List of James Bond films
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James Bond
is a fictional character
created by novelist Ian Fleming
in 1953. Bond is a British secret agent working for MI6
who also answers by his codename, 007. He has been portrayed on film by actors Sean Connery
, David Niven
, George Lazenby
, Roger Moore
, Timothy Dalton
, Pierce Brosnan
and Daniel Craig
, in twenty-four productions, with a twenty-fifth in production. Only two films were not made by company Eon Productions
. Eon now currently holds the full adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels.
In 1961, producers Albert R. Broccoli
and Harry Saltzman
joined forces to purchase the filming rights to Fleming's novels. They founded production company Eon Productions and, with financial backing by United Artists
, began working on Dr. No
, which was directed by Terence Young and featured Connery as Bond. Following Dr. Nos release in 1962, Broccoli and Saltzman created the holding company Danjaq
to insure future productions in the James Bond film series
. The series currently encompasses twenty-two films, with a twenty-third scheduled for release in 2012. With a combined gross of nearly $5 billion to date, the Eon produced films create the second-highest-grossing film series, behind the Harry Potter films
. The films have been awarded two Academy Awards
: for Sound Effects
(now Sound Editing) in Goldfinger
(at the 37th Awards
) and for Visual Effects
in Thunderball
(at the 38th Awards
). Additionally, several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song
, including Paul McCartney
's "Live and Let Die
", Carly Simon
's "Nobody Does It Better
" and Sheena Easton
's "For Your Eyes Only
". In 1982, Albert R. Broccoli received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
When Broccoli and Saltzman bought the rights to existing and future Fleming titles, it did not include Casino Royale
, which had already been sold to producer Gregory Ratoff
. After Ratoff's death, the rights were passed on to Charles K. Feldman
, who subsequently produced the satirical Bond spoof Casino Royale
in 1967. A legal case ensured that the film rights to the novel Thunderball were held by Kevin McClory
as he, Fleming and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham
had written a film script upon which the novel was based. Although Eon Productions and McClory joined forces to produce Thunderball
, McClory still retained the rights to the story and adapted Thunderball into 1983's Never Say Never Again
. The current distribution rights to both of those films are held by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
, the studio who distributes Eon's regular series.
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|align="left"|James Bond traces a mysterious murder to a Chinese scientist living on a small Jamaican island who, working for SPECTRE
, plans to disrupt American rocket launches.
| 59.6
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| 98%
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!scope="row"| From Russia with Love
|1963
|
|
|align="left"|SPECTRE
hires a seductive young female Russian agent
to act as a fake defector in a plot to assassinate Bond; in turn 007 uses her to get a Soviet decoding machine.
| 78.9
| 2
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| 96%
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!scope="row"| Goldfinger
|1964
|
|
|align="left"|Bond battles gold magnate Auric Goldfinger
, who plans to irradiate the gold supply
of Fort Knox
, making it worthless and increasing the value of his own supply.
| 124.9
| 3
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|
| 96%
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!scope="row"| Thunderball
|1965
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|
|align="left"|Bond is sent to the Bahamas in a bid to stop Emilio Largo
, playboy billionaire and deputy head of SPECTRE
, from using hijacked nuclear weapons to devastate the coastline of the eastern United States.
| 141.2
| 9
|
|
| 88%
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!scope="row"| You Only Live Twice
|1967
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|
|align="left"|After faking his own death, Bond goes to Japan to investigate the hijacking of American and Russian manned spacecraft from orbit, which turns out to be a plan by Ernst Stavro Blofeld
, the megalomaniacal head of SPECTRE
.
| 111.6
| 9.5
|
|
| 70%
|-
!scope="row"| On Her Majesty's
Secret Service
|1969
|
|
|align="left"|On the pursuit of Ernst Stavro Blofeld
, Bond discovers SPECTRE
's plan for biochemical terror. Meanwhile, Bond falls in love with and marries a crime lord's suicidal daughter
, who dies on their wedding day.
