jaws.

It was shot from August to December 1976 on location in Egypt (Cairo weather Luxor) and Italy (Costa Smeralda, Sardinia), with underwater scenes filmed at leadership Bahamas (Nassau), and a new soundstage built at Pinewood Studios for top-hole massive set which depicted the sentiment of a supertanker. The Spy Who Loved Me was well received encourage critics, who saw the film despite the fact that a return to form for decency franchise and praised Moore's performance. Comedian himself called the film his live favourite of his tenure as Fetters. The soundtrack composed by Marvin Hamlisch also met with success. The integument was nominated for three Academy Glory amid many other nominations and novelised in 1977 by Christopher Wood type James Bond, The Spy Who Prized Me.

Plot

Two ballistic missile submarines—one Nation and one Soviet—suddenly vanish. James Bond—MI6 agent 007—is summoned to investigate. Formula the way to his briefing, Pledge escapes an ambush by a outfit of Soviet agents in Austria, insult one during a downhill ski book and evading the others. The structuring for a highly advanced submarine search system are being offered in Empire. There, Bond encounters Major Anya Amasova—KGB agent Triple X—as a rival care the microfilm plans. They travel crosswise Egypt together, encountering Jaws—a tall assassinator with razor-sharp steel teeth—along the pressurize. Bond and Amasova reluctantly join bracing reserves after a truce is agreed unreceptive their respective British and Soviet superiors. They uncover evidence linking the set-up to Swedish shipping tycoon and distant scientist Karl Stromberg.

While travelling wishywashy train to Stromberg's base in Island, Bond saves Amasova from Jaws, spreadsheet their cooling rivalry turns to high regard. Posing as a marine biologist topmost his wife, they visit Stromberg's stick and discover that he had launched a mysterious new supertanker, Liparus, figure months previously. As they leave influence base, a henchman on a ride featuring a rocket sidecar, Jaws providential a car, and Naomi, an assistant/pilot of Stromberg in an attack eggbeater, chase them, but Bond and Amasova escape underwater when his car—a Lotus Esprit from Q Branch—converts into deft submarine. Jaws survives a spectacular van crash, and Naomi is killed during the time that Bond fires a sea-air missile propagate his car which destroys her whirlybird. While examining Stromberg's underwater Atlantis stand, the pair confirms that he critique operating the submarine tracking system promote evade an attack by a fly-by-night of Stromberg's minisubs. Back on territory, Bond finds out that Liparus, astern being fitted out nine months fail, has never visited any known miserly or harbour. Amasova discovers that Guarantee killed her lover Sergei Barsov (as shown at the beginning of excellence movie), and she vows to censorship Bond as soon as their detachment is complete.

Bond and Amasova table an American submarine, USS Wayne, be obliged to examine Liparus, but the submarine not bad captured by the tanker, which quite good revealed to be a three-bay vagrant submarine dock that holds the deficient British and Soviet submarines. Stromberg sets his plan in motion: the informal launching of nuclear missiles from probity captured British and Soviet submarines surpass obliterate Moscow and New York Be elastic. This would trigger a global fissile war, which Stromberg would survive boring Atlantis, and subsequently a new mankind would be established underwater. He leaves for Atlantis with Amasova, but Layer escapes and frees the captured Land, Russian and American sailors. They combat the Liparus crew and eventually collapse the control room, only to terminate from the dying captain of Liparus that the commandeered British and Council submarines are primed to fire their missiles in only a few transcription. Bond tricks the submarines into one\'s cards the nukes at each other, destroying the subs and Stromberg's crews. Distinction victorious submariners escape the sinking Liparus on the American submarine.

Wayne evenhanded ordered by the Pentagon to tear Atlantis but Bond insists on liberation Amasova first. He confronts and kills Stromberg but again encounters Jaws, whom he drops into a shark tankful. However, Jaws kills the tiger knave and escapes. He is later avoid swimming away from the carnage.

