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Dr. No
Movie Description: British agent, James Bond, is sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a fellow operative. Bond's enquiries soon establish a connection between the death, a spate of recent failures in the US space program, and the mysterious Dr. No.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Released: 1962 (#1)
Main Villian: Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman)
Bond Girls: Honey Rider (Ursula Andress)
Gadgets: None
Travel Destinations: Jamaica
Famous Quote:
"SPECTRE, special executive for counter-intellegence, terrorism, revenge, extortion."- Dr. No
Facts and Bloopers:
A villain uses a megaphone to shout warnings to Bond as he hides in a ditch on Crab Key. At one point his voice remains magnified even when the megaphone is nowhere near his mouth.
Although Bond is assigned a Walther PPK as his new official handgun earlier in the film, he uses a Browning 1910 .32 caliber to kill Dent. This gun may have been substituted because it allows for easy connection to a silencer.
When Miss Taro gives 007 directions to her home, she tells Bond the address is 239 Magenta Drive. Yet, when Bond later phones for a cab he states the address as 2171 Magenta Drive, while Miss Taro nods in affirmation.
Movie Description: Evil crime cartel SPECTRE seeks revenge for the death of its operative Dr No and sets a trap to lure British agent James Bond to his death. The bait is a Soviet encryption machine called a Lektor, which the British Secret Service are desperate to get hold of.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Released: 1963 (#2)
Main Villian: Ernst Blofeld
Henchman: Red Grant (Robert Shaw), Rosa Klebb
Bond Girls: Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi)
Gadgets: Q Branch briefcase
Travel Destinations: Istanbul, Venice
Famous Quote:
"My orders are to kill you and deliver the Lektor. How I do it is my business."-Red Grant
Facts and Bloopers:
In both the British and American trailers (or "coming attractions"), the name of every major cast member is mentioned, except for one "minor" exception - Sean Connery!
Bond opens the faucets to take a bath in his hotel suite. He is disturbed by a noise, which turns out to be Tanya entering his bed - a passionate evening ensues. However, he never turns off the faucet, so where did all that water go?
During the gondola ride..., Bond displays the reel of film shot by SPECTRE showing 007 and Tania making love. Bond holds a few frames to the sunlight and says, "He was right, you know." -a meaningless comment in the final print. In fact, he was referring to Red Grant's critique of the juicy footage - "What a performance!" - which was deleted from the film.
Movie Description: The Bank of England has discovered that someone is stockpiling vast quantities of gold and suspects international bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger of being involved. The Bank requests that British agent James Bond be sent to investigate. Bond soon uncovers an audacious plan to commit "the crime of the century" and bring economic chaos to the West.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Released: 1964 (#3)
Main Villian: Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe)
Henchmen: Oddjob (Harold Sakata)
Bond Girls: Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman)
Gadgets: AstonMartin DB-5
Travel Destinations: Geneva, Austria, Fort Knox
Famous Quote:
"Do you expect me to talk?" "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."- Bond and Goldfinger.
Facts and Bloopers:
When Bond glances in his car mirror, he notes the initials "T.M." on Tilley's riflecase. However, the initials are not reversed as they would be if he were viewing them in a mirror.
During the Ft. Knox assault, Goldfinger's henchman Kisch is disguised as a U.S. Army Officer. Yet, the stripes on his uniform are from the Air Force.
Bond's introductionto Pussy Galore in Goldfinger went something like this: Pussy: "I'm Pussy Galore." Bond: "I know, but what's your name?" The sequence was amended to Bond's responding "I must be dreaming!" It had been difficult enough to gain approval for use of Galore's first name.