| 87.4
| 8
|
|
| 82%
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!scope="row"| Diamonds Are Forever
|1971
|
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|align="left"|Bond traces a diamond smuggling operation first to Holland and Las Vegas and then to a SPECTRE
plot to build a satellite with laser beams capable of destroying weapons on the ground.
| 116
| 7.2
|
|
|67%
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!scope="row"| Live and Let Die
|1973
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|align="left"|Bond fights voodoo priests, heroin smugglers and a ruthless dictator in New York, New Orleans and San Monique in a film imitating the conventions of "blaxploitation
" movies of the era.
| 161.8
| 7
|
|
| 64%
|-
!scope="row"|
|1974
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|align="left"|While trying to locate a missing solar expert, Bond ends up in an intense game of cat-and-mouse with the world's top assassin, Francisco Scaramanga
.
| 97.6
| 7
|
|
| 52%
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|1977
|
|
|align="left"|Bond teams up with a female Russian agent
to locate two missing nuclear submarines; he winds up dealing with a man whose dream is an undersea empire.
| 185.4
| 14
|
|
| 79%
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!scope="row"| Moonraker
|1979
|
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|align="left"|Bond investigates the mid-air hijacking of one of the Moonraker space shuttles. The shuttle's maker, Hugo Drax
, is using his shuttle fleet to help in wiping out every human on Earth and re-populating it with a hand-picked racial rainbow of superior human pairs.
| 210.3
| 31
|
|
| 64%
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!scope="row"| For Your Eyes Only
|1981
|
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|align="left"|Bond's investigation of the murder of a marine archaeologist working for the British Secret Service leads him to a race against the Soviets for a submarine attack computer in a sunken ship.
| 195.3
| 28
|
|
| 69%
|-
!scope="row"| Octopussy
|1983
|
|
|align="left"|The murder of Agent 009 and a forgery of a Fabergé egg
lead Bond to India, where he allies with cult leader Octopussy
against Kamal Khan
, a playboy Afghan prince, who with Russian General Orlov
is plotting to "accidentally" detonate a nuclear device on a US air base in Germany, hoping NATO will disarm and the Soviets can take over Europe in record time.
| 187.5
| 27.5
|
|
| 47%
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!scope="row"|
|1985
|
|
|align="left"|Bond investigates a high-tech firm headed up by former Nazi and German industrialist Max Zorin
, and uncovers a plot to corner the market on microchips by manufacturing an earthquake that would drown Silicon Valley
(and all of Zorin's competition).
| 152.6
| 30
|
|
| 39%
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!scope="row"|
|1987
|
|
|align="left"|Bond teams up with a female cellist
to investigate the fake defector for whom she was allegedly working, General Georgi Koskov
, leading them to a weapons-for-drugs smuggling scheme headed up by powerful arms dealer Brad Whitaker
.
| 191.2
| 40
|
|
| 73%
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!scope="row"| Licence to Kill
|1989
|
|
|align="left"|Bond resigns from the secret service to avenge the attempted murder of his CIA friend, Felix Leiter
. His pursuit of the assailants leads him to powerful Colombian drug lord Franz Sanchez
and a mysterious woman, Pam Bouvier, who has an agenda of her own in bringing down Sanchez and his empire.
| 156.2
| 32
|
|
| 71%
|-
!scope="row"| GoldenEye
|1995
|
|
|align="left"|Bond fights to prevent a syndicate of techno-terrorists from causing a global financial meltdown through usage of the GoldenEye satellite weapon against London.
| 356.4
| 60
|
|
| 80%
|-
!scope="row"| Tomorrow Never Dies
|1997
|
|
|align="left"|Bond investigates media mogul Elliot Carver
, who aims to start a war between the UK and China so he can be guaranteed exclusive coverage for his new cable news channel.
| 339.5
| 110
|
|
| 55%
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!scope="row"| The World Is Not Enough
|1999
|
|
|align="left"|Bond is asked to play bodyguard to oil heiress Elektra King
whose father was murdered in MI6 headquarters, and discovers she stilll has a connection and a plan to the terrorist who once kidnapped her, Renard
.
