All posters are U.S. 1 sheets that appeared in theaters.
Dr. No
Lois Maxwell was originally offered the role of Sylvia Trench but turned down the role in favor of playing Miss Moneypenny because she felt the Trench character was too blatantly sexual.
After Dr. No was released bikini sales skyrocketed due to Ursula Andress' appearance wearing one.
Although she only appears very briefly, Sylvia Trench, played by Eunice Gayson, has the distinction of being the first Bond Girl to have a relationship with the cinematic James Bond.
Ursula Andress returned to Jamaica in 1996 for the first time since the filming of Dr. No to appear as the guest of honor at an official James Bond film festival. Her appearance drew media people from around the world.
Sean Connery was first considered for the role of James Bond after Cubby Broccoli's wife Dana saw him in the Disney movie Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
Ian Flemming first asked his friend and fellow Jamaica resident Noel Coward to play the part of Dr. No. Coward's response was "No! No! No!" Christopher Lee, a distant cousin of Flemming was asked next. He also turned down the part although he would later play Scaramanga in The Man With the Golden Gun.
The first James Bond theme? Three Blind mice. The song Three Blind Mice was played while the three men pretending to be blind assassinated John Strangways and the opening credits rolled.
From Russia With Love
Daniela Bianchi, who played the role of Tatiana Romanova, was Miss Rome.
Eunice Gayson makes a rare second appearance as a Bond Girl as Sylvia Trench in From Russia With Love. Only two others have appeared in more than one Bond film and never as the same character. The others: Martine Beswick as Vida, the Gypsy girl in From Russia With Love and as Paula Caplan in Thunderball. Maud Adams played Andrea Anders in The Man With The Golden Gun, Octopussy in Octopussy and as an unnamed member of the crowd in A View to a Kill.
Lotte Lenya, who played Rosa Klebb, was married to composer Kurt Weil who was known for his stage productions such as The Three Penny Opera. Lotte is mentioned by name in the song Mack the Knife written for The Three Penny Opera. She often sang librettos for the music her husband wrote.
We catch a glimpse of Ernst Stavro Blofeld but we never see his face. The body we see belongs to Anthony Dawson who played Professor Dent in Dr. No.
The is the first appearance of Desmond Llewelyn as Q. He would appear in every Bond film through The World is Not Enough except Live and Let Die and Never Say Never Again.
From Russia With Love is the first time we hear the James Bond Theme written by John Barry.
Sadly, this would be Pero Armendariz's last movie. He was very sick during filming but continued on. He died shortly after the movie's release from Cancer.
Goldfinger
Movie trickery. Although Shirley Eaton appears on-screen painted gold in the death scene she is not the Bond Girl that appears painted gold in the opening credits or in any of the movie posters. That honor belongs to Margaret Nolan who also appears in the role of Dink.
Goldfinger was played so magnificently by German actor Gert Frobe that most Bond fans never realize that his voice was dubbed entirely by actor Michael Collins because Frobe couldn't speak a word of English.
Harold Sakata who played Oddjob won a silver medal in the 1948 Olympics for weightlifting. He became so well recognized as Oddjob that he took it as his official middle name.
Norman Wanstall was the first James Bond crew member to win an Oscar. He won for his outstanding sound effects work.
We first see the famous Bond car, the Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger. It has been called "The most famous car in the world."
Thunderball
Claudine Auger, who played the role of Domino Derval is a former Miss France.
Luciana Paluzzi, who played the role of Fiona Volpe, originally auditioned for the role of Domino but the producers had the good sense to see that she would make a more interesting "bad girl".
Unlike Ursula Andress, who wore a bathing suite for her shower scene in Dr. No, Luciana Puluzzi wore nothing for her bath scene. When she asks Bond for something to put on, he hands her a pair of shoes, she takes the towel from her hair to cover up, the towel is all she's wearing.
No movie tricks here. The Disco Volante, Largo's floating fortress was an actual modified hydro-foil built by Ken Adam, who added a 50 foot detachable "cocoon."
The Bell Jet Pack was also real although it was actually flown by stunt pilot Bill Suitor.
Special effects supervisor John Stears won the Oscar for visual effects for Thunderball. Incredibly he didn't even realize he had been nominated until his Oscar was delivered to him.
You Only Live Twice
Kissy Suzuki: although Mie Hama made the role famous, the name Kissy was never used in the entire movie.
