"the degree to which Bond girls are pivotal to propelling the plot forward varies from one film to the next. Five of the Bond girls are ""bad"" girls (or at least working for the villain) who turn ""good"" (or switch sides) usually due to Bond's influence. Bond has fallen in love with only Tracy di Vicenzo in ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" and Vesper Lynd in ""Casino Royale"", but both of them die at or near the end of the respective films. Roald Dahl, a screenwriter of ""You Only Live Twice"", said he was given a formula to work to"
"and branded it a welcome addition to the series, while others complained of the repetitively monotonous aquatic action and prolonged length. In 1983, Warner Bros. released a second film adaptation of the novel under the title ""Never Say Never Again"", with McClory as executive producer. James Bond attends the funeral of Colonel Jacques Bouvar, a SPECTRE operative connected with the previous murders of two MI6 agents. Bouvar is alive and disguised as his own widow, but Bond identifies him. Pursuing Bouvar to his château, Bond fights and kills him, escaping with use of a jetpack and his Aston Martin DB5,"
"UK (where it reached number nine in the charts) and the US (where it reached number 2, for three weeks). It was nominated for an Academy Award but lost to ""The Way We Were"". Producers hired B. J. Arnau to record and perform the title song, not realising McCartney intended to perform it himself. Arnau's version was featured in the film itself, when the singer performed it in a night club which Bond attends. The Olympia Brass Band has a notable part in ""Live and Let Die"", where they lead a funeral march for a (soon to be) assassination victim."
"Die Another Day Die Another Day is a 2002 British-American spy film, the twentieth film in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, as well as the fourth and final film to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film follows Bond as he leads a mission to North Korea, during which he is betrayed and, after seemingly killing a rogue North Korean colonel, is captured and imprisoned. Fourteen months later, Bond is released as part of a prisoner exchange. Surmising that the mole is within the British government, he attempts to earn redemption by"
"have directed the successor film, ""Diamonds Are Forever"", and that his original intentions were concluding the film with Bond and Tracy driving off following their wedding, saving Tracy's murder for the pre-credit sequence of ""Diamonds Are Forever"". The idea was discarded after Lazenby quit the role. ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" was the longest ""Bond"" film until ""Casino Royale"" was released in 2006. Despite that, two scenes were deleted from the final print: Irma Bunt spying on Bond as he buys a wedding ring for Tracy, and a chase over London rooftops and into the Royal Mail underground rail system"
"23rd James Bond film, ""Skyfall"", during the 50th anniversary of the release of the first James Bond film ""Dr. No"" (1962). It is unclear if this car is meant to be the same one Bond won in ""Casino Royale"", refitted with British number plates, right-hand drive, and gadgets. The car is destroyed in the film's climactic finale. It is seen again in ""Spectre"" (2015), firstly in Q's underground workshop in various stages of rebuild, and at the film's ending, fully rebuilt, with Bond driving away with it. On 1 June 2010, RM Auctions announced the upcoming auction of a DB5"
"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"
"was at the time the joint highest-placed Bond theme on the UK chart where it reached number 2. It was the last single the band recorded as the original five-piece for close to twenty years. As a follow-up to the Christmas 1984 Band Aid single, Duran Duran performed in front of 90,000 people (and an estimated 1.5 billion TV viewers) at the Live Aid charity concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 13 July 1985 while their Bond song held the top spot on the American charts. It was not intended to be a farewell performance—the band"
"include ""Count Five and Die"" (1957), ""Orders to Kill"" (1958), ""Foxhole in Cairo"" (1960), ""I Want What I Want"" (1972), and ""Fever Pitch"" (1997). He was interviewed in the 2008 documentary ""The Cult of The Onedin Line"". He married the television producer Pat Sandys (1926–2000) in 1959. The marriage was later dissolved. With Sandys he is the father of actresses Abigail and Samantha Bond, and the film and TV journalist Matthew Bond. He lived in the village of Abergwynfi in his parents' native Wales. He died at the age of 82 on 17 January 2017, while on holiday in Madeira."