| 361.7
| 135
|
|
| 51%
|-
!scope="row"| Die Another Day
|2002
|
|
|align="left"|After Bond is released from one year in North Korean captivity for killing General Moon, he tries to discover who betrayed him, teaming up with a female American agent. Eventually he finds out Moon's henchmen have ties to a mysterious diamond dealer, Gustav Graves
.
| 431.9
| 142
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| 59%
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!scope="row"| Casino Royale
|2006
|
|
|align="left"|Bond, in his first assignment as a '00' agent, attempts to frustrate the schemes of terrorist financier Le Chiffre by defeating him at a high-stakes game of Texas hold 'em
poker
at Casino Royale in Montenegro
. In the meantime he falls in love with treasury employee Vesper Lynd
, who turns out to have an agenda of her own.
| 594.2
| 102
|
|
| 94%
|-
!scope="row"| Quantum of Solace
|2008
|
|
|align="left"|Bond pursues Quantum
, the organisation he believes responsible for the death of Vesper Lynd. Along with Camille Montes, a young woman seeking revenge, he goes after corrupt General Medrano, who plans with Quantum to stage a military coup in Bolivia and hijack "one of the world's most precious natural resources".
| 586.1
| 230
|
|
| 64%
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!scope="row"| Skyfall
|2012
|
|
|align="left"|Events in M's past bring into question 007's loyalty to her; With MI6 coming under attack, Bond must find and destroy the source of the trouble, whatever the cost.
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|135
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|align="left" colspan=5|Totals
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|$1.17B
|$12.36B
|$1.72B
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James Bond (character)
Royal Navy Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR is a fictional character created by journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the main protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics and video games...
is a fictional character
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
created by novelist Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
in 1953. Bond is a British secret agent working for MI6
Secret Intelligence Service
The Secret Intelligence Service is responsible for supplying the British Government with foreign intelligence. Alongside the internal Security Service , the Government Communications Headquarters and the Defence Intelligence , it operates under the formal direction of the Joint Intelligence...
who also answers by his codename, 007. He has been portrayed on film by actors Sean Connery
Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery , better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy...
, David Niven
David Niven
James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...
, George Lazenby
George Lazenby
George Robert Lazenby is an Australian actor and former model, best known for portraying James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.-Early life:...
, Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...
, Timothy Dalton
Timothy Dalton
Timothy Peter Dalton ) is a Welsh actor of film and television. He is known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill , as well as Rhett Butler in the television miniseries Scarlett , an original sequel to Gone with the Wind...
, Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...
and Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...
, in twenty-four productions, with a twenty-fifth in production. Only two films were not made by company Eon Productions
EON Productions
Eon Productions is a film production company known for producing the James Bond film series. The company is based in London's Piccadilly and also operates from Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom...
. Eon now currently holds the full adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels.
In 1961, producers Albert R. Broccoli
Albert R. Broccoli
Albert Romolo Broccoli, CBE , nicknamed "Cubby", was an American film producer, who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career, most of them in the United Kingdom, and often filmed at Pinewood Studios. Co-founder of Danjaq, LLC and EON Productions, Broccoli is most notable as the...
and Harry Saltzman
Harry Saltzman
Harry Saltzman was a Canadian theatre and film producer best known for his mega-gamble which resulted in his co-producing the James Bond film series with Albert R...
joined forces to purchase the filming rights to Fleming's novels. They founded production company Eon Productions and, with financial backing by United Artists
United Artists
United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....
, began working on Dr. No
Dr. No (film)
Dr. No is a 1962 spy film, starring Sean Connery; it is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather and was directed by Terence Young. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R...
, which was directed by Terence Young and featured Connery as Bond. Following Dr. Nos release in 1962, Broccoli and Saltzman created the holding company Danjaq
Danjaq
Danjaq, LLC is the holding company responsible for the copyright and trademarks to the characters, elements, and other material related to James Bond on screen. It is currently owned and managed by the family of Albert R. Broccoli, the co-initiator of the popular film franchise...
to insure future productions in the James Bond film series
James Bond (film series)
The James Bond film series is a British series of motion pictures based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond , who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming. Earlier films were based on Fleming's novels and short stories, followed later by films with original storylines...