Movie Description: SPECTRE hatches its most audacious plot to date when its agents hijack a British Vulcan bomber armed with two atomic bombs and hold NATO to ransom for the sum of #100,000,000. The British send all their "00" agents, including James Bond, to recover the warheads before SPECTRE carries out its threat to detonate the devices on the UK and US mainlands.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Released: 1965 (#4)
Main Villian: Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi)
Henchmen: Fiorna Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi), Vargas
Bond Girls: Domino Derval (Claudine Auger)
Gadgets: Aston Martin DB-5, mini rebreather, infra-red underwater camera
Travel Destinations: Nassau
Famous Quote:
"I think he got the point."- Bond
Facts and Bloopers:
Bond is issued a "mini-breather" with an emergency four-minute supply of air. Yet, Bond utilizes the device for a far longer period during the climactic battle sequence.
During the pre-credits sequence, Bond immoblizes pursuers by spraying a pressurized stream of water from a device in his Aston Martin. In reality, the car would have to contain tanks larger than the vehicle itself to make such a device functional!
Bond, Domino, and a professor jump into the ocean moments before the Disco Volante explodes. Bond and Domino are rescued, but the fate of the hapless professor is left unclear.
Movie Description: During a routine US space mission a manned American rocket mysteriously disappears while in orbit. The Americans naturally suspect the Soviets and threaten retaliation. However, the British are more cautious after one of their tracking stations indicates that the space craft may have come down near the Sea of Japan. James Bond is sent to investigate, but when the Soviets lose one of their space craft in similar circumstances, 007 has only a few days to locate the launch site and prevent the outbreak of World War III.
James Bond: Sean Connery
Released: 1967 (#5)
Main Villian: Ernst Blofeld (Donald Pleasence)
Henchmen: Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada), Miss Brant (Karin Dor)
Bond Girls: Aki, Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama)
Gadgets: "Little Nellie" (mini gyro-copter)
Travel Destinations: Hong Kong, Japan
Famous Quote:
"I shall look forward to personally exterminating you, Mr. Bond."- Blofeld
Facts and Bloopers:
Bond arrives atop Blofeld's volcano fortress with nothing on but the clothes on his back. Seconds later he changes into a commando uniform, complete with bulky suction cups which he uses to penetrate the volcano. Not even Batman has a utility belt that elaborate!
Bond affirms to a contact that he has never been to Japan before. However, in From Russia With Love Bond recalls trip to Tokyo with "M".
When Tanaka's helicopter implements a giant magnet to hoist up the villian's car and drop it in the ocean, Bond watches the entire affair on a closed-circuit TV in his car. As there is no evidence of a second helicopter, who could have filmed the incident?
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Movie Description: Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfill his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his country and his intent to marry Tracy
James Bond: George Lazenby
Released: 1969 (#6)
Main Villian: Ernst Blofeld
Henchmen: Irma Bunt
Bond Girls: Tracy Draco (Diana Rigg), Ruby and other clinic girls
Gadgets: Safe Opener, glove box gun holder
Travel Destinations: Piz Gloria, Switzerland, Austria, Italy
Famous Quote:
"This never happened to the other fellow (Connery)"- Bond
Facts and Bloopers:
Bond meets Blofeld wearing no disguise other than a pair of glasses. This dupes Blofeld despite their knowing each other from the last film. As for Blofeld's powers of observation, one might speculate that he had been a lookout at Pearl Harbor!
Blofeld claims proof of his ancestry is tied to a genetic trait: lack of earlobes. However it is quite obvious that Telly Savalas, who portrays the villian, is endowed with earlobes. Had they said that all the previous Blofeld's lacked hair, Savalas's claims would have been indisputable.
When George Lazenby assumed the role in OHMSS, aconcept was briefly entertained that Bond's new look was the result of plastic surgery, designed to alter 007's all too recognizable features. The idea was shelved as being patronizing to audiences.
Movie Description: The British Government become suspicious when large shipments of uncut diamonds begin disappearing during transit and then fail to reappear on the international market. British agent James Bond is at first reluctant when ordered to investigate believing it to be a simple case of smuggling, but when a lead points to the involvement of 007's arch nemesis Blofeld, Bond becomes desperate to uncover his plans and to avenge the death of his wife Tracy
James Bond: Sean Connery
Released: 1971 (#7)
Main Villian: Ernst Blofeld
Henchmen: Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd
Bond Girls: Plenty O'Toole, Tiffany Case
Gadgets: Cumberbun with rappeling equipment
Travel Destinations: Amsterdam, Las Vegas
Famous Quote:
Plenty: "Hi, I'm Plenty."
