The last official movie with Roger Moore as James Bond
Summary
-When a fellow agent is killed, a small microchip is discovered on the body. This leads James Bond into his next mission-a mad man industrialist looking to create a monopoly of microchips by destroying California's Silicon Valley
-Roger Moore: James Bond
-Christopher Walken: Max Zorin
-Tanya Roberts: Stacey Sutton
-Grace Jones: May Day
-Patrick Macnee: Tibbett
-Patrick Bauchau: Scarpine
-David Yip: Chuck Lee
-Fiona Fullerton: Pola Ivanova
-Manning Redwood: Bob Conley
-Alison Doody: Jenny Flex
-During filming, Roger Moore turned 57, making him the oldest actor to play James Bond. Sean Connery was 52 during the making of 1983's Never Say Never Again
-This film marks Lois Maxwell's final appearance as Miss Moneypenny. She had thought of the idea of her becoming M, but producers felt audiences wouldn't accept James Bond taking orders from a woman. Ironically, in 1995's GoldenEye, M was played by a woman, Judi Dench
-This is Dolph Lundgren's film debut. He played a KGB bodyguard named Venz. He had gotten the role through sheer luck. He was dating Grace Jones at the time and just so happened to be on set when director John Glen realized he needed someone to fill the role of a gun-toting bodyguard
-Roger Moore and Lois Maxwell make references to their exiting the franchise with their final scenes. Roger Moore, literally, throws in the towel while Lois Maxwell is in tears
-This movie was highly hated by Sir Roger Moore because of the increased violence. He was stated as saying "I was horrified on the last Bond I did. Whole slews of sequences where Christopher Walken was machine-gunning hundreds of people. I said 'That wasn't Bond, those weren't Bond films.' It stopped being what they were all about. You didn't dwell on the blood and brains spewing all over the place."
-During the mine scene, Grace Jones screams for real. She didn't know that electric cables around her would go off as a special effect
-The then mayor of San Francisco, Dianne Feinstein, granted all necessary permits to film in San Francisco. The reason being that Roger Moore was her favorite Bond actor
-David Bowie was offered the role of Max Zorin. But he had to refuse as he had been offered the role in 1986's Labyrinth. Bowie's direct manner was not well received by producers and he told them that it was too "workmanlike" and "terrible".
-Film debut for actress Alison Doody, who turned 18 during filming. This made her the youngest Bond girl ever
-This movie is often given the credit of introducing snowboarding because of its use during the opening credits. Thomas Sims, American inventor of the snowboard, did the stunts.
-Dr. Carl Mortner, played by Willoughby Gray, was modeled after Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor who performed sadistic and unauthorized scientific experiments on Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz during WWII
-The description for Max Zorin was based on Sting, but with David Bowie in mind
-This was the last film for stuntman Bob Simmons. He died in 1987
-Tanya Roberts was not only the last Bond woman of the Roger Moore era, she was also the first to pass away. She died at age 71 on Jan. 4, 2021
-Roger Moore became good friends with San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein and her husband because of their support in helping to make this
-The outside mine scenes were filmed at the Amberley Chalk Pits Museum in Sussex, England. When the airship with a dummy dangling underneath was flown, the local Sussex Police Department became overwhelmed with calls from local citizens who thought they saw a man hanging from a balloon
-A large portion of the cast were played by actors with different nationalities other than their own. For example, Christopher Walken is American but played a character of German descent. Willoughby Gray is British but played a German doctor. Fiona Fullerton is Nigerian-British but played a Soviet agent. Grace Jones is Jamaican-born but played Zorin's American henchwoman
-The age difference between Grace Jones and Alison Doody amounted to eighteen and a half years. This was the greatest gap in age for two Bond girls in the same movie. This record was beaten in 2015 when Monica Belluci and Lea Seydoux, who are both twenty one years apart, appeared in 2015's Spectre
-Patrick Macnee, who played a racehorse trainer named Sir Godfrey Tibbett, was the son of an actual racehorse trainer
-David Yip and Alison Doody both appeared in films of the Indiana Jones franchise. David Yip played Wu Han in 1984's Indiana Jones the Temple of Doom while Alison Doody appeared as Elsa in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which also starred Sean Connery as Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones' father, Professor Henry Jones Sr.
-The mansion used in this film is the same building used as the mortuary in 1979's Phantasm
-Grace Jones states that her "evil stare" came via inspiration from a schoolteacher of hers in Jamaica. She called it "Mas P's look". The teacher would regularly "beat" her and other children there
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