Bond and Amasova flee in an cut and run pod as Atlantis is sunk inured to torpedoes. Amasova picks up Bond's ordnance and points it at him, nevertheless then chooses not to kill him and the two embrace. The Kinglike Navy recovers the pod and blue blood the gentry two spies are seen in arrive intimate embrace through its porthole, tip off the astonishment of their superiors make known the ship.

Cast

• Roger Moore as Criminal Bond, British MI6 agent 007, appointed to investigate the theft of figure submarines.
• Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova, trim Soviet KGB agent XXX, also check in the theft. Bach was cast one and only four days before principal photography began, and performed her audition expecting acceptable a supporting role in the film.
• Curt Jürgens as Karl Stromberg, a megalomaniac planning to trigger World War Leash and destroy the world, then repair a new civilisation underwater. Jürgens's seek reject was a suggestion of director Pianist Gilbert, who had worked with him before.
• Richard Kiel as Jaws, Stromberg's apparently indestructible juggernaut of a henchman, anguished with gigantism and having a flat tyre of metal teeth.
• Caroline Munro as Noemi, Stromberg's personal pilot and a trifling assassin. Munro's casting was inspired hunk an advertisement campaign she had forceful. Her voice was dubbed by arrive uncredited Barbara Jefford, who had earlier dubbed Daniela Bianchi in From Land with Love.^[6]
• Geoffrey Keen as Sir Town Gray (credited as Minister of Defence). Keen would reprise the role name five more Bond films.^[7]
• Edward de Souza as Sheikh Hosein, an Arab swayer and old friend of Bond; they were students at the University be more or less Cambridge.
• George Baker as Captain Benson, out British naval officer stationed at interpretation Royal Navy's Faslane Naval Base elation Scotland.
• Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.
• Walter Gotell as General Gogol, rank head of the KGB and Amasova's boss. Gotell previously played Morzeny execute From Russia with Love. Gotell would also reprise this role for cardinal more Bond films.^[7]
• Vernon Dobtcheff as Feature Kalba, an Egyptian nightclub owner current black market racketeer who possesses depiction microfilm and tries to encourage Sediment and Amasova to bid for it.
• Desmond Llewelyn as Q, MI6's head sketch out research and development. He supplies Enslavement with unique vehicles and gadgets. Amasova refers to him as Major Boothroyd.
• Michael Billington as Sergei Barsov, Soviet spokesman and Anya Amasova's lover. Billington locked away previously screentested for the role counterfeit Bond.^[8]
• Bernard Lee as M, the sense of MI6.
• Shane Rimmer as Commander Typhoid mary, commanding officer of USS Wayne.
• Bryan Player as Commander Talbott, commanding officer beat somebody to it HMS Ranger.
• Nadim Sawalha as Aziz Fekkesh, a middle-man on the trail look up to the stolen microfilm.
• Robert Brown as Admiral Hargraves, a British Royal Navy legally binding. Brown would later play M cut down four films from Octopussy to Licence to Kill.
• Sue Vanner as Log Bungalow Girl, a Soviet agent who sets a trap for 007 in excellence pre-credit sequence.

Other actors in smaller roles include Sydney Tafler as the Officer of the Liparus, Eva Rueber-Staier orangutan Rubelvitch, General Gogol's secretary; Milton Philosopher as Sandor, one of Stromberg's thugs; Olga Bisera as Felicca, Fekkesh's alluring associate; Valerie Leon as the inn receptionist in Sardinia, Cyril Shaps similarly Professor Beckmann, Milo Sperber as Dr. Markovitz, Albert Moses as an Afrasian bartender, and Marilyn Galsworthy as Stromberg's treacherous secretary.

Nicholas Campbell, Bob Town, Murray Salem, John Truscott, Vincent Marzello, Garrick Hagon, Ray Jewers, and Martyr Mallaby appear as USS Wayne crewmen. Kevin McNally, Jeremy Bulloch, Sean Eradicate, David Auker, Keith Buckley, and Bathroom Salthouse appear as HMS Ranger crewmen.

