"was released in 1962, and Bond's personality was somewhat skewed towards the screen persona rather than simply to Fleming himself; Sean Connery's filmic depiction of Bond affected the book version, with ""You Only Live Twice"" giving Bond a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories, although Fleming himself was part Scottish. Correspondence dating back to 1960 shows that Fleming contacted a Scottish nobleman to help develop Bond's family history, in particular seeking a Scottish ""Bond"" family line. Fleming's first trip to Japan was as part of the ""Thrilling Cities"" trip undertaken for ""The"
"drives a red 1969 model Mercury Cougar XR-7 convertible. In Fleming's novels, Bond is a broken man after Tracy's death. In ""You Only Live Twice"", he has begun drinking heavily, which has affected his work; M is forced to acknowledge that he is no longer fit for service. However he decides to give Bond one last chance and assigns him to an intelligence-related diplomatic affair in Japan. This in turn leads to a duel to the death with Blofeld in the climax of the novel, and Bond is finally awarded his revenge. In the aftermath, however, he is left with"
"left to marry an American. Bond was married only once, in ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", to Teresa ""Tracy"" di Vicenzo, but their marriage ends tragically when she is killed on their wedding day by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In the penultimate novel of the series, ""You Only Live Twice"", Bond suffers from amnesia and has a relationship with an Ama diving girl, Kissy Suzuki. As a result of the relationship, Kissy becomes pregnant, although she does not reveal this to Bond before he leaves the island. From ""Casino Royale"" to ""From Russia, with Love"" Bond's preferred weapon is a .25"
"Thelma Connell Thelma Connell (30 June 1912 – 29 April 1976) was a film editor from England. Born Thelma Balle Dunaway in London, she began her career as a continuity girl, and then moved to assistant editor on films such as ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"" before taking the editing role for the first time in ""In Which We Serve"" (1943). Subsequent films included ""Green for Danger"" (1946), ""The Deadly Affair"" (1966) and ""Alfie"" (1966) for which she was nominated for a BAFTA. She was the original editor on the 1967 James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice"","
"hiding in Switzerland in the guise of the Comte Balthazar de Bleuchamp and Bond defeats his vindictive plans to destroy Britain's agricultural economy. In the final sequence of the novel, Blofeld gets revenge by murdering Bond's new wife, Tracy. In ""You Only Live Twice"", published in 1964, Blofeld returns and Bond finds him hiding in Japan under the alias Dr. Guntram Shatterhand. He has once again changed his appearance. He has put on some muscle, and has a gold-capped tooth, a fully healed nose, and a drooping grey mustache. Bond describes Blofeld on their confrontation as being ""a big man,"
"Live and Let Die (film) Live and Let Die is a 1973 British spy film, the eighth in the ""James Bond"" series to be produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, it was the third of four Bond films to be directed by Guy Hamilton. Although the producers had wanted Sean Connery to return after his role in the previous Bond film ""Diamonds Are Forever"", he declined, sparking a search for a new actor to play James Bond. Moore was signed"
"Karin Dor Karin Dor (born Kätherose Derr; 22 February 1938 – 6 November 2017) was a German actress who became known in the late-1960s as a Bond girl in the James Bond movie ""You Only Live Twice"" (1967). Dor was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. She starred in the James Bond movie ""You Only Live Twice"" (1967) and the Alfred Hitchcock movie ""Topaz"" (1969). She appeared in German movies adapted from the works of Edgar Wallace (Krimis from Kriminalfilm) and Karl May. These two film series were mainly directed by Harald Reinl, her first husband. In 2008, she was in a"
"The Living Daylights (soundtrack) The Living Daylights is the soundtrack title for the film ""The Living Daylights"" and the eleventh and final Bond soundtrack to be scored by composer John Barry. The soundtrack is notable for its introduction of sequenced electronic rhythm tracks overdubbed with the orchestra – at the time, a relatively new innovation. The title song of the film, ""The Living Daylights"", was recorded by pop group A-ha. As of 2017 this is the only Bond film where the title song has not been performed by a British or an American. A-ha and Barry did not collaborate well,"