Bond: "But of course you are."
Plenty: "Plenty O'Toole."
Bond: "Named after your father perhaps?"
Facts and Bloopers:
Blofeld states that science was never his strong suit. Yet, in OHMSS, he is presented as a scientist/chemist.
The car Bond rents iin Las Vegas has California licence plates, instead of those issued by Nevada.
The death of Plenty O'Toole is Diamonds Are Forever is never satisfactorily explained due to a key sequence that was excised. Plenty returns to Bond's room after her unceremonious dump into the pool, courtesy of the invading gangsters. She secretly observes Bond making love to Tiffany Case, and rummages through Tiffany's purse to obtain her address (presumably to exact some sort of revenge). Arriving at Tiffany's house, Wint and Kidd mistake her for Case, their next target. Plenty is murdered and again discarded into a pool, but this time with her feet encased in a block of cement.
Live and Let Die
Movie Description: Several British agents investigating drugs smuggling are killed in mysterious circumstances. Each murder is linked to a Harlem crime boss, Mr. Big, and an international diplomat Kananga. The British send agent James Bond to investigate. When 007 arrives in New York he is nearly killed by one of Mr. Big's hoods, but the attempt gives Bond a lead and he soon discovers a plot to flood the US main land with a billion dollars worth of heroin.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Released: 1973 (#8)
Main Villian: Dr. Kananga aka Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto)
Henchmen: Tee Hee (Julius W. Harris), Baron Samedi
Bond Girls: Solitaire (Jane Seymore)
Gadgets: Bond's supermagnetic watch
Travel Destinations: New York, San Monique, New Orleans
Famous Quote:
"Butterhook." -Bond
Facts and Bloopers:
Bond's Arrival via hang glider to Kananga's mansion in Live and Let Die was considered as 007's method of transportation to Marie's residence in the pre-credits of Diamonds are Forever.
For Roger Moore, the Live and Let Die script was altered considerably to tone down its violent aspects. The fight between Bond and Kananga was originally a moreprotracted and brutal affair. Keeping with Roger's lighter touch, the scene omitted the gore.
The back of the Tarot cards featured in the film contain the numerals "007". When Baron Samedi uncovers two of the Tarot cards, foretelling Solitaire's impending death, they are not from the deck used previously.
Movie Description: When a golden bullet arrives at the headquarters of British intelligence with "007" engraved on it, the British believe that James Bond is the next target for international assassin Scaramanga. 007 is given the assignment to kill Scaramanga before he kills Bond and collects his $1,000,000 fee.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Released: 1974 (#9)
Main Villian: Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee)
Henchmen: Nick Nack (Herve Villechaize)
Bond Girls: Andrea Anders (Maud Adams), Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland)
Gadgets: Scaramanga's Car/Plane, Solex powered laser canon, Scaramanga's Gun
Travel Destinations: Beruit, Hong Kong, Macau, Bangkok, Scaramanga's Island
Famous Quote:
"Speak now or forever hold your piece." -Bond
Facts and Bloopers:
Bond and Goodnight are enjoying a romantic interlude aboard Scaramanga's junk when their encounter is interrupted by a phone call from "M". How did "M" know of their whereabouts, and how did he acquire the phone number for Scaramanga's vessel?
For The Man with the Golden Gun, Bond was to posess a rocket firing camera that also emitted stun gas and a self-destruct device linked to the shutter speed selector. To 007's chagin, the onlu thing it couldn't do was take pictures! Complementing the 35mm arsenal, was an exploding thermos exploited in the climactic battle against Scaramanga.
Bond's somersaulting car in The Man with the Golden Gun was to have been pursued by police cars, only they ended up "in the drink" trying to emulate the 007 stunt. This scene was cut due to time restraints.
