Greatest
J
ames Bond
F
ilms

Part 2


Introduction: According to Guinness World Records, the most profitable film series of all time is "James Bond." It is also the longest continuing series of English language films. The modern day action-hero - the James Bond '007' character that was employed for Her Majesty's Secret Service - was loosely based on the character in Britisher Ian Fleming's twelve James Bond novels. A number of Fleming's short stories were developed by other writers. Before the movies, Bond made his first appearance on TV, debuting on CBS in 1954, with Barry Nelson as the American 007 agent named Jimmy Bond in an adaptation of Fleming's first Bond novel Casino Royale.

The rankings are taken from Entertainment Weekly's November 24, 2006 issue and the article: "The Best of Bond".


Official (and Unofficial) James Bond Films
Agent 007 Spy Series

Part 2


Rank
#
Title
Director
Studio
Bond Actor
Bond
Villains
Bond
Girls
(# of Love-making Encounters)
Film
Locales
Gadgets
Vehicles
#
Kills
3
8

Live and Let Die (1973)
d. Guy Hamilton

United Artists

Roger Moore
Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto)
Whisper (Earl Jolly Brown)
Cab Driver 1 (Arnold Williams)
Tee Hee (Julius W. Harris)
Baron Samedi (Geoffrey Holder)
Rosie Carver (Gloria Hendry)
Adam (Tommy Lane)

Solitaire (Jane Seymour)
Miss Caruso (Madeline Smith)

2

London, England
New York City, US
New Orleans, Louisiana and surrounding bayou areas
San Monique - a fictional island in the Caribbean
- Pulsar digital watch
- Rolex wrist watch with bullet-deflecting chain-saw
- poison dart shooting mirror
- cigarette lighter communicator
- hand-held bug sweeper/detector
- hairbrush transmitter
- Dr. Kanaga's scarecrows (surveillance devices)
- hang glider
- flute radio transmitter
- shark gun that fires compressed air pellets
- Double Decker Bus
- Glastron Speedboats
6
17
9

The Man With the Golden Gun (1974)
d. Guy Hamilton

United Artists

Roger Moore
Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee)
Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize)
Hai Fat (Richard Loo)
Chula (Chan Yiu Lam)

Miss Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland)
Andrea Anders (Maud Adams)
Saida (Carmen du Sautoy)

1

London, England
Beirut, Lebanon
Macau
Hong Kong
Bangkok, Thailand and surrounding areas
Scaramanga's island (unnamed) in Red-Chinese territorial waters
- fake synthetic nipple
- camera rocket launcher
- solar agitator
- Scaramanga's 4.2 mm golden gun with golden bullets
- magnetic homing device
- Scaramanga's Junk
- AMC Hornet X Hatchback
- Scaramanga's Car Plane (a Flying AMC Matador)
1
9
10

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
d. Lewis Gilbert

United Artists

Roger Moore
Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens)
Jaws (Richard Kiel)
Sergi Borzov (Michael Billington)
Sandor (Milton Reid)
Aziz Fekkesh (Nadim Sawalha)
Max Kalba (Vernon Dobtcheff)
Naomi (Caroline Munro)
Liparis Captain (Sydney Tafler)

Major Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach)
Log Cabin Girl (Sue Vanner)
Felicca (Olga Bisera)

3

North Norwegian Sea
London, England
Moscow, Russia
Canada (doubling as Berngarten in Austrian Alps for the cliff-skiing parachute jump)
Faslane Naval Base, Scotland
Stromberg's home, Atlantis (positioned somewhere off Sardinia, Italy)
Egypt (Cairo, the Pyramids at Giza, Great Hypostyle Hall, ruins at Karnak, along the Nile, Luxor)
People's Rest & Recuperation Centre in Soviet Union
The Bay of Biscay
- KGB music box radio
- ticker tape/ teletype Seiko watch
- ski pole gun
- microfilm viewer (disguised as a cigarette case and lighter)
- knock-out or sleeping gas cigarettes
- gadgets in Q's lab (a decapitating tea tray, a spring mounted pouffe, a hookah-cum-machine gun and a camel saddle that conceals a large spike)
- Jaws' Van
- The Liparus
- white Lotus Esprit (a submersible with anti-air missiles, harpoons, black oil and mines) with mud spray on land
- Stromberg's Motorbike
- Hydrofoil Water Motorcycle (Jet Ski) or Wetbike
- Stromberg's Helicopter
- Miniature Submarine
- Hovercraft Speedboat
- Stromberg's Escape Pod
18
13
11

Moonraker (1979)
d. Lewis Gilbert

United Artists

Roger Moore
Sir Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale)
Chang (Toshiro Suga)

Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles)
Corinne Dufour (Corinne Clery)
Manuela (Emily Bolton)