This is the first time we see Blofeld's face. Donald Pleasence, with the scar across his right eye, would set the standard for all that followed.
Bernard Lee as M would appear in his naval uniform for the first time in the entire Bond series.
While he is with Moneypenny, Bond tells us that he does not need the Japanese/English dictionary because he minored in Oriental languages at Oxford. Yet in Tomorrow Never Dies Bond lets Wai Lin do the typing on the Oriental keyboard because he doesn't understand it.
Actress Akiko Wakabayashi, who played Aki, could not drive a car. In the scene outside of Osato's office where she is seen behind the wheel of the Toyota was achieved by six very strong crew members who pulled the car with a cable.
Sean Connery's wife Diane Cilento, wearing a black wig, doubled for actress Mie Hama in the scene in which she dives into the water due to Mie being ill at the time.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
During production, the press tried to play up rumors of a feud between George Lazenby and Diana Rigg. An internationally reported story claimed that Rigg had intentionally eaten garlic to annoy Lazenby in their love scenes. In reality the entire "scandal" consisted of one humorous comment made by Rigg to Lazenby during a lunch break when she teasingly said "George, I'm having garlic for lunch. I hope you are too."
Many of the "Angels of Death" went on to prominent careers. A few of the more notable include Julie Ege, a former Miss Norway, who starred in several Hammer horror films. Anouska Hempel retired from acting and is now the successful owner of the fashionable Blakes Hotel in London. Joanna Lumley found fame and fortune in other feature films and as Patrick Macnee's co-star in The New Avengers. In recent years, she starred in the wild but successful television series Absolutely Fabulous. She has also narrated a number of audio tapes of James Bond novels.
Diamonds Are Forever
Sean Connery donated his entire salary for Diamonds are Forever ($1.25 million) to the Scottish International Educational Trust.
From ally to villain: Charles Gray goes from playing Bond's ally in You Only Live Twice to playing the villain in Diamonds Are Forever.
Putter Smith, who played Mr. Wint, had no previous acting experience and was much better known as a jazz musician.
Bruce Cabot, who played Bert Saxby, got his start in acting in the horror great, King Kong.
The storyline involving Blofeld taking over the empire of Willard Whyte was inspired by a dream Cubby Broccoli had in which his old friend Howard Hughes had fallen victim to an imposter.
While driving Tiffany's Mustang, Bond escapes down an alley way half the width of the car by tilting the car on two wheels. The entrance to the alley was built at Pinewood studios in London and the exit was a real location in Las Vegas. The Mustang goes into the alley tilted to Tiffany's side but emerges from the other side tipped on Bond's side. Upon discovering the mistake, the producers decided not to re-film but to add a small insert showing Bond and Tiffany shifting their positions.
Live and Let Die
This was Jane Seymour's big screen debut.
This is the second and last time we see the inside of James Bond's home (the first was the scene with Sylvia Trench in Dr. No). M is not impressed with Bond's way of living, especially his cappuccino machine.
Gloria Hendry, who played Rosie Carver, has an active singing career with several CDs available.
Geoffrey Holder, who played baron Samedi, was very well known in the 1970s as the Un-cola Man for Seven-up with his deep "Ha ha ha haaa" laugh.
This is the first time we see David Hedison as Felix Lieter. He is the only actor to ever play the role more than once. He continues the role in License to kill. Unfortunately the character is then killed and will not return again.
While played mainly for comic relief, Sheriff J W Pepper, played by Clifton James, was so popular that the producers wrote a part for him in The Man With the Golden Gun.
The name of villain Dr. Kananga is derived from Ross Kananga, the real life owner of the crocodile farm where Bond is nearly killed. Ross Kananga performed the stunt where he ran across the backs of the crocodiles to escape the island. The crocodiles were absolutely real. The producers were so impressed that they honored him by naming the movie's villain after him.
The speedboat chase was filmed in the Louisiana bayou. Stunt co-coordinator Jerry Comeaux spent over two weeks orchestrating the stunts. One of the major stunts included a scene in which Bond's boat leaves the water and jumps high above land and Sheriff Pepper's car before landing back in the water. This 120-foot leap was achieved with the aid of a ramp in only two takes. Over four dozen Glastron boats were used, all powered by Evinrude jet propelled motors. Other stunts resulted in occasional mishaps. For the scene where the boat skids through a wedding reception, three Glastrons were destroyed. By the time filming was complete over a dozen boats had been destroyed.
