The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) on Netflix
PG19772h 5mActionAdventureSci-Fi
Two submarines, one British and one Soviet, disappear with their missiles, and James Bond is sent to investigate. In Egypt he meets Major Anya Amasova, a KGB agent hunting the same plans.
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Plot summary
Karl Stromberg, a shipping magnate, has two scientists build a submarine tracking system for him, with payment promised to their Swiss bank accounts. When British and Soviet submarines vanish, James Bond is summoned to investigate, and the plans for the system turn up for sale in Egypt. There he meets Major Anya Amasova, the KGB agent on the same case. Their superiors agree to a truce, and the two spies work together, following the microfilm to Stromberg. His henchmen, among them Jaws, a towering assassin with metal teeth, go after anyone connected to the plans, and Bond and Amasova travel to Sardinia as a marine biologist and his wife to see Stromberg's base.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Lotus Esprit known as Wet Nellie, which turns from car into submarine in the film, was bought for £616,000 at a London auction in October 2013 by Elon Musk, who planned to rebuild it and try to make the fictional dual-purpose car an actual one.
- Stuntman Rick Sylvester earned $30,000 for the ski jump off the mountain, a scene inspired by a Canadian Club Whisky advertisement in Playboy showing Sylvester performing the same stunt. The stunt cost $500,000, the most expensive single movie stunt at that time.
- Tom Mankiewicz claimed that Catherine Deneuve wanted to play the female lead and was willing to cut her normal rate from $400,000 per picture to $250,000, but Broccoli would not pay above $80,000.
- The soundstage was so huge that cinematographer Claude Renoir could not effectively light it because of his deteriorating eyesight, so, according to Ken Adam, Stanley Kubrick visited the production in secret to advise on how to light the stage.
- Saltzman had branched out into several unsuccessful business ventures, including an unfilmed biopic about Cuthbert Grant starring Sean Connery, and the resulting financial reversals left him offering his shares in the company as collateral for his loans, which UBS then attempted to foreclose on.
- Broccoli asked Wood to create a villain with metal teeth, Jaws, inspired by a metal brace-wearing henchman named Sol "Horror" Horowitz, while his short bald accomplice Sandor was inspired by Sluggsy Morant in Fleming's novel.
- Steven Spielberg, months after finishing Jaws in 1975, approached Broccoli about directing the next Bond film, but Broccoli declined the offer and by December had hired Lewis Gilbert, who had directed You Only Live Twice.