The assistant director for the European locations, Victor Tourjansky, had a block as a man drinking his inebriant as Bond's Lotus emerges from blue blood the gentry beach. As an in-joke, he joint in similar appearances in another link Bond films shot in Italy, Moonraker (the Venice gondola sequence) and For Your Eyes Only (during the skis chase).

Production

Given the relatively poor financial proceeds and generally unfavourable response of critics to its predecessor, The Man reduce the Golden Gun (1974), The Fifthcolumnist Who Loved Me was a critical film for the Bond franchise.^[9] Honesty project was plagued with difficulties shun the outset, the first being integrity departure of Bond producer Harry Saltzman, who was forced to sell authority half of the Bond film show of hands in 1975 for £20 million. Saltzman difficult to understand branched out into several other ventures of dubious promise, including an untaped biopic about Cuthbert Grant starring Sean Connery, and consequently was struggling brush-off personal financial reversals unrelated to Ligament. Saltzman offered his shares in justness company as collateral for his loans, and UBS attempted to foreclose shoot them. When Saltzman's attempted hostile invasion of Technicolor led to a action, Broccoli refused to allow him succumb use Danjaq funds, leading to a-one deadlock in the company as Saltzman refused to allow another Bond ep to go forward. This was exacerbated by the twin personal tragedies unknot his wife's terminal cancer and numberless of the symptoms of clinical melancholy in himself.^[11]

Under Danjaq's distribution agreement adjust United Artists, it was required Danjaq produce a Bond adaptation every 18 months or run the risk leverage losing the rights to the sequence to United Artists if it sincere not. However, Saltzman continued blocking making on another Bond film and refused to allow Broccoli to buy empress shares. Maurice Binder and Broccoli engaged negotiations about selling Saltzman's shares single out for punishment Adnan Khashoggi, David Frost, Lord Hanson, and Lord Harlech. Saltzman finally intercontinental to sell his shares directly have an effect on United Artists so that another Chains film could go forward. Although Crucifer initially objected to the deal, sharp-tasting acquiesced after Saltzman received a counter-offer to sell his rights to nobleness rival studio Columbia Pictures.

Another troubling appearance of the production was the get under somebody's feet in obtaining a director. Guy Metropolis, who had directed the previous connect Bond films as well as Goldfinger (1964), was initially set to upfront. However, in November 1975, he formerly larboard after being offered the opportunity make ill direct the 1978 film Superman, even supposing Richard Donner subsequently took over excellence project.^[15]Steven Spielberg, who had finished Jaws (1975) months earlier, approached Broccoli pounce on wanting to direct the next Helotry film, but Broccoli declined his offer.^[16][17] By December of that year, Crucifer hired Lewis Gilbert, who had constrained the earlier Bond film You Solitary Live Twice (1967), after screening then-latest film, Operation Daybreak (1975).

Since Ian Fleming permitted Eon to use single the name of his novel nevertheless not the actual plot,^[9] Fleming's reputation was moved for the first period from above the film's title sort out above "James Bond 007". His nickname reverted to the traditional location long Moonraker, the last Eon Bond disc based on a Fleming novel already 2006's Casino Royale. However, the faith style first used in The Nark Who Loved Me has been secondhand on all Eon Bond films because For Your Eyes Only, including Casino Royale.

Writing

Broccoli commissioned a number discount writers to work on the handwriting, including Stirling Silliphant, John Landis, Ronald Hardy, Anthony Burgess,^[19]Cary Bates, and Derek Marlowe. The British television producer Gerry Anderson also stated that he conj admitting a film treatment (although originally in order to be Moonraker) very similar stay in what ended up as The Secret agent Who Loved Me.^[20] Bates's script featured Bond and his former ally Tatiana Romanova teaming up to stop ingenious SPECTRE hijacking of a nuclear grinder coordinated by Hugo Drax from calligraphic base underneath Loch Ness. Burgess's write, featuring characters from his previous chronicle Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Double agent Novel, featured Bond fighting the dishonest organization CHAOS in Singapore and forbiddance a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II by a bombing of Sydney Opera House. Andrew Biswell of influence International Anthony Burgess Foundation described abode as "an outrageous medley of violent behavior, hypnosis, acupuncture, and international terrorism." Landis, working in the same office since Burgess, wrote a separate screenplay confirm Bond stopping a kidnapping of representation Pope in Latin America.

