The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 9
Though it hints at the absurdity to come in later installments, The Spy Who Loved Me's sleek style, menacing villains, and sly wit make it the best of the Roger Moore era.
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4
Though it hints at the absurdity to come in later installments, The Spy Who Loved Me's sleek style, menacing villains, and sly wit make it the best of the Roger Moore era.
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Though not Ian Fleming's most famous James Bond novel, 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me was distinguished by the unique device of telling the story from the heroine's point of view; in fact, Bond doesn't make an appearance until the book is two-thirds over. This would hardly work in the film world's Bond franchise, so the original austere plotline of the novel was eschewed altogether in favor of a labyrinthine story involving outer-space extortion. The leading lady, a "hard-luck kid" in the original,
Jul 13, 1977 Wide
Oct 22, 2002
United Artists
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Cast
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Roger Moore
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Barbara Bach
Maj. Anya Amasova -
Curd Jürgens
Stromberg -
Richard Kiel
Jaws -
Caroline Munro
Naomi -
Walter Gotell
Gen. Gogol -
Geoffrey Keen
Minister Of Defense -
Bernard Lee
"M" -
George Baker
Capt. Benson -
Michael Billington
Sergei -
Desmond Llewelyn
"Q" -
Edward de Souza
Sheik Hosein -
Vernon Dobtcheff
Max Kalba -
Valerie Leon
Hotel Receptionist -
Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny -
Sydney Tafler
Liparus Captain -
Nadim Sawalha
Fekkesh -
Sue Vanner
Log Cabin Girl -
Marilyn Galsworthy
Stromberg's Assistant -
Milton Reid
Sandor -
Cyril Shaps
Bechmann -
Rafiq Anwar
Cairo Club Waiter -
Olga Bisera
Felicca -
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Bryan Marshall
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Albert Moses
Barman -
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Shane Rimmer
U.S.S. Wayne - Captain -
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Milo Sperber
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Anika Pavel
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Robert Brown
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Keith Morris
HMS Ranger
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All Critics (41) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (9) | DVD (14)
Never did top that first stunt.
Top CriticThe ostensible hero is just a fleshy blur.
As always, story and plastic character are in the service of comic strip parody.
The film has its moments -- Kiel's indestructible heavy racks up a good score -- but the rest is desperately weak.
Top CriticThe film moves along at a serviceable clip, but it seems half an hour too long.
Of Roger Moore's seven James Bond pictures, The Spy Who Loved Me stands out as the best.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME is not as good as I remembered it. All of its chases and action were much better in my memories. In reality, they're a bit lackluster.
In a tremendous film that shows Moore's Bond still has the old razzle-dazzle, "Nobody Does It Better" isn't just a theme song. It's a forceful and fun statement of purpose, and "Spy" offers the franchise the definitive jolt it so sorely needed.
The best combination of japery and seriousness, without descending into the clowning that would be a part of all but one of Moore's subsequent adventures [as Bond].
1977's 007 still gettin' lucky in underwater lair.
Overwhelmed with its cartoonish absurdity.
It may not be Fleming but it is terrific fun.
As the Bond series moved deeper into the 1970s, the emphasis moved away from the inventive scripts that made the best Sean Connery films fine examples of the spy genre and toward the kind of feats of daring and visual spectacle.
... if you love these films, you will want to splurge on the box sets.
... the first truly original Bond movie, this one is actually more tightly constructed than several of the adaptations and remains consistently surprising and witty.
007 lives in the best of the Moore Bonds ...
This is near-camp and its success sent a strong message to its producers about what audiences wanted to see: Bigger, bolder, louder, sexier.
One of the better Moore outings.
It's Bond with Roger Moore, and this is one of the best of his.
Audience Reviews for The Spy Who Loved Me
Super Reviewer
The plot is the typical Cold War global domination scheme wherein we get megalomaniac anarchist Stromberg threatening New York and Moscow with nukes. The broad plot isn't what's great though, rather the way steps leading up to it, featuring lots of globetrotting, and Bond teaming up with a sexy Russian agent who holds her own against him.
Plus, we get a cool car/submarine, and the first of two appearances by Jaws, a behemoth of a henchman with a set of metal teeth. He's awesome. There's several good action scenes, and a little, but surprisingly not much goofiness. Well, there is the "Lawrence of Arabia moment" which is odd, hilarious, and totally awesome.
Marvin Hamlisch provides a great score, Carly Simon's theme is decent, and the film has the typical grandeur we've come to expect from the series. Yeah, the plot could be a little more original, and the pacing could be tightened here and there, but Moore holds it all together, and he gets tremendous support from Barbara Bach as his female counterpart, Richard Kiel as Jaws, and Curt Jurgens as Stromberg.
All in all, this is a terrific film that you really shouldn't miss.
Super Reviewer
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- Log Cabin Girl: James I need you.
- James Bond: So does England.
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- James Bond: Ah. Maybe I misjudged Stromberg. Any man who drinks Dom Pérignon '52 can't be all bad.
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- Maj. Anya Amasova: [on the boat to Cairo, nighttime] It's getting cold.
- James Bond: Is there anything I can do to warm you up?
- Maj. Anya Amasova: You don't have to worry about me, Mr. Bond. I went on a survival course in Siberia.
- James Bond: Yes, I believe a great number of your countrymen do. What did they teach you?
- Maj. Anya Amasova: That it is very important to have a positive mental attitude.
- James Bond: Nothing more practical than that?
- Maj. Anya Amasova: Food is also very important.
- James Bond: Mhm. What else?
- Maj. Anya Amasova: When necessary, shared bodily warmth.
- James Bond: That's the part I like.
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- Stromberg: I intend to change the face of history!
- Maj. Anya Amasova: By destroying the world?
- Stromberg: By creating a world. A new beautuful world beneath the sea. Todays civilization, as we know it, is corrupt and decadent. Inevitably it'll destroy itself. I'm merely excillarating the process.
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- Sheik Hosein: Are you sure I can't persuade you to stay the night?
- James Bond: [an attractive woman enters the room] When one is in Egypt, one should delve deeply into its treasures.
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- Stromberg: Every person who even comes in contact with that microfilm ...is to be eliminated.
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Foreign Titles
- Der Spion, der mich liebte (DE)
- Spy Who Loved Me (AU)