"see the next James Bond movie (""Die Another Day""), a goal he accomplished. Zevon died on September 7, 2003, aged 56, at his home in Los Angeles. ""The Wind"" was certified gold by the RIAA in December 2003, and Zevon received five posthumous Grammy nominations, including Song of the Year for the ballad ""Keep Me in Your Heart"". ""The Wind"" won two Grammys, with the album itself receiving the award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, while ""Disorder in the House"", Zevon's duet with Bruce Springsteen, was awarded Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. These posthumous awards"
"further films for Bond producer Harry Saltzman: ""Funeral in Berlin"" (1966, starring Michael Caine), and the war epic ""Battle of Britain"" (1969). Hamilton returned to the Bond film franchise with the chase- and heavily gadget-dependent ""Diamonds Are Forever"" (1971), ""Live and Let Die"" (1973) and ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974). He claimed in a much later interview that he had instructed Roger Moore not to mimic Sean Connery's rendition of James Bond. Hamilton's only films in the latter part of the 1970s were the commercially unsuccessful ""Force 10 from Navarone"" (1978) and the poorly received adaptation of Agatha"
"General Bond married Theodora Sedgwick in 1960, a distant descendent of Union General John Sedgwick who was killed by a Confederate sharpshooter at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864. On April 1, 1970, Brigadier General Bond was killed by a sniper's bullet shortly after landing in his command helicopter to oversee an operation northeast of Saigon. His funeral was held at Arlington National Cemetery, after which he was buried in Sedgwick Pie at the Stockbridge Cemetery in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. U.S Army general officers killed in action in the Vietnam War: William R. Bond William Ross ""Billy"" Bond (December"
"James Bond movie ""Die Another Day"", ""The Quiller Memorandum"" (1966), ""The Man Who Haunted Himself"" (1970), Lindsay Anderson's ""O Lucky Man!"" (1973), ""The Avengers"" (1998), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (2002), ""Quantum of Solace"" (2008) and ""Sherlock Holmes"" (2009). It has also been used as the lobby of the Dolphin Hotel in the film adaptation of Stephen King's short story ""1408."" In the 1982 BBC television adaptation of ""Smiley's People"", based on the Cold War spy thriller by John le Carré, the titular character visits the Reform Club at the start of the third episode, spending an extended period of time in the"
"James Bond and Swiss agent Fredericka ""Flicka"" von Grüsse are called in to investigate. While at Laura's funeral, Bond notices among the wreaths a perfect white rose, its petals tipped blood-red and an ambiguous note wired to the stem. His investigation reveals an identical rose and note at the funerals of four high-profile personalities, all assassinated with a week. With no group claiming responsibility for the deaths, Bond focuses on Laura's case as an entrée to tracking the murderous spree. He uncovers her recently dissolved love affair with the world-famous actor David Dragonpol, now an eccentric collector of theatre memorabilia"
"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"
"Rowan Atkinson Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms ""Blackadder"" and ""Mr. Bean"". Atkinson first came to prominence in the BBC's sketch comedy show ""Not the Nine O'Clock News"" (1979–1982), receiving the 1981 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance, and via his participation in The Secret Policeman's Ball from 1979. His other work includes the 1983 James Bond film ""Never Say Never Again"", playing a bumbling vicar in ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" (1994), voicing the red-billed hornbill Zazu in ""The Lion King"" (1994), and featuring"
"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"
"violin, and NathAnn Carrera on guitar. Thriving on collaboration, Bond used the platform provided by Kiki and Herb to forge working relationships with a number of rising stars among the downtown demimonde, including the filmmaker, John Cameron Mitchell, the performance artist, Jake Shears, and the musician, Rufus Wainwright. In 2006, Bond appeared in the film ""Shortbus"", as part of cast that included Sook-Yin Lee, PJ DeBoy, and Paul Dawson. In the movie, directed by fellow Radical Faerie John Cameron Mitchell, Bond played the mistress of ceremonies at the eponymous avant-garde salon Shortbus, singing the Scott Matthew number, ""In the End,"""
