The Spy Who Loved Me

1977/Action, MPAA Rating) 2Discs/3:54:21
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Crew: Directors and cast members (includes IMDB links)
Details: (Netflix summary)
Content:
Disc 1 - Theatrical Version 2:05:24
- Commentary Featuring Director Lewis Gilbert, Production Designer Ken Adam, Co-Writer Christopher Wood & Michael G Wilson
- Commentary Featuring Sir Roger Moore
Disc 2 - Extras ~1:48:57
- 007 in Egypt 6:10
- Roger Moore My Word is My Bond 4:31
- On Location With Ken Adam 5:55
- 007 Stage Dedication Original 1977 Featurette 1:10
- Escape From Atlantis Storyboard Sequence 2:20
- Inside The Spy Who Loved Me Documentary 40:40
- Ken Adam Designing Bond 21:42
- Theatrical Archive (7:23): 1. Teaser #1-New Heights of Adventure 2:11, 2. Teaser #2-Looking for Some Thrills 2:01, 3. Bond & Beyond 3:11
- TV Broadcasts (12:03): 1. Since we First Met 4:00, 2. A Message for Bond 3:02, 3. New Heights of Excitement 2:01, 4. Most Deadly Enemies 1:30, 5. Biggest & Best 1:00, 6. Bond Girls :30
- Radio Communications (7:03): 1. My Name is Bond :29, 2. In the Shadow of the Great :27, 3. From Beneath the Waters :29, 4. A Sleek Lotus :31, 5. His Name is Stromberg :27, 6. They Call Him Jaws :27, 7. Her Name is Anya Amasova :29, 8. High in the Austrian Alps :28, 9. Her Name is Carly Simon :28, 10. A Seven-Foot Killer :57, 11. His Name is Bond, Jame Bond :56, 12. It's the Best, It's Bond & Beyond :55
- 72 Image Database (Slideshow) Includes: 1. Filmmakers (5), 2. Portraits (11), 3. Pre-Credits Ski Action (10), 4. Sardinia (10), 5. Bahamas (7), 6. Egypt (4), 7. Pinewood (4), 8. The 007 Stage (8), 9. Around the World with 007 (13)
Eggs: (Eeggs, Eggs, DVD Town)
Musical Highlights: Carly Simon-Nobody Does it Better
Factoids: (IMDB, Mistakes, BondMovies, Wiki) Mi6
1. The hull number on the sail of the U.S. submarine in Stromberg's supertanker is 593. This is the number of the USS Thresher, lost in 1963 with all hands off the Massachusetts coast.
2. First James Bond movie to be filmed in Dolby Stereo.
3. The Carl Stromberg character in this film actually has webbed hands. But they can go unnoticed by viewers on video and DVD compared to when the movie was released in cinemas.
4. The idea for Stromberg's underwater headquarters, "Atlantis," came from a Japanese floating exhibit named "Aquapolis" used in Expo '75. The Aquapolis, the enormous Japanese floating sea structure, was considered as an exterior set for the Stromberg Marine Research Laboratory, Atlantis. It resembled an oil rig (something which had already been used in Diamonds Are Forever (1971)), had a gigantic three-tiered deck which was also a helicopter pad measuring 100 m2, and was supported by about a dozen major pillars. It cost 13 billion yen and had been built in Hiroshima in 1975 then transported to Okinawa for the International Ocean Exposition. Depending on weather conditions, it could partially rise or submerge into the ocean, in a similar fashion to the Atlantis setting of the movie's script. At the time of the location scout, it was incomplete and after attempts to make the mega-structure work, production designer Ken Adam felt that it lacked the right creative elements for the nautical villain's lair. Disappointingly, the floating sea city was rejected as an exterior location for Atlantis and the filmmakers decided to go with a model. Sadly, it was closed to tourist visits in 1993 and in 2000, after twenty-five years, the real-life floating city in the ocean was sold for scrap after the company that owned it went bankrupt.