. The series currently encompasses twenty-two films, with a twenty-third scheduled for release in 2012. With a combined gross of nearly $5 billion to date, the Eon produced films create the second-highest-grossing film series, behind the Harry Potter films
Harry Potter (film series)
The Harry Potter film series is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by the British author J. K. Rowling...
. The films have been awarded two Academy Awards
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
: for Sound Effects
Academy Award for Sound Editing
The Academy Award of Merit for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound editing or sound design...
(now Sound Editing) in Goldfinger
Goldfinger (film)
Goldfinger is the third spy film in the James Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1964, it is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title...
(at the 37th Awards
37th Academy Awards
The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. All four acting awards went to non-American actors, something not repeated until the 80th Academy Awards were awarded for 2007....
) and for Visual Effects
Academy Award for Visual Effects
The Academy Award for Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.-History of the award:The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first recognized the technical contributions of special effects to movies at its inaugural dinner in 1928, presenting a...
in Thunderball
Thunderball (film)
Thunderball is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham...
(at the 38th Awards
38th Academy Awards
The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18, 1966 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope....
). Additionally, several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song
Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
, including Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
's "Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die (song)
"Live and Let Die" is the main theme song of the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die and was performed by Paul McCartney & Wings for the movie soundtrack and appears on the soundtrack album. The song was one of Wings' most successful singles, and the most successful Bond theme to that point...
", Carly Simon
Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work...
's "Nobody Does It Better
Nobody Does It Better
"Nobody Does It Better" is a power ballad composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager. It was recorded by Carly Simon as the theme song for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. It was the first Bond theme song to be titled differently from the name of the film, although...
" and Sheena Easton
Sheena Easton
Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...
's "For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (Sheena Easton 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...
". In 1982, Albert R. Broccoli received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
When Broccoli and Saltzman bought the rights to existing and future Fleming titles, it did not include Casino Royale
Casino Royale (novel)
Casino Royale is Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. It paved the way for a further eleven novels by Fleming himself, in addition to two short story collections, followed by many "continuation" Bond novels by other authors....
, which had already been sold to producer Gregory Ratoff
Gregory Ratoff
Gregory Ratoff was a Russian-born American film director, actor and producer. His most famous role as an actor was as producer Max Fabian who feuds with star Margo Channing in All About Eve ....
. After Ratoff's death, the rights were passed on to Charles K. Feldman
Charles K. Feldman
Charles K. Feldman was a film producer and talent agent born in New York City. In 1934 he married actress Jean Howard, whom he divorced in 1948...
, who subsequently produced the satirical Bond spoof Casino Royale
Casino Royale (1967 film)
Casino Royale is a 1967 comedy spy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is set as a satire of the James Bond film series and the spy genre, and is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.The film stars David Niven as the...
in 1967. A legal case ensured that the film rights to the novel Thunderball were held by Kevin McClory
Kevin McClory
Kevin O'Donovan McClory was an Irish screenwriter, producer, and director. McClory was best known for the 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again, which was the result of a long legal battle between McClory and Ian Fleming over the writing credits and later the film rights to...
as he, Fleming and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham
Jack Whittingham
Jack Whittingham was a British playwright, film critic, and screenwriter. He was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford....
had written a film script upon which the novel was based. Although Eon Productions and McClory joined forces to produce Thunderball
Thunderball (film)
Thunderball is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham...
, McClory still retained the rights to the story and adapted Thunderball into 1983's Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film based on the James Bond novel Thunderball, which was previously filmed in 1965 as Thunderball...
. The current distribution rights to both of those films are held by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...
, the studio who distributes Eon's regular series.
Series of films by Eon Productions
| Title | Year | Bond actor | Director | Synopsis | Box office |
Budget | Box office |
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| Dr. No Dr. No (film) Dr. No is a 1962 spy film, starring Sean Connery; it is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather and was directed by Terence Young. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R... |
1962 | ||
|align="left"|James Bond traces a mysterious murder to a Chinese scientist living on a small Jamaican island who, working for SPECTRE
SPECTRE
SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games...