"a final attack on Bond and his lover in the final scene. In the first twenty two films of the Eon Bond series, only ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" and ""Casino Royale"", have ended with the central Bond girl deceased. In all other films, except ""Quantum of Solace"" and ""Skyfall"", Bond is kissing her, making love, or implying that he will do so. Sometimes an embarrassed M catches Bond during his embraces. Most endings feature a double entendre and, in many of the films, the Bond girl purrs, ""Oh, James."" Until ""A View to a Kill"", the title of the"
"nothing has happened. He phones his superiors and informs them of Vesper's treason and death, coldly saying ""The bitch is dead."" Bond's feelings for Vesper are not totally extinguished; Fleming's tenth novel, ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", reveals that he makes an annual pilgrimage to Royale-les-Eaux to visit her grave. In ""Diamonds Are Forever"", Bond skips the song ""La Vie En Rose"" in Tiffany Case's hotel room ""because it has memories for him""; this is a song closely associated with Vesper in ""Casino Royale"". Furthermore, in the novel ""Goldfinger"", when a drugged Bond believes that he has died and is"
"acclaimed, earning him a BAFTA award nomination. ""Casino Royale"" became the highest-grossing in the series at the time. ""Quantum of Solace"" followed two years later. Craig's third Bond film, ""Skyfall"", premiered in 2012 and is currently the highest-grossing film in the series and the twentieth highest-grossing film of all time; it was also the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom until 2015. Craig's fourth Bond film, ""Spectre"", premiered in 2015. He also made a guest appearance as Bond in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, alongside Queen Elizabeth II. His fifth (and, possibly, final) Bond film, currently"
"Bond out of retirement, he orders the military to fire mortars at Bond's mansion when the retired spy refuses to return to duty. The first quarter of the film features Bond's subsequent visit to McTarry Castle in Scotland, on a quest to return the only piece of M's remains recovered after the attack—his bright red toupée. Subsequently, Bond—played by David Niven—becomes the new M and proceeds to order that all MI6 agents, male and female, be renamed ""James Bond 007"" in order to confuse the enemy. In 1983's ""Never Say Never Again"", Edward Fox played M as a bureaucrat, contemptuous"
"Since then, the Bond theme has been rearranged in many ways after ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"". Barry also composed the love song ""We Have All the Time in the World"" sung by Louis Armstrong. With lyrics by Burt Bacharach's regular lyricist Hal David, it is heard during the Bond–Tracy courtship montage, bridging Draco's birthday party in Portugal and Bond's burglary of the Gebrüder Gumbold law office in Bern, Switzerland. ""We Have All the Time in the World"" is often mistakenly referred to as the opening credits theme. It was Armstrong's last recorded song (he died of a heart attack"
"the enemy. The few who survive secure the bunker, and Garth attempts to take credit for their actions. Further chaos ensues, resulting in the deaths of many in the platoon, as well as the mortal wound to the Sergeant himself. United Artists released the second James Bond film ""From Russia with Love"", with ""War Is Hell"" as the second feature of a double bill in the United States on May 27, 1964. ""War Is Hell"" was the second of two features (along with ""Cry of Battle"") playing at the Texas Theatre in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. After fatally"
"death and deactivates the bomb. Bond then notices Shah and his men being pursued by Soviet forces. He re-activates the bomb and drops it out of the plane and onto a bridge, blowing it up and helping Shah and his men escape the Soviets. Bond returns to Tangier to kill Whitaker, infiltrating his estate with the help of his ally Felix Leiter, as Pushkin arrests Koskov, sending him back to Moscow. Some time later, Kara is the solo cellist in a Vienna performance. Kamran Shah and his men arrive during the intermission and are introduced to now-diplomat General Gogol and"