2

Yukon Territory, Canada
Aboard an aircraft traveling from Africa to London
London, England
Drax Estate in Los Angeles and Southern California
Venice, Italy
Rio de Janeiro and Rio Tapirapé (Brazilian jungle), Brazil
Outer space
- nerve-activated wrist dart (blue and red) gun
- ball-point pen with hypodermic needle
- cigarette case with X-ray safe cracker
- 007 miniature spy camera
- Drax's globes
- Holly's CIA gadgets (a pen with a poison spike, a diary that fires darts, a flame-throwing atomizer and radio disguised as handbag)
- gadgets in Q's lab
- Seiko watch with plastic explosives and detonator
- Hovercraft Gondola
- Armored Glastron Hydrofoil Speedboat (that deploys mines, torpedoes and a hang-glider)
- Space Shuttle
15
10
12

For Your Eyes Only (1981)
d. John Glen

United Artists

Roger Moore
Aristotle ("Aris") Kristatos (Julian Glover)
Bald Man with White Cat (John Hollis)
Hector Gonzales (Stefan Kalipha)
Emile Leopold Locque (Michael Gothard)
Eric Kriegler (John Wyman)
Apostis (Jack Klaff)

Melina Havelock (Carole Bouquet)
Bibi Dahl (Lynn-Holly Johnson)
Countess Lisl (Cassandra Harris)

1

London, England
Ionian Sea (off Albania)
Moscow, Russia
Madrid, Spain
Corfu and Meteora, Greece
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Albania
- ATAC (Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator), an ultra-low frequency transmitter
- crossbow
- gadgets in Q's lab (deadly arm cast and umbrella)
- 3D Identigraph
- miniature tape recorder
- JIM diving equipment
- digital radio watch
- Gonzales'
Aeroplane
- Citröen 2 CV
- updated white (then red) Lotus Esprit Turbo (with anti-theft device)
- Yamaha motorcycles
- The Neptune
- One-Man submarine
10
18
13

Octopussy (1983)
d. John Glen

MGM/UA

Roger Moore
Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan)
Colonel Luis Toro (Ken Norris)
Mischka (David Meyer)
Grischka (Anthony Meyer)
General Orlov (Steven Berkoff)
Gobinda (Kabir Bedi)
Yo-Yo Thug (William Derrick)

Octopussy (Maud Adams)
Magda (Kristina Wayborn)

2

Unnamed Caribbean/South American country
London, England
East Berlin (Checkpoint Charlie) and Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany
West Berlin and Feldstadt Air Force Base, West Germany
Moscow, Russia
Udaipur (Lake Palace Hotel), India

- false briefcase
- gadgets in Q's lab
- Mont Blanc fountain pen with acid dispenser, and miniature tracking / listening earpiece
- Seiko watch with tracking device receiver
-
liquid crystal video screen display watch
- metal-cutting yo-yo saw

- Acrostar Mini Jet
- Alfa-Romeo GTV6
- fake Alligator boat (submarine)
- Tuk Tuk taxi
- Q's Hot Air Balloon
- Mercedes Benz 240D Saloon car
13
N/A
-

Never Say Never Again (1983)
d. John Glen

Warner Bros.

Sean Connery
Largo ( Klaus Maria Brandauer)
Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera)
Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger) South America
Shrublands Health Farm/Clinic and Swadley US Air Force Base near London, England
France (SPECTRE Headquarters)
Nassau, Bahamas
Monte Carlo, S. France
N. Africa
Middle East oil fields
- fountain pen with exploding rocket
- watch with laser beam
- motorcycle with rocket motor
- top-secret XT-7Bs (missile-like transporters carried on US submarines)
15
14

A View to a Kill (1985)
d. John Glen

MGM/UA

Roger Moore
Max Zorin (Christopher Walken)
May Day (Grace Jones)
Pan Ho (Papillon Soo Soo)
Scarpine (Patrick Bauchau)
Jenny Flex (Alison Doody)
Dr. Carl Mortner (Willoughby Gray)
Bob Conley (Manning Redwood)
W.G. Howe (Daniel Benzali)

Stacey Sutton (Tanya Roberts)
Kimberley Jones (Mary Stavin)
Pola Ivanova (Fiona Fullerton)

4

Siberia, Russia
London, England
Ascot, England
Paris and rural areas, France
Zorin's chateau in France (Chantilly)
San Francisco and surrounding Bay Area in
California
- microchip tracker
- electric shaver bug detector & tape recorder
- cane transmitter
- polarizing sunglasses (that can see through one-way glass)
- Louis Vuitton Cheque-Book Imprint / Photocopier
- ring camera
- a roll-on device that reveals paper imprints
- Zorin’s computer & camera
- credit card sized lock pick/opener
- remotely-controlled prototype surveillance machine called 'Snooper'
- Russian helicopter
- submersible disguised as an iceberg
- 1984 Renault 11 taxi
- 1984 Chevrolet Corvette
4

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