Several of the most memorable and inventive stunts in the James Bond franchise's six-decade history were captured at great personal risk.
By: Ed Grabianowski James Bond first appeared in Ian Fleming's 1953 novel, "Casino Royale." poba / Getty Images With his dry wit and impeccable style, James Bond has been defying death and ruining the plans of megalomaniacal madmen in service of Queen and country for more ...
. the blimp and fight on Golden Gate bridge; the hook-and-ladder fire engine chase in San Francisco; the pre-title ski/snowboard chase to Beach Boys music; Iman base jump/parachute off Eiffel Tower; Bond driving car on/off roof of bus and continuing driving after decapitation of roof and...
After the initial setup, the film immediately starts throwing up a lot of overly familiar scenes;fortress on a snow-covered mountain top,Austrian forest chase,train fightwith a brutish henchman,inviting Bond in to the secret lair before he escaped and blows the place up,scars,cats, exploding w...
There’s a solid chase that caps the second act in which Safin, Ash, and an array of goons chase after Bond and his new family into a fog-drenched Norwegian forest, which reminded me nonetheless just a little too strongly of the battle on Takodana in Star Wars – Episode VII: The ...
The best of the Roger Moore Bond films also features some of the franchise's greatest set pieces. Barbara Bach plays a KGB agent, and Richard Kiel debuts Jaws, a metal-mouthed henchman who was so popular he returned for 1979's 'Moonraker.' The opening downhill ski chase is one of the...
Bond struggles to foil the plot, but Stromberg has provided him with a most lethal adversary: Jaws (Richard Kiel), a seemingly indestructible steel-toothed giant. Agent 007's adventure takes him to the Egyptian pyramids, under the sea and to a mountaintop ski chase that builds to one of ...
to set up an operation to storm Piz Gloria. Bond calls Draco, and storms Blofelds facility with an aerial attack, pretending to be Red Cross rescue workers, so that they can get close enough to land. Draco dynamites the facility, and Bond escapes, pursuing Blofeld in a bobsled chase. ...
The opening ski chase is worth the price of admission alone, but the film also staged elaborate underwater, helicopter and automobile sequences, and marked the debut of the fan favorite iron-mouth villain Jaws. Moore's reign as Bond would last another decade, although his films would again ...
Why not try watching all the James Bond 007 movies in order, from its very beginning with “Dr. No” to Roger Moore’s first 007 movie “Live and Let Die” to Daniel Craig’s final outing as the superspy in 2021’s “No Time to Die.”...