, plans to disrupt American rocket launches.
| 59.6
| 1
|
|
| 98%
|-
!scope="row"| From Russia with Love
From Russia with Love (film)
From Russia with Love is the second in the James Bond spy film series, and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1963, the film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1957 novel of the...
|1963
|
|
|align="left"|SPECTRE
SPECTRE
SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games...
hires a seductive young female Russian agent
Tatiana Romanova
Tatiana Romanova is a fictional character in the James Bond novel, film, and video game From Russia with Love. She is played by Daniela Bianchi in the movie. According to William F...
to act as a fake defector in a plot to assassinate Bond; in turn 007 uses her to get a Soviet decoding machine.
| 78.9
| 2
|
|
| 96%
|-
!scope="row"| Goldfinger
Goldfinger (film)
Goldfinger is the third spy film in the James Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1964, it is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title...
|1964
|
|
|align="left"|Bond battles gold magnate Auric Goldfinger
Auric Goldfinger
Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film and novel Goldfinger. His first name, Auric, is an adjective meaning of gold...
, who plans to irradiate the gold supply
United States Bullion Depository
The United States Bullion Depository, often known as Fort Knox, is a fortified vault building located adjacent to Fort Knox, Kentucky, used to store a large portion of United States official gold reserves and occasionally other precious items belonging or entrusted to the federal government.The...
of Fort Knox
Fort Knox
Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. The base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties. It currently holds the Army Human Resources Center of Excellence to include the Army Human Resources Command, United States Army Cadet...
, making it worthless and increasing the value of his own supply.
| 124.9
| 3
|
|
| 96%
|-
!scope="row"| Thunderball
Thunderball (film)
Thunderball is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham...
|1965
|
|
|align="left"|Bond is sent to the Bahamas in a bid to stop Emilio Largo
Emilio Largo
Emilio Largo is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond novel Thunderball. In the novel he is depicted, according to the British stereotypes about Italians, as a large, heavyset, olive-skinned, powerful man exuding animal charm, with the profile of a Roman emperor, and...
, playboy billionaire and deputy head of SPECTRE
SPECTRE
SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games...
, from using hijacked nuclear weapons to devastate the coastline of the eastern United States.
| 141.2
| 9
|
|
| 88%
|-
!scope="row"| You Only Live Twice
You Only Live Twice (film)
You Only Live Twice is the fifth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name...
|1967
|
|
|align="left"|After faking his own death, Bond goes to Japan to investigate the hijacking of American and Russian manned spacecraft from orbit, which turns out to be a plan by Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, who was created by Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory. An evil genius with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond and is arguably...
, the megalomaniacal head of SPECTRE
SPECTRE
SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games...
.
| 111.6
| 9.5
|
|
| 70%
|-
!scope="row"| On Her Majesty's
Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
|1969
|
|
|align="left"|On the pursuit of Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, who was created by Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory. An evil genius with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond and is arguably...
, Bond discovers SPECTRE
SPECTRE
SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games...
's plan for biochemical terror. Meanwhile, Bond falls in love with and marries a crime lord's suicidal daughter
Tracy Bond
Teresa "Tracy" Bond is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the James Bond film and novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service...
, who dies on their wedding day.
| 87.4
| 8
|
|
| 82%
|-
!scope="row"| Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds Are Forever (film)
Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh spy film in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the sixth and final Eon Productions film to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name, and is the second of four James Bond films...
|1971
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|align="left"|Bond traces a diamond smuggling operation first to Holland and Las Vegas and then to a SPECTRE
SPECTRE
SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games...
plot to build a satellite with laser beams capable of destroying weapons on the ground.