Movie Description: The British discover that someone has perfected a way of tracking submerged submarines and is offering the technology to the highest bidder. An international crisis breaks when a Royal Navy Polaris submarine equipped with sixteen nuclear warheads disappears while on patrol. The British send agent James Bond to secure the tracking device and locate the missing vessel before its missiles are launched at the West.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Released: 1977 (#10)
Main Villian: Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens)
Henchmen: Chandor, Jaws (Richard Kiel)
Bond Girls: Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach)
Gadgets: Bond's microfilm viewer, Amasova's cigarettes, Stromberg's rocket gun, Lotus Espirit
Travel Destinations: Egypt, Sardenia, "Atlantis"
Famous Quote:
"He just droppd in for a quick bite." -Bond
Facts and Bloopers:
The pre-credits ski jump had once been considered as a mode of escape for Blofeld in OHMSS.
The initial plot of The Spy Who Loved Me centered on an international terrorist organization which attempts to overthrow SPECTRE and replace its goals of larceny and blackmail with an all-out plot to decimate the world's population. The idea was scrapped as being "too political" for a Bond film.
The song heard in Anya's music box transmitter is "Lara's Theme" from Dr. Zhivago, a work banned at the time in the Soviet Union.
Movie Description: A Boeing 747 carrying a US space shuttle on loan to the UK crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. When the British examine the wreckage they can find no trace of the space craft and send agent James Bond to the shuttle's manufacturers, Drax Industries, to investigate.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Released: 1979 (#11)
Main Villian: Hugo Drax (Micheal Lonsdale)
Henchmen: Cha (Toshira Suga), Jaws (Richard Kiel)
Bond Girls: Corrine DuFour (Corrine Cleary), Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles)
Gadgets: Laser pistols, wrist dart gun, poison pen, 007 camera, watch w/ explosives
Travel Destinations: California, Venice, Brazil, Drax's space station
Famous Quote:
"Heartbroken, Mr. Drax." -Bond
Facts and Bloopers:
Drax's space station cannot be observed from Earth because of its radar-blocking device. How could he build such a city in space oblivious to intelligence sources, when the device was not yet in use?
Moonraker's battle inside a Venetian glass factory was originally written for The Spy Who Loved Me, set in an Egyptian antique museam.
This scene was discarded due to time restrictions. In Moonraker Drax conducted a board meeting with his industrial cohorts in the blast chamber of the shuttle.
Movie Description: A British spy trawler is accidentally sunk off the coast of a Warsaw pact county. On board is a hi-tech encryption device called an ATAC which the British use to send launch instructions to their Polaris fleet. The British send agent James Bond to investigate but once the Soviets learn of the loss the race is on to recover the device at any cost.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Released: 1981 (#12)
Main Villian: Aris Kristatos (Julian Glover)
Henchmen: Emile Locque, Eric Kriegler, Hector Gonzalez
Bond Girls: Melina Havelock (Carole Bouqette)
Gadgets: ATAC system, climbing equipment, Identigraph, Lotus Turbo
Travel Destinations: Spain, Italy, Albania, Greece, St. Cyril's
Famous Quote:
"Get dressed, and I'll buy you an ice cream." -Bond
Facts and Bloopers:
The "keel-hauling" scene from For Your Eyes Only was originally slated for Live and Let Die, as the sequence actually occurs in that novel.
While playing chemin de fer, Bond is dealt a five and an ace. Yet, the croupier announces that Bond has won by accumulating a count of nine.
In a preliminary script of For Your Eyes Only, Kriegler threatens Bond with a huge block of marble, and then steps on a loose floorboard which springs up, hitting him in the crotch. This causes Kriegler to fall through the window to his death.
