The Spy Who Loved Me (film, 1977)
| The Spy Who Loved Me | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Lewis Gilbert |
| Produced by | Albert R. Broccoli |
| Written by | Ian Fleming (original) Christopher Wood Richard Maibaum |
| Starring | Roger Moore Curt Jurgens Barbara Bach Bernard Lee Desmond Llewelyn Lois Maxwell |
| Music by | Marvin Hamlisch |
| Cinematography | Claude Renior |
| Editing by | John Glen |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | July 7, 1977 |
| Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Man with the Golden Gun |
| Followed by | Moonraker |
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) is the tenth film of the James Bond film series and the third to star Roger Moore as fictional British secret agent James Bond. The film is an extremely loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's ninth James Bond novel. Before his death, Fleming requested that when it came time for EON Productions to produce an adaptation of his book that they use only the title and the characters of Bond and MI6 but nothing else, due to the controversial nature of the book. However, the one element that remains adapted from Fleming's book in the film is that the characters of Sandor and Jaws are based on henchmen from the novel. The film was the first in the series not to be produced by Harry Saltzman, who co-produced the previous nine Bond films. It was also released after the longest gap between Bond films at the time (2 and a half years) until the six-year gap between Licence to Kill and GoldenEye. The Spy Who Loved Me also marks the appearance of Richard Kiel as the henchman Jaws. Kiel would later reprise his role in the following Bond film Moonraker, becoming the second of only three villains to appear in multiple James Bond installments (the first being Ernst Stavro Blofeld who appeared in six official films, and the third being Mr. White who appeared in two films).
Cast
- Roger Moore as James Bond 007
- Curt Jurgens as Karl Stromberg
- Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova Agent Triple X
- Bernard Lee as M
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q
- Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