"""Die Another Day"", Bond is coming back on a rather turbulent British Airways flight. The air hostess (played by Roger Moore's daughter Deborah) serves him his martini, to which Bond replies, ""Luckily I asked for it shaken."". Later in the film, when Bond travels to Gustav Graves' ice palace in Iceland, he orders another martini, sarcastically telling the bartender ""Plenty of ice, if you can spare it."" The Vesper was reused in the 2006 film version of ""Casino Royale"", while Bond is playing poker to defeat Le Chiffre. Daniel Craig's Bond ordered the drink, providing great detail about how it"
"""007"". Bond walks into the foreground, revealing Brosnan's face and proclaiming ""You were expecting someone else?"", introducing him as the newest actor to play Bond since 1989. In ""Die Another Day"" (2002), Lee Tamahori, the film's director requested a CG bullet be added into the sequence, which is seen zooming from Bond's gun at the screen and disappearing, suggesting that Bond has fired straight into his opponent's weapon. This was the last gun barrel sequence where Bond wears a dinner suit and the last one until ""Spectre"" where the sequence is placed at the beginning. The gun barrel sequence was"
"albums (""Duran Duran"", ""Rio"", and ""Seven and the Ragged Tiger"") and the live album ""Arena"". In 1985, the band recorded the theme to the James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"", which became their second US No. 1 hit and the only Bond theme in history to do so. However, the intense schedule of recording and touring, coupled with the pressures of fame, left Taylor unhappy with being in the band. His final performance with the original line-up of Duran Duran was in July 1985 at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia, which reached a global audience of"
"film's action sequences, but felt that the film was less impressive than its predecessor ""Casino Royale"". , it is the fourth-highest-grossing ""James Bond"" film, without adjusting for inflation, earning $586 million worldwide, and becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 2008. James Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) in the boot of his car. After evading pursuers, Bond delivers White to M, who interrogates him regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard, Craig Mitchell (Glenn Foster), is a double agent; he attacks M, enabling White to escape. Bond chases Mitchell and kills"
"held on 12 June 1985 at the Odeon Leicester Square Cinema in London. It achieved a box office collection of US$152.4 million worldwide with $50.3 million in the United States alone. On its opening weekend in the US it earned $10.6 million. Although its box office reception was excellent, the film's critical response was mostly negative. Rotten Tomatoes currently gives ""A View to a Kill"" a 36% approval rating, which is the lowest rating for the Eon-produced Bond films on the website. The film was first broadcast on British television on 31 January 1990. One of the most common criticisms"
"such films as ""Sands of Iwo Jima"" in 1949 and ""Rio Grande"" in 1950, (see below for more). He was part of the John Ford stock troupe and appeared as an uncredited extra in numerous dance scenes. He often appeared with his friend and fellow stunt performer Frank McGrath. In 1957, Ward Bond specifically requested Wilson and McGrath to be regulars on ""Wagon Train"". When Bond died, it was Wilson who broke the news to Bond's best friend, John Wayne. He said, ""Hold on ... Ward just dropped dead"". It has been said that they both cried together on the"
"Bond arrives on the scene, he finds the Havelocks' daughter, Judy, who intends to carry out her own mission of revenge with a bow and arrow. Judy kills von Hammerstein by shooting him in the back with an arrow from away at the exact moment that he dives into a lake. A shoot-out then occurs between Bond and Gonzales and the two Cuban gunmen. Bond kills all of them and returns to Canada with Judy, who has been wounded during the gunfight. After completing a mission in the Bahamas, Bond is in Nassau and attends a dinner party at Government"
"the 2002 film ""Die Another Day"", James Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan) is heard asking for a bottle of 1961 Bollinger immediately after being released from a North Korean prison. In ""The World Is Not Enough"", James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) beds the female lead alongside an iced bottle of Bollinger. In the 2006 film ""Casino Royale"", James Bond (played by Daniel Craig) also requests a bottle of Bollinger. There is also a bottle in his car at the end of the car chase at the start of ""GoldenEye"". Bollinger is one of the last remaining independent Champagne houses. Family-managed since"