"of the CD reissue of her 1966 album, ""Nancy In London"", Sinatra states that she was ""scared to death"" of recording the song, and asked the songwriters: ""Are you sure you don't want Shirley Bassey?"" There are two versions of the Bond theme. The first is the lushly orchestrated track featured during the opening and closing credits of the film. The second—and more guitar-heavy—version appeared on the double A-sided single with ""Jackson"", though the Bond theme stalled at No.44 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""Jackson""/""You Only Live Twice"" was more successful in the U.K., reaching No.11 on the singles"
"""You Only Live Twice"", Bond opts for sake over his usual martini, indicating that he especially likes it when it's served at what he says is the correct temperature of . Tiger, his host, is impressed and tells Bond he is exceptionally cultured—for a European. In ""Licence to Kill"" when in the dive bar called Barrelhead Bar, he orders the same as his contact, Pam Bouvier, a ""Bud with a lime."" Aside from alcoholic beverages, Bond is a coffee drinker and eschews tea with a passion, believing it to have been a factor in the fall of the British Empire"
"as a humourless interpretation of the character that Fleming used in his earlier novels. Benson describes this personality as a natural continuation of the Bond developed in the final three Fleming novels. In all three novels, the events take a toll on Bond: he loses his wife in ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service""; he loses his memory in Japan in ""You Only Live Twice""; and he is brainwashed in Russia, is de-programmed by MI6 and almost dies from Francisco Scaramanga's poisoned bullet in ""The Man with the Golden Gun"". Benson identifies Bond's desire for revenge as a central theme to"
"Live and Let Die (song) ""Live and Let Die"" is the main theme song of the 1973 James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Wings. It was the most successful Bond theme to that point, charting at No. 2 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart. Commissioned specifically for the movie, it reunited the former Beatle with the band's producer, George Martin, who produced the song and arranged the orchestra. It has been covered by several bands, with the Guns N' Roses version being"
"he had parts in ""Twilight Samurai"" and two Takashi Miike films, ""The Happiness of the Katakuris"" and ""Gozu"", as well as acting as a spokesperson for the Dai Rei Kai spiritual movement. Tamba's son, Yoshitaka Tamba, is also an actor. In February 2005, Tamba was hospitalized for influenza and appendicitis. He lost weight drastically and his health degenerated. On September 24, 2006, he died in Tokyo at the age of 84 of pneumonia. Tetsurō Tamba Tamba is perhaps best known by Western audiences for his role as Tiger Tanaka in the 1967 James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice"" (he"
"in Switzerland, England, and Portugal from October 1968 to May 1969. Although its cinema release was not as lucrative as its predecessor ""You Only Live Twice"", ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" was still one of the top performing films of the year. Critical reviews upon release were mixed, but the film's reputation has improved greatly over time. In Portugal, James Bond – agent 007, sometimes referred to simply as '007' – saves a woman on the beach from committing suicide by drowning, and later meets her again in a casino. The woman, Contessa Teresa ""Tracy"" di Vicenzo, invites Bond to"
"he"". For three of the novels, ""Goldfinger"", ""Live and Let Die"" and ""Dr. No"", it is Bond the British agent who has to sort out what turns out to be an American problem, and Black points out that although it is American assets that are under threat in ""Dr. No"", a British agent and a British warship, HMS ""Narvik"", are sent with British soldiers to the island at the end of the novel to settle the matter. Fleming became increasingly jaundiced about America, and his comments in the penultimate novel ""You Only Live Twice"" reflect this; Bond's responses to Tanaka's"
"Tetsurō Tamba Tamba is perhaps best known by Western audiences for his role as Tiger Tanaka in the 1967 James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice"" (he was dubbed by Robert Rietti). By then, he had among other roles appeared in two films by director Masaki Kobayashi: ""Harakiri"" and ""Kwaidan"". He also portrayed the lead character in the police dramas ""Key Hunter"" and ""G-Men '75"", the latter of which remains his best-known role in Japan. He also portrayed the voice of the ""Cat King"" in the original Japanese version of the Studio Ghibli anime film ""The Cat Returns"". More recently,"