Movie Description: When a "00" agent is found dead holding a Faberge egg, the British are suspicious and send James Bond to investigate. 007 discovers a connection between the priceless egg, an elaborate smuggling operation and a plot by a renegade Soviet general to instigate World War Three.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Released: 1983 (#13)
Main Villian: Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan)
Henchmen: Gobinda, Misha and Grisha (Knife throwing twins)
Bond Girls: Octopussy (Maud Adams), Miss Magda (Kristina Wayborn)
Gadgets: Acrostar Jet, Faberge egg w/ listening device, Bond's LCD watch, alligator submarine
Travel Destinations: Karl Marx Stadt, East Germany, U.S.S.R., India
Famous Quote:
"It's all in the wrist." -Bond
Facts and Bloopers:
The Acrostar pre-credits scene from Octopussy was envisioned initially for Moonraker, as Bond and Holly would pilot Acrostars above a South American river. However, before filming, the river bed dried up.
As Bond, attired in a white tuxedo, enters the casino a boom microphone erroneously appears at the top of the frame.
The Faberge egg smashed to expose a listening device is explained as being a replica. In actuality, Bond had planted the device in the real Faberge egg, which they have now destroyed.
Movie Description: A silicon chip is captured from the Soviets and found to be identical to a prototype British design capable of withstanding the intense electromagnetic radiation of a nuclear blast. The British suspect industrialist Max Zorin of leaking details of the design to the Russians. When James Bond is sent to investigate he finds that Zorin is stockpiling silicon chips and, mysteriously, drilling near the San Andreas fault.
James Bond: Roger Moore
Released: 1985 (#14)
Main Villian: Max Zorin (Christopher Walken)
Henchmen: May Day (Grace Jones), Dr. Mortner
Bond Girls: May Day, Stacey Sutton (Tanya Roberts), Girl in the iceberg submarine
Gadgets: Motorized Iceberg, Bond's Watch
Travel Destinations: Siberia, Paris, San Fransisco
Famous Quote:
Bond: "I'm James Bond."
Police Officer: "Yeah, and I'm Dick Tracy."
Facts and Bloopers:
During the villian's attack on Stacey's house, Bond innexplicably fails to use his handgun. Instead, he grabs a rifle which he learns contains only salt. Yet, he continues to shoot at the villian's getaway car even though the gun is useless.
An omitted scene shot from A View to a Kill finds Bond in police custody in Paris, due to his reckless pursuit of May Day. As the desk sergeant documents Bond's possessions, he announces "one watch!" only to find it contains a garrotting wire; "one pen!" emitting a deadly acidic ink; and "one lighter!" discharging a flame-throwing device, almost scorching the sergeant's forehead.
During the Eiffel Tower chase, Bond becomes entangled in May Day's fishing line. Although he is holding a gun in his right hand, an insert shot depicts him as having his hand free.
The Living Daylights
Movie Description: During a training operation, a "00" agent is unexpectedly murdered. When British agent James Bond organises the defection of a top ranking Soviet general, the Russian divulges a plan by the KGB to kill all its enemy agents. Bond is suspicious of the plot, but never-the-less is ordered to kill the KGB officer masterminding the operation.
James Bond: Timothy Dalton
Released: 1987 (#15)
Main Villian: Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabbe) and Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker)
Henchmen: Necros
Gadgets: Universal keyring, explosive keychain, Aston Martin DB-5
Travel Destinations: East Germany, England, Afganistan, Tangiers
Famous Quote:
"You know Bond, you could have been a live, rich man instead of a poor, dead one." -Whittaker
Facts and Bloopers:
As Bond drives up to the Hotel Isle de France to confront Puskin, his car bumps into a pedestrian. Bond apparently thinks his licence to kill extends to his driver's licence!
Before it occured to the writers to indroduce a new Aston Martin in The Living Daylights, Bond and Kara were to escape from behind the Iron Curtain via a pilfered KGB automobile and an ice yacht.
This scene was cut from the film: "Q" gives Bond a pen capable of duplicating writings made by any other pen.