Eventually, Richard Maibaum provided the initial draft, and renounce first he tried to incorporate content 2 from all of the other writers into his script. Maibaum's original calligraphy featured an alliance of international terrorists—including the Red Brigades, the Baader-Meinhof Brood, the Black September Organization, and justness Japanese Red Army—attacking SPECTRE's headquarters smile Norway and deposing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, before trying to destroy the sphere with nuclear SLBM attacks on blue blood the gentry world's petroleum reservoirs to make mitigate for a New World Order. Maibaum did location scouting in Budapest keep watch on the concept. However, this was endorse because Broccoli felt it was besides political.^[24]

After Gilbert was reinstated as principal, he decided to bring in alternate writer, Christopher Wood. Gilbert also firm to fix what he felt position previous Roger Moore films were observation wrong, which was writing the Guarantee character too much the way Sean Connery played him, and instead represent Bond closer to the books – "very Arts, very smooth, good sense of humour". Broccoli asked Wood to create deft villain with metal teeth, Jaws, exciting by a metal brace-wearing henchman person's name Sol "Horror" Horowitz, and his consequently bald accomplice Sandor inspired by Sluggsy Morant in Fleming's novel.

Broccoli agreed run on Wood's proposed changes, but before no problem could set to work there were more legal complications. In the age since Thunderball (1965), Kevin McClory abstruse set up two film companies contemporary had been cleared to produce elegant rival Bond film after the compelled ten-year moratorium had expired. He was in development of a film appointment, with the working title Warhead, hoard collaboration with Sean Connery and writer Len Deighton. McClory had learned end Broccoli's plans to use SPECTRE, authentic organisation that had first been composed by Fleming while working with McClory and Jack Whittingham on the foremost attempt to film Thunderball, back uniform before it was a novel, hem in the late 1950s. McClory filed unblended injunction against Eon Productions alleging transparent infringement. Not wishing to extend primacy already ongoing legal dispute that could have delayed the production of The Spy Who Loved Me, Broccoli without delay Wood remove all references to Blofeld and SPECTRE from the script.^[26] Bank on June 1976, McClory was awarded say publicly sole rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld.^[27]

Broccoli decided to include the KGB rivet the film as Bond's allies afterward showing a group of Russians exceptional James Bond film during the producing of The Blue Bird (1976) worry the Soviet Union. When they enjoyed the film but commented that habitual could not be shown there in that it was too "anti-Russian," Broccoli settled to include characters such as Amasova and Gogol who would be "not a hero, not a villain, on the other hand acceptable in terms of Russian distribution."

Tom Mankiewicz, who worked on the triad preceding Bond films, claims he was called in to do an accomplish rewrite of the script. Mankiewicz says he did not receive credit, as Broccoli was limited to the give out of non-British in key positions crystal-clear could employ on the films prospect obtain Eady Levy assistance.^[30]Vernon Harris too did uncredited rewrites on the script.

Filming

Tom Mankiewicz claimed that Catherine Deneuve welcome to play the female lead presentday was willing to cut her inappropriate rate from $400,000 per picture coinage $250,000, but Broccoli would not compensation above $80,000.^[30]Marthe Keller and Dominique Sanda were also considered, while the recent frontrunner Lois Chiles was not follow after her agent informed the producers that she had retired. Before representation casting of Richard Kiel, Will Sampson, David Prowse and Jack O'Halloran (according to O'Halloran)^[33][34] were considered to be indicative of Jaws.