The Man With the Golden Gun
Roger Moore and Christopher Lee filmed and extended duel on the beach where Bond fires his gun into a thermos bomb, causing it to explode. The scene was cut from the final print but it did appear in all the teaser trailers.
This is the first of three appearances as a Bond Girl by Maud Adams. She has appeared more than any other Bond Girl.
In 1997 Christopher Lee returned to the island of Phuket where much of the filming was done. In 1974, the island was so isolated that the production company fear attacks by local pirates. When Lee and his wife arrived this time, they were startled to discover that Phuket had become the center of a booming tourist business with hundreds of souvenir shops.
The Spy Who Loved Me
Barbara Bach, who plays Anya Amasova is married to former Beatle, Ringo Starr.
Jaws, played by Richard Kiel, is the only henchman to be brought back for a second movie. The character was so popular that the end of the Spy Who Loved Me, in which Jaws was killed, was rewritten to allow him to live and come back in Moonraker.
The false teeth that Richard Kiel wore to play Jaws were so painful that he could only wear them for five minutes at a time.
Ian Flemming was never happy with his novel The Spy Who Loved Me. In the bizarre book, written from the heroine's point of view, 007 does not even appear until late in the story and most of the action takes place in a hotel room. Therefore, when Flemming sold the film rights to Broccoli and Saltzman, it was with the condition that The Spy Who Loved Me would be completely re-invented for the screen and only the title could be used.
We first see Robert Brown, who plays Admiral Hargraves, in The Spy Who Loved Me. He would later go on to play the role of M.
Moonraker
Richard Kiel made his second and final appearance as Jaws. In the scene where he bites the steel cable in two, the cable is made of liquorice.
Moonraker was a family affair for Lois Maxwell. Her daughter Melinda was cast in a non-speaking part as one of the women chosen to be part of Drax's master race.
Sadly, this would be Bernard Lee's last appearance as M. He died before production began on For Your Eyes Only. Fans and co-workers will long remember the dignity he brought to the role and his contributions to the eleven Bond films in which he appeared can not be overestimated.
Cubby Broccoli went to great lengths to assure that he had received NASA's cooperation and that all aspects of the shuttle were true to life.
For Your Eyes Only
We see James Bond visit the grave of his late wife Tracy in the pre-credit scenes. It has long been debated who Bond kills shortly afterward. The most logical explanation is that the bald villain is Blofeld, the person responsible for killing James' wife, finally meeting his doom.
The movie poster for For Your Eyes Only had a controversy all its own. The poster (at right) shows James Bond as viewed between a woman's legs. The woman is wearing a very brief pair of shorts. While it seems calm by today's standards the producers were forced to paint a longer pair of shorts on the woman for all of the posters and newspaper ads.
Lynn-Holly Johnson, who played Bibi Dahl, placed 2nd at the 1974 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Cassandra Harris, who played the role of Countess Lisl was the wife of Pierce Brosnan at the time. She was the person responsible for introducing Pierce to Cubby Broccoli. Sadly she passed away before she saw Pierce go on to play the role of Bond.
Beautiful Robbin Young won a contest sponsored by Playboy to appear in a James Bond movie. Her prize was a small role as the flower shop girl in Cortina.
Octopussy
This is the second of three appearances by Maud Adams as a Bond Girl.
Maud would also "help out" Cubby Broccoli by filling in during a screen test. Roger Moore had informed Cubby that he was considering retiring from the role and James Brolin had a screen test with Maud Adams. They preformed the scene from From Russia With Love where Bond is seduced by Tatainia in his hotel. Although James Brolin is a fine actor Roger Moore thankfully came back for one more Bond movie.
This is the first appearance by Robert Brown as M.
At this time, Lois Maxwell had a second career as a successful advice columnist for Canada's Toronto Sun newspaper. The name of her column? Moneypenny.
Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again got its name due to the fact that Sean Connery had once again taken up the role of James Bond.