"many references to the previous films, some as in-jokes. These include Bond breaking the fourth wall by stating ""This never happened to the other fellow"", the credits sequence with images from the previous instalments, Bond visiting his office and finding objects from ""Dr. No"", ""From Russia with Love"" and ""Thunderball"", and a caretaker whistling the theme from ""Goldfinger"". Maibum later said he thought ""Lazenby was not ideal for the part"" but ""it was a marvelous script."" In 1967, after five films, Sean Connery resigned from the role of James Bond and—during the filming of ""You Only Live Twice""—was not on"
"the Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika), thus the Anoa'i family regard the Maivia line from him on forward as an extension of their own clan. Maivia was also in the fifth James Bond film, ""You Only Live Twice"", where he plays a driver who transports a disguised Bond to Osato headquarters. His character also fights Bond, is hit with a sofa, wields a katana, and is put down with a statue. He was the (uncredited) stunt fight co-ordinator for the film. In 1981, Maivia was diagnosed with cancer. He died on June 12, 1982. Maivia was posthumously inducted into the"
"David Hedison as Felix Leiter, who reprised the role in ""Licence to Kill"". Hedison had said ""I was sure that would be my first and last"", before being cast again. Madeline Smith, who played Miss Caruso, sharing Bond's bed in the film's opening, was recommended for the part by Roger Moore after he had appeared with her on TV. Smith said that Moore was extremely polite to work with, but she felt very uncomfortable being clad in only blue bikini panties while Moore's wife was on set overseeing the scene. ""Live and Let Die"" was the only Bond film until"
"Bond attempts to locate a missile command system while becoming tangled in a web of deception spun by rival Greek businessmen along with Melina Havelock, a woman seeking to avenge the murder of her parents. Some writing elements were inspired by the novels ""Live and Let Die"", ""Goldfinger"" and ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"". After the science fiction-focused ""Moonraker"", the producers wanted a return to the style of the early Bond films and the works of 007 creator Fleming. ""For Your Eyes Only"" followed a grittier, more realistic approach and a narrative theme of revenge and its consequences. Filming locations"
"proceeds to lower them into a shark tank. However, Bond escapes and forces Kananga to swallow a compressed-gas pellet used in shark guns, causing his body to inflate and explode. Leiter puts Bond and Solitaire on a train leaving the country. Tee Hee sneaks aboard and attempts to kill Bond, but Bond cuts the wires of his prosthetic arm and throws him out the window. As the film ends, a laughing Samedi is revealed to be perched on the front of the speeding train. While filming ""Diamonds Are Forever"", ""Live and Let Die"" was chosen as the next Ian Fleming"
"For Your Eyes Only (film) For Your Eyes Only is a 1981 British spy film, the twelfth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It marked the directorial debut of John Glen, who had worked as editor and second unit director on three other Bond films. The screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson takes its characters and combines elements from the plots from two short stories from Ian Fleming's ""For Your Eyes Only"" collection: the title story and ""Risico"". In the plot,"
"OSS was disbanded in 1945; accordingly, the Central Intelligence Agency; formed in 1947 is a direct descendant of the OSS. Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, daughter of his old friend, Felix Leiter, to investigate one Markus Bismaquer, who is suspected of reviving the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, at the hands of Bond (in ""You Only Live Twice""). The British Secret Service learns that Bismaquer is an obsessive collector of rare prints, so Bond and Cedar visit the man's huge ranch"
"HMS Aeneas (P427) HMS ""Aeneas"" (P427) was a British of the Royal Navy, built by Cammell Laird and launched on 9 October 1945. It was named after the hero Aeneas from Greek mythology. ""Aeneas"" took part in the Coronation Review of the Fleet to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. ""Aeneas"" played the part of the M1 submarine in the 1967 James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice. In 1972 ""Aeneas"" was hired by Vickers for use in what proved to be successful trials of the Submarine-Launched Airflight Missile (SLAM) system, an anti-aircraft system using a cluster"
"Eyes Only"" was submitted by Ronald Hardy, an English novelist and screenwriter in 1979. Hardy's treatment included the involvement of a character named Julia Havelock whose parents were assassinated by a man named Gonzales. ""For Your Eyes Only"" is noted for its pre-title sequence, described variously as either ""out-of place and disappointing"" or ""roaringly enjoyable"". The scene was shot to introduce a potential new Bond to audiences, thus linking the new actor to elements from previous Bond films (see casting, below). The sequence begins with Bond laying flowers at the grave of his wife Tracy Bond, before a Universal Exports"