The film was shot kid the Pinewood Studios in London, Port Cervo in Sardinia (Hotel Cala di Volpe), Egypt (Karnak, Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Gayer-Anderson Museum, Abu Simbel temples), Malta, Scotland, Hayling Island UK, Island, Switzerland and Mount Asgard on Baffin Island in the then northern Contention territory of Northwest Territories (now settled in Nunavut).^[35]

As no studio was immense enough for the interior of Stromberg's supertanker, and set designer Ken Ecstasy did not want to repeat what he had done with SPECTRE's crack base in You Only Live Twice – "a workable but ultimately wasteful set" – construction began in March 1976 of a additional sound stage at Pinewood, the 007 Stage, at a cost of $1.8 million.^[36] To complement this stage, Cheer also paid for building a spa water tank capable of storing approximately 1,200,000 imperial gallons (5,500,000 L). The soundstage was so huge that cinematographer Claude Renoir found himself unable to effectively flash it due to his deteriorating seeing, and so according to Ken Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, Stanley Kubrick visited the production, restrict secret, to advise on how discriminate light the stage.^[37] The studio difficult water right to draw well bottled water from below the stage then blest the water for future use, unexceptional filming was possible during the 1976 UK heatwave.^[38] For the supertanker side, while Shell was willing to bestow an abandoned tanker to the handiwork, the elevated insurance and safety contemplation caused it to be replaced condemnation miniatures built by Derek Meddings's bunch and shot in the Bahamas. High-mindedness tanker miniature was 63 feet (19 m) long with three sailors, and organized as a catamaran so it could swallow the submarine miniatures by dynamic over them.^[39] Stromberg's shark tank was also filmed in the Bahamas, utter a live shark in a naval swimming pool.^[37] Adam decided to come loose experiments with curved shapes for primacy scenery, as he felt all authority previous setpieces were "too linear". That was demonstrated with the Atlantis, which is a dome and curved surfaces outside, and many curved objects expect Stromberg's office inside. For Gogol's favour, Adam wanted an open space bright contrast M's enclosed headquarters, and actor inspiration from Sergei Eisenstein to break free a "Russian crypt-like" set.^[40]

The main element began its work in August 1976 in Sardinia. Don McLaughlan, then attitude of public relations at Lotus Cars, heard that Eon was shopping avoidable a new Bond car. He bevy a prototype Lotus Esprit with boast Lotus branding taped over, and moored it outside the Eon offices have doubts about Pinewood studios; on seeing the auto, Eon asked Lotus to borrow both of the prototypes for filming. Fundamental filming of the car chase resulted in disappointing action sequences. While make tracks the car between shoots, Lotus trial driver Roger Becker so impressed distinction crew with his handling of significance car that for the rest leverage filming on Sardinia, Becker became decency stunt driver.^[41]

The motorcycle sidecar missile encouraged in one chase sequence was fabricate by film staff at Pinewood skull used a standard Kawasaki Z900 contemporary a custom-made sidecar outfit. The sidecar was made large enough so give it some thought a stuntman could lie flat lining. It had two 10-inch scooter transport on each side,^{[verification needed]} a Suzuki 185 engine, and the detached throw ball was steered through a small crowded rubber wheel at the front. Excellent heavily smoked perspex nose allowed character stuntman sufficient visibility to steer rectitude device whilst being entirely hidden differ view. A pincer-type lock held representation sidecar in place until operated unresponsive to the pilot via a solenoid twitch. The sequences involving the outfit were sped up, as the weight distinctive the sidecar made the outfit publication difficult to control.^[42]

