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The
Spy Who Loved Me (1977, UK)
In director Lewis Gilbert's large-scale action film:
- as in many James Bond films, the spectacular pre-title
credits opening stunt sequence - of a chase after Agent 007 James
Bond (Roger Moore) by four machine-gun wielding Russian KGB agents
on skis in the Austrian Alps, and Bond's free-falling ski jump
(by stunt man Rick Sylvester) off a snow-covered cliff (and the
unveiling of the Union Jack parachute above him)
- the theme song by Carly Simon "Nobody Does It
Better"
- Bond's sexy Russian KGB agent love interest Major
Anya Amasova (or Agent Triple-X) (Barbara Bach) who suggested provocatively: "When
necessary, shared bodily warmth"
- the memorable character of gigantic, steel-toothed,
mute henchman Jaws (Richard Kiel) whom Bond electrocuted through
his teeth, during a fight on a train, with the exposed filaments
from a broken lamp
- the image of Bond's Lotus Esprit turning into an
amphibious vessel after a spectacular motorcycle-car-helicopter chase
- the famous closing exchange when the Minister of
Defence Sir Frederick Gray (Geoffrey Keen) discovered Bond under
silk sheets in an escape pod making love to Anya: (Gray: "Bond!
What do you think you're doing?!" - Bond: "Keeping the
British end up, sir")
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