Never Say Never Again and Dr. No are the only Bond movies not to feature the very familiar James Bond theme written by John Barry. It wasn't used in Dr. No because it hadn't been written yet. It wasn't used in Never Say Never Again because of the legal battle between the Broccoli productions and the Kevin McClory productions. John Barry was asked, but he declined the offer preferring to write the score for Octopussy, which was in production at the same time. Thankfully all lawsuits have been decided and the rights to all of the Bond films are owned by UA/MGM and produced by EON productions.
The Casino where Largo holds his charity party is named "Casino Royale."
Barbara Carrera, as Fatima Blush, water skis on one ski, bringing her free leg up and moving it all around, but when she skis up unto the ramp and into the bar she is on two skis.
This is the first time in any Bond movie that James Bond is seen riding a horse. He would later ride a horse in A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights.
Kim Basinger became the first Bond Girl to win an Oscar when she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for "L.A. Confidential" at the 70th Academy Awards.
A View to a Kill
Cubby Broccoli decided to hire Tanya Roberts for the role of Stacey Sutton after seeing her in Beastmaster.
Grace Jones may be the only Bond Girl to ever be banned from Disney World. While performing live on stage in 1999 she exposed her breasts to the audience and was immediately removed from the park and asked not to come back.
This is the last time Lois Maxwell appears as Miss Moneypenny. When Cubby Broccoli informed Lois that this would be her last Bond film, following Roger Moore's retirement, she suggested that she be allowed to return and play the role of M. The idea was rejected on the grounds that the public would not accept a female in the role. Within the next ten years such prejudices had changed enough for Judi Dench to be accepted enthusiastically as Bond's boss.
Princess Diana attended the world premier of A View to a Kill in London.
This is the third and final appearance of Maud Adams as a Bond Girl. She appears in an uncredited role as a member of the crowd at Zorin's estate.
The Living Daylights
This is Joe Don Baker's first appearance in a Bond movie. He plays the villain Brad Whitaker. He later comes back as Bond's ally Jack Wade. While Charles Gray seemed to have trouble "switching sides" from ally to villain, Baker is better accepted switching from villain to ally.
This is the first of two appearances by Caroline Bliss as Miss Moneypenny. Caroline had a hard time following in the footsteps of Lois Maxwell. Samantha Bond, who would later take on the role, had the luxury of time to help audiences forget how much they missed Lois.
Playboy Magazine's feature pictorial for September 1987 was The Women of 007. Although Maryam d'Abo appeared on the cover she did not appear nude in the pictorial.
During the filming at Pinewood Studios the set was visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Both Charles and Diana had attended previous Bond premiers in aid of the Prince's Trust and the royal couple decided to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the movies were made. While there Diana playfully crashed a break-away bottle used for stunts over her husbands head. A photograph of the prank made newspapers all over the world.
License to Kill
This was David Hedison's second and final appearance as Felix Lieter. The character of Felix was killed in License to Kill by a man eating shark. That scene was originally taken from the novel Live and Let Die. However, in the novel Felix would survive the attack and come back to fight another day.
This would be Caroline Bliss' final appearance as Miss Moneypenny.
Pedro Armendariz, who plays the corrupt President Lopez, is the son of Pedro Armendariz who played Kerim Bey in From Russia With Love.
This would be the last time Timothy Dalton would appear as James Bond. He had been asked to continue in the role but a lengthy lawsuit held up production of the next Bond film for nearly six years. By that time Dalton had understandably accepted other roles.
Tomorrow Never Dies
Michelle Yeoh, who played Wai Lin, preformed the vast majority of her own stunts.
Stunt man B J Worth, a veteran of the Bond series dating back to Moonraker, doubled for Pierce Brosnan for the HALO (High Altitude, Low Opening) jump from a military cargo plane. The brief, but impressive scene required Worth to make eighty separate jumps over the Arizona desert and the Florida Keys.
This was the first of the Bond movies to be done after the death of Cubby Broccoli. Fittingly, his name still appears in the credits.
James let's Wai Lin do the typing in her secret hide away because the keyboard is in Chinese and he doesn't understand it. However, in You Only Live Twice James tells Moneypenny that he doesn't need the English/Japanese dictionary because he minored in Oriental languages at Oxford.
We see James for only the third time, and the first time in twenty years, in full dress Navy uniform. The other two were in You Only Live Twice and in The Spy Who Loved Me.
The World is Not Enough
Played by Robbie Coltrane, this is Valentin Zukovsky's last appearance. The character is killed by Elektra King while saving Bond's life.
