The Spy Who Loved Me [Blu-ray]

Director: Lewis Gilbert, Moore

Overview

This James Bond movie sports a labyrinthine story involving outer-space extortion. The leading lady is sexy Russian secret agent Barbara Bach, who joins forces with Bond to foil yet another megalomaniacal villain, who plans to threaten New York City with nuclear weaponry.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/15/2015
UPC:	0883904334057
Original Release:	1977
Rating:	PG
Language:	English
Sales rank:	16,523

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Roger Moore	James Bond
Curt Jurgens	Karl Stromberg
Barbara Bach	Anya Amasova
Richard Kiel	Jaws
Caroline Munro	Naomi
Bernard Lee	M
Walter Gotell	Gen. Gogol
George Baker	Capt. Benson
Lois Maxwell	Miss Moneypenny
Shane Rimmer	Capt. Carter
Bryan Marshall	Commander Talbot
Michael Billington	Sergei
Olga Bisera	Felica
Edward De Souza	Sheik Hosein
Vernon Dobtcheff	Max Kalba
Valerie Leon	Hotel Receptionist
Geoffrey Keen	Verteidigungsminister
Sydney Tafler	Liparus Captain
Nadim Sawalha	Fekkesh
Sue Vanner	The Log Cabin Girl
Eva Reuber-Staier	Rubelvitch
Robert Brown	Adm. Hargreaves
Marilyn Galsworthy	Stromberg's Assistant
Milton Reid	Sandor
Cyril Shaps	Bechmann
Milo Sperber	Markovitz
Albert Moses	Barman
Rafiq Anwar	Cairo Club Waiter
Felicity York	Arab Beauty
Dawn Rodrigues	Arab Beauty
Anika Pavel	Arab Beauty
Jill Goodall	Arab Beauty
Yasher Adem	Actor
George Roubicek	Actor
Kim Fortune	Actor
Ray Hassett	Actor
Bob Sherman	Actor
Christopher Muncke	Actor
Doyle Richmond	Actor
Murray Salem	Actor
John Truscott	Actor
Peter Whitman	Actor
Vincent Marzello	Actor
Nicholas Campbell	Actor
Ray Evans	Actor
Anthony Forrest	Actor
Garrick Hagon	Actor,Actor
Ray Jewers	Actor
George Malaby	Actor
Anthony Pullen	Actor
Robert Sheedy	Actor
Don Staiton	Actor
Eric Stine	Actor
Stephen Temperley	Actor
Dean Warwick	Actor
Michael Howarth	Actor
Barry Andrews	Actor
Kevin McNally	Actor
Jeremy Bulloch	Actor
Sean Bury	Actor,Actor
John Sarbutt	Actor
David Auker	Actor
Dennis Blanch	Actor
Keith Buckley	Actor
Nick Ellsworth	Actor
Tom Gerrard	Actor
Kazol Michalski	Actor
Keith Morris	HMS Ranger
John Salthouse	Actor
Lenny Rabin	Actor
Irvin Allen	Actor
Peter Ensor	Actor
Desmond Llewelyn	"Q"
Charles Gray	Actor
Lewis Gilbert	Actor
Marvin Hamlisch	Composer
Paul Buckmaster	Composer
Carole Bayer Sager	Composer

Technical Credits

Christopher Wood

Richard Maibaum

Ian Fleming

Albert R. Broccoli	Producer
John Evans	Special Effects
Alan Maley	Special Effects
Derek Meddings	Special Effects
Christopher Wood	Screenwriter
Richard Maibaum	Screenwriter
Bob Simmons	Stunts
Gordon Everett	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Ian Fleming	Screenwriter
Gordon K. McCallum	Sound Effects
Allan Sones	Sound Effects
Graham V. Hartstone	Sound Effects
Nicolas Le Messurier	Sound Effects
Mark McBride	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Roger Moore's third appearance as James Bond is not only one of his best entries in the series, but also one of the best Bond films overall. Ironically, the script jettisons the Ian Fleming source novel altogether, but still delivers large-scale action and spy intrigue in the classic Bond style and wisely avoids the campy humor that diluted the effectiveness of Live and Let Die and The Man With the Golden Gun. Lewis Gilbert's direction occasionally drags a bit in the pacing department (a common Bond film problem), but he gives the film a polished look and packs it with memorable action set pieces, including a breathtaking pre-titles ski chase and a car chase that suddenly transforms into an undersea adventure. Gilbert's work is nicely bolstered by stunning production design by Ken Adams, especially the dazzling design of Stromberg's undersea lair, and a wonderful Marvin Hamlisch score that features the deliciously torchy Carly Simon song "Nobody Does It Better." In terms of acting, Roger Moore is dashing and witty in equal measure as James Bond, and Barbara Bach's dramatic and surprisingly tough performance as Anya provides Bond with his most formidable leading lady since Diana Rigg starred in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The Spy Who Loved Me also features a pair of worthy adversaries thanks to Curd Jürgens' quietly menacing work as Stromberg and Richard Kiel's memorably physical performance as steel-toothed henchman Jaws. All in all, The Spy Who Loved Me is old-fashioned spy-movie fun that should be seen by anyone interested in the high points of the James Bond series.