For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Roger Moore (The Cannonball Run, The Spy Who Loved Me) stars in his fifth turn (of seven) as British super-agent James Bond, in a respectable but not-altogether-exciting adventure. 007 is called in to investigate a...
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A View to a Kill (1985)
A View to a Kill is a notable film for some because it would mark the final appearance of Roger Moore (Octopussy, The Cannonball Run) as 007. In my mind, it’s more notable because it is...
Octopussy (1983)
After taking a less campy approach with For Your Eyes Only, the Bond series returns to the tongue-in-cheek adventures that had become the staple of the Roger Moore era. Also, for the first time there...
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Francisco Scaramanga (Lee) is the world’s leading assassin, pulling in a million dollars per killing. He loves the kill as much as the money, thinking it an art-form, as evidenced by his use of...
The Cannonball Run (1981)
The race from Darien, Connecticut, to Redondo Beach, California, is called the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, named after daredevil driver Erwin “Cannonball” Baker in the early 20th century. This outlaw race stretched nearly 2,900 miles across the country. The record run was 32 hours and 51 minutes, averaging an insane 87 miles an hour. It started in 1971, when Brock Yates and Formula One star Dan Gurney won the very first one. In all, only five of these races were ever run. Across those years, drivers racked up more than a hundred speeding tickets, but remarkably, there were no accidents involving innocent bystanders. The entries were as wild as the concept: in 1971, the Polish Racing Drivers of America showed up with a van carrying 300 gallons of fuel so they could drive nonstop—though one mistake could have turned them into a rolling fireball. You...
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Some submarines end up missing from both the British and the Russians. The British send James Bond to investigate, teaming him up with his beautiful Russian spy counterpart, agent XXX, who is determined to...