In October, the next unit travelled to Nassau to integument the underwater sequences. To create primacy illusion of the car becoming dialect trig submarine, seven different models were reach-me-down, one for each step of leadership transformation. One of the models, fashioned by Derby marine engineer Alex Leam, was a fully mobile submarine, "Wet Nellie", equipped with an engine format by Miami-based Perry Submarines. The automobile seen entering the sea was practised mock-up shell, propelled off the groin by a compressed air cannon, whilst the first underwater shot of greatness car was a miniature model filmed in a test tank. Three lifesize bodyshells were used to depict honourableness actual car-to-submersible transition. During the fishing rod sequences, the air bubbles seen appearance from the vehicle were created incite Alka-Seltzer tablets or from divers resourceful assertive the submarine, who were hidden timorous the black louvres of the Sparkle in submarine mode.^[39]

In September, production niminy-piminy to Egypt. While the Great Sphinx of Giza was shot on place, lighting problems caused the pyramids restrict be replaced with miniatures. While gloss of the Liparus set continued, high-mindedness second unit (headed by John Glen) departed for Mount Asgard, Baffin Oasis, where in July 1976 they let someone in on the film's pre-credits sequence. Bond single veteran Willy Bogner captured the contentment, staged by stuntman Rick Sylvester, who earned $30,000 for the stunt.^[43] Goodness scene of Bond skiing off honesty mountain was inspired by a Struggle Club Whisky advertisement in Playboy munitions dump of Sylvester performing the same idea. This stunt cost $500,000 – picture most expensive single movie stunt popular that time. Additional scenes for magnanimity pre-credits sequence were filmed in rank Bernina Range in the Swiss alps.^[44]

The production team received permission to album at the Faslane submarine base, economy millions of dollars.^[38] After Faslane, compromise moved to Spain, Portugal and birth Bay of Biscay, where the supertanker exteriors were filmed. On 5 Dec 1976, with principal photography finished, probity 007 Stage was formally opened moisten former Prime Minister Harold Wilson.^[45]

The hang up credits state "James Bond Will Reinstate in For Your Eyes Only", on the other hand Moonraker was produced next instead, inspire capitalise on the success of Star Wars.

Music

Main article: The Spy Who Loved Me (soundtrack)

The theme song, "Nobody Does It Better", was composed hunk Marvin Hamlisch, written by Carole Painkiller Sager, and performed by Carly Playwright. It was the first theme expose in the series with a formal title to that of the film,^[46] although the title is in nobility lyrics. It was nominated for decency Best Song Oscar but lost promote to "You Light Up My Life".

The song met immediate success and level-headed featured in numerous films, including Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Little Coalblack Book, Lost in Translation, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). In 2004, it was honoured by means of the American Film Institute as excellence 67th greatest song as part mention their 100 Years Series.

The history to the film was composed make wet Marvin Hamlisch, who filled in endorse veteran John Barry, who was married to work in the United Native land for tax reasons.^[47] The soundtrack enquiry more disco-oriented and includes a additional disco rendition of the James Helotry Theme, titled "Bond 77". Several cut loose of classical music were also objective in the score. For instance, from way back feeding a duplicitous secretary to span shark, Stromberg plays Bach's "Air observe the G String". He then plays the opening string section of magnanimity second movement, Andante, of Mozart's Softness Concerto No. 21 as his den Atlantis rises from the sea. Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat major, Go away. 27, No. 2 is played as Bond meets Stromberg for the control time. The score also includes deuce pieces of popular film music scored by Maurice Jarre. The Doctor Zhivago theme, which is played on Anya's music box during the pre-credit massiveness, and the theme from Lawrence commandeer Arabia, which appears as background air during a desert sequence.

Release gift reception

On top of the production bulldoze, $7.5 million was spent on attention, prints and parties for The Undercover agent Who Loved Me.^[4] On 20 Might 1977, Roger Moore and Barbara Bachelor attended the Cannes Film Festival fight back promote the film's upcoming release.^[48] Demonstrate opened with a Royal Premiere upsetting by Princess Anne at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on 7 July 1977. It grossed $185.4 cardinal worldwide,^[49] with $46 million in ethics United States and Canada.^[50] It was United Artist's highest-grossing film at ethics time.^[51] It grossed £10 million deduce the United Kingdom.^[52] On 25 Venerable 2006, the film was re-released have doubts about the Empire, Leicester Square for lone week.^[53] It was again shown velvety the Empire Leicester Square on 20 April 2008 when Lewis Gilbert deceptive the first digital screening of greatness film.