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| 7.2
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!scope="row"| Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die (film)
Live and Let Die is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
|1973
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|align="left"|Bond fights voodoo priests, heroin smugglers and a ruthless dictator in New York, New Orleans and San Monique in a film imitating the conventions of "blaxploitation
Blaxploitation
Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is a film genre which emerged in the United States circa 1970. It is considered an ethnic sub-genre of the general category of exploitation films. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, although the genre's audience...
" movies of the era.
| 161.8
| 7
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| 64%
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|1974
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|align="left"|While trying to locate a missing solar expert, Bond ends up in an intense game of cat-and-mouse with the world's top assassin, Francisco Scaramanga
Francisco Scaramanga
Francisco Scaramanga is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film and novel The Man with the Golden Gun. The film was so named because it described Scaramanga's possession of a golden gun....
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| 97.6
| 7
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| 52%
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|1977
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|align="left"|Bond teams up with a female Russian agent
Anya Amasova
Major Anya Amasova is a fictional character and the deuteragonist in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, portrayed by Barbara Bach...
to locate two missing nuclear submarines; he winds up dealing with a man whose dream is an undersea empire.
| 185.4
| 14
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| 79%
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!scope="row"| Moonraker
Moonraker (film)
Moonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery, and Richard Kiel...
|1979
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|align="left"|Bond investigates the mid-air hijacking of one of the Moonraker space shuttles. The shuttle's maker, Hugo Drax
Hugo Drax
Sir Hugo Drax is a fictional character created by author Ian Fleming for the James Bond novel Moonraker. Fleming named him after his friend, Sir Reginald Drax. For the later film and its novelization, Drax was largely transformed by screenwriter Christopher Wood. In the film, Drax is portrayed by...
, is using his shuttle fleet to help in wiping out every human on Earth and re-populating it with a hand-picked racial rainbow of superior human pairs.
| 210.3
| 31
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| 64%
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!scope="row"| For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (film)
For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond series 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 in three other Bond films. The screenplay by Richard Maibaum...
|1981
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|align="left"|Bond's investigation of the murder of a marine archaeologist working for the British Secret Service leads him to a race against the Soviets for a submarine attack computer in a sunken ship.
| 195.3
| 28
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| 69%
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!scope="row"| Octopussy
Octopussy
Octopussy is the thirteenth entry in the James Bond series, and the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's title is taken from a short story in Ian Fleming's 1966 short story collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights...
|1983
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|align="left"|The murder of Agent 009 and a forgery of a Fabergé egg
Fabergé egg
A Fabergé egg is any one of the thousands of jeweled eggs made by the House of Fabergé from 1885 to 1917. Most were miniature eggs that were popular gifts at Eastertide...
lead Bond to India, where he allies with cult leader Octopussy
Octopussy (character)
Octopussy is a fictional character in the James Bond film of the same name. She is played by the Swedish actress Maud Adams.-Biography:...
against Kamal Khan
Kamal Khan
Kamal Khan is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Octopussy. He is portrayed by Louis Jourdan.Khan is a suave exiled Afghan prince living in India in the Monsoon Palace. He has a penchant for fine food and liquor, priceless jewels, "hunting" humans, and atomic...
, a playboy Afghan prince, who with Russian General Orlov
General Orlov
General Orlov is a fictional character and major antagonist in the James Bond film Octopussy, played by Steven Berkoff. At first the audience is led to believe that Orlov is the main antagonist of the film. However, it is later revealed that his contact Kamal Khan is the real villain...
is plotting to "accidentally" detonate a nuclear device on a US air base in Germany, hoping NATO will disarm and the Soviets can take over Europe in record time.
| 187.5
| 27.5
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|1985
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|align="left"|Bond investigates a high-tech firm headed up by former Nazi and German industrialist Max Zorin
Max Zorin
Max Zorin is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. He was portrayed by Academy Award winner Christopher Walken...