"Millennium (song) ""Millennium"" is a song by English singer Robbie Williams from his 1998 album ""I've Been Expecting You"". In September 1998, it was released as the album's first track which became Williams' first single to top the UK Singles Chart. The song also received extensive airplay in the United States and Canada, where it was the lead single from Williams' 1999 compilation album, ""The Ego Has Landed"". The song borrows heavily from the musical arrangement of John Barry's ""You Only Live Twice"", the title track of the 1967 James Bond film of the same name, said to be one"
"the $10.3 million it took to make ""You Only Live Twice"". Principal photography began in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, on 21 October 1968, with the first scene shot being an aerial view of Bond climbing the stairs of Blofeld's mountain retreat. The scenes were shot atop the now-famous revolving restaurant Piz Gloria, located atop the Schilthorn near the village of Mürren. The location was found by production manager Hubert Fröhlich after three weeks of location scouting in France and Switzerland. The Swiss filming ended up running 56 days over schedule. In March 1969 production moved to England, with London's"
"For Your Eyes Only (song) ""For Your Eyes Only"" is the theme tune to the 12th James Bond movie, ""For Your Eyes Only"", written by Bill Conti and Mick Leeson, and performed by Scottish singer Sheena Easton. The song reached number four on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and number eight on the UK Singles Chart. It was nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards in 1982. The song is written by Bill Conti and Mike Leeson. Conti – who was also responsible for the film's score – had originally written the song thinking about Donna Summer or"
"Live and Let Die (soundtrack) Live and Let Die is the soundtrack to the eighth James Bond film of the same name. It was scored by George Martin. The title song was written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Paul McCartney and Wings. It was the first Bond film score not to involve John Barry. The music for most of the Bond films through ""Diamonds Are Forever"" had been scored by John Barry. Due to his working on a musical, and having fallen out with Bond producer Harry Saltzman over the last title song, Barry was unavailable to"
"films list compiled by the British Film Institute. After destroying a drug laboratory in Latin America, James Bond—Agent 007—travels to Miami Beach for a vacation. He receives instructions from his superior, M, via CIA agent Felix Leiter. He is to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger at the hotel there. Bond sees Goldfinger cheating at gin rummy and stops him by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson, and blackmailing Goldfinger into losing. After Bond and Jill consummate their new relationship, Bond is knocked out by Goldfinger's Korean manservant Oddjob. When Bond awakens, he finds Jill dead, covered in gold paint, having died"
"where SPECTRE is introduced, and ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", where Blofeld is involved in the murder of Bond's wife. ""You Only Live Twice"" was the last book by Fleming that was published in his lifetime: he died five months after the UK release of the novel. It was written in January and February 1963 in Jamaica at Fleming's Goldeneye estate. The original manuscript was 170 pages long and the least revised of all Fleming's novels, with a mood that is dark and claustrophobic, reflecting Fleming's own increasing melancholia. The story was written after the film version of ""Dr. No"""
"course. When the gold-heavy craft runs out of fuel, and the crew must ditch it in the ocean, Bond and Pussy are the only ones who manage to escape onto a life raft. It is hinted at the end of the novel that Pussy is sent to prison, as she says to Bond, ""Will you write to me in Sing Sing?"" Her original band of Amazonian catwomen appear as characters in the film, but as small-aircraft pilots rather than trapeze artists. Pussy returns in the 2015 Bond continuation novel ""Trigger Mortis"" by Anthony Horowitz, set in the 1950s two weeks"
"Kissy Suzuki Kissy Suzuki is a fictional character introduced in Ian Fleming's 1964 ""James Bond"" novel, ""You Only Live Twice"". Despite Bond's womanizing, Kissy Suzuki (at least the literary version) remains the only character known to the reader who bears a child by him. The treatment of Kissy varies greatly between the novel and the film, where she is never identified by her name, no family name appears in the closing credits and the film ends in the usual Bond-style happy ending. In the book, Kissy is an Ama diver and former Hollywood actress. She is distantly related to an"