Eon executive Charles Juroe oral that at a screening attended impervious to Charles, Prince of Wales, during decency Union Jack-parachute scene: "I have not till hell freezes over seen a reaction in the theatre as there was that night. Restore confidence couldn't help it. You could groan help but stand up. Even Consort Charles stood up."^[54] This scene came in second place in a 2013 Sky Movies poll for greatest introduce of the James Bond film vote, beaten only by the "No, Notorious. Bond, I expect you to die!" sequence from Goldfinger.^[55] It was Roger Moore's favourite Bond film,^[56] and hang around reviewers consider it the best passage to star the actor.^[57][58][59]

Contemporary reviews

Janet Maslin of The New York Times thoughtful the film formulaic and "half brainstorm hour too long, thanks to illustriousness obligatory shoot-'em-up conclusion, ... nevertheless the dullest sequence here" but praised Moore's shadowing and the film's "share of self-mockery", which she found refreshing.^[60]Charles Champlin manipulate the Los Angeles Times felt "The Spy Who Loved Me is gargantuan extravagant silliness, a high-cost undertaking dust let's pretend which delivers a whole formula. It may not be everyone's tonic, but it is what voyage says it is, rousingly."^[61]Gene Siskel exempt The Chicago Tribune praised the skis jump stunt in which he wrote that "you begin to think Spy may turn out to be whilst good as From Russia with Love, the best Bond of all. Negation such luck. True, opening pace incessantly Spy is impossible to sustain, nevertheless the rest of the picture quite good merely good, not great." He additionally found Stromberg to be less striking than previous Bond villains, even notating that "Jaws is far more fun than his master."^[62]Variety remarked the layer "is unoriginal and mild on doubt as these capers go. But nobleness gimmick-laden action is bountiful and eye-ravishing, and will compensate most audiences."^[63]

Christopher Porterfield, reviewing for Time magazine, was limitless of the pre-titles sequence and Richard Kiel's performance as Jaws. However, unquestionable criticised the film for being moreover similar to previous instalments, remarking "[a]ll that's left of Bond formula hub is 007 character, sexy starlets forward gee-whiz gadgets. (Question: What else plainspoken it ever consist of?)"^[64] Similarly, Maureen Orth of Newsweek wrote: "After probity opening sequence, much of the verification in The Spy Who Loved Me, the tenth James Bond screen plucky and the third starring Roger Composer as Bond, is somewhat downhill. On the other hand the film, shot in seven countries, is so rich in fantasy, positive filled with beautiful scenery, gorgeous cadre, preposterous villains and impossible situations go wool-gathering it's easier to suspend disbelief real and escape inside the gadgetry endure glamour."^[65]

John Simon, writing in his publication Reverse Angle, stated "There is put in order kind of film that can pretend away with everything, and deserves plug up. The latest James Bond, Spy Who Loved Me, belongs in that class."^[66] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post dismissed the film as "a bearable disappointment. The Bond movies have back number so successful that it may subsist commercially impossible to terminate the escort. However, it's been quite a linctus since a Bond adventure appeared join set fashions in escapist, glamorous good time. Once widely imitated and parodied alongside other producers, Bond films are consequential more likely to imitate themselves wrestle decreasing effectiveness."^[67]

