Greatest
J
ames Bond
F
ilms

Part 3


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 3

Rank
#
Title
Director
Studio
Bond Actor
Bond
Villains
Bond
Girls
(# of Love-making Encounters)
Film
Locales
Gadgets
Vehicles
#
Kills
16
15

The Living Daylights (1987)
d. John Glen

MGM/UA

Timothy Dalton
General Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabbe)
Necros (Andreas Wisniewski)
Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker)

Kara Milovy (Maryam d'Abo)
Linda (Kell Tyler)

1

Gibraltar
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Czech-Austria border
Vienna, Austria
London, England and rural locales (Blayden)
Tangier, Morocco
Afghanistan
New York
- pocket binoculars
- Walther WA-2000
- gadgets in Q's lab, including ghetto blaster with rocket launcher
- exploding milk bottles
- revolving rake (weapon/metal- detecting device)
- explosive (and whistle-responding stun gas) keyring with skeleton keys
- binocular glasses
- security watch
- Trans-Siberian pipeline cleaning module (aka scouring pig)
- Brad Whitaker's assault rifles
- bullet-proof Aston Martin V8 Volante and Vantage (Series 2) with various gadgets (a display unit, a laser from the center of the wheel, missiles from under the fog lamps, ski outriggers, extending spikes from the tires, a jet booster under the rear license plate, and a self-destruct system)
- Audi 200 Turbo Quattro
- Hercules
1
19
16

License to Kill (1989)
d. John Glen

MGM/UA

Timothy Dalton
Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi)
Dario (Benicio Del Toro)
Braun (Guy de Saint Cyr)
Ed Killifer (Everett McGill)
Milton Krest (Anthony Zerbe)
Professor Joe Butcher (Wayne Newton)
Truman-Lodge (Anthony Starke)
Colonel Heller (Don Stroud)

Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto)
Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell)

2

Florida Keys and Key West, Florida and accompanying locales
Cray Key and Bimini, The Bahamas
the fictional South American city of Isthmus City
Westminster, England
- Mantaray cowl for scuba-diving
- exploding alarm clock
- Dentonite toothpaste (plastic explosive) and detonator (disguised as package of cigarettes)
- Polaroid camera (with laser and X-ray capability)
- cummerbund with rappelling rope
- signature gun (camera)
- broom radio transmitter
- The WaveKrest vessel
- Kenworth petrol Tankers
- Lincoln Continental Mark VII
- Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow
7
7
17

GoldenEye (1995)
d. Martin Campbell

MGM/UA

Pierce Brosnan
006 Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean)
Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen)
General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov (Gottfried John)
Boris Grishenko (Alan Cumming)

Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco)
Caroline (Serena Gordon)

2

Arkangel Chemical Weapons Facility (USSR)
Monte Carlo, French Riviera, S. France
Space Weapons Control Center, Severnaya, Russia
London, England
St. Petersburg, Russia
Unnamed Caribbean island
Cuba
- laser gun
- digital code breaking device
- digital zoom camera with communications uplink to Aston Martin
- GoldenEye
gadgets in Q's lab
- Parker pen with explosive grenade
- leather belt with 75 foot rappelling or grappling cord piton
- laser Omega Seamaster watch
- remote operated detonator for explosive mines
- Cagiva Motorcycle
- gray Aston Martin DB5
- Ferrari Spider 355
- Tiger helicopter
- BMW Z3 Roadster (with radar, self-destruct mechanism and Stinger missiles behind the headlights)
- Russian Tank
- British Rail Class 20 Armor Train
25
14
18

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
d. Roger Spottiswoode

MGM/UA

Pierce Brosnan
Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce)
Henry Gupta (Ricky Jay)
Stamper (Gotz Otto)
Dr. Kaufman (Vincent Schiavelli)

Colonel Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh)
Paris Carver (Teri Hatcher)
Professor Inga Bergstrom (Cecilie Thomsen)