The huge pipeline at the base of the Turkish Caucasus Mountains was a 100 square-foot model built on the Pinewood Studio lot by special effects expert John Richardson and his team.
In one scene in the Castle Thane, Bond fans will recognize a portrait of a previous M, the character portrayed for so many years by the late Bernard Lee.
The phrase "The World is Not Enough" originates from the Ian Flemming novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It is explained that it is the motto on James Bond's family crest.
This is the final appearance of Desmond Llewelyn as Q. He played the role in seventeen Bond movies and was the only cast member to appear with all five of the actors that played Bond. Llewelyn had urged the producers for years to introduce a character to take over for the aging Q. In The World is Not Enough they finally listened and added a scene that could be interpreted as Bond saying goodbye to his mentor. In a tragic irony, Llewelyn was killed in a traffic accident shortly after the movie's premier. Roger Moore delivered a very humorous and moving eulogy at his memorial service in London.
This is the first appearance John Cleese in the Bond series. He appeared as "R", Q's assistant in The World is Not Enough. He later moves on to play Q after Desmond Llewelyn's death.
Die Another Day
A knee injury to Pierce Brosnan delayed shooting for a few weeks.
Ian Fleming took James Bond's name from the author of a book called "A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies". In this movie, Bond picks up the very same book in Cuba and poses as an ornithologist.
Madonna makes a cameo appearance in Die Another Day. This is the first Bond film to feature a cameo by the person who sings the theme song of that movie.
For the first time, the famous gun barrel sequence now includes a bullet zooming by after Bond fires.
Following her Best Actress win at the 2002 Oscars, Halle Berry became the second Academy Award winner to be a Bond Girl. She won the award for Monster's Ball.
The frozen lake in Iceland that is the location for the car chases near the Ice Palace, does not freeze very often naturally. This is due to its closeness to the sea and its high salt content. To rectify this situation the river that links the lake to the sea was damned and within two days the entire lake was frozen to a depth of over 2 meters.
For the sword fight, film makers decreased the film speed to make it look as if the actors were moving faster than they actually were.
The fictional abandoned station on the London Underground where Bond meets M, Vauxhall Cross, is a reference to the address of the real MI6 headquarters in London, located at 85 Vauxhall Cross (approximately five minutes' drive from where Bond enters the station).
James Bond, while talking to Q, refers to what looks like a fatal injury to M in a simulation program as a "flesh wound". In Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), John Cleese refers to the cutting off of various body parts in a battle with Graham Chapman as "merely a flesh wound."
Die Another Day is the twentieth Bond film to come from the Broccoli production company (this does not include Never Say Never Again). As a tribute to the series, there is at least one reference to each of the other nineteen Bond movies hidden in the film. Some are obvious and some are more obscure. Here are some to look for.
Dr. No (1962) - Jinx (Halle Berry) walking out of the sea in a bikini, wearing a white belt and a diving knife.
From Russia with Love (1963) - The shoe with the poison-tipped blade is seen in Q's station laboratory. There is a knife concealed in a briefcase. In the ice palace sequence, there is a game board (the chess match).
Goldfinger (1964) - Jinx is nearly cut with a laser in Mr. Kil's laboratory. The rest of the fight scene is also a tribute. Bond once again drives a gadget-laden Aston Martin, specifically with a passenger ejector seat. The new Q comments that, as he learned from his predecessor, "I never joke about my work, 007." The scene where Bond and Graves fence for money, only to see Bond up the stakes for one of Graves' diamonds, is suggestive of the golf match between Bond and Auric Goldfinger. The golf match had originally been for money, until Bond throws down a gold brick to "up the stakes". Bond is threatened with death in a depressurizing plane.
Thunderball (1965) - the jet-pack in Q's workshop. Bond uses a pen-like underwater breathing system.
You Only Live Twice (1967) - Little Nellie can be seen in the background of Q's lab. Scenes of the Icarus unfolding in space are shown on screens in the Ice Palace. Jinx descends from the ceiling of the fake diamond mine on a rope system similar to that of the ninjas in the volcano crater lair. The name of the ship Bond is on: the HMS Tenby. The use of Japanese swords in the films.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - "OHMSS" written on a CD on Moneypenny's desk as she types a report at the end of the film. Bond escapes from another huge avalanche.
Diamonds are Forever (1971) - while fencing with Bond, Graves says, "Well, diamonds are for everyone." Much of the plot includes diamonds. A large satellite is uncovered in space and has the power to harness the sun's rays and project them as a fine laser to destroy any given target. In a magazine ad for Gustav Graves' diamond company, the caption at the bottom says, "Diamonds are forever."
Live and Let Die (1973) - The laser causes row upon row of explosions across a vegetated area, in this case detonating thousands of land mines, and is reminiscent of the extermination of Kananga's poppy fields. Bond uses the same revolver used on the island of St. Monique.
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) - The corridors in the secret area of the Gene Technology department in the Cuban hospital contain rotating mirrors and objects, much like Scaramanga's Fun Palace. The Field office of MI6 is on a ship. Bond retrieves a diamond from Jinx's navel (bullet in the belly-dancer's navel).
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - Graves uses a Union Jack parachute. The Ice Palace resembles in some ways Stromberg's Atlantis hideout.
Moonraker (1979) - Moon's hovercraft falls down by a large waterfall in a manner similar to Jaws' boat going over the Iguaçu Falls. Bond surfaces in a bubbling pool of water surrounded by much interior vegetation, similar to the scene with the water python in Drax's headquarters. Both movies have spies named Chang. Bond's sword fight with Graves was much like the fight with Chang in the glass factory. Bond and a villain fight over a parachute.
For Your Eyes Only (1981) - The scene as Bond hangs onto the ice cliff (before it collapses) resembles the climax near the monastery, especially as the rope slips and Bond drops some distance further down the cliff, although this time it was all performed from a vehicle.
Octopussy (1983) - Both the crocodile submarine and the AcroStar MiniJet are visible in the background in Q's station laboratory.
A View to a Kill (1985) - Bond is suspended over a cliff on the wire and hook much like the Russian Guard in the Siberian chase that Bond catches. Bond once again uses a rather unorthodox method of skiing, this time the hatch from the back of the car. Graves watches over the destruction that he wreaks from the front windows of his aircraft in the same way that Zorin watched Silicon Valley from his aircraft before it flooded.
The Living Daylights (1987) - Cars exit the rear cargo hold of the plane.
Licence to Kill (1989) - The plot idea of Bond going renegade, although this time it is less through choice. Bond uses a rifle as a sniper. M says, "License Revoked" - the original title of License to Kill.
GoldenEye (1995) - Bond's watch contains a laser, which he uses to cut through a section of ice, reminiscent of his escape from the train by cutting through the floor. Jinx sets the timer for the bomb at the gene therapy lab in Cuba to three minutes, the same three minutes that Bond set the timers for in the chemical weapons lab and later Trevelyan set the timers for on the bullet train.
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - Jinx throws a knife straight into a guard's throat just as he comes through a door (this is similar to a scene on the Stealth Ship where Wai-Lin sticks a Shuriken throwing star into a guard's throat just as he finds her, but this scene is deleted from all Tomorrow Never Dies releases on VHS and DVD). Remote control car. Jinx descends on grappling lines, reminiscent of Wai-Lin's entrance/escape.
The World Is Not Enough (1999) - Bond dives over Graves as they fence to do a forward roll as he lands, in a manner similar to the shoot-out between Renard's men and himself where he dives through a closing door and rolls the other side. As Bond dives to safety from Moon's flamethrower on the hovercraft, the shot of his dive from in front is almost identical to another scene where Bond is diving from an exploding bomb with Christmas. The use of a geodesic dome.
Some of the incidental music (minus of course the James Bond Theme, which is used in every film) is re-used in this film, notably at the end as Bond and Jinx have a romantic encounter.
The cars Zao owns are all updated models of former Bond cars
Q mentions in his station laboratory as he hands Bond his new watch: "This is your twentieth, I believe." in a nod to this being the twentieth film occurring on the fortieth anniversary.
Goldeneye
This is the first appearance of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, Dame Judi Dench as M, and Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny.
This is the first appearance by Joe Don Baker as Bond ally Jack Wade. He played Bond Villain Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights.
During production, Roger Moore visited the set at the Leavesden Studios and playfully remarked that early screen tests by Pierce Brosnan were not impressive and he had been asked to return to the role.
Wayne Michaels set a world record bungee jump with his mind-boggling 640 foot plunge which is seen in the pre-credits scene.