Movie Description: Shortly after an important drugs bust, CIA agent Felix Leiter is married, but when the drug lord he arrested escapes, kills his wife and mutilates Leiter his old friend British agent James Bond seeks revenge. When "M" orders 007 to drop the matter and start a new assignment, Bond deserts Her Majesty's Secret Service and embarks on a world wide personal vendetta to kill those responsible.
James Bond: Timothy Dalton
Released: 1989 (#16)
Main Villian: Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi)
Henchmen: Dario
Bond Girls: Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell), Lupe (Talisa Soto)
Gadgets: Camera Signature Gun, Dentonite explosive tooth paste and cigarette detonator
Travel Destinations: Florida Keys, Isthmus, Mexico
Famous Quote:
"Effective Immediatly, your licence to kill is revoked." -"M"
Facts and Bloopers:
As recently as 1989, censors still incurred the wrath of Bond fans. In Great Britain, several seconds were snipped off scenes in Licence to Kill due to alleged excessive violence; notably, Sanchez's fiery death.
In Licence to Kill Sanchez's grisly revenge against Lupe's lover Alvarez is hinted at offscreen. The actual depiction of the removal of the man's heart was more graphically illustrated, but trimmed due to excessive gore.
Bond drives up to the Key West airport, simply leaves his rental car in front of the terminal gate, and walks immiediatly to the ticket counter to check in for his flight. How was the car to be returned to its original location?
Movie Description: The story revolves around two Russian military satellites capable of wreaking havoc from orbit by causing widespread and massive interference with commercial and military communications, computers and other electronics with the use of nuclear pulse detonation technology. The satellites can render useless any electronic device. The program discs that control the GoldenEye satellites are stolen by a secret Russian mafia-like group known as Janus. Natalya is the only witness to who stole the discs and she meets 007 in an interrogation room. Bond has been sent to retrieve the discs and find out what Janus is up to.
James Bond: Pierce Brosnan
Released: 1995 (#17)
Main Villian: Alec Trevelyan a.k.a. Agent 006 (Sean Bean)
Henchmen: General Ouromov, Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), Boris Grishenko
Bond Girls: Natalya Simonova (Isabella Scorupco), girl sent to evaluate Bond
Gadgets: BMW Z3 roadster, belt with rappeling cable, explosive pen
Travel Destinations: Monte Carlo, Russia, Cuba
Famous Quote:
"I should ask you if all those martinis have silenced the screams of all the men you've killed, or if you find forgiveness in the arms of all those willing women for the ones you failed to protect." -Alec Trevelyan
Facts and Bloopers:
In the pre-credits sequence,006 is presumably shot in the head by General Ouromov. If he was shot at that close range, Trevelyan would have most certainly died. The most likely answer is that he and Ouromov's conspiracy stemmed back to this event, but this is not revealed in the movie.
Movie Description: Megalomaniac media mogul, Elliot Carver, only needs broadcasting rights in China to complete his global communications empire. The Chinese, however, are proving stubborn so he hatches a diabolical plan to thwart the Chinese by the simple means of starting a war between them and the British. When a British war ship is sunk in Chinese waters and its deadly payload stolen, James Bond embarks on a dangerous mission against the clock to discover the truth.
James Bond: Pierce Brosnan
Released: 1997 (#18)
Main Villian: Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce)
Henchmen: Mr. Stamper (Goetz Otto), Dr. Kaufman, Gupta
Bond Girls: Paris Carver (Teri Hatcher), Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh)
Gadgets: BMW, Cellular Phone with car remote control, tazer, and infra-red scanner
Travel Destinations: Russia, Hong Kong, Chinese Sea
Famous Quote: "There's no news like bad news."-Carver
Bond 5 Unofficial-Casino Royale 1967 Cast Members- David Niven Ursula Andress Orson Wells
Bond 13 Unofficial- Never Say Never Again 1983 Cast Members- Sean Connery Klaus Maria Brandauer Kim Basinger
Note: All "Facts and Bloopers", except
for GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies, were taken from The
Incredible World of 007 by Lee Pfeiffer and Philip Lisa.