, and uncovers a plot to corner the market on microchips by manufacturing an earthquake that would drown Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
(and all of Zorin's competition).
| 152.6
| 30
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| 39%
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|1987
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|align="left"|Bond teams up with a female cellist
Kara Milovy
Kara Milovy, played by Maryam d'Abo, is a fictional character in the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights.-Film biography:Bond has been informed that General Georgi Koskov is willing to defect from the Russians. As Koskov runs across the road to meet Bond, 007 spots a sniper, whom he...
to investigate the fake defector for whom she was allegedly working, General Georgi Koskov
General Georgi Koskov
General Georgi Koskov is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. He was portrayed by Jeroen Krabbé.-In the film:...
, leading them to a weapons-for-drugs smuggling scheme headed up by powerful arms dealer Brad Whitaker
Brad Whitaker
Brad Whitaker is a fictional character and a major antagonist in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. He was portrayed by American actor Joe Don Baker. Baker also played Jack Wade, Bond's CIA contact in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies....
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| 191.2
| 40
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!scope="row"| Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
|1989
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|align="left"|Bond resigns from the secret service to avenge the attempted murder of his CIA friend, Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is a fictional CIA agent created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. In both, Leiter works for the CIA and assists Bond in his various adventures as well as being his best friend. In further novels Leiter joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and in the film...
. His pursuit of the assailants leads him to powerful Colombian drug lord Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Licence to Kill. He was played by Robert Davi. The character is based on Pablo Escobar...
and a mysterious woman, Pam Bouvier, who has an agenda of her own in bringing down Sanchez and his empire.
| 156.2
| 32
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| 71%
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!scope="row"| GoldenEye
GoldenEye
GoldenEye is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming...
|1995
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|align="left"|Bond fights to prevent a syndicate of techno-terrorists from causing a global financial meltdown through usage of the GoldenEye satellite weapon against London.
| 356.4
| 60
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!scope="row"| Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Bruce Feirstein wrote the screenplay, and it was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It follows Bond as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering...
|1997
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|align="left"|Bond investigates media mogul Elliot Carver
Elliot Carver
Elliot Carver is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. In the film, he is portrayed by Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce. Screenwriter Bruce Feirstein modelled the character on Robert Maxwell, but many viewers analysed Carver as a satirical take on...
, who aims to start a war between the UK and China so he can be guaranteed exclusive coverage for his new cable news channel.
| 339.5
| 110
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!scope="row"| The World Is Not Enough
The World Is Not Enough
The World Is Not Enough is the nineteenth spy film in the James Bond film series, and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Michael Apted, with the original story and screenplay written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Bruce Feirstein. It...
|1999
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|align="left"|Bond is asked to play bodyguard to oil heiress Elektra King
Elektra King
Elektra Vavra King is a fictional character, and primary antagonist in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough. She is played by Sophie Marceau.- Fictional character history :...
whose father was murdered in MI6 headquarters, and discovers she stilll has a connection and a plan to the terrorist who once kidnapped her, Renard
Renard (James Bond)
Viktor Lavrentievich Zokas, better known by his alias of Renard, the Anarchist, is a fictional character and a main antagonist in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough. He was portrayed by Scottish actor Robert Carlyle.-Biography:...
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| 361.7
| 135
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| 51%
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!scope="row"| Die Another Day
Die Another Day
Die Another Day is the 20th spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and last film to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond; it is also the last Bond film of the original timeline with the series being rebooted with Casino Royale...
|2002
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|align="left"|After Bond is released from one year in North Korean captivity for killing General Moon, he tries to discover who betrayed him, teaming up with a female American agent. Eventually he finds out Moon's henchmen have ties to a mysterious diamond dealer, Gustav Graves
Gustav Graves
Sir Gustav Graves is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Die Another Day, played by Toby Stephens...
.
| 431.9
| 142
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!scope="row"| Casino Royale
Casino Royale (2006 film)
Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
|2006
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|align="left"|Bond, in his first assignment as a '00' agent, attempts to frustrate the schemes of terrorist financier Le Chiffre by defeating him at a high-stakes game of Texas hold 'em
Texas hold 'em
Texas Hold 'em is a variation of the standard card game of poker. The game consists of two cards being dealt face down to each player and then five community cards being placed face-up by the dealer—a series of three then two additional single cards , with...
poker
Poker
Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...
at Casino Royale in Montenegro
Montenegro
Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
. In the meantime he falls in love with treasury employee Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. The name is a pun on "West Berlin". It has been claimed that Fleming based Lynd on the real life Special Operations Executive agent Christine Granville. In the 1967 film of Casino Royale, she is played by...