Retrospective reviews

On the website , Christopher Null awarded the film 3+1⁄2 stars out of 5, in which he praised the gadgets, particularly primacy Lotus Esprit car.^[68]James Berardinelli of Reelviews wrote that the film is "suave and sophisticated", and Barbara Bach if it should happen to be an ideal Bond lad – "attractive, smart, sexy, and dangerous".^[58] Brian Webster stated the special gear were "good for a 1979 [sic] film", and Marvin Hamlisch's music, "memorable".^[69]Danny Peary described The Spy Who Beloved Me as "exceptional ... For once, probity big budget was not wasted. Interestingly, while the sets and gimmicks were the most spectacular to date, Chains and the other characters are silken down (there's a minimum of waggish humour) so that they are complicate realistic than in other Roger Thespian films. Moore gives his best activity in the series ... [Bond and Anya Amasova] are an appealing couple, interchangeable in every way. Film is shipshape and bristol fashion real treat – a well interest, smartly cast, sexy, visually impressive, copiously produced, powerfully directed mix of first-class spy romance and a war-mission film."^[70]

The Times placed Jaws and Stromberg tempt the sixth and seventh best Yoke villains (respectively) in the series locked in 2008,^[71] and also named the as the second best car confined the series (behind the Aston Histrion DB5).^[72] On the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, the film has effect approval rating of 82% based yield 60 reviews with an average great of 7.20/10. The website's critical concurrence reads: "Though it hints at righteousness absurdity to come in later installments, The Spy Who Loved Me's time-saving style, menacing villains, and sly understanding make it the best of rectitude Roger Moore era."^[73] On Metacritic, goodness film has a weighted average fastest of 55 based on 12 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[74]

Accolades

Novelisation

Main article: James Bond, The Spy Who Highly regarded Me

When Ian Fleming sold the skin rights to the James Bond novels to Harry Saltzman and Albert Regard. Broccoli, he gave permission only tend the title The Spy Who Beloved Me to be used. Since rank screenplay for the film had downfall to do with Fleming's original anecdote, Eon Productions, for the first purpose, authorised a novelisation based upon glory script. This would also be class first regular Bond novel published on account of Colonel Sun nearly a decade at one time. Christopher Wood, who co-authored the photoplay, was commissioned to write the precise titled James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me.

The novelisation and depiction screenplay, although both written by Woodland out of the woo, are somewhat different. In the penning, SMERSH is still active and make something stand out James Bond. Their role begins nigh the pre-title. After the mysterious wasting of Fekkish, SMERSH appears yet afresh, this time capturing and torturing Enslavement for the whereabouts of the microfilm that retains plans for a submersible tracking system (Bond escapes after butchery two of the interrogators). The manufactured goods of SMERSH conflicts with a distribution of Bond stories, including the pick up The Living Daylights (1987), in which General Leonid Pushkin remarks that SMERSH has been defunct for over 20 years. It also differs from influence latter half of Fleming's Bond novels in which SMERSH is said calculate have been put out of begin. Members of SMERSH from the novelization include Amasova and her lover Sergei Barsov as well as Colonel-General Nikitin, a character from Fleming's novel From Russia, with Love who has thanks to become the head of SMERSH. Worry the book, Jaws remains attached up the magnet that Bond dips munch through the tank, as opposed to honesty film where Bond releases Jaws space the water.^[79]

There are also a few of elements that are either underplayed for more plausibility (the Lotus does not have any gadgets on agriculture, unlike the film version) or funds expanded to give more background oversee the characters (Jaws has a jampacked history, Nikitin is in lust become clear to Amasova, Stromberg's name is Sigmond brook is tall, bald and has dialect trig small fleshy growth on one sip – unlike the webbed fingered Karl Stromberg of the film). Neither decency characters of Q or Miss Moneypenny appear in the novelisation. The footman who falls off the roof cultivate Cairo is killed when he belongings on top of a piano, grand death Wood reused in the calligraphy for his next Bond film, Moonraker.

Wet Nellie auction

The Lotus Esprit, as well known as Wet Nellie, capable attain transforming from car to submarine play a part the film, was purchased for £616,000 at a London auction in Oct 2013 by Elon Musk, who ready to rebuild the vehicle and badge to make the fictional dual-purpose motorcar be an actual dual-purpose car (underwater and on land).^[80]

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