5. This was the first Bond film to feature a song which refers directly to Bond himself and not the villain.
6. A Minolta logo appears on the microfilm capsule.
7. This is the second film in the history of the Bond series (as of 2004) in which M refers to Bond by his first name, rather than simply 007 or Bond (the first time was at his wedding in On Her Majesty's Secret Service). We also hear M's real first name (Miles) for the first time on film. In addition, Q is referred to by his real name (Major Boothroyd) for the first time since Dr. No. Miss Moneypenny is still left without a first name. The original M's first name is heard for the only time in the film series when Gogol refers to him as Myles (in the books, his name was Admiral Sir Myles Messervy and was only ever mentioned in the novel "The Man With The Golden Gun"). In addition, Bernard Lee's M calls Bond by his first name for the only time in the series. The character of Major Boothroyd is addressed as such by Barbara Bach for one of the only times in the movie series. Boothroyd (played by Desmond Llewelyn) is the head of Q branch, but the name Q stuck to the character. The last time Q was referred to by his real name (Major Geoffrey Boothroyd) was in Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963). General Gogol's first name is also heard for the only time in the series. M refers to him as Alexis.
8. The set for Stromberg's supertanker was named "the Jonah Set", in reference to the Biblical story of Jonah, who is swallowed by a whale. In the film, the tanker swallows submarines.
9. Anya's music box-transmitter plays Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago (1965).
10. First Bond film to make significant references to Bond's past, including his recruitment to the British Secret Service from the Royal Navy, his "many lady friends", his marriage and the death of his wife, Tracy. Several scenes, including the one where Bond and Anya meet each other in a Cairo bar, were written by an uncredited Tom Mankiewicz. According to him, the scene originally made reference to Tatiana Romanova, the Bond girl in From Russia with Love (1963), but this was cut. If it had been left in, the film would have included direct references to both the Sean Connery and George Lazenby eras of the Bond series.
11. Screenwriter Richard Maibaum's original draft of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) featured an alliance of international terrorists entering SPECTRE's headquarters and deposing Blofeld before trying to destroy the world for themselves to make way for a New World Order. This script was deemed too political by producer Albert R. Broccoli.
12. According to Richard Kiel, the chain he bites through as Jaws during the Pyramids sequence was made of licorice.
13. The first appearance of recurring character Defence Minister Frederick Gray (played by Geoffrey Keen). While walking along the docks, Bond addresses him as "Freddy" for the only time in the series (in all subsequent films, he uses the more formal address "Minister").
14. Introduced a spy sea scooter known as a "wetbike" (better known now as a jet ski) to the world, sparking a new water-sport industry. This gadget was commonly referred to as the motorbike that rides on water.
15. When James Bond drives the Lotus Esprit up onto the beach, we can see a child pointing out to the car in the water. This child is played by Richard George Kiel, son of actor Richard Kiel who portrayed Jaws.
16. The ruins where Jaws tries to kill Bond are actually from two different locations on opposite sides of the Nile.
17. During one scene Bond honks the horn on his white Lotus before passing a truck on the cliff side road. Bond presses the center of the steering wheel when the Lotus horn is actually the lever on the left of the steering wheel.
18. When James Bond first arrives by boat in Sardinia, we can see some donkey carts. These carts are modeled upon those used in Sicily; they are not used in Sardinia.
19. Wrong kind of tropical fish in the Sardinian sea (in fact, underwater filming was located in the Bahamas).
20. When Jaws kills the shark, the carcass floats on the surface of the water in the tank. It should sink to the bottom.
21. During filming, the Lotus Esprit submarine car was nicknamed "Wet Nellie" by the crew, a reference to "Little Nellie", Bond's gyrocopter in "You Only Live Twice".
22. Roger Moore was injured shooting the scene where Stromberg meets his end. If you look closely at the film, you'll see RM's backside/back catch light from where the explosives on his chair exploded prematurely.
23. There was a line that 007 should have said after shooting Stromberg in his private parts. According to The Essential World of 007 (1995 edition), the line that 007 that was proposed was "Ballseye, Fishfinger", but deemed too vulgar and obscene. If this line made it into the final script, an R rating would have been the end result.
24. Some viewers see this as an underwater version of You Only Live Twice owing to how the capture of U.S. and Russian submarines by a sub-eater parallels the capture of U.S. and Soviet spacecraft by Blofeld's spacecraft-eater, and numerous similarities in the sub-eater battle sequence (e.g. the section where Bond hijacks the monorail, the closing of the shutters and more).
Comments: B. The Ultimate Collectors Edition adds 20:06 new material to approximately 1:28:51 of older material.