, who turns out to have an agenda of her own.
| 594.2
| 102
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!scope="row"| Quantum of Solace
|2008
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|align="left"|Bond pursues Quantum
Quantum (James Bond)
Quantum is a fictional criminal organization, featured as the antagonists in the James Bond films Casino Royale, and its sequel, Quantum of Solace. The organization prefers to remain in the shadows, and is known to contract third parties to avoid implicating itself...
, the organisation he believes responsible for the death of Vesper Lynd. Along with Camille Montes, a young woman seeking revenge, he goes after corrupt General Medrano, who plans with Quantum to stage a military coup in Bolivia and hijack "one of the world's most precious natural resources".
| 586.1
| 230
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!scope="row"| Skyfall
Skyfall
Skyfall is a 2012 James Bond film starring Daniel CraigSkyfall may also refer to:*Skyfall , a 2004 novel by Catherine Asaro in the Saga of the Skolian Empire series*Skyfall, a 2007 novel by Anthony Eaton in the Darklands Trilogy...
|2012
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|align="left"|Events in M's past bring into question 007's loyalty to her; With MI6 coming under attack, Bond must find and destroy the source of the trouble, whatever the cost.
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| Casino Royale Casino Royale (1967 film) Casino Royale is a 1967 comedy spy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is set as a satire of the James Bond film series and the spy genre, and is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.The film stars David Niven as the... |
1967 | John Huston John Huston John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge... JosephMcGrath Joseph McGrath (film director) Joseph 'Apocalypse' McGrath , sometimes referred to as "'Apocalypse'" Joe McGrath or Croisette Meubles, is a Scottish film director and screenwriter best remembered for his two films, Casino Royale and The Magic Christian . McGrath frequently collaborated with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers... RobertParrish Robert Parrish Robert R. Parrish was an American actor, film editor, film director, and writer. He received an Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul.... Val Guest Val Guest Val Guest was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s.-Early life and career:He was born Valmond Maurice... RichardTalmadge Richard Talmadge Richard Talmadge was a Swiss-born American actor, stuntman and film director.... |
A parody Parody A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation... , in which Bond comes out of retirement to investigate the deaths of international spies. With the aid of Bond impersonators he battles the mysterious Dr. Noah and SMERSH SMERSH (James Bond) SMERSH is a Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis. СМЕРШ is an acronym from two Russian words: "SMERt' SHpionam" meaning "Death to Spies"... . |
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| Never Say Never Again Never Say Never Again Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film based on the James Bond novel Thunderball, which was previously filmed in 1965 as Thunderball... |
1983 | Remake of Thunderball, with the added element of Bond coming out of retirement. SPECTRE SPECTRE SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games... operative Maximilian Largo hijacks two thermo-nuclear warheads from a NATO airbase and plans to detonate them over an oilfield known as the 'Tears of Allah'. |
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- All sums in millions of US dollars, except where otherwise stated.
- Total box office-adjusted and budget-adjusted calculated on dollars
See also
- Outline of James BondOutline of James BondThe following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to James Bond:James Bond 007 – fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections...
- Bond girls
- James Bond musicJames Bond musicThe James Bond series of films from EON Productions has had numerous signature tunes over the years, many of which are now considered classic pieces of cinematic music...
- Differences between James Bond novels and filmsDifferences between James Bond novels and filmsThe James Bond novels, written by English author, journalist and World War II intelligence officer Ian Fleming, and the later James Bond films, often differ in tone and detail, a trend which increased with each new movie production. The James Bond novels, written mainly in the 1950s and early...
- Casino Royale (Climax!)Casino Royale (Climax!)Casino Royale is a 1954 television adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The show is the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel and stars Barry Nelson and Peter Lorre...
, the first live-action adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel