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.