3

Terrorist Arms Bazaar near Russian border, The Kyber Pass
London and Oxford, England
Hamburg, Germany
Saigon, Vietnam
Halong Bay, South China Sea
- video camera uplink
- cigarette lighter grenade
- Ericsson mobile phone (with fingerprint scanner, lock pick and a 20,000 volt security system)
- GPS tracking encoder
- wrist piton
- Chakra torture tools
- harpoon climbing rope
- ear-ring lock pick
- gadgets in Wai Lin's office (flame-throwing dragon statue, dart-launching fan)
- boot knife (Gerber Mark 1)
- new Walther P99
- Omega Seamaster dive watch
- Stealth Ship
- bullet-proof, remote-controlled BMW 750iL (with security system, vocal warning system and a fingerprint-activated safe, tear-gas deployer, tire shredder, and wire cutter)
- BMW R1200 motorcycle
23
20
19

The World is Not Enough (1999)
d. Michael Apted

MGM/UA

Pierce Brosnan
Elektra King (Sophie Marceau)
Victor 'Renard' Zokas (Robert Carlyle)
Mr. Lachaise (Patrick Malahide)
Cigar Girl (Maria Grazia Cucinotta)
Gabor (John Seru)
Sasha Davidov (Ulrich Thomsen)
Bull (Goldie)
Renard (Robert Carlyle)

Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards)
Dr. Molly Warmflash (Serena Scott)

2

Bilbao, Spain
London, England
Scotland, England (castle)
Baku and rural Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan
Caspian Sea
Istanbul, Turkey
- exploding Walther P99 activated by transmitter in glasses
- lapel transmitter
- gadgets in Q's lab (bagpipes with machine gun and flame thrower)
- X-Ray sunglasses
- protective inflatable ski jacket that becomes igloo
- Omega Seamaster watch with torch that fires grappling hook
- Visa credit card lock pick
- high-tech palm top
- the Bull's explosive briefcase
- Elektra's torture chair
- Zukovsky's walking stick/cane with pistol
- Sunseeker
- remote-controlled submersible rocket-propelled Q-Boat (unfinished fishing boat) with torpedoes
- titanium-armored BMW Z8 sportscar
- King helicopters
- Parahawks
21
12
20

Die Another Day (2002)
d. Lee Tamahori

MGM/UA

Pierce Brosnan
Zao (Rick Yune)
Sir Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens)
Colonel Tan-Gun Moon (Will Yun Lee)
Mr. Kil (Lawrence Makoare)

Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson (Halle Berry)
Peaceful Fountains of Desire (Rachel Grant)
Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike)

2

Pukch'Ong Coast, North Korea
Korean DMZ between N and S Korea
Hong Kong (Rubeyon Royale Hotel), China
Havana and Isla Los Organos, Cuba
London, England
Vatnajokull, Iceland
- surfboard with weapons compartment
- combat knife with GPS
- Omega Seamaster watch
- depleted uranium gun
- Jinx's mobile phone
- gadgets in Q's lab (briefcase, knife shoe, jetpack, Indian rope)
- single digit sonic agitator unit (aka bullet-proof glass shattering ring)
- Graves' dream machine
- Icarus satellite
- rope descender
- miniature underwater breather or rebreather
- Graves' suit (control unit for Icarus with self-defense mechanism)
- Colonel Moon's Hovercrafts
- 1957 Ford Fairlane
- remotely-controlled silver-gray Aston Martin V12 Vanquish with adaptive camouflager (also ejector seat, rockets, machine guns, thermal imaging, spike-tires for ice-driving, and defensive weapons system)
- Graves' Ice Dragster
- Ford Thunderbird
- green Jaguar XKR
- Antonov
14
N/A
21

Casino Royale (2006)
d. Martin Campbell

MGM/UA

Daniel Craig
Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian)
Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen)
Vesper Lynd (Eva Green)
Solange (Caterina Murino)
Montenegro, Serbia
Paradise Island, Bahamas
Prague, Czech Republic
Uganda
Venice, Italy
- microchip implant transmitter
- Vaio laptop computers
- cellphones
- Aston Martin DBS
N/A
22

Bond 22 (2008) (aka Quantum of Solace, 007)
d. Marc Forster

MGM/ Sony / Columbia

Daniel Craig
Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric)
2nd Villain (Anatole Taubman)
General Medrano (Joaquin Cosio)
M16 Agent Fields (Gemma Arterton)
Camille (Olga Kurylenko)

Panama, Bolivia, Italy, Madrid   - Aston Martin DBS  


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